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Invitation, Pacific Bell/UCLA Summit on Information Literacy, Oct. 21



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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,
 
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

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