Posted by admin on Aug 20, 2013 in Speakers |
Gardner, Vice Provost for Learning Innovation and Student Success at Virginia Commonwealth University, and past director of professional development and innovative initiatives for Learning Technologies and associate professor of English at Virginia Tech, was named one of the “Top 50 Innovators in Education in 2012” by the Center for Digital Education and Converge Magazine. Dr. Campbell is widely known for his critique of technologies being used “just” for facelifting instead of enablers of profound educational change. He writes at his blog Gardner Writes...
Posted by admin on Aug 20, 2013 in Speakers |
Daniel is known not only for his cell-biology research at Yale, but he will be with us to showcase his Web project “Ciencia Puerto Rico” (http://cienciapr.org) geared to aggregate science work, research and student activities in Puerto Rico, his native land. Daniel will put his Ciencia Puerto Rico project in the context “Darwin, Evolution, and 21st Century Biomedical Sciences”, subject of of his latest talk at the 5th Annual Darwin Day...
Posted by admin on Aug 20, 2013 in Speakers |
Jim is known for his “Edupunk” idea as well as his Digital Storytelling course (http://ds106.us), the Internet radio spun from the course, DS106radio, and “A Domain of One’s Own” to have students pursue their own digital identity through a personal domain (http://chronicle.com/blogs/techtherapy/2012/12/05/episode-101- giving-everyone-at-college-a-domain-of-ones-own/). He blogs about all this plus noir cinema at...
Posted by admin on Aug 15, 2013 in Speakers |
For twenty years, Adrián Cerezo has explored environmental education and conservation from multiple perspectives: as student, researcher, teacher, trainer, evaluator of programs, designer of curricula, developer of education materials, writer of children’s books, participant in international forums, developer and designer of out-of-school programs, consultant for museum designs, and manager of education programs. Adrián’s work is guided by one question: can humans learn to live more sustainably? His doctoral research at Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies focused on the fundamental importance of early childcare in the process of human development, specifically with regard to the complex interrelations between the environment in which children develop and the...
Posted by admin on Aug 12, 2013 in Speakers |
Abel is in charge of the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (http://phl.upr.edu) at the Arecibo campus of the University of Puerto Rico. He will talk about the fascinating project of how to look for the conditions that may enable life in planets outside the solar system. He is @ProfAbelMendez on...
Posted by admin on Aug 11, 2013 in Speakers |
Guifre & Javier, founders of Antrocket.com (http://www.antrocket.com/en). These two young Puerto Rican entrepreneurs will talk about Antrocket, a Web crowdfunding site with a twist for project with potential for a high social impact. They will link the technology component with education and show what motivated and allowed them to create their...
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