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 * Keynote Session

Title:** Teaching Digital Learners: Challenging Our Educational Assumptions

Dr. Christine Sorensen, Dean of the College of Education, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, United States, chris.sorensen@hawaii.edu
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 * Description**:

In her presentation, Dr. Sorensen will discuss potential challenges to the current educational system posed by learners who have only known a digital world:

 * ======How might changing technologies, changing communication patterns, and changing networks for collaboration and community engagement test our core assumptions about the structures and processes of education?======
 * ======In the future, what will be the role of the teacher and how might teachers be prepared to succeed in reaching these new learners?======

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Following a presentation of key issues and challenges, the audience will be invited to participate in a discussion about how we might shape both educational systems and teacher preparation for a future that is changing exponentially.======


 * Bio**:

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A tenured professor in Educational Technology, Christine Sorensen, has been the Dean of the College of Education at the University of Hawaii at Mänoa (UHM) since 2007, coming to UHM after serving as dean at Northern Illinois University (NIU) from 2001. Dr. Sorensen has taught in the areas of educational leadership, curriculum, and research and evaluation. She began teaching interactive video and web-based classes more than a decade ago.======

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Her research and publications have focused on distance education, the integration of technology in education, and organizational change, although she also is co-author for one of the leading texts on educational research methods.======

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Prior to joining the NIU faculty in 1996, Dr. Sorensen was a research and evaluation specialist at the Research Institute for Studies in Education at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Sorensen received her undergraduate degree from the University of Houston and her masters and Ph.D. from Iowa State University.======

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