It’s Fundamental: Teaching Strategies for the Digital Age Anne Hird, Bridgewater State College | Room 401
		Students now enter college with experience using digital technology for a wide array of purposes, ranging from texting to arrange a date to creating elaborate Youtube videos on every topic imaginable. Outside the classroom, young adults are actively engaged in information seeking, communication, collaboration, and construction of knowledge through digital technologies. But they hold very low expectations for technology use in their formal education. This session will address the fundamental changes in teaching strategies needed to integrate technology effectively in ways that will engage digital youth in the curriculum. It’s Fundamental: Teaching Strategies for the Digital Age (PowerPoint slides)

Traditional Classroom: How Does Technology Impact Faculty Roles? Adam Seldow, Framingham Public Schools | Room 426
		We in the public schools often denounce lecture-based, stand-and-deliver teaching. We encourage creative seating arrangements, group work, and constructivist teaching methods. Yet, when students succeed in k-12 schooling and go off to college they typically attend lecture after lecture from their most lauded professors. While the recitation and lecture associated with the “traditional classroom” certainly has its place in education, how can we as professors capitalize on the seemingly inborn technological fluency of our students? How can we adapt our pedagogy and revisit the traditional classroom? New technologies allow professors to redefine their concept of classroom. Join Adam Seldow to learn how.

12:00 pm – New Year's Luncheon in Watson Auditorium

1:00 pm – Technology as a Distraction or Benefit | Panel Discussion

Why Laptops? How Are We Integrating Laptops? What Are the Downsides? What Are the Benefits? Room 426
		Discussion Facilitator: Michael Arsenault, St. Joseph’s College & Yarmouth School Department, ME Panelists: Amanda Hattaway, AMS; Robert Cowherd, ARCH; Sam Montague, D&F; Peter Rourke, EM; Amos St. Germain, HSSM

2:00 pm – Changing Work Environments | Concurrent Sessions

Leveraging Wikis to Improve Collaboration and Communication Dr. Jerry Kane, Boston College | Room 401
		Web 2.0 provides educators with a portfolio of tools for use in the classroom that are cheap, powerful, and easy to use. Adopting the technologies in the classroom, however, is only half the battle. A far greater challenge is developing effective educational processes that leverage the collaborative capabilities of these tools to improve learning. This session focuses on how to create assignments, develop appropriate incentives, cultivate an effective collaborative environment, and cultivate new media literacy among students.

Five Emerging Technologies to Enhance your Classes & Prepare Students for the Workplace Dr. Maureen Brown Yoder, Lesley University | Room 426
		“Electronic Constructivism” incorporates the highest level of inquiry-based teaching with motivating, intriguing, questions and the latest and most promising technologies. This session will provide you with an overview of five emerging technologies and ways that you can use them in your classes. 1. Communications: Tools for Collaboration and Video Conferencing 2. Dynamic Presentations: Applications used for Displaying Data and Presenting Solutions 3. Beyond Google: Alternative Search Engines and Innovative Ways to Find Web Sites, Images, and Videos 4. RSS feeds and Aggregators: Gathering Your Own Customized Selection of Subject Specific Internet Resources 5. Virtual Worlds: How Businesses are “Meeting” in Virtual Environments

From an On-Track to an On-Demand Global Learning Environment Niles Da Silva, Fidelity Investments | Room 420
		This session will discuss the challenges of delivering professional development at today’s workplace, focusing on facilitating learning in an on-demand virtual environment as well as the challenges of outreach across geographical distances and a mobile workforce. Fidelity is in the process of redesigning their learning portal and refining their teaching strategies to capitalize on the use of virtualization and collaboration tools used daily by employees to transact business in order to facilitate learning in an on-demand, virtual environment. The speaker will share his perspective on the need to prepare graduates with capabilities for learning in today’s workplace including: identifying and locating knowledge ‘nuggets’ and thriving in an on-demand virtual environment.

