We want to ensure, at a global level, that we are addressing the right issues through the Partners in Learning Programme. That’s why we have set up an independent International Advisory Board. The sole aim of the board, which is made up of leading educators, is to ensure the worldwide success of the initiative by adding credibility and providing guidance. This board supports Microsoft, and its partners, by: - Ensuring that the programme is presented in an appropriate and educationally-sound context to all levels of government;
- Creating a new, greater awareness of the essential preconditions for successful change programmes in education at national level;
- Assisting with the planning and presentation of an Annual Best Practice Conference;
- Representing and advising on the initiative by attending events and activities for both internal and external audiences.
Education Leadership ForumsTo ensure that the programme is properly applied and adapted to the unique needs of educators, schools and government, each country has its own individual Leadership Forum. The forum comprises key advisors, government officials, and partners, who will work with us to ensure that the grant money and programme offerings target real needs. The International Advisory Board MembersJohn Bransford
Co-Director, Learning Technology Centre
Centennial Professor of Psychology and Education, Peabody College
Vanderbilt University, Memphis, TN, USA
Biography of John Bransford Eduardo Chaves
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil
Biography of Eduardo Chaves Michael Fullan
Dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Biography of Michael Fullan Michael Furdyk
Co-founder Taking IT Global, Toronto, Canada
Biography of Michael Furdyk Leopoldo González-Echenique
Chief of a main directorate for the Development of the Society of the Information of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Madrid, Spain.
Biography of Leopoldo González-Echenique Jenny Lewis
Australian Council of Educational Leaders, Sydney, Australia
Biography of Jenny Lewis Bruce Dixon
Advisory Board Convener and Chair
prestondixon, Australia
Biography of Bruce Dixon Greg Butler
Microsoft, Redmond, USA.
prestondixon, Australia
Biography of Greg Butler Invited Observer:
Lyndall De Marco
Microsoft, Redmond, USA.
Biography of Lyndall De Marco The International Advisory Board Members - BiographiesJohn Bransford
Co-Director, Learning Technology Centre
Centennial Professor of Psychology and Education, Peabody College
Vanderbilt University, Memphis, TN, USA
Author of seven books and hundreds of articles and presentations, John Bransford is an internationally-renowned scholar in cognition and technology. Early work by Bransford and his colleagues in the 1970s includes research in the areas of human learning, memory and problem solving, and helped shape the "cognitive revolution" in Psychology.
In 1984, Bransford was asked by the Dean of Peabody College at Vanderbilt to help begin a Learning Technology Centre that would focus on education. The Centre has grown from seven people in 1984 to approximately 70.
Bransford and his colleagues have won numerous awards. His Ph.D. dissertation won honorable mention in the national "Creative Talent Awards" Contest; several of his published articles (co-authored with colleagues) have won "article of the year" awards in the areas of science education and technology. The Little Planet Literacy Series, which Bransford helped develop, has won major awards including the 1996 Technology and Learning Award and the 1997 Cody award for Best Elementary Curriculum from the Software Publishers Association. Many of these programs are being used in schools throughout the world. Bransford is currently co-chair of a National Academy of Science committee on "New Development in the Science of Learning". The goal is to synthesise new findings from research to create a "user friendly" theory of human learning. Issues of using technology to create learning communities are prominent in this work. Bransford has also been elected to membership in the National Academy of Education. Membership in the academy is limited to 125 persons whose accomplishments in the field of education are judged to be outstanding. From September 2003, Bransford will also be based in Seattle, working at the University of Washington, School of Education.
John Bransford's Web site Eduardo Chaves
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil
Professor Chaves has a Ph.D. in Philosophy for the University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, U.S.A. (1972) and is currently the titular professor of Philosophy of the Education of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, where he has been since July 1974.
Consultant of the Project Your School at 2000 per Hour for the Institute Ayrton Senna, São Paulo, SP, since August of 1999.
Director of the Mindware company; Education and Technology, Campinas, SP. Member of the State Advice of Informática (CONEI) of the State of São Paulo. Member of the Managing Committee of Informática (CDI) of the UNICAMP. Titular professor of Management of Systems of Information in the Pontifical University Catholic of Campinas (PUCCAMP).
Consultant of the Worldwide Organisation of Saúde (OMS), Geneva, Whisker, and of the Organization Pan-American of Saúde (OPAS), Washington, DC, U.S.A., in the area of Computer science in Health. Director of the Centre of Computer science in Saúde (CIS) of the Secretariat of the Health of the State of São Paulo. Author of several books including ‘Technology and Education: The Future of the School in the Society of the Information, which was published in 1999, Chaves is currently working on a book entitled ‘A New Education for a New Age’.
Eduardo Chaves' Portal Michael Fullan
Dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Michael Fullan is recognised as an international authority on educational reform. He has developed a number of partnerships designed to bring about major school improvements and educational reform, and is engaged in training, consulting, and evaluation of change projects around the world. He participates as researcher, consultant, trainer, and policy advisor on a wide range of educational change projects with school systems, teachers' federations, research and development institutes, and government agencies in Canada and internationally.
