Visions for Fundamental Change in Teaching and Learning (John Morgridge with Phil Bossert, Odd de Presno, Okhwa Lee & Rick Wertheimer)

This session is intended to illuminate the broad range of issues that will be addressed throughout the day. John Morgridge will describe his experiences working with networking and schools, and comment on the key impacts he sees technology can make on teaching and learning for children and for the future. Then each of the four panelists will share a brief reaction to Mr. Morgridge's remarks coupled with their own insights based on their personal perspectives and experiences as international leaders in educational technology and reform.

John P. Morgridge is currently Chairman of the Board of Cisco Systems, Inc. He joined Cisco Systems, the leading supplier of high-performance internetworking products, in 1988 as president and CEO and became chairman in 1995. Before joining Cisco John spent two years as president and chief operating officer of GRiD Systems, a private company building laptop computers that was sold to Tandy Corporation in July of 1988. Prior to that he worked in the computer industry for over 20 years.

Mr. Morgridge holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BBA from the University of Wisconsin. He and his wife are active in the support of education. John currently is a director of Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network's initiative on improving K-12 education. He also serves as a director of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.

He and his wife, Tashia, live in Portola Valley, California. They have three children and six grandchildren. John enjoys amateur status as a cyclist, hunter, skier and Grandpops.

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Opportunities for Structural Reform via Technology (Philip Bossert, HERN)

The structures of traditional schooling form an interconnected framework of physical, temporal, disciplinary, and grade-level constraints that seem to inhibit innovation. For example, it may be difficult to engage in meaningful technology-intensive inquiry-based learning in a classroom with 25 students and 1 teacher during a fixed 1-hour time period which only covers one subject. The best uses of technology may require changing some of these structures. This presentation will describe the issues and propose some alternative ways of breaking out of the "boxes" which can constrain creative teaching and learning.

Dr. Philip J.Bossert is the Project Director of the Hawaii Education and Research Network (HERN) a major National Science Foundation demonstration project funded through the Networking Infrastructuree for Education program. Prior to that served as Assistant Superintendant of Education for the State of Hawaii, for Information and Telecommunications Service. He has also been President of a small private college, a manager in a large telecommunications utility, anda Professor of Philosophy. Bossert founded and is the President/CEO of a successful international high-technology consulting firm.

Further information: http://www.hern.hawaii.edu/hern

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GLOBE: Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (April Marine)

The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program is a worldwide effort where students, teachers, and scientists worktogether to study and understand the global environment. Students engage in "hands-on" science and educational activities that enrich their understanding of science, math, and networking while contributing to a greater environmental awareness and scientific understanding of our planet. Currently, more than 3,500 schools in 52 countries participate in GLOBE. This session will highlight specific scientific tasks students perform, and how they use the Internet to contribute information, manipulate data, and interact with scientists. In addition, information about how your school or country can become involved in this online collaboration will be provided.

April Marine works for Sterling Software at NASA Ames Research Center in California, USA. She has been involved in Internet information services and user support activities for twelve years and is the lead for the NASA Network Information Center (NIC). The NASA NIC assisted the GLOBE Program in establishing a Help Desk to support teachers implementing the Program, and Ms. Marine is the manager of the GLOBE Help Desk in the United States. She has authored several papers and a book about the Internet.

Further information: http://www.globe.gov/

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Tools for Internet Training (Robin Murphy, InterNIC)

The InterNIC's Information & Education Services section has developed a range of tools to assist the educational community with meeting the needs of Internet end-users. Among these tools are: The15 Minute Series, a collection of ready-to-use training materials on Internet topics for use in the classroom and beyond; Roadmap, a self-paced Internet tutorial available via email or the web; and InterNIC News, the InterNIC's monthly electronic newsletter, which examines the events, issues, and technology that affect both the network and those who use it. These training resources and current awareness services are provided to help teachers understand the technology and make the most of it, regardless of whether they are teaching students or themselves. This presentation will provide our view of the current status of these projects and take a look at future developments and features planned for each of these resources.

Robin Murphy works for Network Solutions, Inc., the company that provides InterNIC Registration Services for the .com, .org, .net, .edu, and .gov top level domains. As Manager of Content and User Services, she oversees projects such as the 15 Minute Series, a collection of Internet training materials designed for Internet trainers, and InterNIC News, the InterNIC's monthly electronic newsletter.

