Charles Fadel on "School Architecture in the Context of 21st Century Skills"

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Event Creator: Kim Caise

Event Type: Web Event

Name: Charles Fadel on "School Architecture in the Context of 21st Century Skills"

When: May 18 2010 - 5:00pm - 6:00pm-May 18 2010 , US/Pacific (GMT-08:00)*

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Short Description: Steve Hargadon interviews Charles Fadel on school architecture as part of the FutureofEducation.com interview series.

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As teaching for 21^st century skills gains adoption by 14+ States and several provinces and countries, there is renewed emphasis on support systems such as learning environments. This session will describe how project-learning and teaching for relevance revamps the school and classroom architecture, for a better student and teacher experience.

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* Time zone observes Daylight Savings Time (DST).

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Name: Charles Fadel

Bio: Charles Fadel is Global Education Research Lead at Cisco Systems, and the Cisco board member at the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (of which Cisco was a founding member) and Innovate/Educate (an organization dedicated to advocacy of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)). He is vice-chair of the Education committee of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and actively works with three committees of the OECD — CERI, AHELO, and TALIS. He has consulted with a wide variety of education ministries/boards including Massachusetts, France, Chile, Brazil, Costa Rica, Tunisia, and the Dominican Republic, to name a few, and has worked on education projects with more than thirty countries and states. Charles has co-authored a book titled “21st Century Skills — Learning for Life in our Times”, and frequently lectures on this topic, as well as STEM, and Education Technology.

He is presently advising two non-profit organizations, and an innovative school system in Chile (Innova100). He is also incubating a non-profit organization addressing the convergence of 21st Century Skills and STEM to better teach Statistics and Probabilities. He is a visiting scholar at Wharton/UPenn where he recently taught a class on Technologies for Learning. He has recently served on the Massachusetts Governor's Readiness Project as well as its 21st Century Skills task force.

He has contributed many articles or has been interviewed in publications such as Technology & Learning, New Media Consortium, Massachusetts Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, eSchool News, Education Week, University Business, EETimes, and others. He has presented at numerous education conferences, including the Consortium for School Networking (COSN), the National School Boards Association (NSBA), the National Center for Technology Innovation (NCTI), and the Masie Center's learning conferences.

Charles has been awarded five patents on video, content, and communication technologies. He holds a bachelor of science in electronics with course concentration in quantum and solid-state physics with a minor in neuroscience, and a master of business administration in international marketing. An avid reader, he has autodidactically learned disciplines such evolutionary psychology and comparative linguistics. He also enjoys the lessons of classical history.

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Elluminate Recording link: https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2010-05-17.1307.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr

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Kim Caise

May 18 2010 - 4:02pm

Cahndice, it is not necessary to register. A few minutes before the session starts click on the link to join the Elluminate session. Enjoy!

Jerry Lewis

May 18 2010 - 3:04pm

I don't think you need to register. Just click on the URL and it will launch Elluminate.

cahndice matthews

May 16 2010 - 5:50pm

I am trying to register for this but cannot find the link. Please assist.
Dr. Cahndice Matthews

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