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Date:         Fri, 24 Jul 1992 22:37:19 EDT
From:         Gleason Sackman <sackman@plains.NoDak.edu>
Subject:      International Conference on Technology and Education (fwd)

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> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1992 14:03:47 EST
> From: Bob Tinker <Bob_Tinker@TERC.EDU>
> Subject:  International Conference on Technology and Education
>
>                        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?
> Thanks        Bob Tinker
> -----------
>
> 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
>


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