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Keynote Presenters
General Sessions are held daily throughout the regular conference. These sessions generally open the day's activities and offer participants a chance to hear inspiring keynote speakers address a variety of timely topics related to education and technology. General Sessions are one to 1-1/4 hours in length and are open to the entire conference delegation.
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Stephen Johnson
General Session, Monday March 24
3:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
With a New Eye: Photography Forever Changed
Art and technology merge for digital photography pioneer, Stephen Johnson, who will present "With A New Eye”, his exploration of ground-breaking use of high-end digital cameras in landscape photography. The idea, the tools, the inspiration and the means of accomplishing this massive 8 year project will be discussed in detail as Steve walks us through his travels to over 53 national parks and the arduous task of organizing and funding a complex project. The bleeding edge of technology has left its marks on Steve, and left us all with new icons in the history of landscape. Johnson's subtle use of color, unbelievable detail, all wrapped in his light-filled pastel images reveal a fundamentally new way of seeing, redefining "straight" photography in an age of endless manipulation. His photographs ring true, because his images mimic our eyes view, revealing a world we know, often fail to notice, and never see on paper. This presentation is a companion to the preview exhibit on the show floor, giving us all a rare chance to see just how good photography can be, and far beyond film digital photography has already gone. Discussions will include the dramatic increases in quality now possible with digital photography, the limitations of film, and the empowerment the technology enables for artists and educators.
Stephen Johnson is a landscape photographer and designer. He has been photographing since 1973, teaching and lecturing on photography since 1977. His books include "At Mono Lake," the award winning and critically acclaimed "The Great Central Valley: California¹s Heartland" and "Making a Digital Book." He has been working in digital photography since 1989, wrote the duotone curves that ship with Adobe Photoshop and has worked with numerous high-tech companies on product development, including Adobe, Apple, BetterLight, Kodak, Foveon, and Leaf. Internationally recognized as a digital photography pioneer, Johnson's photographs have been exhibited, published and collected in the United States, Europe, Mexico and Japan. He has lectured extensively on digital imaging in both the United States and Europe. His work in the late 1990s includes a major new endeavor, "With A New Eye," a groundbreaking all digital photographic look at the national parks. Recent work as a board member of the Pacifica Land Trust has helped in protecting open space and expansion of the GGNRA national park. He has run his own photography workshop program since 1978.
Dr. George R. Boggs
General Session Tuesday, March 25
9:15 p.m. - 10:15 a.m.
The Impact of the Learning Paradigm on Teaching and Learning
Dr. Boggs will discuss the environment that led to the founding of the "Learning Paradigm", its principles, and why this seemingly simple, yet revolutionary, movement has continued to grow over the past twelve years. He will examine the impact of instructional technology on this movement and how what we now know about the learning process is affecting teaching and institutional policies. The "Learning College" is here to stay, and it will affect continue to change how faculty, staff, and students interface with their institutions.
Dr. George R. Boggs is President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), in Washington, D.C. AACC represents more than 1,100 associate degree-granting institutions and some 10 million students. Prior to his current position, Dr. Boggs served as a faculty member, division chair, and associate dean of instruction at Butte College in California and, for fifteen years, he served as the superintendent/president of Palomar College in California. Dr. Boggs has served on the boards of directors of the California Association of Community Colleges, the Community College League of California, the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, and the American Association of Community Colleges, serving as board chair in 1993/94. He served as a member of the Committee on Undergraduate Science Education of the National Research Council and on several National Science Foundation panels and committees.
Frances Himes
General Session Tuesday, March 25
9:15 p.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Defining the Digital Learning Difference
Today’s students are fully immersed in a digital lifestyle that thrives on digital connectedness, openness and an insatiable desire for information. Given this student propensity; what are the underlying values that motivate student digital life? How can faculty tap into key student digital behaviors to teach critical thinking skills and core intellectual competencies? By clearly defining the value of digital and traditional teaching methods faculty can leverage the power of technology for learning.
Frances Himes is the Sr. Director for Higher Education Marketing at Apple. She has also served as the Associate Vice President of Higher Education at Macromedia, in which position she managed higher education business and contributed to Macromedia’s eLearning product strategy. Over the course of her career her work has focused on learning object design and development, and adaptive digital learning architectures. She has also developed curriculum for teaching intercultural forms of learning, and teaching and learning with technology. She has served at the University of Arizona, as both the co-author and Project Director for the Virtual Adaptive Learning Architecture Project and as Director of Global Programs, at Western Michigan University, as Director of Research and Development for Information Technology, at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, as the Associate Director of International Education, and at the University of Findlay as International Student Counselor.
John Seely Brown
Wednesday, March 26
9:15 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Rethinking Learning in the Digital Age
Educators are faced with a daunting challenge - the new digital divide - the divide between today's students who are growing up digital and today's teachers (and institutions) who have not. In this talk we will explore the emerging vernacular and learning styles of digital kids and will try to provide a framework for better understanding what they can do, what they can't do very well and what we can do about it. There are many resources we, as educators, can draw upon once we better understand their vernacular and thinking styles. Indeed, the future could be very promising if we don't bury our collective heads in the sand.
In June of 2000, John Seely Brown stepped down as Director of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a position he held for twelve years. While head of PARC, Brown expanded the role of corporate research to include such topics as organizational learning, complex adaptive systems, micro electrical mechanical system (MEMS) and NANO technology. His personal research interests include digital culture, ubiquitous computing, Web service architectures and organizational and individual learning. Part scientist, part designer and part strategist, John's views are unique and distinguished by a broad view of the human contexts in which technologies operate and a healthy skepticism about whether or not change always represents genuine progress.
He was recently awarded the Industrial Research Institute Medal for outstanding accomplishments in technological innovation and is the co-author of a highly acclaimed book, "The Social Life of Information," published by Harvard Business School Press. |
