- NYU Lecture Events
- Conferences of Interest
NYU Lecture Events
The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
Tuesday, October 6
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
40 Washington Square South, Room 216
Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Associate Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore argues that in our quest for perfect digital memories where we can store everything from recipes and family photographs to work emails and personal information, we've put ourselves in danger of losing a very human quality the ability and privilege of forgetting. Our digital memories have become double-edged swords we expect people to remember information that is stored in their computers, yet we also may find ourselves wishing to forget inappropriate pictures and mis-addressed emails. And, as Mayer-Schonberger demonstrates, it is becoming harder and harder to forget these things as digital media becomes more accessible and portable and the lines of ownership blur. Mayer-Schonberger examines the technology that is facilitating the end of forgetting: digitization, cheap storage and easy retrieval, global access, and increasingly powerful software and proposes an ingeniously simple solution: expiration dates on information.
For more information, contact: http://www.law.nyu.edu/communications/index.htm.
Future of Video Technologies
Tuesday, October 13
Kimmel Center, Room 914
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Moderator: Robert Harris, Chairman, Digital Content Services. Panel: Rajiv Pant, Vice President of Technology, Conde Nast Digital; Evan Schectman, Chief Technology Officer, @Radical Media; Jon Williams, Chief Technology Officer, iVillage. With newer and ever-more advanced technologies changing the rules at mind-boggling speed, how do chief technology officers stay on top of the ever-evolving media landscape? Our panel of CTOs explore the ways in which they assess and integrate new formats and platforms in order to be ahead of the game. Visit http://cencom.org/ to register.
Conferences of Interest
The American Architectural Foundation cordially invites you to a Great Schools by Design luncheon sponsored by TARGET
http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/328743/bdd31ac65f/1430003381/86fca35384/
Keynote speaker: Chris Walsh, Director of Innovation and Design, New Tech Network
"Learning Everywhere, All the Time"
Thursday, October 8, 2009
12:30 PM.- 2:00 PM
The Digital Sandbox
55 Broad Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY
This fast-paced, high-energy presentation explores the implications for living, teaching, and learning in a world of infinite knowledge—where today’s technology tools support personalized, collaborative learning everywhere and all the time.
Chris Walsh was recently named the Director of Innovation and Design at New Tech Network, the Napa, Calif.-based school development organization that supports the start-up and implementation of 21st-century high schools. Walsh is an experienced K-12 educator, media producer, and entrepreneur. He is a trainer focused on the ways that social media can improve teaching and learning. His past projects include Edutopia’s Digital Generation Project, the U.S. Dept. of Education's "Doing What Works" Web site, the Google Teacher Academy, and the Infinite Thinking Machine. Walsh earned his M.A. in “Learning, Design, and Technology” from Stanford, and a B.A. and M.Ed. from UCLA.
Space for this complimentary event is limited.
RSVP to events@archfoundation.org or 202.626.7461 by noon on Monday, October 5, 2009.
Great Schools by Design is a national initiative of the American Architectural Foundation that seeks to improve the quality of America’s schools and the communities they serve by promoting collaboration, excellence and innovation in school design.
http://www.iet-c.net/
Aytekin Isman, ECT MA, 1994, General Conference Coordinator
Editor of TOJET, The Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology
The convergence of recent technologies, web and mobile technologies, provides unique opportunities and an infrastructure for both face to face and online learning environments. However, specific environments for constructing knowledge are needed. In such environments, knowledge media should bring together the technology and learning theories to form meaningful settings for learners with different academic, administrative and support needs. IETC2010 aims to provide an environment for experts to discuss the current state of the art for learning in schools, industry and universities. Virtual environments, CSCL, m-learning, e-training and e-learning will be topics of particular interest.
The scope of the conference will cover but not be limited to:
- Asynchronous learning
- Authoring technology
- Best practices in ICT classrooms
- Constructivist perspectives
- Cooperative/collaborative learning
- Data mining strategies for e-learning organizations
- Distance and open learning
- Educational technology & globalization
- Human resources in educational technology
- Human-computer interaction
- Hypermedia applications
- ICT integration
- Improving classroom teaching
- Innovation and change in education
- Instructional design
- Intelligent e-learning systems
- Intelligent training technology
- Interactive learning environment
- Knowledge management in e-learning
- Learning and content management systems
- Learning objects
- Life long learning and technology
- Mobile learning
- Network based education and training
- Pedagogical and practical issues
- Professional development & teacher training
- Simulations in education
- Teaching/learning strategies
- Video games for learning
- Virtual classroom, virtual university
OSRA 29th Annual Research Conference
End-User Information Systems - Transforming the Workplace
December 15-18, 2009
OSRA is a special interest group of the Association for Information Systems (AIS SIG OSRA), with an emphasis on end-user information systems, knowledge management, and workplace performance. Its mission is to promote research and application of information technology in the end-user environment to support work processes, improve employee performance, and enhance overall organizational effectiveness.
Call for Papers
This year’s SIG OSRA Workshop will focus on the challenges of supporting an increasingly diverse, global work force with an expanding array of end-user technologies. From desktops to mobile devices and from word processing to virtual environments and social networking, supporting technology in the end user environment has become increasingly complex. New technologies are literally transforming the workplace as characterized aptly by the change in the typical telephone greeting from the standard “hello” to “where are you?” The Organizational System Research Association (OSRA) invites papers, panels, and speakers to address the interplay of information systems and the workplace environment. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Web 2.0 in the workplace
- Use of virtual environments in the workplace for meetings, training, employee orientation, etc.
- Social media as workplace tools
- Knowledge management--models for delivery, design, and implementation
- KM and IT in healthcare and health information exchange"
- Transforming healthcare with health information technology and exchange
- IT, innovation, and organizational change
- Mobile computing and the knowledge economy
- Business process management and redesign
- Curricular design, development, and assessment
- Workplace behavior and IT
- Information technologies in hospitality and tourism
- Distance learning technologies and applications
- Organization culture and technology
- Issues and impact of enterprise information assurance and security
- Qualitative and ethnographic IT research strategies/methodologies
- Knowledge, collaboration and culture
- Collaboration and group technologies
- Industry specific applications of end-user technologies
Both refereed and non-refereed presentations are invited.
Please submit abstracts electronically to Dr Bridget O’Connor, New York University, Call for Papers Coordinator (bridget.oconnor@nyu.edu) on or before October 15, 2009. For papers to appear in the proceedings, at least one author must register for the conference.
For consideration for the best paper award, submit the full manuscript by November 1, 2009. See the submission guidelines at http://www.osra.org for more details.