K12 Online Conference 2007
Announcing the 2nd Annual K12 Online 2007 convention for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice.
The 2007 conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, October 15-19 and October 22-26 of 2007, and will include a pre-conference keynote during the week of October 8. The conference theme is “Playing with Boundaries.”
Additional Resources
Derek
Yahoo! For Teachers
Totally Wired: Book Tour 2007
Anastasia Goodstein is an award-winning blogger and expert on how American tweens, teens and twentysomethings use technology. She is also the creative genius behind the Ypulse blog and Ypulse Mashup conferences (including the Tween Mashup in NYC this month).
Most recently she is the author of a book about teens and technology called Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens are Really Doing Online.
In her book Anastasia explores what Gen Y is doing on the Internet and with social media and mobile technology. She also delves into issues around cyberbullying, MySpace (and other social networks), as well as how all this technology is impacting schools and educators.
Anasatasia, thanks to the folks over at Proctor & Gamble, is going on a fall book tour. In addition to being incredibly knowledgeable in how teens are using technology, she is also keenly aware of how technology is being (or not) integrated in the classroom to support these burgeoning digital learning styles.
From personal experience, I can tell you that Anastasia is an engaging and interesting speaker who has the ability to explain (in real English, not geek speak!) how teens use technology, as well as the benefits and drawbacks of their total immersion in technology.
If you have the opportunity to hear her speak, please do so! You’ll be glad you did.
Related Resources
- Schedule > Totally Wired Book Tour
- Powell’s Books > Totally Wired
- Totally Wired Blog
- Proctor & Gamble > Being A Girl
- YPulse Blog
- YPulse Tween Mashup
- YPulse Mashup 07
Derek
Yahoo! For Teachers
On Leveraging Community
“The challenge lies in bringing administrators and faculty together in ways that leverage their individual talents, while capitalizing on their differences.
In this way we create a tension between ways of thinking and knowing that results in better research product than could ever have been created without such diversity.
No one “expert” can teach everyone else how to design or carry out the best program research. Those decisions must rely on the strength of a community of individuals with various perspectives that, when summed together, produce the best possible product by leveraging what is known at large.”
