FITSI 2006 Guest Speakers
Don Knezek
CEO, International Society for Technology in Education
Don Knezek is recognized internationally for his leadership in collaboration, planning, and standards development in technology integration. Dr. Knezek has degrees from Dartmouth College, the University of Hawaii, and the University of Texas, as well as 28 years of experience as a professional educator. He has experience in the K-12 classroom, in district offices and regional service centers, and in universities and the State Department. Don has directed large, multi-state projects in the Star Schools and Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology programs of the U.S. Department of Education.
Dr. Knezek is currently CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and Co-Chair of the Educational Technology Advisory Committee to the Texas State Board of Education. He recently served as Director of the National Center for Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology (NCPT3) and as Co-Director for the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) project – both important ISTE initiatives. He also served as Project Director of the Technology Standards for School Administrators (TSSA) project, and, through the decade of the 90s, led the innovative Educational Technology Division at the Education Service Center in San Antonio, Texas.
Dr. Knezek is a tireless champion of equitable access to teaching and learning opportunities through technology.
Sabine Levet
Senior Lecturer, Brandeis University
Sabine Levet is a Senior Lecturer in French in the Romance Languages and Comparative Literature Department at Brandeis University. She is one of the original developers of Cultura with Gilberte Furstenberg (MIT) and Shoggy Waryn (Brown). She is the co-author, with Gilberte Furstenberg, of a CD-based teacher’s guide and student workbook for the French language, Dans un quartier de Paris, published by Yale University Press. Ms. Levet has written articles about the development of tools for cross-cultural understanding, and given numerous talks and workshops on the integration of technology into the foreign language curriculum, and on the teaching and learning of culture.
Rick Reis
Executive Director, Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing
Consulting Professor & Lecturer, Stanford University
Rick Reis is Executive Director of the Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing, and consulting professor and lecturer in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering at Stanford. He has served as Director of Academic Partnerships at the Stanford Learning Laboratory, and as Executive Director of the Stanford Center for Integrated Systems, a major research partnership between Stanford and fifteen industrial companies. He holds degrees in physical geography, physics, science education, and physical science, and a Ph.D. in higher education from Stanford.
Dr. Reis is founder and editor of the Tomorrow’s Professor electronic list, a bi-weekly e-publication with over 25,000 subscribers in more than 100 countries, and author of Tomorrow’s Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering (IEEE Press, 1997). He has served as Executive Officer and editor of the astronomy magazine, Mercury and has held chairs in science education at Memorial University of Newfoundland and in astronomy and physics at California State University at Los Angeles.
Dr. Reis has a long-standing interest in higher education and in helping individuals prepare for, find, and succeed in academic careers in science and engineering.