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Spring 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010
Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization
Dr. Yong Zhao, Center for Teaching and Technology, Presenter
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Friday, April 23, 2010
We are What we Build! Creating Scenarios for 21st Century Teaching: Building CAPACITY
Dr. Stephen Steele,AACC Futures Institute, Presenter
Fall 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
So You Want to Teach the Future?
Stephen Steele, AACC, Futures Institute, Presenter
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Spring 2010 & Fall 2009 Seminars
Theme: "Looking toward the Future"
Dear Colleagues:
Please join us for our Spring professional development seminars in keeping with our theme, Looking Toward the Future. In these sessions, we explore the role of the community college in teaching and learning in the 21st Century. We began this dialogue in the fall 2009 semester. We continue the dialogue this Spring with 2 dynamic sessions on exploring future transitions in educational and instructional technology and the implications for the community college classroom. We will also envision the 21st century classroom and the necessary paradigm shifts in instructional strategies and student learning dictated from our knowledge and understanding of what will contribute to student growth and success. We have carefully crafted our Spring seminars to address these issues and sought out the best experts to provide us their insights and expertise.
Dr. Yong Zhao is one of the emerging leaders in the academy exploring the future of technology and innovation in educational instruction, nationally and globally. He will share his perspectives on innovative strategies for use of technology in instruction in the community college classroom in the 21st century. This will not be a discussion of specific technology or software, but more a discussion of the effective ways to combine instructional strategies with the myriad of technology and software available.
Dr. Stephen Steele, is a leading futurist thinker and scholar. In the Fall 2009 semester, he provided us with much knowledge and understanding on content and strategies for teaching about the future and integrating a futures curriculum into our instructional program. Steele will conduct a follow up seminar on how we need to prepare our skills and teaching strategies for the 21st century classroom.
We hope you will join us for these visionary and informative seminars designed to stimulate our thinking about the skills and transitions necessary to move forward, excel and contribute to successful student outcomes in teaching and learning in the future.
Registration is now open!
To register, please send an e-mail with your name, discipline, campus, e-mail address to roking@nvcc.edu or your campus representative.
Rosalyn M. King, VCCS-CTE Chair\
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Spring Colloquy
with Book Signing
Friday, April 2, 2010
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Center for Innovative Technology, Briefing Room
2214 Rock Hill Road
Herndon, VA 20170
Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the
Age of Globalization
Dr. Yong Zhao, Presenter
University Distinguished Professor,
Founding Director, Center for Teaching and Technology,
Executive Director, Confucius Institute
Director, US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Colloquy Overview
At a time when globalization and technology are dramatically altering the world we live in, is education reform in the United States headed down the right path? Are educational institutions emphasizing the knowledge and skills students need in a global society--or are they actually undermining their strengths by overemphasizing high-stakes testing and standardization? Are education systems in China and other countries really as superior as some people claim?
In this presentation, Dr. Yong Zhao addresses these and other questions based on his new book of the same title. His unique perspective and expertise leads him to conclude that “American education is at a crossroads” and “we need to change course” to maintain leadership in a rapidly changing world.
To make his case, Zhao will discuss some of the following:
•What's right with American education;
•How globalization and the “death of distance” are affecting jobs and everyday life;
•How the virtual world is transforming the economic and social landscape in ways far more profound than many people realize;
•Reforms, comparisons and contrasts with China and other Asian nations; and
•Examples of best practices, innovations and suggestions for defining necessary knowledge of the future and anticipated uses of technology.
Dr. Zhao’s book will be available for sales and signing during the colloquy.
About the Presenter
Yong Zhao is University Distinguished Professor at Michigan State University, where he also serves as the founding director of the Center for Teaching and Technology, director of the US-China Center for Research on Educational Excellence, and Executive Director of the Confucius Institute.
He is a fellow of the International Academy for Education and currently serves on the National Academy of Sciences National Research Council's Committee to Review the Title VI and Fulbright-Hays International Education Programs.
Zhao received his PhD in Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include diffusion of innovation, teacher adoption of technology, computer-assisted language learning, globalization and education, and international and comparative education.
Zhao has published extensively in these areas. He has been invited to lecture on issues related to education reform, globalization, and technology in over 10 countries. He received the 2003 Raymond B. Catell Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association.
