April 25-26 -- Ernest L. Boyer Technology Summits for Educators

Western Region Summit -- Los Angeles, April 25-26, 1997
University of Southern California

Sponsored by:
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Hosted by:
California State University
EC², the Annenberg Incubator Project at USC
KCET

Despite a decade of investment by America's schools in educational technology, recent congressional and higher education reports indicated that the majority of the nation's teachers are not adequately trained to use technology in their teaching. An Advisory council created by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in 1994, which included the late Ernest L. Boyer, President of the Carnegie foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, recommended that CPB use its educational resources to help teachers, librarians, teacher educators, and prospective teachers learn how to use technology more effectively in their classroom instruction. Dr. Boyer received both his masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Southern California.

The Ernest L. Boyer Technology Summits for Educators consists of four regional technology summits across the country: Pittsburgh, Nashville, Dallas and Los Angeles, with follow-up professional development seminars for participants and other long-term outreach activities.

The summits are designed to achieve the following goals:

• Introduce and acquaint educators to current and emerging information and telecommunications technology
• Articulate a framework for new professional development activities for educational technology initiatives
• Encourage long-term collaborative partnerships between high school teachers and professors of education
• Enable high school teachers and librarians to integrate technology more effectively into classroom instruction
• Help professors of education integrate technology more effectively into their teacher preparation curricula
• Facilitate the dissemination of new content materials using technology in teaching and learning
• Better prepare teachers and students for citizenship and the workforce

CPB has created the following partnerships with the following organizations which are committed to the use of educational technology:

• Los Angeles public television station KCET
• Annenberg/CPB Project
• Los Angeles universities -- California State University and EC² -- USC's Annenberg Incubator Project
• National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)
• National Urban Technology

The Los Angeles summit will have more than 200 participants from 11 Western States. The participants consist of teams of high school teachers and college/university professors of education.

For more information on the Los Angeles summit, please contact Cheryl Lampe of the CSU Chancellor's Office at 310-985-2847.