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Moving Beyond Access in K-12 Education
Saturday, May 1, 1999
9:00 am - 4:30 pm

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Agenda

Morning Sessions
Room 3-270

9:00 - 9:30   Keynote Speaker
Professor Elliot Soloway
University of Michigan
9:30 - 10:15   Panel: New Media in the Classroom
Henry Jenkins, Director, Comparative Media Studies Program, MIT
Mitchel Resnick, Professor, Epistemology and Learning Group, Media Lab, MIT
Lynn Moore-Bensen, Foreign Language Technology Specialist, Wellesley Public Schools
10:15 - 10:45   Questions and Answers/Open Discussion
10:45 - 11:00   Break
11:00 - 12:30   Language and Culture Demonstrations
Shigeru Miyagawa, Professor, Linguistics & Executive Director, JPNET, MIT
Mary Rudder, Harvard Kent School, Kindergarten Teacher
Maria D'Itria, Harvard Kent School, 5th Grade Teacher
Gilberte Furstenberg, Senior Lecturer, Foreign Languages and Literature, MIT
 

Lunch  
12:30 - 1:30   Roundtable with MIT Faculty and Participating Educators
Twenty Chimney's Room MIT Stratton Student Center

Afternoon Sessions

1:30 - 2:30   Workshops and Demos Session B

"Beyond Black Boxes" Room 56-169
John Galinato, Graduate Student, Media Arts and Sciences, MIT
Claudia Urrea, Graduate Student, Media Arts and Sciences, MIT
Mitchel Resnick, Professor in Epistemology and Learning Group, Media Lab, MIT

"Shakespeare Interactive Archive" Room 56-180
Peter Donaldson, Professor and Section Head for Literature, MIT

"Berliner sehen: A Hypermedia Learning Environment" Room 56-191
Kurt Fendt, Research Associate in Foreign Languages and Literatures, MIT
Ellen Crocker, Lecturer in German, MIT

"Video Poetry" Room 14E-310
Bill Mead, Pollard Middle School, Needham

"Star Festival and JP-Net" Room 4-231
Shigeru Miyagawa, Professor of Linguistics, Kochi Prefecture - John Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture, MIT
Mary Rudder, Harvard Kent School, Kindergarten Teacher
Maria D'Itria, Harvard Kent School, 5th Grade Teacher

2:30 - 2:45   Break
2:45 - 3:45   Workshops and Demos Session B

"Paradoja" Room 4-231
Margarita Ribas Groeger, Lecturer in Spanish, Foreign Languages and Literatures, MIT
Adrianan Gutierrez-Gonzalez, Lecturer in Spanish, Foreign Languages and Literatures, MIT

"Computer Clubhouse Project" Room 56-169
Randal Pinkett, Ph.D. Student, Epistemology and Learning Group, Media Lab, MIT
Mitchel Resnick, Professor in Epistemology and Learning Group, Media Lab, MIT

"The Longbow Project" Room 56-180
Peter Perdue, Professor and Head of History, MIT

"The Virtual Screening Room" Room 56-167
Henry Jenkins, Director, Comparative Media Studies Program, MIT

"Using Digital Media to Teach Writing" Room 56-191
Edward Barrett, Senior Lecturer in Program in Writing, MIT
James Paradis, Program Head and Professor in Writing, MIT
Les Perelman, Dean of Students, Undergraduate Academic Affairs, MIT

4:00 - 4:30   De-briefing with Elliot Soloway Room 4-231
 
  Parking Available in East Garage


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