Keynotes

Presentation Links:

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BIO:

Hall Davidson has worked from think tanks in Turkey to classrooms in Tennessee. He has collaborated with thought leaders including teachers, superintendents, and departments of education. A former K-12 bilingual math teacher and college faculty member, he left the classroom to became part of an Emmy-winning team, creating math and technology integration programs. For forty years, he has been an educational innovator in important waves of change, first in broadcasting, then computers, and now digital learning. His talks blend humor, deep insight, and data from both education and industry and illustrate the big picture with nuts and bolts examples. He has worked with transformational industry groups, education ministries, and with thousands of students through guidance of the nation’s oldest student media festival. Across four decades of work with education, he identifies right now as the most transformative and important time for teaching and learning.

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BIO:

Philip Vinogradov is a Google Certified Teacher, Microsoft Innovative Educator, and the Instructional Technology Specialist for Centennial School District in Warminster PA, providing embedded and sustained professional development for faculty in leveraging emerging technologies. He is also the program developer for the district’s 21st Century Learning lab and Classroom Initiative, working to build learner and teacher capacity for authentic project based learning. He has led workshops on gamification and the flipped classroom at ISTE, PETE&C, Google in Education Summits, and other regional conferences. He has also presented on topics of leveraging emerging technologies to support instruction, collaboration, and design thinking at PETE&C, NAIS, and NSTA conferences.

Bio:

Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Powerful Learning Practice, where she works with schools and districts from around the world to re-envision their learning cultures and communities through the Connected Learner Experience and other e-learningopportunities.

During a 25-year education career, Sheryl has been a classroom teacher, technology coach, charter school principal, district administrator, university instructor and digital learning consultant. She is the author (with Lani Ritter Hall) of The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age(Solution Tree, 2012) and is in the dissertation phase of completing her doctorate in Educational Planning, Policy and Leadership at the College of William and Mary.

Sheryl is a sought-after presenter at national and international events, speaking on topics of 21st Century reform, teacher and educational leadership, community building, and educational issues impacting marginalized populations such as the homeless. She is an advisor to the U.S. Department of Education’s Connected Educators initiative and co-chairing Connected Educators Month in October for the 3rd year. She currently serves on the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Board of Directors. She also served on the New Media Consortium’s 2012 Horizon.K12 Report Advisory Board and their 2013 Horizon Higher Education Report Advisory Board. Sheryl consults with governments and non-profits that are integrating online communities and networks into their professional learning initiatives, including the Alberta Initiative for School Improvement (AISI), Obberkotter Foundation's LSLogic, a professional learning center for those who work with children that are deaf or hard of hearing and WomensHealth, a new community focused on women and their health issues.

Sheryl lives near the Virginia shore and spends her spare time playing on the water with her four children, her three grandsons, and a trio of longhaired dachshunds. You can find out more on her blog and on Twitter @snbeach.

BIO:

Christine is an Innovation Specialist at String Theory Schools in Philadelphia. Her primary role is to provide just in time learning opportunities for faculty and staff. She creates one to one learning opportunities, district wide strategies for innovative uses of technology in the classroom, best practices for students to consume, create and author content using iPad for our 1:1 iPad Program. At String Theory Schools, Christine is the lead on building courses in iTunes U. All staff members are collaboratively creating courses combining the replacement of textbooks, lesson plans and teacher websites in an all in one model. Christine uses push in support and planning with faculty members to drive our "build it in real time" model of course creation.

She also teaches Digital Media Arts and Design, is a secondary certified math teacher, with Business Education certification and MSc as K12 certified Instructional Technology Specialist.

Christine is an Apple Distinguished Educator, Class 2009 and currently serves on the ADE Advisory Board. She attended the Apple Distinguished Educator Summer Institutes at Full Sail University in July 2009, 2010, the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, 2011, ADE Global Institute Cork Ireland, 2012, Austin TX 2013 and The Global Institute in San Diego, CA. She is a Google Certified Teacher and a first round Google Glass Explorer. She been honored as a 3E Institute Entrepreneurial Educator in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 for collaborative project based learning.

Christine has published courses on Apple Distinguished Educators on iTunes U called iAm a Brand and Creating A Culture of Innovation. She has presented technology workshops on iTunes U Course Creation, iPad in Education, the iAm A Brand Called ME, Apps for iPad in the Classroom, Google Glass in Education, Google Apps for Ed, at the national level as well as state and local conferences. Most recently at ISTE 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011; NYSCATE 2012; PETE&C 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011; Pennsylvania Keystone Keynote Speaker 2014, and the Integrated Learning Conference 2010, 2009 among others.

As an educator it is her goal to continue to create meaningful learning experiences for teachers and students using Apple technology as a tool for developing and authoring content, collaborating, and challenge based learning products.

BIO:

Michael Golden is a proven education leader committed to education reform. He is CEO and Co-Founder of Educurious Partners, a four-year old Seattle-based non-profit corporation dedicated to creating solutions to today’s most perplexing education challenges (www.educurious.org).

Prior to Educurious, Michael was the corporate vice president of Education Products Group at Microsoft Corporation. Michael was senior vice president for strategic planning and marketing at Pearson Education. Prior to that, he was deputy secretary with the Pennsylvania Department of Education, where he guided strategy, policy, programs, and legislation for more than 2 million PK-12, postsecondary, and higher education students. He also developed systems and processes to make schools more effective and efficient. Michael Golden was one of the key founders of the Keystones Program when it began in 2004.