Speakers

2013 FEATURED SPEAKERS

Richard Culatta is a leader in the field of educational innovation. He has worked in K-12, higher education, corporate, and government training environments. His current focus as Deputy Director of the Office of Educational Technology for the US Department of Education is on using data and learning analytics to create customized learning experiences for all students. Prior to joining the Department of Education, he served as an education policy advisor to US Senator Patty Murray. Culatta also focuses on leveraging social media to create effective large-scale distributed learning environments. As Chief Technology Officer at CIA University, Culatta developed a collaborative online learning platform to extend training opportunities to CIA officers worldwide. Before his work with the federal government, Culatta was the learning technologies advisor for the David O. McKay School of Education at Brigham Young University and the Director of Operations for the Rose Education Foundation. He began working with instructional technology at the University of Rhode Island where he co-taught the university’s first technology integration workshops for faculty. Since then he has coached instructors and administrators in leveraging social media and data for learning, provided strategic consulting for organizations, and served on a variety of advisory boards across the US and Latin America.

Jack Mostow, PhD, is a Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Robotics, Machine Learning, Language Technologies, and Human-Computer Interaction, and serves on the Steering Committee for CMU’s doctoral Program in Interdisciplinary Educational Research. In 1992 he founded Project LISTEN to develop an automated Reading Tutor that listens to children read aloud. Project LISTEN won the Outstanding Paper Award at the Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence in August 1994, a United States patent in 1998, inclusion in the National Science Foundation’s "Nifty Fifty" research projects in 2000, and the Allen Newell Medal of Research Excellence in 2003. After earning his A.B. in Applied Mathematics at Harvard and his PhD in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon, Dr. Mostow held faculty positions at Stanford, University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute, and Rutgers. He has served as an Editor of Machine Learning Journal and of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, as Program Co-chair of the 1998 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and as Conference Chair of the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring System. In 2010 he was elected President of the International Artificial Intelligence in Education Society.

Dustin “Dusty” Heuston, PhD, is the chairman, founder, and CEO of Waterford Institute, a U.S. leader in preschool through second-grade software for reading, math, and science curricula. Through Waterford Institute, Dr. Heuston produced the first education videodisc for McGraw Hill as well as other computerized educational and training products, such as the award-wining Waterford Early Learning program. Dr. Heuston received his Master’s degree from Stanford University and his PhD from New York University. He was a 2011 Utah nominee for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award and he teaches an Honors English class at the Waterford School. Dr. Heuston has dedicated his entire career to education since his role as educator at Brigham Young University and the head of Spence School in New York City. He recently published The Third Source: A Message of Hope for Education, which describes his conceptualization of a new delivery system that provides individualized technology education, with the help of a support team, to the home and school environments.

Warren Buckleitner, PhD, a former preschool, elementary, and college teacher—is an expert on children and technology. He is the founding editor of Children’s Technology Review, he covers kids’ technology for the New York Times “Gadgetwise” blog, and he is a contributing editor to Scholastic Parent & Child. Dr. Buckleitner holds degrees in elementary education from Central Michigan University, an MA in early childhood education from the High/Scope Foundation and Pacific Oaks College, and a PhD in educational psychology from Michigan State University. He is the founder of the Mediatech Foundation, a nonprofit community technology center dedicated to “town made better with technology,” and is the founder of the Dust or Magic Institute on the Design of Children’s Interactive Media.

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