Technology as A Tool For Learning

Date: Friday, August 14, 1998

Time: 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Place: Moscone Center, Room 272
(The Moscone Center is located in the 700 Block of Howard Street, between 3rd and 4th Streets - for parking information and specific directions call (415)974-4000.)

Co-Sponsored by the American Psychological Association and The California Department of Education, Office of Technology and Information Services

The American Psychological Association's Board of Educational Affairs' Panels on the Application of Psychology to Education and Pregraduate Education and Training will present this two hour program using the Learner-Centered Psychological Principles to demonstrate their application and usage in an on-line, interactive setting.

Barbara McCombs, Ph.D.
MidContinent Regional Educational Laboratory

David H. Jonassen, Ed.D.
Pennsylvania State University

Jackie Lamb, Ed.D.
Director, Technology and Information Service
California Department of Education

Dmitri Cooper
Alan B. Shepard High School, Palos Heights, IL

The American Psychological Association's Board of Educational Affairs and the San Francisco Unified School District support this program. There is NO CHARGE for registration.

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Please fax or email this reservation form to: Courtney A. Leyendecker, The American Psychological Association

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For further information call: 202-336-6129

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SPEAKERS AND PROGRAM INFORMATION

MidContinent Regional Educational Laboratory

Will discuss a summary of key principles defining the major factors that influence learning and achievement. The LCPs are divided into 5 major categories that describe aspects of learners and the learning process that must be attended to in making educational decisions for all learners. The goal of the LCPs is to help educators understand the validity of a learner-centered perspective -- a perspective substantiated by research and one that provides a foundation for systemic educational decision making. For this reason, the original document laid out implications of the principles for effective instruction, curriculum, assessment, instructional management, teacher education, parent and community involvement, and policy practices. Dr. McCombs has also worked with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory developing the Sun's Joules education program technology, a learner-centered interactive CD-ROM instruction program for middle and high school teachers.

Pennsylvania State University

Will discuss the different domains of learning and how the LCPs, integrated with technology, affect and enhance those areas with different kinds of learners. Dr. Jonassen has designed and taught undergraduate courses on Technology as a Thinking Tool and graduate courses on Designing Constructivist Learning Environments, Artificial Intelligence in Education, and Computers as Tools.

Director, Technology and Information Service

Will discuss various issues of how to bring technology, teaching and learning together at the state level. She will cite examples of how technology, to date, has been a "special project" initiated by interested teachers and that is has not been systemic or organized within the state system of delivering classroom programs, and how it has become a tool for creative teachers. She will emphasize that California, specifically, is asking school districts to define how they plan to integrate technology into learning lessons and teaching strategies.

Alan B. Shepard High School, Palos Heights, IL

Will discuss his experiences in the classroom using the Sun's Joules Education program, which is a Department of Energy-funded educational program to help students learn about renewable energy resources, energy efficiency, and emerging technologies to solve energy problems. This program was selected by the Education/Energy Laboratory Compact as a model program exemplifying collaborative efforts which draw upon unique and complimentary resources in education, energy and technology within the laboratory systems to develop high quality science, mathematics, and technology programs, and improved training and practices in the schools of the nation. Dr. McCombs has developed educational support materials, which integrate the program technology (interactive CD-ROM) with standards-based, interdisciplinary, and learner-centered instruction in an innovative program for middle and high school teachers.

Dmitri has been working with this particular program for about 3 years and is able to cite specific instances of how he has used technology to meet diversity, and how it has affected his approach to teaching.