6^th Annual MVU Online Learning Symposium - Dec. 2, 2009

Kellogg Center | Michigan State University
 55 South Harrison Ave., East Lansing, MI 48824-1022
 Phone: 517.432.4000  Reservations: 800.875.5090

The 2009 MVU Online Learning Symposium will explore how young people are using new media and communication tools to build social networks, create content and learn from their peers. This new environment has significant implications for learning and teaching, and it creates new challenges for students, parents, educators and policy makers.

The conference agenda will provide perspectives on education in the digital age, who today's students are, what they are doing online, the growing disconnect between in-school and out-of-school activities, and the changing roles of young people and adults.

New this year
The 2009 symposium is being offered in an alternative live Web-accessible format for those who cannot attend in person. Online attendees will see, via Mediasite simulcast, both keynotes, the closing panel discussion and three breakout sessions. 

Keynote Speakers

Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project
In the opening keynote, “Networked Learners,” Rainie will discuss the latest findings of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project about how teenagers and young adults have embraced technology of all kinds — including broadband, cell phones, gaming devices and MP3 players. He will describe how technology has affected the way “digital natives” search for, gather and act on information. The Pew Internet & American Life Project is a nonprofit, non-partisan “fact tank” that studies the social impact of the Internet.

Julia Angwin, Columnist and Technology Editor for the Wall Street Journal
Angwin’s presentation, “Media Literacy,” will focus on the use of social media tools by youth, including personal branding, students’ online identity, new online marketing efforts targeted at teens and young adults and social media literacy skills. Angwin is author of Stealing MySpace, a new book that, according to an Amazon.com review, “chronicles the swift, dramatic rise and deep impact of MySpace.”