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Opening address, 7 PM: Susan Schilling, General Manager; Jane Boston, Director of Content and Learning, Lucas Learning Ltd.:
"Linking Learning and Entertainment: The Lucas Learning Challenge".

Welcome:  Roy Pea, CILT Director; Nora Sabelli, National Science Foundation

Panel: "Technology Innovation in Schools: The Promise and the Challenge"

Chair: Alan November, Senior Partner, Educational Renaissance Planners

Featuring:
Richard Beckwith, Research Psychologist, Intel Architecture Lab;
Barbara Eason-Watkins, Principal, Chicago Public Schools;
Jim Schnitz, Director, Solution & Strategy,Global Education Industry, IBM;
Jane Walters, Commissioner, Tennessee Department of Education

A frank discussion with leading representatives from industry, policy, and education about real experiences in partnering to implement innovative technologies in schools.
 

Panel: "A Glimpse of the Future"

CILT theme team leadership addresses by:

Assessments for Learning: John Bransford, Vanderbilt University; Barbara Means, SRI International

Community Tools: Roy Pea, SRI International, Director of CILT

Visualization and Modeling: Marcia Linn, University of California, Berkeley

Ubiquitous Computing: Robert Tinker, Concord Consortium

Synergy: presented by postdoctoral scholars Eric Baumgartner, Sean Brophy, James Gray, Sherry Hsi

Plenary Address: "Implementing Innovation in the Classroom"

Louis Gomez, Director, Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools, Northwestern University

 

Friday evening April 30
Plenary Address: "A Dialogue Between Industry and Government"

Linda Roberts, Director, Office of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education
John Kernan, CEO, The Lightspan Partnership, Inc.

 

Sunday morning May 2
Plenary Address: "The Scholarship of Teaching for Meaningful Learning"

Lee Shulman, President, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Panel: "Bringing Powerful Ideas in Learning Technologies to Market"

Chair: Lou Pugliese, CEO, Blackboard Inc.

Featuring:
Wayne Grant, Managing Director, ImagiWorks, Inc.;

Peter Grunwald, President, Grunwald Associates, Advisor to Family Education Network;

Nick Jackiw, Sketchpad Projects Director, Key Curriculum Press;

Roy Pea, Director, CILT and SRI´s Center for Technology and Learning

Past government grantees convened with software company representatives to explore issues in commercialization and pathways to success.

For a day and a half, participants met in separate strands devoted to exploring the frontiers of Visualization and Modeling; Ubiquitous Computing; Community Tools; and Assessments for Learning. These topical working sessions featured brief presentations, demos, and poster sessions from participants to exemplify the current state of the art; group sessions to chart important new directions for the field; and work in cross-functional teams to define specific high-priority project activity.

Strand activities culminated in the development of proposals for CILT seed grant funding, providing a unique mechanism for interested collaborators to bring plans and ideas to fruition.

Selected projects and vendors were on hand to demonstrate exciting new innovations. CILT99 breakout group activities featured the use of some of these new tools.