FETC 2012 Keynotes
From Knowledgeable to Knowledge-able in New Media Environments
Michael Wesch
Cultural Anthropologist, Researcher in Digital Ethnography, and Associate Professor, Kansas State University
New media create new types of conversation, exchange, and collaboration. But the promise of such developments are not without disruption and peril. This presentation will explore what is at stake, what is possible, and how we need to create new learning environments that allow our students and ourselves as teachers and researchers to move beyond simply being knowledgeable to being knowledge-able (able to find, sort, analyze, criticize, create, and collaborate) in new media environments.
Wednesday, January 25; 8:45 am - 9:45 am
Room SA1
About Michael Wesch
Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the effects of new media on society and culture. After two years studying the implications of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he turned his attention to the effects of social media and digital technology on global society. His videos on culture, technology, education, and information have been viewed by millions. He was recently named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic and has won several awards, including the 2008 CASE/Carnegie U.S. Professor of the Year for Doctoral and Research Universities.
Curriculum 21: The New Literacies- Digital, Global and Media
Heidi Hayes Jacobs
President, Curriculum Designers, Inc
How can we GLOBALIZE our classrooms? Do you wish to engage your school into DIGITAL LITERACY upgrades? How do we help our students critique and create MEDIA that prepares them for future careers and college? A new kind of learner needs new literacies and teachers who embrace them. Based on her groundbreaking ASCD book, Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World, Heidi Hayes Jacobs will take you through approaches on how to engage your staff in UPGRADING dated curriculum with dynamic modern alternatives. She will zoom in on the distinctions of each literacy, the relationship between them, and need revisions in our school programs to engage learners in acquiring proficiency. She will share practices from her newest work, Mapping to the Core: Integrating the Common Core Standards into your Local School Curriculum which is being released in a new format: LiveBook and LivePlanner, by SINET. Specifically she will show the new literacies are embraced by the CCSS.
Thursday, January 26; 8:45 am - 9:45 am
Room SA1
About Heidi Hayes Jacobs
As Executive Director of the Curriculum Mapping Institute and President of Curriculum Designers, Inc., Dr. Jacobs is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of curriculum and instruction. She has served as an education consultant to schools nationally and internationally on issues and practices pertaining to: curriculum mapping, dynamic instruction, and 21st century strategic planning. She is the author of Interdisciplinary Curriculum: Design and Implementation and Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum and Assessment K-12, and Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping, all published by ASCD. Active Literacy across the Curriculum: Strategies for Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening is published by Eye on Education. Dr. Jacobs has published numerous articles which have appeared in professional journals. She just released The Curriculum Mapping Planner: Templates and Tools for Effective Professional Development, co-authored with Ann Johnson; and Curriculum 21: Essential Education for A Changing World was just released in January 2010 and was selected as the worldwide member book by ASCD. Over the years she has taught courses at Teachers College, Columbia University, NYC, from 1981 to the present. Dr. Jacobs has worked with the College Board, NBC Sunday Today Show, PBS Teacherline, the Discovery Channel, Children’s Television Workshop, CBS National Sunrise Semester, ASCD, The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, New York City Ballet Education Department at Lincoln Center, Peace Corps, the National School Conference Institute, the Disney Company, Prentice-Hall Publishing, the Near East School Association, East Asian Council of Overseas Schools, The Tri-Association of Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean, the International Baccalaureate, the European Council of International Schools, and state education departments. Her doctoral work was completed at Columbia University’s Teachers College in 1981 where she studied under a national Graduate Leadership Fellowship from the United States Office of Education. Her master’s degree is from UMASS at Amherst and her undergraduate studies were at the University of Utah in her hometown of Salt Lake City. The fundamental backbone of her experience comes from her years as a teacher of high school, junior high school, and elementary children in Utah, Massachusetts, and New York. She is married with two children and lives in Westchester County, New York.