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MVU Webinar
May 20, 7 p.m. EDT
The Next National Educational Technology Plan: Implications for Learning Online
In this session, Barry Fishman, who served as a co-author of the new National Educational Technology Plan, will describe the process of developing the plan and describe its major components. Discussion will focus in particular on the implications the plan has for the near- and long-term future of learning and teaching online.

Barry Fishman
Barry Fishman is an Associate Professor of Learning Technologies in the University of Michigan School of Education and School of Information. His research focuses on the use of technology to support teacher learning, standards-based systemic school reform, and the role of educational leaders in fostering classroom-level reform involving technology. He is a principal investigator in the Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education (http://www.hi-ce.org/), and currently serves as an Associate Editor of The Journal of the Learning Sciences and as a co-author of the Obama Administration’s forthcoming National Educational Technology Plan.

Dr. Fishman’s current research is an NSF-funded experimental study of teacher learning in face-to-face and online conditions that examines the relationship between professional development modality and changes in teacher knowledge, practice, and student learning. This research builds on prior research in professional development design, including the construction of an online professional development tool for use in curriculum-based reforms called Knowledge Networks On the Web (KNOW, http://know.umich.edu/).

Dr. Fishman is the 2001 recipient of the Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies and the 2003 Pattishall Junior Faculty Research Award from the University of Michigan, and his work with the Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools was recognized with an Urban Impact Award from the Council of Great City Schools and as a Computerworld/Smithsonian Laureate. He received his A.B. from Brown University in English and American Literature in 1989, his M.S. from Indiana University in Instructional Systems Technology in 1992, and his Ph.D. in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University in 1996.

Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids

Our public school system, whether traditional or charter schools, is the backbone of our great American democratic experiment. Our schools take the tired, the hungry, the poor, the huddled masses and give them hope, knowledge, skills and opportunity for a brighter future. To continue with this mission to serve all of our students well, our schools must adapt to constant and unpredictable change and stop clinging to the past.

via Marchuk: Mich. can do more with less for our schools | lansingstatejournal.com | Lansing State Journal.