The 2008 Northeast Conference
New York Marriott Marquis
March 27-29, 2008
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Dear Colleagues,
They have been dubbed the Echo Boomers, the Next Great Generation, the Millennials, Digital Natives, the iGeneration. They are today’s learners— the most diverse generation that is also the most accepting of diversity. Highly creative and collaborative but also easily bored, they see technology in the same way that previous generations have viewed their pencil: it’s what you do with it that’s interesting. From elementary school to graduate school, they are in our classrooms.They are our future colleagues. As we seek to learn about and from this unique group, NECTFL invites you to join us for our 2008 theme,“The iGeneration:Turning Instruction Inside Out.”
Many “inside out” experiences are already in the works for the 2008 conference, including—

• a technology playground where even the most tech-phobic can feel free to play on the equipment and ask questions of playground “monitors” in a pressure-free environment,
• opportunities to hear from young learners themselves about their generation and learning preferences,
• a crash-course in graphic design—the coming essential literacy of the 21st century,
• a chance to rethink the status quo of our teaching through hands-on workshops with a world-renowned expert on “digital natives.”

Don’t miss NECTFL, March 27-29, 2008, at the Marriott Marquis in New York. It promises to turn your thinking inside out in ways that will benefit you and your students for years to come!

Sharon Wilkinson
Associate Professor of French
Simpson College

E-mail us at nectfl@dickinson.edu if you wish further information.

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