Steve Dembo

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      • Studies: Director of Social Media Strategy and Online Community
      • University: Discovery Education
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    As a former kindergarten teacher and school Director of Technology Steve Dembo is a pioneer in the field of educational social networking.  Currently serving as Discovery Education’s Director of Social Media Strategy and Online Community, Dembo was among the first educators to realize the power of blogging, podcasting, Twitter, and other Web 2.0 technologies in connecting educators and creating professional learning communities.  He has been instrumental in the explosive growth of the Discovery Educator Network and its online presence at http://community.discoveryeducation.com.

    Steve’s keynote at the conference will be entitled “Learning to Speak Native: How Education is Being Transformed in 140 Characters or Less.”

    We live in an era that has seen the democratization of knowledge, the flattening of the earth, and the rise of wikinomics. The amount of information online keeps increasing while the barriers to accessing it continue to decrease. 21st century students aren’t merely products of these shifts, they are the instigators at the forefront of the next digital revolution. Are you prepared for students that live online in a state of transparency, defining ‘private’ as only being seen by a few thousand people? In order to guide students to safely navigate this new digital frontier, teachers have to learn to speak the same language. Thankfully, thousands of teachers are giving free lessons every hour of every day. While the tools may evolve at a dizzying pace, educators who create a personal learning network will always have the resources they need to stay ahead of the curve. Come learn how teachers worldwide have banded together to become their own best source of professional development…. and lost their digital accent along the way.

    Steve Dembo is a course designer and adjunct professor for Wilkes Unversity where he serves as class instructor for the Internet Tools for Teaching course within the Instructional Media degree program.

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