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Keynote
Speaker:
 Dr.
David Cavallo is a Research Scientist and Co-Director of
the Future of Learning Research Group at the MIT Media
Laboratory. His work focuses on human learning, designing
technology to facilitate learning, and large-scale reform of
educational systems. He designs, implements and helps deploy
new technologies for learning through design, expression,
and construction.
Through his work on “models
of growth,” he has focused on comprehensive approaches to
large-scale change, including content development,
educational methodology, teacher development and
organizational change. He currently is a principal in the
One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative, and is country
manager for OLPC in Brazil. His recent project work has
focused on educational reform in urban areas in the United
States, as well as in Brazil, Costa Rica, and other Latin
American countries.
Prior to MIT, Cavallo led the
design and implementation of medical informatics as part of
a reform of health care delivery and management at the
Harvard University Health Services. He was also the founder
of the Advanced Technology group for Digital's Latin
American and Caribbean Region. Dr. Cavallo holds a PhD and
Master of Science degree from the MIT Media Laboratory and a
Bachelor's of Science degree in Computer Science from
Rutgers University. He has published widely on these issues,
and has served as an advisor to national efforts of
educational change catalyzed by technology.
 Joan Frye Williams: For more than 25 years, Joan Frye
Williams has been a successful librarian, consultant,
vendor, planner, trainer, evaluator, and user of library
services. Since 1996, she has been an independent consultant
specializing in innovation, technology, and the service
needs and preferences of non-library "civilians."
Just to give you an idea of
how long Joan has been interested in library issues: her
first library job was as a junior page in 1964. Since then
she has been continuously employed in the library field.
Along the way she received an MLS from the University of
California at Berkeley.
Her many clients include
libraries of all types and sizes, library consortia, state
library agencies, professional library associations, library
boards, library vendors, and architects.
Joan is best known as an acute--and sometimes
irreverent--observer of emerging library trends, issues, and
practices. She is an internationally recognized library
futurist and designer of innovative library services.
 Dr.
Ross Todd is associate professor in the School of
Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers,
the State University of New Jersey. He is Director of the
Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries at
Rutgers University. His primary teaching and research
interests focus on adolescent information seeking and use,
and how students learn through using information.
The research is
multi-faceted, and includes: understanding how children
learn and build new knowledge from information; how school
librarians and classroom teachers can more effectively
empower student learning; and how the development of
information-to-knowledge can foster meaningful learning.
 Gail
Dickinson is an associate professor of school
librarianship at Old Dominion University in Norfolk,
Virginia. She has experience as a K-12 school librarian in
public and private schools in Virginia and as a library
supervisor for Union-Endicott Central School District in
upstate New York. Her MLS is from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill and she received her PhD from the
University of Virginia in the field of educational
administration.
Her current research
interests are in school library program administration
including budget and collections, and in the National Board
of Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) certification for
school librarians. Her latest book Achieving National Board
Certification for School Library Media Specialists (2006) is
published by the American Library Association.
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