EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY -- BLACK HOLE OR BRIGHT LIGHT ...

featuring
Alan November
Consultant
November Learning
Marblehead, MA

Thursday, April 23, 2009

8:00 A.M. until 3:15 P.M.
To be held at:
The Carlisle, A Banquet Facility - Lombard, Illinois

This program is being offered in affiliation with the Consortium for Educational Change (CEC).

TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION

This presentation outlines essential skills for leadership, and offers practical guidelines and creative solutions for building accountability into the planning process.  Articulating vision and mission, managing change, and aligning technology to primary goals are emphasized.  A shift in planning from technology to the quality and application of information and communication is a critical next step.

Alan November is an international leader in education technology.  He began his career as an oceanography teacher and dorm counselor at an island reform school for boys in Boston Harbor.  He has been director of an alternative high school, computer coordinator, technology consultant, and university lecturer.  He has helped schools, governments and industry leaders improve the quality of education through technology.

Audiences enjoy Alan's humor and wit as he pushes the boundaries of how to improve teaching and learning.  His areas of expertise include planning across curriculum, staff development, new school design, community building and leadership development.  He has delivered keynotes and workshops in all fifty states, across Canada, and throughout the UK, Europe, Asia and Central America.

Alan was named one of the nation's fifteen most influential thinkers of the decade by Classroom Computer Learning Magazine.  In 2001, he was listed one of eight educators to provide leadership into the future by the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse.  In 2007 he was selected to speak at the Cisco Public Services Summit during the Nobel Prize Festivities in Stockholm, Sweden.  His writing includes numerous articles and best-selling book, Empowering Students with Technology.  Alan was co-founder of the Stanford Institute for Educational Leadership Through Technology and is most proud of being selected as one of the original five national Christa McAuliffe Educators.  Each summer Alan leads the Building Learning Communities summer conference with world-class presenters and participants from all over the world.  Visit novemberlearning.com/blc for more details.

April 23, 2008     Members and Staff from Partner Organizations               $ 170.00
April 23, 2008     Non-Members/Non-Partners                                              $ 235.00
                              Additional Fee for Administrators Academy Credit          $  15.00