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SESSION TYPE: Featured Speaker (Panel) SESSION TITLE: Mobile and Digital Learning: Stories from the Front Lines STRAND: Instructional Technology DAY: Friday TIME: 2:30 - 3:45pm LOCATION: Regent Parlor, 2nd floor |
The MacArthur Foundation and the Pearson Foundation have worked together to host and document innovative applications of mobile and digital technologies for student learning. Meet three educators—Katie Salen, Diana Rhoten, and Nichole Pinkard—who are placing young people at the center of learning programs that make use of gaming, mobile devices, and social networking, and who are bringing this learning to classrooms, museums, and even city streets. Learn about how many of these programs—together with supporting professional development sessions for educators--are being developed, tested, scaled, and funded right in New York City.
BIOGRAPHY
Mark Nieker is the president and executive director of the Pearson Foundation, the non-profit arm of the education services and technology company Pearson. The Pearson Foundation extends Pearson’s commitment to education in partnership with non-profit and public interest organizations, working with leading businesses and civic groups to support students and teachers and to sponsor community-based education programs across the globe. Mr. Nieker oversees Pearson’s philanthropic activity worldwide.
Nichole Pinkard is Visiting Associate Professor, Interactive Media, School of Computing, at DePaul University—where she plays a leading role in DePaul’s engagement in creating optimal learning environments that span school, home and community. Dr. Pinkard has led efforts to implement 1:1 computing in urban schools, integrate digital media into core instruction, and create digital media learning opportunities outside of the formal school day.
Diana Rhoten is Director of the Knowledge Institutions program and the Digital Media and Learning project at the Social Science Research Council. With funding from the MacArthur Foundation, Rhoten is leading the Learning Networks project in New York City, which uses a design-driven methodology to help institutions develop collaborative and interactive ways of crafting digital media and learning activities.
Katie Salen, the Executive Director, Gamelab Institute of Play, manages the New York City public school in designed in partnership with New Visions for Public Schools. An Associate Professor in the Design and Technology, Parsons The New School for Design, Salen is also the co-author of Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals, a textbook on game design, as well as the Game Design Reader, both from MIT Press.
Connie M. Yowell is the Director of Education in the Mac Arthur Foundation’s Program on Human and Community Development. In this role, she focuses on grants relating to public education, and on the implications for education of young people’s use of digital media.
