TIE Seminars

Ilona Holland, Justine Cassell, Kid Beyond, and Gary Knell (clockwise from top) are among the many outstanding educators, technologists, artists, and media and broadcast experts who have presented at these seminars hosted by the TIE Program.

• Plots and Provocations:  Learning from the Movies, Michael Flaherty, co-founder and President, Walden Media, and John Schreiber, Executive Vice President of Participant Media, April 2009
• Heart - Mind - Voice - Technology: Organic Meets Electronic in Music & Games, Kid Beyond, Digital Musician; March 2008
• Evaluation as a Career, Ilona Holland, Lecturer on Education, HGSE; April 2008
• Muppet Diplomacy: Sesame Street Around the World, Gary Knell, President & CEO, Sesame Workshop; November 2007. Video/audio of Askwith Forum talk and Harvard Gazette article
• Working in Media, Gary Knell, President & CEO, Sesame Workshop; November 2007
• Working Internationally, Gary Knell, President & CEO, Sesame Workshop; November 2007
• Reinventing the Role of Information and Communications Technologies in Education, Chris Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, HGSE; November 2007
• Considering Doctoral Study, Barry Fishman, Visiting Associate Professor of Education, HGSE; October 2007
• Researching the Impact of Online Professional Development, Barry Fishman, Associate Professor of Learning Technologies, University of Michigan; April 2007
• Meet the Creator of Dora the Explorer, Chris Gifford, Executive Producer, Dora the Explorer and, Go, Diego, Go! April 2007
• Networked Learning Extends HGSE’s Impact, Stone Wiske, Co-founder, WIDE World; Lecturer, HGSE; April 2007
• Hard Fun – Digital Games and Learning, Yasmin Kafai, November 2006
• Confessions of an Educational Designer, Tom Snyder; October 2006
• Bridging Educational Research and Practice: Can It Be Done?, Glenn Kleiman; October 2006
• Educational Entrepreneurship: Assessment, Technology, and Business, Larry Berger, CEO and Co-founder, Wireless Generations; April 2006
• Bugscope! An Educational Outreach Project for K-12, Umesh Thakkar, Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois; April 2006
• Learning with Virtual Peers, Justine Cassell, Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University; March 2006
• From Research to the Classroom: A Publisher's Perspective, Margery Mayer, Executive Vice President, Scholastic Corporation; March 2006
• Ubiquitous Handhelds: Sifting Knowledge Through Our Fingertips, Chris Dede, Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies; Ed Dieterle, GSE doctoral student; Respondent: Hal Kingsbury, Ed.M. candidate; May 2004
• Self-Determination through Technology: A Teacher Education Program for Australia's Indigenous Remote Communities, Max Lenoy, Ed.M. '95 GSE, Lecturer/ Director of RATEP (Remote Area Teacher Education Program), James Cook University, Queensland, Australia, co-sponsored by the International Education Policy Program; May 2004
• Playful Learning: LEGO as a Mediating Artifact, Cathy Helfoe Fett, GSE ’84, Senior Project Manager, LEGO Educational Division, Marketing, Research, & Development; April 2004
• Constructing Media: Students Making News, John Richards, Ph.D., President, Consulting Services for Education, LLCFounder, CNN Student Bureau; Respondent: Kate Bielaczyc, GSE faculty; March 2004
• Teaching for Understanding Online, David Eddy Spicer, WIDE Research Manager and HGSE doctoral student; Shannon Martin Croft, WIDE Community Manager & Instructor; Heidi Soule, TIE ‘04 and former WIDE local Facilitator, Namibia; Respondent: Bob Fogel, HGSE Dean for Administration; December 2003
• myStudentBody.com: Using the Internet to Reduce High Risk Drinking in College Students, Sarah Lord, Ph.D., Director of College Programs, Inflexxion, Inc; Respondent: Michael Nakkula, Kargman Assistant Professor in Human Development and Urban Education Advancement; Director, Risk and Prevention Program, HGSE; November 2003
• Walden Media Presents Media Literacy: From Theory to Movies, Jean Kwon, GSE ’00, Director of Educational Content, Walden Media; Randy Testa, GSE ’78 & ‘90, Vice President of Educational Outreach, Walden Media; Respondent: Chris Dede, Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies; October 2003
• The Thinking Behind the Computer Clubhouse: Learning Approach and New Directions, Natalie Rusk, GSE ’89, Clubhouse Founder & MIT Media Lab; Leo Burd, Director of Young Activists & MIT Media Lab; Rachel Garber, GSE ’96, Education Program Developer, Kennedy School of Government; Respondent: Milton Chen, HGSE Visiting Technology Fellow, & Executive Director, George Lucas Educational Foundation; October 2003
• A Discussion Tool to Foster Collaborative Learning, John Palfrey, Executive Director& Hal Roberts, H2O Project Leader, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School; April 2003
• 21st Century Skills in K-12: Technology as a Goal or as an Enabler, Ken Kay President, Partnership for 21st Century Skills; March 2003
• Arts for Learning: Program Initiatives by Kentucky Educational Television, Ira Simmons, Coordinator of Program Development, KET; March 2003
• Keeping the Vision in Television, Christopher Sarson, Creator of Masterpiece Theatre, ZOOM, Live from the Met, Parenting Works! November 2002

Others have included: MIT's Sherry Turkel; MaMa Media President Idit Harel; Milt Chen, Executive Director of the George Lucas Educational Foundation; NBC Interactive's Mindy Goodblatt; Annie Valva ('95), from Pearson Broadband; and Marilyn Jager Adams, Julie Wood, and Patti Sullivan-Hall, from Soliloquy Learning.