The adolescent brain is a work-in-progress. Dr. Chamberlain provides an overview of the building blocks of the brain to demonstrate how heightened plasticity creates a critical window of opportunity during adolescent brain development. Using creative visual aids, she focuses attention on the areas of the brain that show the most profound changes during adolescence and engages participants to understand how these changes influence adolescents’ emotions, learning, decision-making, and behaviors. The role of technology in shaping our brains and the emerging risks of digital abuse are explored. Practical strategies for improving communication, maximizing healthy brain development, and minimizing stress and conflict are woven throughout the presentation.

The Future of Cloud Computing: Innovation, Service, Sustainability, Performance and how it Affects Educational Outcomes for our Students. Economic uncertainty and competetive pressures are fundamentally raising performance demands n all aspects of education. From students and teachers to parents and administrators, the pressure to succeed has never been greater.

Success hinges on developing talent to focus on innovation and growth n the global economy. Businesses are now basing their trust and focus on cloud technologies because they offer freedom, reduced cost, and sustainability, whereas education has not. This keynote intends to show advantages of simplification and standardization to support utilizing the cloud to its fullest potential in an educational setting.

This is ASTE's 12th annual digital media contest. Each year ASTE strives to make the contest enjoyable, increase the quality of prizes, scale the contest types, and make it easier for our membership to enter.

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Today’s world is constantly on the move, and the rate at which it’s changing is so profound that you can’t trust your eyes to show you reality, because they’re really showing you history. This presentation challenges your assumptions about the world we live in and the future we’re heading for by carefully examining the significance of several global exponential trends. Windows on Tomorrow asks us to consider how these trends affect and will continue to affect our personal and professional lives, our children, our learning institutions, the nature of teaching and learning, and even our definition of intelligence. This presentation, based on the new book, Living on the Future Edge: Windows on Tomorrow from the 21st Century Fluency Project, is a compelling glimpse into the bold, dynamic future that awaits us all.