UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Apple Distinguished Educator, Microsoft Revolutionary Educator Skilled and Google Licensed Innovator Ken Shelton would be the keynote speaker for Penn State’s 2026 Instructing and Studying with Know-how (TLT) Symposium on Saturday, March 21.
A whole lot of transformative thinkers from all Penn State campuses and schools come collectively every year for the TLT Symposium, which showcases methods expertise can improve educating and studying in larger schooling. School and employees who attend will share how they use expertise in distinctive methods, community with colleagues, and generate new venture concepts.
Registration is open for the symposium, which might be held in particular person on the Penn Stater Resort and Convention Middle.
Shelton holds a grasp of arts in schooling with a specialization in academic expertise in addition to new media design and manufacturing. He has labored as an educator for over 20 years and spent most of his classroom expertise educating expertise.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Ken Shelton to the TLT Symposium,” Crystal Ramsay, TLT senior director, stated. “He brings a uncommon mixture of deep classroom expertise, design experience and a sustained dedication to fairness.”
Shelton has labored extensively on the coverage stage with a number of State Departments of Schooling, Ministries of Schooling and nonprofits, and was appointed to the Schooling Know-how Process Power shaped by a earlier California State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Shelton often offers keynotes and displays, consults and leads workshops masking all kinds of subjects together with academic expertise, fairness and inclusion, anti-bias/anti-racism, multimedia literacy, cultural intelligences, visible storytelling and tutorial design.
In 2018, Shelton gained the Worldwide Society for Know-how in Schooling Digital Fairness Skilled Studying Community Excellence Award. In 2022, he gained the Worldwide Society for Know-how in Schooling 2022 Making IT Occur Award for his extraordinary dedication, management, braveness and persistence in enhancing digital studying alternatives for college students. Due to his in depth and broad influence, Shelton was named by EdTech Journal as an influencer to comply with.
The keynote deal with might be recorded for attendees to view after the symposium on the TLT Symposium web site.
Digital Symposium Lite
TLT additionally will host Symposium Lite from 1 to 4 p.m. on Thursday, March 27. This digital half-day occasion is designed to permit the Penn State group to proceed studying in regards to the progressive methods school are utilizing expertise of their educating practices. In the course of the occasion, school and employees will have the ability to view a handful of periods and take part in facilitated discussions with presenters. Shows might be a mixture of new materials and repeated displays from the in-person symposium. Extra particulars might be coming quickly.
