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ELI Web Seminar, November 7, 2006 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour Teaching and Learning via CyberinfrastructureSpecial Guest
Chris Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor of Learning Technologies at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. His fields of scholarship include emerging technologies, policy, and leadership. Dede's funded research includes a grant from the National Science Foundation to aid middle school students in learning science via shared virtual environments and a Star Schools grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help high school students with math and literacy skills using wireless mobile devices to create augmented reality simulations. He has served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Foundations of Educational and Psychological Assessment, the U.S. Department of Education's Expert Panel on Technology, and the International Steering Committee for the Second International Technology in Education Study. Dede serves on advisory boards and commissions for PBS TeacherLine, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center, and several federal research grants. In addition, he is a member of the board of directors of the Boston Tech Academy, an experimental small high school in the Boston public school system, funded by the Gates Foundation. Dede is the editor of the 1998 Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) Yearbook and a coeditor of Scaling Up Success: Lessons Learned from Technology-based Educational Innovation.
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