5th Annual Gen Ed Conference
May 8, 2009
Keynote: “Educating Today's "Digital Native" Learners" - Marc Prensky
| Program | ||
|---|---|---|
| Time | Event | Location |
| 8:30-9:30 | Continental breakfast | East Dining Room, Music Building |
| Poster Presentations | East and Faculty Dining Rooms, Music Building | |
| 9:30-11:00 | Plenary Session | Lovinger Theatre, Music Building |
| Greetings | President Ricardo Fernández | |
| Keynote | Marc Prensky, Educating Today's "Digital Native" Learners | |
| 11:15-12:30 | Morning Forums | Digitizing Learning: Learning in Virtual Worlds
How can games advance learning? Are digital games different from real games? Does engagement in games transfer to academic learning? What do games teach? • Marc Prensky, Games2Train |
| Understanding Learning: Creating Accessible Assessments
How best to make assessment data available? Can assessments of student learning affect program design? How to generate and disseminate useful assessment information? • William Fritz, Staten Island |
||
| Transforming Learning: Learning via First Year Experiences and Learning Communities
How is the First Year experienced at different CUNY Colleges? When does a First Year program become a Learning Community? What strategies are there to achieve First Year and Learning Community objectives? • Rachel Singer, and Peter Cohen, KCC |
||
| 12:45-2:00 | Lunch | East Dining Room, Music Building |
| Poster Presentations | East and Faculty Dining Rooms, Music Building | |
| 2:15-3:30 | Afternoon Forums | Digitizing Learning: Using Online Learning and ePortfolios
How do students learn in digital venues? What do they see as the advantages and difficulties of learning in Web mediated spaces? How should we shape the increase in learning online that the University expects? • Bill Bernhardt, CUNY Online BA |
| Understanding Learning: Transfer - Community and Senior College Experiences
What happens as students transfer from one campus to another? How well do we prepare students for the transition? Does articulation mean anything beyond curricular congruence? Is there a way to ease the transfer student's plight? • Mark Spergel, Baruch College |
||
| Transforming Learning: Beyond the Classroom – Study Abroad and In-Service Learning
Why do we need new courses in Gen Ed? How do multidisciplinary/cross-disciplinary courses function at freshmen and senior levels? How can formal learning and coursework outside requirements and credits contribute to Gen Ed? • Steve Schwarz, Queens |
||
| 3:45-5:00 | Conclusions | East Dining Room, Music Building |
| “Looking Forward” | Provosts’ CASTL Group, Mary Papazian | |
| Reception and Posters | East and Faculty Dining Rooms, Music Building | |