He has published widely on the topic of educational change. His most recent books are The New Meaning of Educational Change, and Leading in a Culture of Change. He has also published Change Forces: The Sequel, Change Forces: Probing the Depths of Educational Reform, and the What’s Worth Fighting For series.
Fullan is currently leading the evaluation team conducting a four year assessment of the National Literacy and Numeracy Strategy in England. He is also conducting with colleagues training, research and evaluation of literacy initiatives in several school districts, including the Toronto School District Board, York Region, Peel and Edmonton Catholic School District, and well as initiatives in San Diego.
OISE/UT's Virtual Community Centre
Sustainability Web site Michael Furdyk
Co-founder Taking IT Global, Toronto, Canada
Born in 1982, Michael Furdyk is the co-founder of TakingITGlobal.org, a global non-profit online community for youth engaging members in over 200 countries. In the past, he has turned his interest of computers into a series of successful online companies, co-founding MyDesktop.com in 1997 (later sold to Internet.com in 1999 for $1-million) and BuyBuddy.com in 1999 (which closed a $4.5-million round of funding in late 2000). Over the last few years, Michael has done work for many large corporations, including Xerox, CIBC, IBM, and recently a six-month consulting engagement with Microsoft in Seattle, Washington.
As one of the "10 entrepreneurs who shaped the year 1999", according to Profit Magazine, and one of Teen People's "20 teens that will change the world (2000)", Michael has shared his experiences as a member of the Net Generation by speaking at many events, including two of Microsoft's Anytime, Anywhere Learning Summits, the Boca Raton gathering of The Business Council, and TED11. He has made numerous media appearances including The Oprah Winfrey Show, Time Magazine, Fast Company, Business 2.0, BusinessWeek, CNN, MSNBC, USA Today, Globe and Mail, and the National Post.
Taking IT Global Web site Leopoldo González-Echenique
Chief of a main directorate for the Development of the Society of the Information of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Madrid, Spain.
Leopoldo González-Echenique Castilian of Ubao was born in September of 1969 in Madrid. He is licensed in Right and Economic Sciences by ICADE and belongs to the Body of Attorney Generals.
He started in the Services of the Law of the State in Barcelona and the Departments of the Interior and of Economy and Property. Also he has been assistant director of the Legal Services of the National Commission of the Market of Values and from June of 2000 he was Director of the Technical Cabinet of the Undersecretary of Economy.
He developed his educational activity as Professor of Communitarian Right in the Pontifical University of Comillas Icai-icade. He has published monographic articles in diverse magazines of economy and right. He has also collaborated in the collective work publication- “La Director and the Decree Law of Electro'nica Company. Straight of Internet: electronic hiring and company digital”.
As Head of the Technical Cabinet of the Undersecretary of Economy he has participated in the development of projects of reception of the Society of the Information in the Public Administration. He has also had special involvement with the project CERES (Certificacio'n Spanish Pu'blica) piloted by the FNMT (National Factory of Currency and Timbre) and the implantation of the electronic company signature in the administrative procedures. On 11 October of 2002, the Castilian Cabinet named González Echenique of Ubao, new chief of a main directorate for the Development of the Society of the Information of the Ministry of Science and Tecnologi'a (MCYT). Jenny Lewis
Australian Council of Educational Leaders, Sydney, Australia
Ms Jenny Lewis is Principal of Noumea Public School, an Elementary school in New South Wales, Australia, and is National President of the Australian Council for Education Leaders.
Jenny has written a number of papers, and has presented at conferences in the UK and across Australia as a keynote speaker in the area of leadership and school reform. She has also designed a teacher productivity software package called SchoolMate, which provides teachers and school administrators with comprehensive student assessment information that allows for better data-driven decisions.
Technology Colleges Trust Web site Bruce Dixon
Advisory Board Convener and Chair prestondixon, Australia
Greg Butler
Microsoft, Redmond, USA.
Greg is the WW leader for Partners in Learning. Now at Microsoft, he has taught, and run his own companies providing education and technology expertise to the education sector. He is widely respected for his innovative initiatives such as the highly acclaimed Anytime Anywhere Learning campaign. Invited Observer:
Lyndall De Marco
Microsoft, Redmond, USA.
Executive Director - Digital Partnership Academy - Digital Partnership, Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum, UK. Based in London, South Africa.
Lyndall directs the learning, training, organisation and human resource development activity of the Digital Partnership. Initially focussing on a South Africa Pilot, it has achieved breakthrough performance of all partners locally and globally, developing innovative support materials, systems, and collaborative development partnerships. The Digital Partnership is an international partnership facilitating innovation and affordable access to technology, training and the Internet for learning, enterprise and development in developing and emerging market economies through a sustainable private/public partnership model.
It is an initiative of the International Business Leaders Forum, established in May 2001 with support from leading global IT companies and their major corporate IT users, the World Bank and foundations.
A practical aim is to enable Information and Communication Technology (ICT) skills training and IT literacy in disadvantaged communities to support socio-economic development - a practical and scaleable approach to bridging the digital divide. Schools, students and educators, as well as community enterprises, will use reconditioned technology and the Internet for learning, personal development and citizenship.
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