Technology Advisory Group

Update 9/23/11: Video from the conference is (for the moment, at least) available on the conference website.  The opening session and Lawrence Summers’ keynote were among the highlights.

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This Thursday, September 22, the New York Times is hosting a conference in New York City called “Schools for Tomorrow: Bringing Technology into the Classroom.” The Times is bringing together influential thinkers to discuss “how technology can – and should – be integrated into the classroom.”

The agenda includes a nice variety of speakers who will be addressing questions like:

• What should the classroom of tomorrow look like? How can we make the environment more conducive to learning?
• Can technology really help learning, or are we seduced by the idea of using gadgets in the classroom?
• How do we make the best use of the technology we currently have available, and on what should schools concentrate their budgets in the future?
• How can we formalize peer-teaching, individual instruction and independent study, while protecting privacy, data and IP?

The entire conference will be streamed live.  While most of us won’t be able to see the whole thing, we thought it might be fun for interested faculty and staff to be able to watch at least a few sessions together.  So TAG will be showing the college stream throughout the day on campus. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find a room that was available all day long, so we’ll have to switch partway through:

Thursday, September 22  (full conference agenda here)

8:30am – 3:45pm in CTLE Conference Room STT 591
(Welcome, Opening Plenary, Keynote, and Sessions 1, 2, and 3)

4:15pm – 6:15pm in WML305
(Closing Session and Closing Debate)

Please join us for any or all sessions that interest you. All are welcome, and you can feel free to drop in and out as your schedule permits.  BYO coffee, snacks, or lunch.

Comment below if you have any questions. We’ll hope to see you sometime on Thursday!