His research interests include computer gaming and education, diffusion of innovations, teacher adoption of technology, computer-assisted language learning, and globalization and education. He has extensive international experiences, consulting with government and educational agencies and speaking on educational issues in many countries and six continents. His current work focuses on designing 21st Century schools in the context of globalization and the digital revolution. Zhao has conducted faculty professional development seminars on the use of innovation and educational technology in practice . He also has written extensively on the subject for teachers and developed primers for practitioners, including the books: Faculty Development by Design: Integrating Technology in Higher Education and What should Teachers Know about Technology? Perspectives and Practices.
Zhao was born in China’s Sichuan Province. He received his B.A. in English language Education from Sichuan Institute of Foreign languages in Chongqing, China. After teaching English in China for six years, he came to the U.S. to Linfield College as a visiting scholar in 1992.He continued on to graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a Masters in Education and a doctorate in Educational Psychology.
Zhao is a special feature speaker at the March 2010 Annual Conference of the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development in San Antonio, Texas whose theme is Critical Transformations.
For more on Yong Zhao visit his website.
View Yong Zhao Videos:
 Download Zhao Flyer Below in PDF:
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2nd Spring Seminar
Friday, April 23, 2010
1:00pm – 4:00pm
Center for Innovative Technology, Briefing Room
2214 Rock Hill Road
Herndon, VA 20170
We are What We Build!
Creating Scenarios for 21st Century Teaching: Building C.A.P.A.C.I.T.Y
Dr. Stephen F. Steele, Presenter
Professor of Sociology and Futures Studies and Former Director,
Institute for the Future,
Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, Maryland
C = Community, Cooperation and Competition
A = Adventure.
P = Products
A = Active
C = Creativity
I = Innovation
T = Transparency
Y = Youthful Exuberance
Seminar Overview
This seminar is a continuation of the discussion on the future of teaching and learning in the community college began last semester.
In the Fall semester, Steele presented us with best practices used in teaching about the future. In this seminar, the focus will be on the instructional skills needed by faculty for use in the classroom of the 21st century. Specifically, the seminar will focus on the types of skills needed and paradigm shifts that will take place in the future of teaching in the college classroom.
An overview of tools that can be applied to the problem of 21st century teaching will be presented and discussed. This will be followed by the building of models in teams. The seminar will culminate with faculty presentations of their thinking and models.
About the Presenter
Stephen Steele is Professor of Sociology and Futures Studies and former Director of the Institute for the Future at Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, Maryland (http://www.aacc.edu/future). He works with an advisory team in the ongoing development of a vehicle for the delivery of future views and tools at the local level. In short, he promotes future thinking, trains learners to use futures tools and facilitates creativity and planning.
Steve has been active and visible in futures work and applied sociology for three decades. His career spans academia, as a professor at Anne Arundel Community College; and, as former adjunct professor in the graduate program in Organizational Development and Human Resources at Johns Hopkins University School of Professional Studies in Business and Education. Awards from Johns Hopkins University, the American Sociological Association and the Society for Applied Sociology reflect his prowess in teaching and practice.
Steve helped create the Center for the Study of Local Issues (CSLI) another innovative program that supports applied research in the community college. He has crafted courses in futuring at the undergraduate level and in applied sociology at the sophomore through graduate levels (many on line).
His publications include Solution-Centered Sociology: Addressing Problems through Applied Sociology with Annie Scarisbrick-Hauser and Bill Hauser (Sage Publications, 1999) and Applied Sociology: Topics, Terms, Tools and Tasks with Jammie Price (Wadsworth 2003, second edition 2008).
Steve us invited by many organizations, colleges and universities to speak. He also conducts successful workshops and on-site presentations throughout the United States, drawing attention to the study of the future and the practice of social science.
For more on Stephen Steele and the Institute of the Future, visit the website.
View Steele Videos:
(VCCS-CTE-11-09)
(VCCS-CTE-11-09)
(VCCS-CTE-11-09)
Download Steele Flyer in PDF Below:
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VCCS-CTE Campus Representatives
James Baer and Bob LeRosen (NVCC-AL); Gerald Boyd,Trudy Gillevet, and Nan Peck (NVCC-AN); Chris Blake (NVCC-LO); Laura Bhadra and Pat Lazzarino (NVCC-MA); Patricia Ottavio and Neelam Sharma (NVCC-MEC); Barbara Gershman, Charles Kellermann, and Bipin Khana (NVCC-WO); Joan Trabandt (ELI); Karen Mittura, Phyllis Smith, and Terry Rooker (GCC-Fredericksburg & Locust Grove); Nicole Martin and Joan Osborne (LFCC-Fauquier and Warrenton).
To register, please send an e-mail with your name, discipline, campus, e-mail address to roking@nvcc.edu or your campus representative.
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