About the Summit -- [Photo Hightlights of Summit]

The Summit is co-sponsored by the United Nations Fund for International Partnerships (UNFIP) and Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC). The event will publicly launch a long-term international research initiative to understand the impact of technology on young Power Users around the world and to explore how these users influence the direction and leadership of our future global information society.

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Speakers and Abstracts

Power users in a learning, communication and social relation perspective
Presenter: Birgitte Holm Sørensen, Research Director, Ph.D. The Danish University of Education.
Harnessing power users’ skills to create culturally-relevant educational technology in the South Pacific
Presenter: Christopher Robbins, The University of the South Pacific.
Curricular Options for Technology Power Users in Undergraduate IT and Computer Science Programs
Presenter: David M. Smith, Kaplan University.
Playing Video Games Enhances Visual Attention in Children
Presenters: M. W. G. Dye and D. Bavelier, University of Rochester.
MIT Teacher Education Program
Presenters: Prof. Eric Klopfer, MIT Teacher Education Program and Susan Yoon, MIT Teacher Education Program.
How to Win a World Election: Leadership Styles among Young Power Users
Presenters: Justine Cassell & David Huffaker, Northwestern University and Dona Tversky, Stanford University.
Playing Video Games Enhances Visual Attention
Presenters: C. S. Green and D. Bavelier, University of Rochester.

Applying Social Developmental Psychology to the Study of Adolescent Internet Use: Myths and Realities, Power and Peers
Presenter: Elisheva Gross, University of California, Los Angeles.
Sociological implications of the emerge of Power Users of technology
Presenter: Jeroen Ooijevaar.
Pioneers to Power Players Developing a Research Agenda
Presenters: Jay Lemke, University of Michigan and Caspar van Helden, University of Michigan / EDC Europe.

Perspectives on the Role of Power Users of Technology in Countries in Transition Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Prospect for a Research
Presenters: Luis I Rodriguez, PhD.

Initial Queries into the Notion of Power Users of Technology Investigating Ideas of Production, Competence and Identity
Presenter: Thomas Ryberg, University of Aalborg.
Designing new learning environments for Power Users of Technology – Rationale for research
Presenter: Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Aalborg University.

Education Development Center, Inc.