The theme tagline of this conference is Teaching The Millennial Generation. It’s an interesting conference, sponsored jointly by the California League of Middle Schools, League of High Schools, and Computer Using Educators. I suspect that in attendence will be middle school and high school teachers of all brands and a peppering of technology educators. That’s just the sense that I have.
The keynote combination is a powerful one. Leslie Fisher will be delivering one of the keynotes. She’s a geek gal, and one of two true and duely crowned gadget queens I know. I am sure she will leave here audience with their chins on the ground and their credit cards poised.
I, on the other hand, will be talking about the generation, for which the gadgets are being invented, the Millennials. It’s a presentation that I have delivered a couple of times, but have restructured slightly for California, wrapping it around the new story pillars provided by anthropologist, Jennifer James. We’ll look at the economic landscape that our children are growing up in, their landscape of play, work, and learning, and the information landscape from which we should be teaching them. Here are the online wiki handouts:
I’ll also be delivering two concurrent sessions on blogging and podcasting. Their wiki handouts are at:
