Cyberlearning:January 2012 Program

From Cyberlearning

January 18, 2012, National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.

(All times are Eastern Standard Time)

7:30 am Registration Desk Opens - Sign in, get badge and program. Coffee and light breakfast food provided.

9:00 am Welcoming Remarks

Danny Edelson, National Geographic Society

Janet Kolodner, National Science Foundation

Jeremy Roschelle, SRI International

Setting the Stage

Constance Steinkueler Squire, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

9:30 am Talk Set 1: Learning Science Research: Brains, Games, and Communities

Todd Rose, CAST

Tom Moher, University of Illinois Chicago

Jodi Asbell-Clarke, TERC

Doug Clark, Vanderbilt University

James Lester, North Carolina State University

10:30 - 11:00 am Break: Coffee and snacks

11:00 am Talk Set 2: Children as Creators: Constructivism meets CyberLearning

Chris Rogers, Tufts University

Leah Buechley, MIT

Gina Chaves, Alliance Technology Math and Science High School & Eric Hamilton, Pepperdine University

Eric Klopfer, MIT

Paulo Blikstein, Stanford University

12:00 - 1:00pm Lunch Break - Box lunches

1:00 pm From a Linear Pipeline to a Complex Systems Model of STEM Workforce Preparation

Michael Richey, Boeing

1:15 pm Talk Set 3: Everyday Contexts for Cyberlearning, Beyond School

Jennifer Frazier, Exploratorium

David Kanter, New York Hall of Science

Matthew Easterday, Northwestern University

Curt Bonk, Indiana University

2:15 pm Talk Set 4: Emerging Technologies

Cathie Norris, University of North Texas & Elliot Soloway, University of Michigan

Eric Schweikardt, Modular Robotics

David Birchfield, Arizona State University

Wllliam Swartout, University of Southern California

Bill Finzer, KPC Technologies; Cliff Konold, UMass Amherst

3:15 - 3:45 pm Break: Drinks and snacks

3:45 pm Talk Set 5: Digital Books in Social Spaces with Educational Data Mining

Ryan Baker & Neil Heffernan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Christine Greenhow, Michigan State University

Michael Klymkowsky, University of Colorado at Boulder & Melanie Cooper, Clemson University

Vinay Chaudhri, SRI International & Debbie Frazier, Monta Vista High School

Chad Dorsey, Concord Consortium

4:45 pm Closing Reflections - Karen Cator, US Dept of Education

5:00-7:00 pm Reception