Students and Electronic Media:
Teaching in the Technological Age
 
SPONSORED BY THE EDUCATION RESEARCH SECTION, THE FUTURE OF CHILDREN JOURNAL, THE PROGRAM IN TEACHER PREPARATION AND THE WOODROW WILSON SCHOOL OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
 
Princeton University
May 2, 2008
 
8:00 -  8:30 Breakfast and Registration
 
8:30 -  8:45                 GREETINGS: 
   
 

Nolan McCarty, Susan Dod Brown Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Acting
  Dean, Woodrow Wilson School
 
8:45 - 10:15                WHAT DOES THE RESEARCH HAVE TO SAY?
 
  Moderator:  John Webb, Director, Teacher Preparation Program
 
  Speakers: 
 
  Trends and electronic media: what are your students doing?
  Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Virginia & Leonard Marx Professor, Teachers College and
  College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University
 
  Cognition, learning and electronic media
  John Black, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Telecommunications & Ed. and Director
  Institute for Learning Technologies, Teachers College, Columbia University
 
 

Risky Behavior, social marketing and electronic media

 

Craig A. Anderson, Distinguished Professor, Department of Psychology, Iowa State

  University 
 
  Meeting in MySpace: Promise and Peril in the New Online Social Networks
  Kathryn C. Montgomery, Professor, School of Communication, American University
 
10:15 – 10:30            BREAK
 
10:30-12:00                iNNOVATIVE USES OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM
 
  Moderator: Lisa Markman, Associate Director, Education Research Section, Outreach Director, Future of Children Journal, Princeton University
 
  Speakers:
 
 

The Flat Classroom
  Vicki A Davis, Teacher/ IT Director, Westwood Schools
 
   
  Second Life
  Kevin Jarrett, Google Certified Teacher, Technology Facilitator/District Webmaster, Northfield Community School
   
  Oceans of Know
  Daniel P McVeigh, Director, Ocean of Know
   
12:00 -1:30                LUNCH and KEYNOTE:
   
  Cyber Savvy Students: What you and your students need to know
   
  Moderator: Elisabeth H Donahue, Associate Editor, Future of Children, Princeton University
   
  Speaker:
   
  Nancy Willard, Executive Director, Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use
   
1:30 - 3:00                  PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
   
  Moderator:  Jennifer Hunsinger, Director of Communications and Information Technology, NJ Principals and Supervisors Association
   
  Speakers:
   
  Integrating second life into your every day curriculum
  Barry Joseph, Director of the Online Leadership Program, Global Kids
   
  Promoting and Supporting Twenty-First Century Teacher Practice
  Rob Mancabelli, Director of Information Systems, Hunterdon Central School District
   
  Using Second Life for “Real Life” Professional Development for K-12 Educators
  Kathleen Schrock, Administrator for Technology, Nauset Public Schools, Orleans, Massachusetts
   
3:00-3:15               CLOSE
   
  Cecilia Rouse, Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Director, Industrial Relations Section and Education Research Section, Princeton University