Potential Keynote Speakers
From ETS
We are still entertaining several potential speakers. We are also considering having a morning and afternoon keynote. The speaker selection process is guided by this year's theme. Any of the speakers listed will challenge faculty to re-think the students role in the learning process. They in effect ask them to reimagine the students as co-creators of their learning and show them how this is possible with the new social technologies. Because of this we are targeting speakers with a more academic flavor. The candidates include the following.
Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Kansas State University.
Relationship to the theme: His focus on "the impact of digital technology on human interaction and human interaction on digital technology" was echoed as a point of interest in the symposium evaluations. I think that our audience is ready to have this conversation and Wesch would meet them where they are and help move them along.
We will also be able to tie in the presence of McGraw Hill and other sponsors with Wesch and the conference theme because their interests are similar. The textbook companies are also interested in human-technology dynamics as they adjust their product to a new world with new expectations on how content is delivered.
Here are several sites about Wesch and his work that people will find interesting:
Kansas State University Anthropology Program
Jimmy Wales, co-founder Wikipedia
Relationship to Symposium: The success of the project has helped popularize a trend in web development (called Web 2.0) that aims to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing among users
Sites:
Clay Shirky, Adjunct Professor in NYU's graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)
Relationship to Symposium: social and economic effects of Internet technologies...understand group dynamics in online spaces and the possible ways of improving user interaction by redesigning our social software to better reflect the emergent properties of groups...how our networks shape culture and vice-versa
Sites:
Shelley Henson Johnson, Vice President for Training and Instructional Design, The Aegenis Group
Relationship to Symposium: Interests include sustainable online self-organizing communities, web 2.0 tool development, instructional design, folksonomies, open content, the hijacking of emergent social networking technology in the service of learning, and manifestation of self and group identity in online environments.
Sites:
David Weinberger, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Author
Relationship to Symposium: We are changing the basic principles by which we organize our world. What effect will that have on our institutions and on our way of understanding ourselves and the world we share? David is looking at taxonomies, ontology, and the role of metadata.
Social networks rely on making explicit relationships that are deeply implicit. What sort of damage does that do? Why do we think that the explicit is simply the implicit with the lights on?
What policies and laws will enable the Internet to thrive as an open platform for ideas, innovation and connection?
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Other Potential Speakers
Judy Breck, Author
Relationship to Symposium: opening educational resources and mobile learning
Sites:
Jonathan Zittrain, Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University. Co-founder of HLS's Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Relationship to Symposium: Interest include digital property, privacy, and speech, and the role played by private "middlepeople" in Internet architecture. He has a strong interest in creative, useful, and unobtrusive ways to deploy technology in the classroom
Sites:
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Notables:
Sally Jackson , CIO Illinois-Urbana
Wayne Hodgins , Strategic Futurist
Philip Rosedale, Founder of Second Life and Linden Labs
