NETC08 session 1006

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Session Name: Digital Technology - Education + Outreach
Session Number: 1006
Location: Mendenhall
Day and Time: Monday, 2:15 - 3:00 pm
Format: Panel
Topic: Learning Management Systems
Level: Introductory

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Session Abstract:

...Cleaner more efficient Fuel now competes with Food/Nutrition/Fiber needs traditionally met by Agriculture and Natural Resources educators

Rules defining the allocation of Food, Fiber and Fuel products are beginning to compete on points of price, quality and social responsibility...

...K-12 students are collecting data and remote photography from international spaces stations...

...Digital technologies are rapidly re-writing the landscape of learning systems.

The rapid conversion of text into audio, video and interactive graphical representations, have shifted the means by which digital emigrants (educators) maintain the attention of digital natives (young learners)... New digital tools are making a new movement of grass roots learning emerge, with content producers highly decentralized.

...Geospatial Presentations of remote sensed/time lapse photography and model driven graphics allows learners to see environmental, social and economic conditions and trends shifting over several decades, and projects based on varying assumptions. Interactive games provide this capability in entertainment products... Do we provide it in our educational products?...

...The pace of change is accelerating... Educators are challenged to try and get in front of the technology based K-12 aged learners.

...This panel will share an array of new learning tools discovered or developed by the presenters to engage young learners through the use of interactive hands on tools that introduce them to learning complex systems that will prepare the pool of critical thinkers to become interested in careers in science, engineering, technology and mathematics, essential to be ready to redesign our communities, states and nations, in a time of global economy and climate change. Join us in the discussion, discovery and redesign of our on demand learning systems, which are beginning to meet on demand learner needs, 24/7.

Led By: Tom Tate, National Program Leader, USDA - Ag in the Classroom
State and County educators working with USDA supported youth serving organizations