Edmedia Keynote & Invited Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Tuesday
- Mitchel Resnick - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Sowing the Seeds for a More Creative Society
- This presentation will discuss new technologies and activities designed specifically to help children learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively, so that they are prepared for life in the Creative Society. Read More »
Tuesday - 11:15 AM - Emerging Scholar Keynote Speaker
- Kinshuk - Athabasca University, CAN
- Enhancing learning through adaptivity and personalization in ubiquitous environments
With particular focus on adaptivity for individual learners, this talk will explore the diminishing boundaries of formal and informal learning, and the potential of location-aware context-sensitive approaches that are emerging as successor of Web 2.0 paradigm. Read More »
Thursday - Afternoon
- Gardner Campbell - Virginia Tech Univ., USA
- Hitting Rock Bottom: Can The Digital Age Cure Higher Ed's Addictions?
- This keynote will use the paradigm of addiction as a way to explore some of the obstacles that continue to block meaningful educational reform in higher education. Read More »
Invited Speakers
Tuesday - 25th Anniversary Invited Speaker
Tuesday
- Helen Keegan, University of Salford, UK
- Authentic experiences, risky pedagogies?
- In this presentation, I will describe the use of alt.media to create meaningful and authentic learning experiences for the development of new media literacies. Read More »
Wednesday - 25th Anniversary Invited Speaker
- Thomas C. Reeves, Univ. of Georgia, USA
- From Calgary to Victoria and Around the World: Reflections on 25 EdMedia Conferences
- Beginning in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1987, EdMedia conferences have been held 25 times (including the 2013 conference in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada)... Read More »
