[Air-l] unesco Community Multimedia Centres programme evaluation

Thu Mar 15 09:41:15 PDT 2007

Along those same lines I came across this Call For Papers. I tried to
send it conventially but it did not post earlier. This will be great for
those of you who have posting about this type of research.

Chris

The Education Summit-2007

21st Century Education - The Real and the Ideal", 

October 9 and 10, in Ft. Collins, Colorado
http://education-summit.org

Center for Internet Research (TCFIR), in concert with Colorado State
University is hosting "21st Century Education - The Real and the Ideal",
a conference focused on "what's next" in the social/cultural,
methodological, and technological dimensions of education. The
conference theme speaks to the need for a realistic appraisal of the
state of education and reform efforts, and what present realities
indicate for the future, coupled with constructive and well-informed
speculation about how change in education can be better managed to serve
the need of students, educators, parents, industry, and society as a
whole; the real and the ideal.

At the heart of this conference is a project in the early stages of
planning for the development of next-generation, accredited K-12
computer-aided teaching and learning environment (CAT/CAL) which will
incorporate the best of what we presently know. More than an attempt at
another "online education system", this project will address the
situated, contextual problem of education from a holistic and
cross-disciplinary perspective. The thesis underlying this project is
that previous attempts at "education reform" have met with difficulties
because solutions have not been adequately integrated into, or accounted
for, the total social system of education. Therefore, technology in
education, while desirable because of numerous potential benefits,
cannot be limited in scope to superior content, assessment methodology,
lesson-planning, parental involvement, or accountability but must
address all of these needs and more. In addition, the technological
concept underlying this project do not attempt to eliminate classrooms
or teachers but focus instead on helping teachers and students do more
with better results. In this context, technology must be made to serve
people and facilitate what people do best, in practicable, adaptive,
streamlined ways.

We believe that bringing together leaders in education, business,
academia, and government in a conference environment organized around
these themes will produce significant new ideas, perspectives, and
initiatives unlike other education conferences.

Call For Papers or Panels
Please note that there will only be a limited number of paper
presentations (10). Papers will be reviewed as received. Twenty (20)
will be accepted for publication ten (10) for presentation. All papers
approved by our review committee will be published in a special report
on this conference. 
Appropriate ideas for papers include, but are certainly not limited to:

* Unique research on the present state of both online and classroom
education. 
* Problems, challenges, and new directions for technology in education 
* Innovative approaches to content and assessment. 
* The social interface between schools and communities 
* New ways of addressing ethnic and gender disparities in education 
* Challenges faced by schools attempting to meet No Child Left Behind
mandates 
* How technological and social systems might be designed and integrated
to promote an adaptive, self-reforming education system.
* Cognitive, sociological, communication, economic, or psychological
issues impacting educational praxis 
* Hardware or software innovations that may impact education 

We encourage papers that are grounded in sound scholarly method, but
also creative and cross-disciplinary in perspective.

Guidelines
* Abstract deadline: June 1, 2007 (the earlier, the better)
* Complete document deadline: July 1, 2007 
* Submission format: MS Word - Must have a separate cover page,
abstract, and permission to publish in the conference brochure and post
conference report. 
* APA guidelines shall be used in bibliographies. 
* Formal presentation shall not exceed 40 minutes. (tell us what AV
equipment is needed) 
* If your paper is accepted you will need to provide a thumb-nail photo
and a brief biography.

Submit proposals and papers via email to: papers at education-2007.org

Note: All people who submit papers or proposals will be admitted free to
the conference! 

If you are unable to become a presenter for the conference, we still
request your presence at "21st Century Education - The Real and the
Ideal", October 9 and 10, in Ft. Collins, Colorado.

For more information call me at the number below....
________________________________________
W. Reid Cornwell Ph.D.
Director / Chief Scientist
The Center for Internet Research
P.O. box 6369
Breckenridge, CO 80424
http://tcfir.org
wrc at tcfir.org 

720.212.0719

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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Hunsinger
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Subject: [Air-l] unesco Community Multimedia Centres programme
evaluation

some of you might be interested in this:

The UNESCO supported "Community Multimedia Centers" are community- based
facilities offering both community radio broadcasting and telecenter
services. Radio broadcasts by local people in local languages are now
possible at low cost due to the development of small, inexpensive,
easy-to-operate broadcast facilities. In Africa and other regions, where
languages are spoken and national broadcast networks are weak, community
radio provides a new and important medium for communication of news,
information, and entertainment. The radio not only informs, educates and
entertains, but it also empowers the community by giving a strong public
voice to the voiceless, and thus encouraging greater accountability in
public affairs.
This UNESCO initiative showing the world the power of CMCs is in its
fifth year of operation, with 39 pilot CMCs established in communities
across Latin America/Caribbean, Africa and South Asia.

Read the recent evaluation of the UNESCO program.  http://
portal.unesco.org/ci/en/files/
22129/11477736959CMC_Evaluation_Final.pdf/CMC+Evaluation_Final.pdf

Jeremy Hunsinger
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