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Using Instructional Technology as a Catalyst for School Reform (Mario Zinga & Rick Wertheimer, Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh)

Getting educational change or reform tooccur in school districts is a very complex and difficult process. There are issues of curriculum, ownership, accountability, support, funding, politics and control that surface when the reform discussion begins. Many educational reform efforts engage these issues one at a time, hoping that by influencing one a domino effect will occur sparking a broader reform effort. For the last five years, the National Science Foundation has funded a project - Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh (CK:P) - to investigate educational and organizational change as a result of the introduction of the Internet into the Pittsburgh Public Schools. Introducing this powerful technology into the school district has acted as a catalyst for a reform effort that considers all the variables critical to the process. This presentation will focus on these variables and provide the opportunity to place our efforts within the global context of school reform.

The two presentors, Richard Wertheimer and Mario Zinga, are responsible for implementing the CK:P project in the Pittsburgh school district. Richard Wertheimer was a mathematics teacher and supervisor in the Pittsburgh Public Schools. Presently he is the project manager for Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh. Mario Zinga was a teacher in the Pittsburgh Public Schools. Presently he is on the Education staff of Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh (CK:P), and one of the original authors of the grant that funded the CK:P project.

An initial paper on this subject can be found at: http://info.pps.pgh.pa.us/publications/articles/chaos/chaosfin.htm

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Establishing and Managing a School-based Server (Andrea McCurdy & Mark Stokes)

This session is intended for educators with responsibility for establishing and/or managing a school-based server. It will discuss the key issues and decision points, and provide information about resources that willhelp each school make the appropriate choices. Among the issues that will be discussed are:

Andrea McCurdy works with NASA's Quest Project. She has been involved in helping school districts and county offices of education get online for over seven years. She has written several chapters of the California State Department of Education Planning Guide and managed the production of the NASA Quest Project's Internet Video Series. Most recently Andrea has produced and managed several online, live, interactive events as part of NASA Quest Project's Learning Technologies Channel. These events have ranged in scope from a live WebChat with US Secretary of State Albright, to a NetDay '96 Virtual Conference.

Mark Stokes is apartner at Axon Internet Consulting. He is a twelve year marketing and advertising executive. For the past two years Mark has worked as a Web designer and online publisher. Among the accounts that Mark's firm manages is the Internet Technical Academy (ITA). The ITA is a funded by the California Department of Education and the California County Superintendents and is designed to help the network managers and system administrators for California's K-12 schools. Mark publishes a monthly newsletter that explores different issues and solutions for the community.

For Further Information: http://www.well.com/~andream
http://www.wested.org/ita
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov

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Educational Uses of the World Wide Web (Cynthia Thomas & Dave Thomas)

This session will describe the many different ways in which the World Wide Web can be used as a tool in education, from serving as a source of information to its role in collaboration and constructive knowledge building. The discussion will focus on information and curricular resources suitable for student use and related pedagogical issues.

Dave Thomas is a professor of mathematics education in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Montana State University, principal investigator of the Network Montana Project, and co-investigator of the NASA CERES Project.

Cynthia Thomas is a doctoral student and graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Montana State University. She has 26 years teaching experience in grades 4-8 and extensive experience as a teacher leader and mentor in telecommunications projects, including Reach for The Sky.

Further information: NASA CERES Project -- http://www.math.montana.edu/~ceres/
Network Montana Project -- http://www.math.montana.edu/nmp/

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Building a Self-Help Community of Educators (Jodi-Ann Ito, University of Hawaii)

With the rapid growth in the volume and complexity of Internet usage in education, there is no way that traditional means of providing technical supportcan scale up. No school can afford the amount of professional technical help students and teachers need. This session will describe strategies for weaving teachers into a community of learners who help each other. It will also provide ideas for how to involve students,who often know more than the teachers, in technical support.

Jodi-Ann Ito isCo-Principal Investigator of the Hawaii Education and Research Network (HERN), a major National Science Foundation demonstrationproject funded through the Networking Infrastructuree for Education program. Jodi is also co-chair of the IETF (Internet Engineering TaskForce) Internet School Networking group. In her spare time she is Manager of Information Services for the Information TechnologyServices division of the University of Hawaii.

Further information: http://www.hern.hawaii.edu/hern

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ThinkQuest -- The $1M Educational Web Contest for Kids (Al Weis, Advanced Network & Services)

ThinkQuest challenges students aged 12-18 to move learning from Homeroom to Homepage. Participating teams worldwide are eligible for scholarships and prizes that can total more than $1 million each year. The ThinkQuest contest is designed to encourage students from different schools and different backgrounds--indeed, from different countries!--to work together in Teams toward creating valuable educational tools on the Internet while enhancing their ability to communicate and cooperate in a global, interconnected environment. ThinkQuest will help students prepare for a future dramatically different from today. Students will experience the "Internet style" of learning, which emphasizes exploration, collaboration and creative use of the vast resources of the Internet.