Presenter Information

Maureen Crawford-Hentz, Osram Sylvania
Maureen Crawford Hentz is manager of talent acquisition, development and compliance for OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc. She is a nationally recognized expert on social networking and new media recruiting. With more than 15 years of experience, her interests include diversity recruiting, college student recruiting, disabilities in the workplace, business etiquette, and GLBT issues.
Prior to joining OSRAM SYLVANIA Inc, she was the Director of Career Services at Wentworth Institute of Technology and Associate Director & Manager of Volunteer Programs & Internships at New England Aquarium.
Crawford Hentz has been quoted by The New York Times, NewsDay, The Boston Globe and National Public Radio, among others. She is a contributor to the Boston.com HR blog and the online career magazine quintcareers.com.
An award-winning program presenter, Crawford Hentz is known for lively and informative workshops. She conducts keynotes, panels and conference sessions nationally.
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Casey Carlson, Deloitte Services LP
Casey Carlson is a Senior Manager in Deloitte LLP’s Talent All Inclusive Organization. Based in Boston, Ms. Carlson has specific responsibility for Internal Inclusion Communities, External Diversity Conferences and Research.
She is charged to research demographic and workforce attitudes with the intention of creating and implementing innovative initiatives that foster an environment which ensures the best talent is attracted, retained and receives enhanced career growth. During her tenure with Deloitte, Casey has served as the Chief of Staff for the Next Generation Initiatives team, Director of Human Resources for the New England Marketplace and National Director of Campus Recruiting for Deloitte Tax.
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Anne Hird, Bridgewater State College
Anne Hird, Ph.D., is author of “Learning from Cyber-Savvy Students: How Internet-Age Kids Impact Classroom Teaching”, and describes herself as living with one foot on the ground and one foot in “cyberspace.” She has worked with computer technology in schools since 1982 and taught online since 1999. Her experience ranges from teaching in the Providence Public Schools to directing the $1.1 million grant across 27 elementary and middle schools. She holds degrees from Brown University, Simmons College, and the University of Rhode Island-Rhode Island College and is currently Online Learning Facilitator for Bridgewater State College.
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Adam Seldow, Framingham Public Schools
Adam Seldow currently serves as the Director of Technology for the Framingham Public Schools in Framingham, Massachusetts. Previously Adam served as the Chief Information Officer of Fall River Public Schools, a math teacher in the Boston Public Schools, and an officer in the United States Army. He earned his Bachelors degree from West Point and Masters degrees in teaching and school leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Adam is currently enrolled as an advanced doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Michael Arsenault, St. Joseph’s College & Yarmouth School Department, ME
Michael Arsenault has worked with a number of Maine School Systems as a Technology Integration Specialist to support the statewide 1-1 laptop implementation in grades 7-12. He is adjunct faculty at both St. Joe’s College and USM working with undergraduate education majors and practicing teachers. Winner of the prestigious Internet Innovator Award, Michael has demonstrated effective integration of laptops throughout the curriculum.
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Amanda Hattaway, AMS
Amanda Hattaway is an assistant math professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology. She is also the director and founder of Students Loving Adventures in Mathematics (SLAM) Enrichment Program, a Saturday morning program designed to expose 5-12 high school sophomore students, primarily from underrepresented groups, to mathematics in fun and innovative ways. (SLAM receives funding from the Tensor-SUMMA Foundation, Alpha Kappa Alpha Educational Advancement Foundation, and Wentworth Institute of Technology.)
Amanda holds a Sc.B. in mathematics from Brown University and a M.S. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Currently, she is working on a M.S. in bioinformatics at Brandeis University.
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Robert Cowherd, ARCH
Robert Cowherd has been an Associate Professor of Architecture at Wentworth since September 2006. He teaches advanced studio and seminar courses in the new master’s degree program. He also teaches lecture courses on the history and theory of architecture and urbanism. Before earning a BArch from Cooper Union and a PhD from MIT he worked as a builder and engineer.
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Sam Montague, D&F
Sam Montague is an Associate Professor in Industrial Design at Wentworth Institute of Technology. Sam teaches studio based courses focused on user centered design research, human interaction, and visual communication. Before coming to Wentworth, Sam worked as an industrial design consultant for companies as Kodak, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson Orthopedic, Nakamichi, and FedEx.
Sam received his BFA in Industrial Design from Carnegie-Mellon University and his MFA from the Dynamic Media Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
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Peter Rourke, EM
Peter Rourke is an Associate Professor in the Electronics and Mechanical department. He has been teaching at WIT for 28 years. He has served as the past President of the Boston Section of Society of Maunfacturing Engineers (SME), and is currently serving as faculty advisor to this group. Peter does part-time consulting for manufacturing operations.
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Amos St. Germain, HSSM
Amos St Germain is a full Professor in the Humanities, Social Sciences and Management department. He has been teaching at Wentworth for 23 years, served as department head for 10 years and as Director of Student Retention for 6 years. Most recently he has developed and taught HIST 420: The History of Technology. Prior to teaching at Wentworth, he taught full time at Southern Tech. For 35 years he has been active on numerous professional committees.
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Dr. Jerry Kane, Boston College
Gerald C. (Jerry) Kane is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. His research interests involve the role of information systems in social networks and the use of social media (e.g. blogs, wikis) for managing knowledge within and between organizations. Much of his work has focused specifically on the healthcare industry, addressing how patients, providers, and payors can use information technology to improve the efficiency and quality of healthcare. His published research has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Organization Science. His innovative teaching practices using Wikis has been featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Computerworld, eWeek, and Campus Technology. Dr. Kane holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Goizueta Business School of Emory University and an MBA in Computer Information Systems from Georgia State University.
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Dr. Maureen Brown Yoder, Lesley University
Dr. Maureen Brown Yoder is the Program Director of the Technology in Education Online master’s degree program at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has served in this role for the past twelve years developing online courses and programs, advising online students, and mentoring online faculty. Dr. Yoder coined the term “Electronic Constructivism” and teaches “Emerging Technologies”, a course incorporating the newest and most innovative technologies in ways that promote imaginative thought and original creations.
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Niles Da Silva, Fidelity Investments
Niles joined Fidelity Investments in 1996 and has worked in the Learning and Training functions for various business units and geographical locations over the last 13 years.. Throughout the last five years, he has managed the work and human & technical resources that support the global transformation of several delivery channels for the Fidelity Learning Community and the creation of the content including OnLine Reference Knowledge Bases, Content Search Engines, Audio-casting, Business Unit Learning Portals, Internal and External Virtual Classroom Spaces, Learning Management Systems, System Simulation Environments, and the technical infrastructure used in day-to-day operations by the L&D Departments.He obtained a B.S. from the University of Utah in both Economics and Anthropology, and his M.Ed. from the University of Massachusetts in Instructional Design and Technology.
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