The Edgeless School:
Designing for Learning in the Digital Age
Saturday 19 January, 2013
11am - 5pm, $10
Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
A closing symposium will feature three panels: The “Whole Child†in the Digital Age: New Opportunities and Challenges; Teaching in the Digital Age: What Has Changed? What Hasn’t? and Learning Environments the Digital Age: Physical and Spatial Integration.
Moderator: Thomas Mellins, Curator, The Edgeless School: Design for Learning
Panel 1 - The “Whole Child†in the Digital Age: New Opportunities and Challenges
Child Psychologist: Edith Ackermann, Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Honorary Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of Aix-Marseille
Educator: Sandra D'Avilar, Principal, P.S. 9, the Teunis G. Bergen Elementary in Brooklyn, N.Y., one of 10 schools in the ASCD “Whole Child Network of Schoolsâ€
Pediatrician: Dr. Gerri Summa, Summit Medical Group in Warren, New Jersey
Keynote Presentation: The National Museum of Mathematics
Glen Whitney, Executive Director
Cindy Lawrence, Associate Director & Chief of Operations
Tim Nissen, Chief of Design
Ben Levitt, Chief of Education
Panel 2 - Teaching in the Digital Age: What Has Changed? What Hasn’t?
Architect: Douglas Hassebroek, AIA, Associate Partner, Butler Rogers Baskett Architects
Educator: Laura Hollis, Director of Technology, Saddle River Day School
School administrator: David Trower, Headmaster, The Allen-Stevenson School
Technology expert: Dan O’Keefe, Curriculum Designer, Mission Lab, Institute of Play
Panel 3 - Learning Environments in the Digital Age: Physical and Spatial Integration
Architect: Jennifer Sage, AIA, Sage and Coombe Architects
Furniture: Lennie Scott-Webber, Ph.D., Director of Education Environments, Steelcase Inc.
Museum & Exhibition Design: Dennis Cohen, Project Director, Ralph Appelbaum Associates
Media Design: Jake Barton, Principal, Local Projects
Moderator: Thomas Mellins, Curator, The Edgeless School: Design for Learning
Panel 1 - The “Whole Child†in the Digital Age: New Opportunities and Challenges
Child Psychologist: Edith Ackermann, Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Honorary Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of Aix-Marseille
Educator: Sandra D'Avilar, Principal, P.S. 9, the Teunis G. Bergen Elementary in Brooklyn, N.Y., one of 10 schools in the ASCD “Whole Child Network of Schoolsâ€
Pediatrician: Dr. Gerri Summa, Summit Medical Group in Warren, New Jersey
Keynote Presentation: The National Museum of Mathematics
Glen Whitney, Executive Director
Cindy Lawrence, Associate Director & Chief of Operations
Tim Nissen, Chief of Design
Ben Levitt, Chief of Education
Panel 2 - Teaching in the Digital Age: What Has Changed? What Hasn’t?
Architect: Douglas Hassebroek, AIA, Associate Partner, Butler Rogers Baskett Architects
Educator: Laura Hollis, Director of Technology, Saddle River Day School
School administrator: David Trower, Headmaster, The Allen-Stevenson School
Technology expert: Dan O’Keefe, Curriculum Designer, Mission Lab, Institute of Play
Panel 3 - Learning Environments in the Digital Age: Physical and Spatial Integration
Architect: Jennifer Sage, AIA, Sage and Coombe Architects
Furniture: Lennie Scott-Webber, Ph.D., Director of Education Environments, Steelcase Inc.
Museum & Exhibition Design: Dennis Cohen, Project Director, Ralph Appelbaum Associates
Media Design: Jake Barton, Principal, Local Projects