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Executive Director Miguel F. Aznar speaks at the
First Lego League Competition at Google Headquarters. Watch on
Google Video.
Executive Director Miguel Aznar speaks at
University of North Carolina at Wilmington's "Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers
for Technology" (PT3) Conference
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Where We've Been
(or are about to be)
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 December 18, 2007,
Miguel keynoted the
CTAP Region 5
Leadership Summit, addressing the value for students, teachers, and
administrators to be able to put technology
into context, to be able to understand and evaluate it.
Videotaped by Community Television
of Santa Cruz County, this 49-minute talk was shown on Comcast
channel 25 and Charter channel 71 in Santa Cruz County
on the dates to
the right. Streaming video from Google Video is to the right
of the broadcast schedule. |
Television Schedule
1/21/2008 - 4:00 PM
1/23/2008 - 8:00 PM
1/24/2008 - 7:30 PM
1/27/2008 - 4:30 PM
1/29/2008 - 6:00 PM
2/1/2008 - 9:00 PM
2/3/2008 - 7:00 PM
2/4/2008 - 4:30 PM
2/7/2008 - 11:00 AM
2/10/2008 - 1:00 PM
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(Watch this on
Google Video) |
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November 14, 2007,
Miguel keynoted a Santa
Cruz County Science Fair Coordinators meeting, focusing on using
ICE-9 as a framework for researching the science and technology of
student projects. |
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November 3 and 4,
2007, Miguel led sessions on "nanotechnological literacy" at the
Foresight Vision
Weekend Conference 2007. He presented ICE-9 as a way to educate the
public on nanotechnology. The November 4 session was created as a
result of popular demand after the November 3 session. |
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August 7, 2007,
KnowledgeContext hosted a booth at
National Night Out
in Santa Cruz. Miguel displayed the poster he presented at NSTI's
Nanotech 2007 Conference.
Suresh, Madhu, and Chandan Lodha joined him in presenting technological
literacy to the community. |
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Monday, June 11, and Tuesday, June 12, 2007, Miguel F. Aznar presented
workshops on "technological literacy" at
AchieveKids. |
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December 16, 2006, Miguel F. Aznar gave
the keynote speech at the
First Lego
League Competition at Google Headquarters. He focused on
nanotechnology, which was that year's research focus for student teams. |
(Watch this on
Google Video) |
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Miguel F. Aznar and Don
Jacobs presented on technological literacy in consecutive workshops on
Saturday, November 18, 2006 at the
California League of
Middle Schools Technology Conference in Monterey, California. Miguel
explained technological literacy and how the ICE-9 curriculum teaches it.
Don shared how the ICE-9 curriculum works in his Santa Cruz, California,
middle school classroom. |
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July 9 - August 5, 2006, Miguel F. Aznar
taught a class on
nanotechnology in the COSMOS summer program at the University of
California at Santa Cruz. 150 precocious high school students
lived on campus for a month, studying science, math, and engineering.
The 17 students in Miguel's class analyzed nanotechnology using ICE-9.
This was Miguel's 3rd year working with COSMOS and 2nd
teaching the
nanotechnology class. |
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Thursday, May 11, 2006, Miguel F. Aznar
presented a 'brown bag" talk at SRI
International in Menlo Park, California. View the
slide presentation
(in PDF format) or listen to the
audio (in WMA format)
on the topic technological literacy. |
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Miguel F. Aznar and Don
Jacobs presented on technological literacy in consecutive workshops on
November 18, 2005 at the
California League of
Middle Schools Technology Conference in Monterey, California. Miguel
explained technological literacy and how the ICE-9 curriculum teaches it.
Don shared how the ICE-9 curriculum works in his Santa Cruz, California,
middle school classroom. |
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Miguel F. Aznar presented on the
topic of technological literacy to the Berryessa Union School District
(San Jose, California) board meeting on November 3, 2005. |
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June 26 - July 23, 2005, Miguel F. Aznar
taught a class on
nanotechnology in the COSMOS summer program at the University of
California at Santa Cruz. 150 precocious high school students
lived on campus for a month, studying science, math, and engineering.
The 17 students in Miguel's class analyzed nanotechnology using ICE-9.
This was Miguel's 2nd year working with COSMOS and 1st
teaching the
nanotechnology class. |
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Miguel F. Aznar and Don
Jacobs presented the KnowledgeContext curriculum in consecutive workshops on
January 14, 2005 at the California League of
Middle Schools Technology Conference & Exhibit in Monterey, California.
Miguel presented how ICE-9 teaches technological literacy and Don presented on how ICE-9 works in the classroom. |
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December, 2004, Miguel F. Aznar conducted a
teacher workshop at Mission Hill Middle School in Santa Cruz,
California. Watch video clips from this
workshop, in which Miguel introduced technological literacy and the
ICE-9 curriculum. |
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July 12, 2004, Miguel F. Aznar presented
technological literacy to the 150 precocious high school students in
the COSMOS summer
program at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Students
live on campus for a month, studying science, math, and engineering. |
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June, 2004, Miguel F. Aznar gave the keynote
address at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington's "Preparing
Tomorrow's Teachers for Technology" (PT3) Conference:
http://www.uncwil.edu/ed/pt3/news.html (where you will see the quote
"The keynote speaker was very enthusiastic and well informed"). |
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January
26, 2004, Miguel F. Aznar discussed the role of technology in our lives on Talk of the Bay.
Host Robin Roberts conducted the
interview
(click to listen). |
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October
23, 2003, Miguel F. Aznar discussed the nature and importance of technological
literacy on Talk of the Bay.
Host Robin Roberts conducted the
interview
(click to listen). |
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Miguel F. Aznar presented
Timeless Patterns in Technology and Don
Jacobs presented the KnowledgeContext curriculum in consecutive workshops on
January 17, 2003 at the California League of
Middle Schools Technology Conference & Exhibit in Monterey, California.
Miguel presented on technological literacy and Don presented on how ICE-9
works in the classroom. |
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GeekSpeak
on KUSP 88.9
FM
interviewed Miguel F. Aznar, our executive
director, teacher Don Jacobs, and several students and parents on the
importance of technology education. Listen to the three interviews:
3/5/01
4/16/01
4/23/01. |
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Listen
to our executive
director Miguel F. Aznar interviewed on KSCO radio's Mr. Logic 2/3/2001 (requires
RealAudio player):
Beginning -
Middle -
End. |
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The
Consortium for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher
Evaluation featured our Executive Director Miguel F. Aznar as a
keynote speaker at their July, 2000, conference in San Jose, CA. |
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The
Computer-Using Educators' Fall 1999 Conference in
Sacramento hosted our Training for Time Travelers session. |
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Addie Holsing and Miguel F. Aznar presented the wrap-up session at KTEH's Real Science! teacher
workshop in Monterey in 1998. |
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