Current Keynote and Break Out Session Descriptions
Main Address: The breadth of possibilities
Educating our 21ST Century Media Snackers:
A Pathway to Higher Student Achievement
Today’s learners are connoisseurs for the current buffet of technology treats.
Our students are enticed daily with media tools like social networks, YouTube,
and a plethora of “Web 2.0” tools that are on the set of choices from “the
cloud”. Even more exciting, this buffet is being served up through computing
devices that are smaller, better connected, and cost less than ever before.
Creating motivating 21 Century learning environments for our digital “Media
Snackers” is a formidable task for educators. This presentation, “Educating
Our Media Snackers –The Pathway to Higher Student Achievement” will take
you on an interesting exploration of the technical trends and services that feed
our learners’ voracious appetites for the new and exciting. Couple this with the
changing environment for wide-spread wireless connectivity, and you have a
new environment for educational computing today! Educators need to
understand and take advantage of these new and affordable computing
capabilities that directly addresses the 21ST Century goals of critical thinking,
problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity and innovation. John
Kuglin serves as your guide for understanding these developments, and their
intersection with the academic world. He uses his 35 years of diverse
professional experiences in K-16, Hollywood, and NASA to create a unique
understanding for blending 21st Century learning, emerging technologies, and
shrinking budgets. Learning institutions can do more on less when existing
resources are combined with these new cost-effective technologies. Develop a
better understanding for the role technology can play as you face the
challenging economic times ahead.
Follow Up Session: The depth, drilling down for a greater understanding
The New 21ST Century Classroom:
Using the Cloud to Create Affordable Learning Systems
A dynamic and affordable cloud is enhancing education today! A new category
of web-based technologies are emerging that use the Internet as storage and
distribution mechanisms. They provide innovative and cost-effective learning
systems in these tough economic times. This revolutionary environment is
called “Cloud Computing”. Educators need to understand and take advantage
of these new capabilities as they build their 21ST Century instructional
practices. Cloud Computing facilitates new levels of collaboration in an
affordable manner. It brings the emergence of large-scale “data farms”, or
large clusters of networked servers bringing huge quantities of processing
power and storage capacity within easy reach of educators. As a result, this
new on-line environment can greatly impact instruction and foster higher levels
of academic achievement. Join John Kuglin as he navigates through numerous
cloud-based applications such as those from Adobe, Google, SlideRocket,
Mindmeister, and a growing list of others that use the “cloud” as their platform.
Learn the pros and cons for implementation. Learn to work more efficiently and
effectively as a professional. It will improve student achievement as a result by
cost-effectively stimulating, motivating, and challenging our learners today -
The Media Snackers!
Educating our 21ST Century Media Snackers:
A Pathway to Higher Student Achievement
Today’s learners are connoisseurs for the current buffet of technology treats.
Our students are enticed daily with media tools like social networks, YouTube,
and a plethora of “Web 2.0” tools that are on the set of choices from “the
cloud”. Even more exciting, this buffet is being served up through computing
devices that are smaller, better connected, and cost less than ever before.
Creating motivating 21 Century learning environments for our digital “Media
Snackers” is a formidable task for educators. This presentation, “Educating
Our Media Snackers –The Pathway to Higher Student Achievement” will take
you on an interesting exploration of the technical trends and services that feed
our learners’ voracious appetites for the new and exciting. Couple this with the
changing environment for wide-spread wireless connectivity, and you have a
new environment for educational computing today! Educators need to
understand and take advantage of these new and affordable computing
capabilities that directly addresses the 21ST Century goals of critical thinking,
problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity and innovation. John
Kuglin serves as your guide for understanding these developments, and their
intersection with the academic world. He uses his 35 years of diverse
professional experiences in K-16, Hollywood, and NASA to create a unique
understanding for blending 21st Century learning, emerging technologies, and
shrinking budgets. Learning institutions can do more on less when existing
resources are combined with these new cost-effective technologies. Develop a
better understanding for the role technology can play as you face the
challenging economic times ahead.
Follow Up Session: The depth, drilling down for a greater understanding
The New 21ST Century Classroom:
Using the Cloud to Create Affordable Learning Systems
A dynamic and affordable cloud is enhancing education today! A new category
of web-based technologies are emerging that use the Internet as storage and
distribution mechanisms. They provide innovative and cost-effective learning
systems in these tough economic times. This revolutionary environment is
called “Cloud Computing”. Educators need to understand and take advantage
of these new capabilities as they build their 21ST Century instructional
practices. Cloud Computing facilitates new levels of collaboration in an
affordable manner. It brings the emergence of large-scale “data farms”, or
large clusters of networked servers bringing huge quantities of processing
power and storage capacity within easy reach of educators. As a result, this
new on-line environment can greatly impact instruction and foster higher levels
of academic achievement. Join John Kuglin as he navigates through numerous
cloud-based applications such as those from Adobe, Google, SlideRocket,
Mindmeister, and a growing list of others that use the “cloud” as their platform.
Learn the pros and cons for implementation. Learn to work more efficiently and
effectively as a professional. It will improve student achievement as a result by
cost-effectively stimulating, motivating, and challenging our learners today -
The Media Snackers!
| John Kuglin at FETC in Orlando in January 2009 |
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