Kris Stewart, SDSC curriculum coordinator and San Diego State University associate professor of mathematical sciences, will give a presentation, "Technology and Teacher Education," at the Ernest L. Boyer Technology Summit for Educators April 25-26, 1997 in Los Angeles, California. Stewart, will describe SDSC's and UCSD's Supercomputer Teacher Enhancement Program (STEP) -- a program for high school science and math teachers from schools with student populations traditionally underrepresented in the sciences. Also on hand to answer questions will be several STEP teachers and SDSC computer artist Rosemarie McKeon https://www.sdsc.edu/pub/envision/v14.1/edcenter.html.
The summit, named after Carnegie Foundation President Ernest L. Boyer, will take place at the Davis Conference Center and the Leavey Library on the University of Southern California campus. Other invited speakers include James Pellegrino, dean of Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, Jeri Hopkins from Humbolt State University, Diane Cordero de Noriega from Sacramento State University, Scott Roberta from the Science Museum of Minnesota, Peggy O'Brian from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, and many more.
The National Science Foundation-funded STEP introduces high school teachers in the San Diego County area to computational science and high performance computing. Stewart will describe some of the projects and Web-based lessons that STEP participants developed to use in their classrooms and share her thoughts on the program. She will also discuss the significance of high performance computing and communications (HPCC) programs in teaching science and math.
The Ernest L. Boyer Technology Summits for Educators consist of four regional summits in Pittsburgh, Nashville, Dallas, and Los Angeles, sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The Los Angeles summit is hosted by California State University, EC2 -- the Annenberg Incubator Project at USC, and KCET. The summits' goals are to help teachers, librarians, teacher educators, and prospective teachers learn how to use technology more effectively in their classrooms. For more information on the Los Angeles summit, please contact Cheryl Lampe at the CSU Chancellor's Office, 310-985-2847.
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