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Pacific Bell/UCLA Initiative for 21st
Century Literacies at the
Graduate School of Education &
Information Studies
Invites you to attend
New Technologies, New Literacies: The Pacific
Bell/UCLA Summit
Saturday, October 21, 2000
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Ackerman Grand Ballroom
UCLA Campus
No cost to attend. UCLA Campus Parking $6.00. Breakfast
and lunch included.
For immediate registration and to learn more about the
Summit,
please visit www.newliteracies.gseis.ucla.edu.
For more information, please contact Sheila Afnan-Manns
(310-794-6569 or afnanmanns@gseis.ucla.edu).
Who should attend?
Educators, librarians, scholars, policymakers, those from the business
community and others interested in what it means to be literate in the 21st
century.
Agenda:
8:30 AM
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:30 AM
Specially commissioned video on technology, information, and literacy
by noted producer Thom Eberhardt
9:40 AM
Welcome, Aimée Dorr, Dean, UCLA Graduate School of Education &
Information Studies
9:45 AM
Opening remarks by Lora Watts, Regional President, External Affairs,
Pacific Bell
9:55 AM
Keynote Address by representative from the Office of Governor Gray
Davis
10:45 AM
New Technologies, New Literacies: A Panel Discussion on 21st
Century Literacies
Moderated by Aimée Dorr, Dean, UCLA Graduate School of Education &
Information Studies. Panelists include Patricia Senn Breivik, Chair,
National Forum on Information Literacy and Dean of the University Library, San
Jose State University; Douglas Kellner, George F. Kneller Philosophy of
Education Chair, Social Sciences and Comparative Education, UCLA Graduate School
of Education & Information Studies; and Kathleen Tyner, international media
and education consultant for educational institutions, community based groups,
and arts organizations and author of the recent book, Literacy in a Digital
World: Teaching and Learning in the Age of Information.
12:00 PM
Lunch followed by . . .
Poster Session Showcase exhibiting innovative
projects and organizations working in the areas of information, media, and
visual literacy as well as systems design and public policy.
2:15 PM
Information Systems for 21st Century Literacies: A Panel
Discussion on Design Issues
Moderated by Howard Besser, Associate Professor, UCLA Department of
Information Studies. Panelists include Marcia J. Bates, Professor, Department of Information Studies, UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, Elizabeth
Dupuis, Head, Digital Information Literacy Office, The University of Texas at
Austin, Alan Kay (to be confirmed)
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM
Snapshots: Glimpses of America in Change, Anna Deavere
Smith
Anna Deavere Smith is an actor, playwright and professor whose one-woman performances - Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; and House Arrest - explore the multi-faceted identity of our American character. By presenting controversial events from multiple points of view, she provides the opportunity for audiences to think critically about hidden assumptions and stereotypes. In a January 9, 1999, appearance on ABC News' Nightline, Ms. Smith commented on the social disconnect still present in America, noting, "It's odd that we have such a chasm . . . since the technology in the last thirty years has promised to connect us up like we've never been connected before." Ms. Smith's work touches on many of the issues addressed by the Pacific Bell/UCLA Initiative, which explores how citizens can best use these technologies to learn from each other as well as participate and succeed in an information-based economy. Ms. Smith is the Ann O'Day Maples Professor of the Arts at Stanford
University. She also holds a joint appointment at New York University in
the law school and in the Tisch School of Arts, where she teaches performance
studies and works in a new department of art and public policy.
4:15 PM Closing remarks, Aimee Dorr and
Howard Besser
5:00 PM
Adjourn |