innovative educators' express webinar series presents:
Nailing Digital Jelly to a Virtual Tree: Tracking
Emerging Technologies for Learning
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
1 pm Pacific / 2 pm Mountain / 3 pm Central / 4 pm Eastern
Ferdi Serim
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Reliable information on emerging
technologies is as vital as it is difficult to come by. To meet this
need, ISTE organized the Emerging Technologies
(ET) Task Force, which is co-chaired by Kathy Schrock and Ferdi
Serim.
What is an emerging technology? If
it’s out of the engineering lab, but not yet widely in use or
widely known, we consider it an emerging technology, recognizing that
what is emerging for one school may be “old hat” for
another. However, the key is it must be in use, so that the
learning it makes possible may be replicated by others.
While life at the bleeding edge may look
different depending on where you sit on the technology development
spectrum, certain fundamentals emerge with regard to how learning is
improved through the use of emerging technologies. Join Ferdi as he
discusses the trunk of our digital tree, Organizational Capacity,
Process Management, and Operational
Capacity.
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About the Presenter
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Ferdi Serim helps people learn to read, write and think, using
technology to expand the boundaries of what they read, write and think
about. He has worked in many venues: Board Member of the International
Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), the National Network of
Digital Schools, the New Mexico Public Education Department's EdTech
Director, Reading First Director, Program Manager for Literacy,
Technology & Standards; past Board Member of the Consortium for
School Networking (CoSN); Advisory Board for the Partnership for 21st
Century Skills; director of the Online Internet Institute (OII);
Associate of the David Thornburg Center for Professional Development
(and jazz musician). He is the author of NetLearning: Why Teachers Use
the Internet, From Computers to Community: Unlocking the Potentials of
the Wired Classroom, and Information Technology for Learning: No School
Left Behind.
Ferdi has walked the talk: his students' Internet achievements are
documented in the Scientific American, Los Angeles Times, the Learning
Channel and other media. Ferdi also presents at numerous state, regional
and international conferences, conducts staff development workshops and
seminars for parents, teachers, school administrators and others
involved in systemic school reform, including the US Department of
Education, National Science Foundation, the Milken Exchange on
Educational Technology, the Singapore and Malaysia ministries of
education, and others.
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