July 8-10, 2010
The Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel
Boston, Massachusetts
Professional Members' Forum  July 11, 2010

(E-1) Education Summit: New Technologies, Methods, and Achievements

Thursday, July 8, 2010
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Agenda 

♦ 8:30–9:00 a.m. Light Continental Breakfast ♦

9:00–9:10 a.m.     

Overview of Day

The seismic financial shifts of the past 36 months are accelerating many long-term changes that have been gaining momentum over the last 20 years. This year’s Summit examines emergent forces of change in education, whose adoption rates will be dramatically increased by the demographic realities and economic necessities of the decade ahead.

David Pearce Snyder, consulting futurist, Snyder Family Enterprise; author of numerous books on future trends; Bethesda, Maryland
 

9:10–10:30 a.m.

The Robot in the Classroom
On which side of the lectern will we find the robot in the classroom? What classroom? The rise of increasingly powerful computers,—“fast adders”—requires that both human and computer intelligence depend on heuristics, demanding that both acquire a strong moral compass. Can these “fast adders,” Star Trek’s Data, develop the sensibilities of a Captain Kirk without the aberrant behavior of “The Borg”?

Thomas P. Abeles, president Sagacity, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota

♦ 10:30–10:45 a.m. Break ♦

 

 

10:45–11:45 a.m.

New Paradigm View of Education
Since its early development, the power teaching prototype (P=fm) has evolved to connect a set of factors: Ellen Langer's mindful learning, Harvard Project Zero Research Center’s frameworks for designing and delivering instruction, information literacy, and Howard Gardner's five minds for the future. These factors interact to create a new paradigm approach featuring research based practices and fostering practice based research.

 

Jerry Fluellen, adjunct professor of psychology and education at Edward Waters College (EWC) and facilitator of professional development for leaders in the Obama Family Network of Jacksonville, author of 27 documents published internationally in the ERIC data base, Jerry will serve as a fellow at Harvard’s “Future of Learning” Summer Institute 2010, Jacksonville, Florida

 

 

 

 

♦ 12:00 noon–1:00 p.m.  Lunch ♦

1:00–1:45 p.m.

Fostering 21st-Century Skills through Problem Solving International
(Includes students from the Boston area to discuss their projects)
Learn about a program that utilizes creative problem solving, encourages students to research and analyze global issues of the present and the future, and provides the materials/tools for collaborative team work. The program also extends learning through the service learning component, Community Problem Solving, and the creative writing component, Scenario Writing, which is based 20–30 years into the future. 

Marianne Solomon, executive director, Future Problem Solving Program International, Inc., Melbourne, Florida
Vicki Stein, program director, Future Problem Solving Program International, Inc., Melbourne, Florida

1:45–2:30 p.m.

Levers of Change in Higher Education
We’ve seen many major industries undergo dramatic change in the last decade (e.g., manufacturing, newspapers, and customer service). While education seems “untouchable” to those within the system, there are many “levers of change” that have the potential for dramatic restructuring of higher education as well. Online courses, adaptive computer assessment systems, open-source textbooks, edupunks, pay-by-the-month degrees—these are just some of the levers that are prying at the corners of higher education. In this presentation, I will identify many of the levers of change that have the potential to shift higher education, resources to learn more about these, and a few scenarios that describe some of the possible futures of higher education.

Maria H. Andersen, Math Faculty, Muskegon Community College, Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan

 ♦ 2:30–2:45 p.m. Break ♦

2:45–4:00 p.m.

Integrative Futures Education at the College Level
Futures education provides the ideal framework for providing college students with a high quality integrative and holistic education. The speaker will describe the evolution and structure of such an educational program. Many lines of thought and diverse themes, a result of work he has done within the Center for Future Consciousness, have contributed to the development, organization, and focus of this program. Features of the program will be highlighted, including the enhancement of future consciousness, character virtues and wisdom, deep learning and higher cognitive skills, sustainability and environmental ethics, and the synthesis of the humanities, sciences, and technology. 

Tom Lombardo, director of the Center for Future Consciousness, Scottsdale Arizona
 

 

 

 

4:00–4:30 p.m.

Summary of Day’s Events

$125 members/$150 nonmembers (includes light continental breakfast)  Register Now

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