3 - agenda

AGENDA

NETWORK SCIENCE IN EDUCATION 3

2 June 2014

Clark Kerr Campus, UC Berkeley

Draft Agenda

8:00 Welcome

8:20 Steve Uzzo (New York Hall of Science) Toward an Interscale Network Model of Learning

8:40 Robin Wilkins (University of North Carolina Greensboro) A Pre-College Training Program in Network Science Techniques and The Effects of Music on the Brain: A NetSci Ed Case Study Pilot

9:00 Toshi Tanizawa (Kochi National College of Technology, Japan) The Variety in Selection of Topics for Network Science Research in a National College of Technology in Japan

9:20 Chris Arney (USMA West Point) Teaching Network Science to Undergraduates

9:40 Brooke Welles (Northeastern University) Interventions in Network Thinking: Case Studies from After school Programs Serving Affluent and Impoverished Students

10:00 Mason Porter (University of Oxford) Networks Outreach in Schools

10:30 Break and posters

11:00 Lori Sheetz (USMA West Point) Engaging High School Curricula via Network Science—Lessons Learned from Working with Teachers

11:20 Yi-Hwa Liou (UC San Diego) Challenges, Changes, and Churn: A Longitudinal Social Network Perspective of Urban District Leadership

11:40 Arthur Hjorth (Northwestern University) NetLogo Latest Release: New Networks-Extension

12:00 Potential collaborative work:

· Report from Sunday’s working session and next steps

· NetSci textbook iBook and/or mass market

· Papers for special issue of journal(s)

1:00 Adjourn