GENERATION YES

Tenth Anniversary Contest - There's Still Time to Enter
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the GenYES model, we are giving out the presents! We will award 10 Generation YES licenses to 10 deserving schools in July - good for the entire upcoming 06/07 school year, with a value of up to $5,000. Winners will be chosen on the basis of need, creativity of application, and demonstration of belief in the ideas of student empowerment. Enter before June 9, 2006: https://genyes.com/about/contest.php

Generation YES Presenter's Club - Fame, fortune, and acclaim can be yours...
If you are involved with a Generation YES program, you have something important to share with other teachers and educators.

The Generation YES Presenter's Club is free and open to anyone who wants to speak to others about Generation YES. As a member of the Generation YES Presenter's Club, you will receive tools that will help you prepare presentations about your Generation YES program. If your presentations are accepted at qualifying professional development days or conferences, we will send you an honorarium of $100 and a coveted Generation YES Presenter's Club t-shirt in recognition of your efforts. For more information: https://genyes.com/programs/presclub

Educomm - Don't Miss This Geek Paradise!
Sylvia Martinez will be presenting at Educomm June 7-8 in Orlando, FL on The 21st Century A/V Club and Beyond PowerPoint. Educomm is the educational section of InfoComm, the world's largest audio-visual trade expo. It's a geek paradise - the convergence of IT, AV and education. Best of all, you get free admission to InfoComm. This year, Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer is the keynote speaker. He's an interesting guy who really walks the talk of education and technology. Click here for more details. (https://educomm.educatorsportal.com/ )

Catch Laptop Fever - The Anytime Anywhere Learning Foundation Conference
This conference offers inspiration and information for schools involved in laptops and other 1:1 implementations. Meet leaders in the global laptop revolution in an informal, residential format. Ben Shneiderman -- Angus King -- John Bransford -- Peter Reynolds -- Gary Stager -- Michael Furdyk; June 21 - 23 -- Boston, Massachusetts. Our own Sylvia Martinez will be there with a session on Maximizing Your 1:1 Investment through Student Leadership. https://www.aalf.org/Events/cf_main.aspx

Student Showcase
GenYES Students Share Podcasting Knowledge at NSBA
On April 7, 2006, the GenYES kids at the University of Chicago Lab School were invited to participate as part of an executive briefing about podcasting and new technology at the National School Board Association conference in Chicago. They talked about their own experiences with technology and helped the participants create their own podcasts. Many thanks to Lucy Gray, GenYES teacher at the Lab School who organized this event! Pictures of the event: https://web.mac.com/lucygray1/iWeb/Lab/NSBA.html

Speak Up 2005 - Students Setting Technology Trends
Our Voices, Our Future: Student and Teacher Views on Science, Technology and Education, summarizing national data collected online from 185,000 student surveys and 15,000 teacher surveys during Speak Up 2005 is now available at https://www.netday.org/speakup_2005.htm Some highlights:

• Students are setting trends with their use of technology both in school and out of school, using technology in innovative ways and adopting new technologies to support their learning and lifestyles.
• Students and teachers want access to up-to-date technology tools at school and they want it to be available when they need it. Students' frustrations result from restrictions to technology use for learning tasks.
• Teachers' professional use of technology is approaching a comfort level but is not keeping up with the advances in how kids are using technology; there are no significant differences between how younger teachers and older teachers are approaching their technology use.