Key+Note+Speakers

=Possible Key Note Speakers=

Can we find a way to make sure our speakers can get in to hear other. Speakers?. for example they have not registered but might want to sit in on Dan Meyer or Marian but their name tagswould not show that. Just a nice courtesy.

Has anyone watched this ? [] eric qualman is the author of socialnomics and might be a great idea

Steve Paikin - Host of TVO's The Agenda - []

Many of the top speakers are managed by the Lavin Agency [|www.thelavinagency.com]

James Stigler - author of The teaching Gap Mike Holmes Rick Mercer Red Green ( Steve Smith ) Julie Payette David Johnston Roberta Bondar Lawrence C Smith -author of The World in 2050 Richard Florida Herb Ginsburg - Big Math for Little Kids curriculum for prekindergarten and kindergarten. Thomas Carpenter - Univ Wisconsin Jo Boaler Catherine Lewis - lesson study Amber Macarthur -[]

Check out Episode 2 of his radio show "Open Source Knowledge" where he discusses how education needs to move from an Industrial model to a collaborate discovery driven model. You can listen online at: [] (Only the first 20 minutes of the 60 minutes broadcast focuses on education directly.) Author of **Element** and frequent TED talk speaker [] []. [] []
 * Don Tapscott**: Host of Recivilization on CBC Radio and co-author of //Macrowikinomics// and //Wikinomics//
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 * Sir Ken Robinson**
 * Vi Hart: Math Doodling**
 * Dr. Alec Couros - Speaker on 21st Century Education, open source, collaboration**

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 * Garfield Gini-Newman, Toronto ON**
 * the challenges and opportunities presented by teaching and learning in the digital age.
 * the use of interactive technologies to support critical thinking, and using digital technologies to enhance critical, creative and collaborative thinking.
 * spoken on critical thinking, brain compatible classrooms, curriculum design and effective assessment practice, and nurturing 21st century skills in a digital world.

[] Advocate for the use of technology in math education. Check out his TED talk: [].
 * Conrad Wolfram**

Author of How a Mathematician Thinks. [].
 * Dr. William Byers**

Brain research in mathematics []
 * Dr. David Sousa**

Texas Instruments spokesperson []
 * Mayim Bialik**

Contact information:McREL Instructional Technology Professional Developer 303-632-5628  begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 303-632-5628 end_of_the_skype_highlighting mkuhn@mcrel.org[|www.mcrel.org/technology][|www.linkedin.com/pub/matt-kuhn/14/4a0/269]twitter.com/edtechmatt
 * Matt Kuhn**
 * McREL Instructional Technology Professional Developer
 * Former Secondary Science and Math Teacher, K-8 Principal
 * Co-author of the book // Using Technology with //Classroom Instruction that Works
 * presented webinar- 'Integrating Technology into Instruction'
 * Blogger on McREL’s blog at [|http://www.mcrel.typepad.com]

Hans Rosling is a Swedish Statistician. His profile can be read hereHe has has many TED talks on the power of statistics. His web site @http://www.gapminder.org/ has data sets and great social justice connections. A great example is his Youtube video 200 countries, 200 years in 4 minutes. You can see it here

As we continue to brainstorm the idea of a closing keynote ... which might be delivered in the form of a panel discussion ... **Andrew Hacker** is someone we might consider. He is an emeritus professor of political science at Queens College, City University of New York, and a co-author of “__//Higher Education? How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids — and What We Can Do About It.//__” He recently wrote the following article, which appeared in the New York Times this past summer.

Page last updated on May 12, 2012.