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Subject: the International Conference on Technology and Education
Date: 27 Jul 92 02:19:35 GMT
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                       Subject:                               Time:1:52 PM
  OFFICE MEMO          None                                   Date:7/17/92
Dear Networker:
Could you post the following call for papers where appropriate folk might
see it?  Also consider offering a paper yourself.
Thanks        Bob Tinker
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Dear Educator:
On behalf of Seymour Papert and the steering committee of the International
Conference on Technology and Education which he chairs, I would like to
invite you to offer a paper on education, technology and the environment at
our tenth annual conference to be held at MIT March 21-24, 1993.  This is a
major academic meeting that gathers annually in different countries
featuring four days of refereed papers in six or more parallel strands.  The
conference typically draws a thousand participants from throughout the
world, but this time, because we are celebrating our tenth year, we are
making a special effort to attract a widened audience and could conceivable
attract two thousand participants or more.  One reason we can expect a
larger audience is the interest generated by MIT's legendary Media Lab.  In
addition, Seymour is chairman of the steering committee and a leading
visionary in the creative application of technology to education who is
widely known and will draw admirers from throughout the world.  
An important aspect of our planning is to widen our appeal through the use
of content themes, one which will serve as an organizing focus for each day
of the conference.  One of these themes will be the environment and
environmental education and Vice President (we hope) Al Gore has agreed to
give the keynote address on that theme to kick off a day of environment
papers on the 22nd.  I am organizing this day and I welcome contributions
that would support this theme.  We have asked Senator Gore to frame a new
conception of environmental education and the potential role of technology
in that conception.  We have asked him to share the vision of education
outlined in his book "Earth in the Balance", of his NREN legislation, and of
student environmental monitoring using appropriate technology.
I am interested in the broadest possible range of topics at the intersection
of technology, ecology, and education.  This is an international project and
speakers from outside the U.S. are particularly welcome.  Papers might
include:
CD-ROMs with environmental data that could be used in education,
direct readout of satellite data as used in education,
geographic information systems used in education,
participation of students in environmental modeling on supercomputers,
new, low-cost chemical tests used in school-based environmental monitoring
programs for school-based environmental monitoring.
inexpensive data logging techniques of use in environmental studies,
network-based student projects in the environment.
school-based experiences with any of the above.
pre-service and in-service programs in these areas.
We are particularly interested in having a few teacher/student teams where a
student reports on an impressive, original environmental project using
technology done as part of a course and the student's teacher talks about
the educational strategies that were able to produce such remarkable student
work.  We would find some financial help for travel and registration for two
such teams.  
If you have possible contributions on this theme, send me a written
one-paragraph paper proposal by September 1.  Include an electronic mail
address if possible.  If selected, you will need to write a paper suitable
for publication and get it to me by November 1.  
Please circulate this letter.  Thank you for your help.  
Sincerely,

Bob Tinker
TERC 
2067 Massachusetts Ave. 
Cambridge, MA 02140
Bob_Tinker@terc.edu