Friday, January 18, 2008

AWNM Design: Period 5

January 18th Live Blogging Participants:
12:14 pm- 1:12 pm

Karen Janowski:

Karen is an Assistive & Educational Technology Consultant whose “passion is to remove the obstacles to learning for all students. It is important to make the curriculum accessible to all learners and provide opportunities for struggling learners to demonstrate what they know using principles of universal design.” She lives in Reading, MA.

Tim Stahmer:

Tim is an Instructional Technology Specialist working in the Office of Instructional Technology Integration for an overly-large school district on the Virginia side of Washington DC. He taught middle and high school math as well as computer literacy. For the past 11 years he has helped teachers, administrators and others at all levels make sense of technology in their classrooms and, of course, repaired a few computers and printers along the way. These days he works mostly with the technology trainers in elementary schools.

Sylvia Martinez:

Sylvia is president of Generation YES. She has a varied background in both educational and consumer software and games, with expertise along the way in design and development of online environments that encourage learning and communication. Generation YES is a for-profit company seeking to bridge the gap between students being empowered in their learning and the successful implementation of technology assisting in that endeavor.

215 comments:

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katyj said...

tylerg- when i see the word design, i automatically think of architecture

mitchs said...

Maddieh- It's true that not everyone needs to know the elements of the periodic table. But what if someone wants to become a scientist? Schools have to give you a background in all subjects.

Anonymous said...

Thank you all for blogging and listening to us today.

lesliel said...

Thank you all for blogging with us!

Laurenc said...

Class is over already?

It was very nice blogging with you all!

Have a great weekend!!

melissaz said...

maddie- That is great! Our world in the last ten years, has changed so much, especially with the new technology. Why are people that havn't been in these situations choosing what we learn and how our schools are organized? Thank you all for blogging with us and taking the time!

Anonymous said...

Ms. Janowski - I think that is true, because some honors students only really care about getting As. While average students might be focused on just learning and applying their learning, instead focusing of whether or not they have a 4.0.

ryanm said...

sylvia, one person can make a difference in our government, but sometimes our credibility might be challenged because some people feel our voices dont matter. i would love to prove those people wrong, because even though we are teenagers, and cannot vote(yet) we are smarter than most people think, we notice a lot about politics, but because we are young, some people try to shut us out.
Thank You to everyone! We really enjoyed your participation and input!

catem said...

Karen: I think that grades are overated, and that they should be based on more than assignments, tests, and so on. So I think that it is etter to be creative.

Karl Fisch said...

Thanks everyone - we're done for today.

Tim said...

Thank you all for a great conversation and for allowing us to listen in and participate.

Sylvia said...

maddieh i agree. changing school is a very tough subject and one we need everyone to understand better. there should be more student input on how schools are designed and run.

Karen Janowski said...

Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this discussion today. Is this reflective of the types of discussions you have in your class? This was great to be a part of.

Sylvia said...

thanks! this was fun.

Sean said...

Thanks for allowing us to participate and for hosting this unique experience!

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