Elliott Soloway
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About Elliott Soloway
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Quoting from a University of Michigan Website:
- Elliot Soloway is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the U-M and professor in the School of Information, the School of Education, and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
- Soloway is affiliated with the University of Michigan Digital Library and the Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education. His research interests are the use of technology in education and developing software that takes into consideration the unique needs of learners.
- Soloway is a principal investigator of the Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools grant, which has been created with four partners: Detroit Public Schools, Chicago Public Schools, the University of Michigan, and Northwestern University. The focus of the center's activities is the creation of strategies for embedding and sustaining the use of computing and communications technologies in the science curriculum at the middle school level. The center has a four-year, $6 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
- As a member of the Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education at the University of Michigan, Soloway is working to develop technology-embedded curricula for school-based programs, and has been in close collaboration with the Detroit Public Schools and the Ann Arbor Public Schools to produce a new generation of middle-school science curriculum that leverages the affordances of the emerging computational and communications technologies to uniquely scaffold students' learning and support teachers' instructional strategies.
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Q. Drawing upon your years of experience in the field of education, what do you think are some of the very best ways to improve our current informal and formal educational systems?
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Elliott Soloway's Past & Current Insights
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References
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Dr. Elliot Soloway: "Life in the Handheld-centric Classroom: How Do I Get from Here to There?". http://www.cwpost.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/pr/press/2004/30.html.
- On April 23, 2004, Dr. Elliot Soloway of the University of Michigan and the Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education was the keynote speaker at the third lecture in the Education Leadership Series hosted by the C.W. Post School of Education, Department of Educational Technology and Computer Logic Group of Ronkonkoma, NY.
- Dr. Soloway is a respected expert in the use of technology in education. He is a professor at the University of Michigan where he serves the School of Information, the School of Education, and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In addition he is a principal investigator at the Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education. His research is focused on the use of technology in education and developing software that takes into consideration the unique needs of learners.
