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Pragmatic Partnerships: Collaborations in Cyberspace
HOW WEB 2.0 IS REDEFINING TEACHING & LEARNING
Tuesday, November 4
10:45 am - 12 pm
This session explores how institutions use online tools and capabilities to enhance the learning experience for students. Wikis, blogs, social networking, virtual worlds – the full range of web 2.0 capabilities – engage students through interactivity in a way that traditional teaching methods perhaps ignore. Several institutions across Canada are experimenting with these new tools, and finding out how broadly they can be applied to all academic disciplines. Panelists will share their experiences, best practices, and cautionary tales.
Session Chair: Janet Murphy, Director, ABEL Program, York University
Janet Murphy is the Director of the Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) program for York University’s Office of the Vice President Research and Innovation and the York Region District School Board in Toronto. She provides leadership in the implementation of new models of teaching and learning that leverage information communications technology. This includes learning programs for classrooms and virtual schooling, and providing online and blended professional and leadership development programs for teachers, faculty and the community. She also coordinates innovative projects with other school districts, colleges and universities across Canada and internationally.
Panelists:
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Ken Hudson, Managing Director, Virtual World Design Centre, Loyalist College
Ken is an expert in the uses and applications of social media. He established the Second Life program at Loyalist College which received the Colleges Ontario award for innovation in 2008. He was educated at the University of Toronto and at the Institute for the Psychological Study of the Arts (UF). He is a Senior Fellow at the Beal Institute for Strategic Creativity, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto.
- Mark Matchen, Stephen Lewis Secondary School, York Region District School Board
Mark believes ICT will transform learning once it has transformed teaching. To that end, he is an evangelist for technologies such as hypertext and virtual spaces, and for a reconsideration of teaching models that encompass these. Central to his vision is collapsing the artificial walls of school subjects and courses, and enabling collaboration and integration across subjects, schools and geographies. Mark teaches high school English and Computer Studies courses, following a career in IT that included serving as E-banking Strategist for TD Canada Trust and Knowledge Management Consultant with Ernst & Young. He was educated at the University of Toronto and D'youville College.
- Avi Pollock, Head of Applied Innovation, Royal Bank of Canada
With a view to “what’s next”, “what’s new” and “what’s different”, Avi Pollock and his team work across the RBC enterprise to stimulate innovative activity and to identify and validate emerging technologies and opportunities that have the potential to drive client value and differentiate RBC from its competitors. Prior to joining RBC, Avi provided interim executive management services in sales, business operations, and acquisition strategy to technology companies in start-up and growth phases and previously held the position of EVP, Professional Services for a TSX-listed technology company. Avi is a graduate of the joint LLB-MBA program at York University's Osgoode Hall Law School and Schulich School of Business and is a member of the New York State Bar Association.
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