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View Tuesday, March 11 Award Presentation and Closing Keynote Address "New Skills for the Whole New Mind" with bestselling author Dan PinkLargest CoSN Conference Ever Explores Role of Technology in Enabling New Skills and New AssessmentsMore than 1,000 educators from schools and school districts across the country convened in Washington, DC, for the Consortium for School Networking's (CoSN) 13th Annual K-12 School Networking Conference, themed "Visionary Leadership: Scaffolding 21st Century Learning with Technology" (March 9-11, 2008). Building on last year's record-breaking attendance at the conference in San Francisco, Calif., CoSN was successful in bringing even more educators to the nation's capital this year to explore and understand the role technology plays in providing U.S. students with the skills necessary for success in the 21st century. Conference plenary and breakout sessions offered dynamic and exciting insights into the role that technology is playing in transforming the learning process. Topics ranged from "21st Century Learning: Embedding New Skills and Assessments" to "Unleashing the Transformational Power of One-to-One Computing in K-12." Other sessions examined top trends and issues in education technology, including "Education in a MySpace World," "Next Generation Virtual Learning at the District Level: What's Hot," and "Pushing the Frontier with Internet2 in K-12 Classrooms," among others. During CoSN's 7th Annual International Symposium, "Bringing Web 2.0 Innovation to Our Schools: Leadership and Policy Changes," conference attendees heard keynote addresses delivered by two renowned education technology experts – Charles House, Executive Director of Media X at Stanford University, and Professor Stephen Heppell, Former Director of the UK's Ultralab and CEO of Heppell.Net Ltd. Best-selling author of A Whole New Mind and expert on innovation and competitiveness Daniel Pink delivered the conference's closing keynote address on "New Skills for the Whole Mind," in which he highlighted the importance of "soft skills" such as collaboration and creativity in making the United States economically competitive, and issues a call to action urging educators to incorporate these skills into the learning process. CoSN honored exemplary leaders in education during the annual awards ceremony. This year's award winners include:
Mark your calendar for the 2009 CoSN Conference, to be held in Austin, Texas, March 10-12, 2009. |
