The Alliance for Excellent Education
Invites You to Attend a Webinar
Digital Learning Day:
Empowering Teachers, Connecting Students
Friday, January 6, 2012
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., ET
Panelists
Jayne Marlink, Executive Director, California Writing Project
Jason Pittman, Science Teacher, Hollin Meadows Elementary School(Alexandria, Virginia)
Eric Sheninger, Principal, New Milford High School (Bergen County, New Jersey)
Bob Wise, President, Alliance for Excellent Education
What does digital learning look like in the classroom? How can it have a powerful impact on students and teachers? How can digital learning technologies provide better access to learning, make use of resources, and ensure students graduate from high school ready for college and a career?
Technology has changed the way we do everything from grocery shopping, to listening to music, and reading books. It is time to take action to leverage this potential with more innovative uses of technology in the nation’s schools to ensure every student experiences personalized learning with great teaching. The technology and software available to
educators is developing and improving rapidly, and the costs of technology are dropping. How can the nation make the most of thisopportunity to close achievement gaps and ensure that all students are prepared for college and a career?
On Friday, January 6, from 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (ET), the Alliance for Excellent Education will hold a webinar to highlight some successful schools and provide more information about getting involved and learning more about how technology can have a powerful impact. The webinar will feature Jayne Marlink, executive director of California
Writing Project that is heading up efforts for Digital Learning Day on February 1, 2012 in California; Jason Pittman, a science teacher at Hollin Meadows Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia who was awarded the Zula International-National Science Teachers Association(NSTA) Early Science Educator Award for his outdoor garden project;
Eric Sheninger, principal of New Milford High School in Bergen County, New Jersey; and Bob Wise, president of the Alliance and formergovernor of West Virginia. The panelists are members of the Educator Working Group that supports the Alliance’s Digital Learning Day efforts, and will discuss how they have seen digital learning make a difference in the lives of students and teachers. The panel will also discuss plans for the first-ever national Digital Learning Day to be held on February 1, 2012. Digital Learning Day is the flagship event of the Alliance’s Center for Secondary School Digital Learning and Policy. Viewers will learn more about the ways they can participate in this celebration of innovative teaching and learning and panelists will answer questions submitted by viewers across the country.
Gov. Wise will also provide highlights from the recently released issue brief, “The Digital Learning Imperative: How Technology and Teaching Meet Today’s Education Challenges.”
Register and submit questions for the webinar online at http://media.all4ed.org/registration-jan-6-2012.
Please direct questions concerning the webinar to alliance@all4ed.org.
This webinar is made possible in part with support from Carnegie Corporation of New York and other funders.
The Alliance for Excellent Education is a Washington, DC-based national policy and advocacy organization that works to improve national and federal policy so that all students can achieve at high academic levels and graduate from high school ready for success in college, work, and citizenship in the twenty-first century.
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