Allan Weis is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Network & Services, Inc. As, one of the pioneers of the Internet. Mr. Weishelped to form Advanced Network & Services in 1990 to advance education and science by accelerating the use of computer networking technology and applications. Advanced Network & Services built the largest and fastest part of the Internet and provided the NSF Backbone Service until early '95. He is a passionate believer in the power of the "NET" to revolutionize learning and close the educational resources gap among students throughout the world. Prior to his work with Advanced Network & Services, Mr. Weis spent thirty years with IBM. Mr. Weis is the founder and heart of ThinkQuest.

Further information: http://www.advanced.org/ThinkQuest/

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Inside the Internet (Jim Williams, FARNET and some expert friends)

This session is intended for those who want to know more about how the Internet really works. What are the key challenges? What changes in technology are taking place? How is the Internet making the shift into becoming a truly international infrastructure. This is a rare opportunity for educators to interact with Internet insiders. Attendees should bring any technical or non-technical questions that have puzzledthem.

Jim Williams is the Executive Director of FARNET. He is the former Assistant Director of Merit where he was active in the development and operation of the NSFNet. Prior to that he developed the original Internet connectivity for higher education in the State of Nevada. Educated as a biologist, Jim is known as a reasoned thinker and strategist in the Internet community.

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Learning via Internet (Rashid Ghani, Telekom Malaysia)

Effective use of Internet requires set of skills that neither computer literacy nor computer aided education provides. This skill set should teach students to search, identify, filter, assimilate, synthesize and form opinion based from this source of information. Opening the floodgate to ocean of information alone is not going to produce the desired creative thinkers. A concerted and deliberate effort need to be undertaken to make Internet as an educational tool along with your other classroom resources. This presentation will describe the best practices fin Internet-based learning from around the world and identify the new literacy skills and pedagogy; practices and issues. Internet is a tool, not a solution to an end, but in a rapidly changing world it is becoming increasingly important and indispensable. Our students need to acquire this skill before broad band Internet application enters the main stream or they will be left to grapple with the fundamentals of information age and far from being global players or having the competitive edge.

Mr. Rashid Ghani is a Manager in the NewCo division of Telekom Malaysia in charge of content development for Business Multimedia. Currently in the Industry Panel of Smart School Task Force, Ministry of Education. His specialty areas are software and hardware integration and content development for interactive multimedia. Mr. Rashid co-founded NeuroNet (M) Sdn. Bhd. to propagate and expand the multimedia application industry in the Malaysian market. His other areas of work include networked multimedia, video based training, Non-Linear editing, Internet applications and video on demand.

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Kidlink (Odd dePresno)

Kidlink is an international non-profit organization promoting a global dialog among the youth of the world. The work is supported by 28 public conferences (mailing lists), a private network for interactive dialog ("chat"), and an online art exhibition site. Over 90,000 youth between 10 - 15 years of age living in 103 countries have participated in Kidlink's activities. The primary means of communication is electronic mail.

Odd de Presno is a Norwegian author and Internet specialist. He founded Kidlink in 1990, and is still the organization's Chairman and Project Director. He lives in Arendal, a small town in southern Norway, with his computers and modems. He has written twelve books, and as participated in several book projects with other authors in various countries. Half of his books focus on various aspects of the Online World. The rest are about practical applications of MS-DOS based personal computers. He has published over 800 articles in management and technical magazines in Scandinavia, England, Italy, Japan, and the United States.

Further information: http://www.kidlink.org , http://login.eunet.no/~presno/presno.html

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Connection Technologies for Schools (Peter Elford, Cisco)

The K12 community has been a rapid and enthusiastic adopter of the Internet as a means to improve the education process. However, many schools have only the most basic level of Internet access usually delivered via standalone PC's and dialup modems. New and exciting applications based on multimedia technologies, with direct applicability to the education sector, are available over the Internet but remain out of reach of the vast majority of K12 schools around the world. This session will review the status of existing connection technologies, and outline the technology trends that will provide schools with access to the next wave of Internet applications.

