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The
following leaders in education, research, and industry gave keynote
addresses at ICLS 2000. These speakers were selected to represent
the range of settings that the Learning Sciences must address
as we move towards "complex, real-world settings."
- Juanita
Clay-Chambers
Associate Superintendent, Educational Services
Detroit Public Schools
- Mike
Lorion
Vice President for Education
Palm, Inc.
- Mary
Ellen Munley
Director of Education and Outreach,
The Field Museum of Natural History
- Linda
Roberts
Director,
Office of Educational Technology,
U.S. Department of Education
- Nora
Sabelli
Senior Program Director
National Science Foundation
- Juanita
Clay-Chambers
Associate Superintendent, Educational Services
Detroit Public Schools
Keynote
Title:
"Leading Systemic Reform in Urban Schools:
Triumphs and Challenges"
Juanita
Clay Chambers presently serves as the Associate Superintendent,
Division of Educational Services, Detroit Public Schools. She
has served the school district over thirty years in several capacities
including assistant superintendent, director, supervisor, specialist,
and teacher. Responsibilities include leadership of all units
in the following areas: Curriculum Services, Student Support
Services, School Transformation, Grant Procurement and Compliance,
and Adult Education. She presently serves as Project Director,
Dwight D. Eisenhower Program; Project Director, Detroit Urban
Systemic Initiative; Project Director, Center for Learning Technologies
in Urban Schools; and Project Director, Mathematics and Science
Centers Program.
Dr.
Chambers possesses a Doctoral degree in Educational Administration
and Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Science Education from
Wayne State University. She serves as international, national,
state and local consultant in the following areas: Systemic Reform,
Curriculum Development and Planning, Standards-Based Instruction,
Mathematics and Science Education, Integrating Technology Into
the Existing Curriculum, and Constructivist Teaching and Learning
Practices.
Mrs.
Chambers has received numerous awards and recognition, some of
which include:
- Outstanding Administrator of the Year Award, Wayne State
University College of Education
- Distinguished Service Award, Metropolitan Detroit Science Teacher
Association
- Outstanding and Dedicated Service to Educational Quality
- Michigan Technology Council Can-Doer Award
- Building Learning Communities for Mathematics and Science Literacy,
Michigan's Best Award
- Mike
Lorion
Vice
President for Education,
Palm, Inc.
Keynote
Title:
"Handheld
Technologies in Teaching and Learning"
Mike
Lorion is the Vice President of Education at Palm,Inc and is
responsible for extending Palm's handheld computing leadership
by providing in Palm-based education solutions to students and
faculty throughout the world.
Mike
joined the Palm team in February of this year after spending
nearly 12 years at Apple Computer,where he distinguished himself
in both the retail and education arenas of the personal computer
industry. For the past 4 years, Mike served as Vice President
of the Apple Education Division. Overall, Mike is in his 23rd
year in the computer industry and prior to joining Apple, held
positions as a manager for Digital Equipment Corporation and
Data General in Massachusetts.
Mike
is an alumnus of Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts.
He currently is a trustee of the National School Boards Foundation
and served on the board of directors of Smart Valley, Inc.. Mike,his
wife Sandy, and his daughter Marisa reside in Almaden Valley,
California.
- Mary
Ellen Munley
Director of Education and Outreach,
The Field Museum of Natural History
Keynote
Title:
"Transforming
Experiences in Museums: Lessons for the Learning Sciences"
- Linda
Roberts
Director,
Office of Educational Technology,
U.S. Department of Education
Keynote
Title and Overview:
"Building
New Tools for Teaching and Learning:
A National Perspective"
What is the role of government and the public and private sector
in developing the next generation of educational technology applications?
How can learning sciences, technological advances, and classroom
worlds come together? What are the challenges, what are the opportunities?"
Linda
G. Roberts is Director of the Office of Educational Technology
and Special Adviser to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of
Education. The November 1998 Smithsonian Magazine cites
Roberts' "championship thinking" and says she is "America's
advocate for educational technology at the highest levels of
government."
Dr.
Roberts coordinates the Department's technology programs and
plays a key role in developing the Clinton Administration's Educational
Technology Initiative. Roberts steered the development of the
Technology Innovation Challenge Grants, the Technology Literacy
Challenge Fund, the Regional Technology in Education Consortia,
the new Technology Teacher Training Program, the new Community-
Based Technology Centers Program and the new Learning Anytime
Anywhere Partnerships Program; a total of more than $700 million
in FY99 budget.
As
Senior Adviser on Technology, Dr. Roberts represents the Secretary
on interagency committees and is also a member of the White House
educational technology working group.
To
stay in touch with the field, Roberts travels extensively, speaking
at conferences, conducting teacher and student forums while visiting
schools and state agencies and meeting with developers in high
tech companies to stay in touch with advances in technology.
Department of Education on-line discussions, national conferences
and working seminars are also critical components of these outreach
efforts.
Roberts'
work has been widely recognized. She was Electronic Learning
Magazine's, Technology Educator of the Decade, the recipient
of the U.S. Distance Learning Association's Eagle Award for outstanding
contributions to public policy, the Federal 100 Award in Information
Technology, and the Computerworld/ Smithsonian Award for Leadership
and Excellence in Educational Technology. Roberts also serves
as a member of the George Lucas Education Foundation Board and
served on the Advisory Board of the Children's Television Workshop
for many years.
Roberts'
career started in 1962 when she was an elementary classroom teacher
and reading specialist in Ithaca, NY and Brookline, MA. She later
taught elementary, secondary and adult reading programs in Oak
Ridge, TN and then joined the faculties of the University of
Tennessee and Lincoln Memorial University. Prior to joining the
Department, Roberts was a Project Director and Senior Associate
with the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA),
where she headed up three major assessments on educational technology:
Power on! New Tools for Teaching and Learning, Linking
for Learning: A New Course for Education, and Adult Literacy
and New Technologies: Learning for a Lifetime.
Roberts
holds a B.S. from Cornell University (1962), an Ed.M. from Harvard
University (1963), and an Ed.D. from the University of Tennessee
(1973).
- Nora
Sabelli
Senior Program Director
National Science Foundation
Keynote
Title:
"Why
what we do should matter: The sciences of learning and the world
of practice twenty years from now"
Nora
Sabelli received a Ph.D. in Chemistry (Theoretical Organic) from
the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina for research performed
at the University of Chicago. After a career as a research scientist
and faculty member, she is focusing on helping understand how
to provide quality science, mathematics and technology education
reflective of current scientific advances and technology trends.
She is currently Senior Program Director in the Directorate for
Education and Human Resources at the National Science Foundation,
and was in 1998 on detail to the National Science and Technology
Council, working at the Office of Science and Technology Policy
on issues of research, technology, and education. Her work at
NSF included coordination of the NSF-wide program of Research
in Learning and Intelligent Systems; the Research on Education,
Policy and Practice Program, and membership in the NSF-wide Knowledge
and Distributed Intelligence implementation group. Former positions
include Senior Research Scientist and Assistant Director for
Education, National Center for Supercomputing, Applications,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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