05/07/2010
More than 40 area school leaders will join SUNY Cortland students pursuing the field of education to demonstrate their efforts to incorporate the latest World Wide Web technology into their classrooms during a daylong forum on Friday, May 14, at SUNY Cortland.
Attendees will be school leadership and technology teams invited from approximately 25 school districts from throughout Central New York.
The 21st-Century Leadership Forum in Brockway Hall Jacobus Lounge is filled. However, more information is available at www2.cortland.edu/teacher-education/pds/index.dot.
The event is presented by the Cortland Regional Professional Development School (CRPDS), which involves a partnership between SUNY Cortland and area schools to create a regional learning community where meaningful and authentic approaches to educating grades K-12 students are developed.
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| Organizers of the 21st-Century Leadership Forum are Shufang Shi, left, and Cynthia Sarver. |
Two SUNY Cortland faculty members, Cynthia Sarver and Shufang Shi, received a Spring 2010 CRPDS mini-grant to organize the day’s activities. Sarver is an assistant professor of adolescence education: English and coordinator of English adolescence education. Shi serves as an assistant professor of childhood/early childhood education.
The program will include a welcome to district partners by SUNY Cortland President Erik J. Bitterbaum, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Mark Prus, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Bruce Mattingly, Interim Dean of the Schools of Education and Professional Studies John Cottone, and Assistant Provost for Teacher Education Marley Sweet Barduhn ’76.
In addition to the demonstrations by educators incorporating Web 2.0 or the Read/Write Web into their classrooms, participants will discuss obstacles to technology and curricular innovation. They will collaborate together to solve particular problems and try their hand at Web 2.0 applications. Attendees also will learn about pending changes to the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) informal education Web page e-Rate and Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) legislation.