Peter Elford is a Consulting Engineer with Cisco Systems, based in Canberra, Australia. His areas of expertise include the Internet, Security, ATM, campus networking and large scale network design. Prior to joining Cisco Systems in February, 1993 he worked for three years at the Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet), where he had responsibility for much of the hands on engineering for the embryonic Australian Internet. Peter also serves on the Board of Directors of the Internet Society of Australia.

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Challenges in Technology-based School Reform (Okhwa Lee)

Applications of Information Technology in Korea were initiated as the infrastructure for the educational reform in the information society. Lifelong learning and open education became the two major educational philosophy of the educational reform and technology enriched schools. In this session, Korean government educational policy which is the major force of the educational informatization for k-12 schools is introduced and the survey result of the impact of educational informatization in schools, teachers and students are analyzed. With the ten years of government derived educational informatization policies in Korea, we learned some lessons which can be shared with other countries: the well balanced roles of government and private sectors, benefits through competition, reengineering of educational systems.

Okhwa Lee is Assistant Professor of Computer Education at Chungbuk National University in Korea. She has worked at KEDI (Korea Educational Development Institute) as the team leader for educational information research and prior to that at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Sceince and Technology) as the team leader for Computer Based Education in the Systems Engineering Research Institute. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational technology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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International Schools CyberFair (Steve Wolff, Cisco)

The International Schools CyberFair program is an "Internet Style Learning" opportunity that encourages students and teachers, schools, and their communitiesto use the Internet to share resources, establish partnerships and work together to accomplish common goals. It currently involves over 250 schools from 29 countries.

Steve Wolff works in the office of the Chief Technology Officer at Cisco Systems, co-founder of the International Schools CyberFair and CorporatePartner in the Internet 2 project. Prior to joining Cisco in 1995,he was Director of the Division of Networking and Communications Research and Infrastructure in the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF),where he was responsible for NSF's support of basic research in networking and communications and for the National Research and Education Network (NREN) and NSFNET programs. In conjunction with the NSFNET, he initiated the first open Internet links for research and education between the U.S. and Japan (at 2400 bps!) and between the U.S. and Europe. He has been attending INET conferences sporadically since 1986, and was one of the earliest members of the ISOC.

Further information: http://www.gsn.org/gsn/cb/index.html

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Providing Professional Development about the Internet via the Internet (Dave Thomas & Cynthia Thomas)

The Internet can itself serve as the medium for professional development for teachers about the Internet. This session will discuss current telecommunications projects in rural areas of the American Northwest. Projects include Reach for the Sky, the Network Montana Project, the National Teachers Enhancement Network Project, and the NASA CERES Project.

Dave Thomas is a professor of mathematics education in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Montana State University, principal investigator of the Network Montana Project, and co-investigator of the NASA CERES Project.

Cynthia Thomas is adoctoral student and graduate teaching assistant in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Montana State University. She has 26 years teaching experience in grades 4-8 and extensive experience as a teacher leader and mentor in telecommunications projects, including Reach for The Sky.

Further information: NASA CERES Project -- http://www.math.montana.edu/~ceres/
Network Montana Project -- http://www.math.montana.edu/nmp/

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Managing Internet Content with Kids: Challenges and Strategies (Jean Armour Polly)

This presentation begins by recognizing the reality that there really is some awful material on the Internet -- material that almost anyone would agree is not suitable for at least some children. Besides getting into this adult content, children may stray into areas of cultural, historic, political, religious, or other information that, for one reason or another, may be labelled as "dangerous" by parents, teachers, or governments. What questions are being asked about censorship? What solutions are being implemented to control access to content, and content itself? And who should have this control-parents, trusted organizations, governments?

Jean Armour Polly is the author of the best-selling children's book The Internet Kids & Family Yellow Pages, Second edition, published by Osborne McGraw-Hill. (In Singapore it is also bundled as a CD-ROM/paperback package called Kids In The Net, published by Comp Plus Technology and Osborne McGraw-Hill.) Jean is a Senior Advisor to The Morino Institute, Great Falls, Virginia and recently served as Co-Chair of the Children's Category of the international GII Awards competition.Before life as an independent contractor, Jean was most recently the Director of Public Services at NYSERNet, Inc. where she has spent three years as a construction worker on the information superhighway. One of her delights was being co-principal investigator on the landmark "Project GAIN: Connecting Rural Public Libraries to the Internet" study (1994) and producer of the accompanying video. Besides her work with libraries, Jean has a special interest in telecommunications and Indian nations, and use of the net to enhance the economic development of rural areas.

Further information: http://www.well.com/user/polly/

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