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What makes CILT's annual conferences unique? Our goal is not to offer a series of disconnected presentations on a theme. Rather, these gatherings provide a forum and a process that bring together leaders in many branches of the learning technology field to build collective intelligence, synthesize directions, and launch projects that begin to make a difference.
CILT2000 will keep many of the attributes of past conferences, including provocative speakers; focused workshops in theme team topic areas and other strands; showcases of innovative technologies; and seed grant opportunities to provide initial funding for the work of promising new collaborations. This year we add a particular focus on issues of policy. The program will offer insight into current and future policy directions, and opportunities to meet and work with representatives from the Hill and from important agencies in and around DC.
Our theme this year is "Technology, Equity, and K-14 Learning." We plan to focus our collective intelligence on the various complex implications of what has been labeled "the digital divide," looking beyond issues of universal access to promote real equity in the learning opportunities that can result from new tools in the classroom.
Participants at last year´s conference had these things to say:
"I have never been at a meeting where CEOs and second-grade teachers, educational researchers and engineers all sat down together and talked."
“The meeting was excellent in that the focus was on learning instead of performing.”
“It (CILT99) allowed for the flow of information over boundaries that I had not been able to cross before."
“CILT gives people a chance to connect and make new plans. Most conferences give people a chance to meet, but not make plans.”
“CILT99 is very unique in my experience. I particularly like the blend of presentations & working group formats. Something about the tone of this conference & CILT in general makes me feel like I’m part of a community.”
“Renewed and refreshed my enthusiasm, desire & in some ways ability to collaborate – working within this community, it might be possible to make really big changes.”