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INVITED CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
David Cavallo
Future of Learning Group, MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, USA
cavallo@media.mit.edu
http://www.media.mit.edu/people/bio_cavallo.html
David Cavallo co-directs the Lab's Future of Learning group, focusing on the
design and implementation of reforms in learning environments and educational
systems, on the role that technology can play in this process, and on the design
of new technologies for learning. Prior to joining the research staff at the
Media Lab, Cavallo led the design and implementation of medical informatics at
Harvard University Health Services, and was a principal and consulting software
engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation's Artificial Intelligence Technology
Center. Cavallo has designed and built numerous knowledge-based systems for
industry, most notably a set of intelligent microworlds for training air traffic
controllers. He founded and led the Advanced Technology group for Digital's
Latin American and Caribbean region. He has advised numerous heads of state and
ministries of education on the adoption of advanced technologies for learning
and the reform of educational institutions. Cavallo received his MS and PhD from
the Program in Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, and a BS in computer science from
Rutgers University.
Edith K. Ackermann
Hidden Drivers of Pedagogic Transactions: Teachers as Clinicians and Designers
MIT School of Architecture, Design technologies, Cambridge, USA
edith@media.mit.edu
http://architecture.mit.edu/people/profiles/prackerm.html
Edith Ackermann is Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of
Aix-Marseille I, France (1994-present). On a leave of absence since 1996, she
teaches design and creative learning at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, School of Architecture (Design Technologies Group, and Center for
Advanced Visual Studies), where she was appointed Visiting Professor in the Fall
of 1996. She also consults for various research institutions interested in the
intersections between learning, teaching, kids, and media (TERC, Lego, The
Learning Company). From 1996-1999, she was a Senior Research Scientist at MERL -
A Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, where she designed and
evaluated playful learning environments for young children, and participated in
the development of computer-based environments for collaborative
learning/design. Previously, Ackermann was Assistant / Associate Professor of
Media Arts and Sciences at the M.I.T. Media laboratory, Cambridge, MA
(1985-1994), and Maître-Assistant at the Faculté de Psychologie et Sciences de
l'Education, University of Geneva, Switzerland. While in Geneva, she was a
Scientific Collaborator at the Centre International d'Epistémologie Génétique (C.I.E.G.),
under the direction of Jean Piaget (1972-79), and a research collaborator with
Bärbel Inhelder and Guy Céllerier (1976-85). She received a Doctor of
Developmental Psychology (1981) (Advisor Bþrbel Inhelder); two Master's degrees
in Developmental Psychology and Clinical Psychology (1971); and a Bachelor of
Experimental Psychology degree (1969), all from the University of Geneva,
Switzerland.
José Armando Valente
Teacher training via Internet: Creating a virtual environment for contextualized
learning
Department of Multimeios and Nied, Unicamp & Ced, PucSP, Campinas, SP Brazil
jvalente@unicamp.br
http://www.nied.unicamp.br/
Coordinator of NIED - Núcleo de Informática Aplicada à Educação, of Universidade
Estadual de Campinas and visitant professor of the Post Graduate Programme in
Education: Curriculum of Pontifícia Universidade Católica of São Paulo. Main
topics of research focused on development of computer based learning
environments, development of training methodologies using computers applied to
school and companies both on class and at distance, and research of computer
potential as an educational tool.
Léa Fagundes
LEC (Laboratório de Estudos Cognitivos) – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do
Sul– Brasil
leafagun@vortex.ufrgs.br
http://lec.psico.ufrgs.br/
Professor of Universidade Federal of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRS), researcher
focused on Information and Comunication Techonologies applied to educational
process, Léa Fagundes follows shifts on education since last 50 years.
Turcsányiné Szabó Marta
Collaboratories – How can Children Learn over the Internet
Eotvos Lorand University, Faculty of Science, Informatics Methodology Group,
Budapest, HUNGARY
turcsanyine@ludens.elte.hu
Marta Turcsanyi-Szabo is an associate professor at Eötvös Loránd University. She
received a BSc as a programmer mathematician in 1979, an MSc as program designer
mathematician in 1985, and a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1999. She is the head of
the TeaM lab (Teaching with Multimedia – www.team-lab.ini.hu), established in
1997 which aims to develop the application, teaching, experimentation,
evaluation, research and creation of innovative multimedia tools and
methodologies for the benefit of effective learning and development of skills.
Her current research includes the ergonomics and content of developing
educational applications, authoring tools, Internet and telematic environments
and tele-mentoring, their cross-curricular and cultural integration, and the
creative implementation and evaluation of their effects on the learning process.
Her research methods give emphasis to creative open-ended explorations within
constructive environments. She is a member of a number of scientific
organisations: NJSZT (John von Neumann Computer Society), ISZE (Association of
Informatics Teachers), EUROLOGO scientific committee, IFIP (International
Federation of Information Processing) WG 3.5 (elementary education) and WG 3.6
(distance education), and is the secretary of the Commision on ICT in Education
of the Education Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, multimedia
working group at ELTE Faculty of Sciences.
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