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Advancing STEM Skills: Can Professional Training Be The Missing Key To Turn Mobile Technology Into Educational Tools?

Verizon and CSRwire to host free webinar

Advancing STEM Skills: Can Professional Training Be The Missing Key To Turn Mobile Technology Into Educational Tools?

Verizon and CSRwire to host free webinar

Published 04-15-14

Submitted by Verizon Communications Inc.

 Recent data show there is a significant demand for workers trained in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields and that currently, too few students are pursuing degrees in STEM areas to meet the demand. 

How can companies with know how, expertise and scale address the gap and attract more students to explore a career in STEM? Join CSRwire and Verizon for a live roundtable discussion to address the need to increase student interest in STEM subjects, as well as how mobile technology could positively impact student achievement when used effectively. [Take a look at Verizon's 2013 CSR Report]

When:  Wednesday, April 23, 2014: 12:30pm ET/10:30am MT/9:30am PT            

Register here: http://bit.ly/stemtechno 

Joining CSRwire's Editorial Director Aman Singh will be education technology leaders from STEMConnector, the International Society for Technology in Education and Verizon. Among the topics they will explore:

  • How the integration of mobile technology in the classroom is addressing the enormous challenge of improving student interest and performance in STEM subjects.
  • The need to provide teachers with on-going training [professional development] to employ mobile technology effectively to improve student outcomes.
  • Best practices to train teachers to harness the power of mobile technology to address the 21st century education agenda.

More on our panel:

Ted Wells is chief strategy officer at STEMConnector, a one-stop online destination on STEM information. He will share insights on the importance of leveraging accessible and familiar technology to engage students in high impact inquiry-based learning programs and how mobile technology can be a vehicle for students to gain technological fluency that is critical for all workforce levels as well as how competitions like the Verizon Innovative App challenge are encouraging students to use their mobile devices to learn programming skills.

Dr. Wendy Drexler is chief innovation officer for the International Society for Technology in Education, a premier nonprofit organization for educators and education leaders committed to empowering connected learners in a connected world. She will share her views about technology as a catalyst for connecting and empowering students and teachers to transform learning, and best practices for training teachers to maximize the use of mobile technology in their lessons.

Rose Stuckey Kirk is the president of the Verizon Foundation and vice president of global corporate citizenship at Verizon. She will share results of the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program in partnership with ISTE. The program, in its second year, has provided on-going training [professional development] to teachers in 24 schools to help them effectively and innovatively integrate mobile technology into the classroom to enhance student achievement.

About CSRwire's Stakeholder Engagement Campaigns

CSRwire regularly conducts webinars and Twitter chats with its member organizations. These webinars and chats, developed as facilitated conversations, are aimed at taking a pulse of our community, sharing knowledge and inspiring action. Learn more by emailing aman@csrwire.com.

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