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About the Partners
 **Istruzione 2025** (Educating in 2025) is an international, educational technology, consulting firm formed by four educators who share the common goal in designing the ultimate learning environment of 2025 that integrates technology in a practical and meaningful way in P-16 classrooms. These educators are committed in their partnership as they come together to provide expertise from varying perspectives.

**Alicia Logsdon** is teaching fifth grade at Springfield Public Schools, Springfield, IL. This is her fifth year teaching. She has experience in kindergarten, second, and fifth grade. She has also coordinated the after school program, through the Boys and Girls Club, called 21st Century, as well as, coordinating Saturday School sessions. Alicia holds a B.A. in Elementary Education, Music and a middle school math teaching endorsement. She is currently pursuing her Master's of Education in Educational Psychology, Curriculum, Technology, and Educational Reform.

**Melissa Perkes** is a high school business teacher at Highland High School. She has 16 years teaching experience at the secondary level in Business Education with a focus in Computer Education and a recent addition of Consumer Education. Melissa earned her Bachelor of Science in Business from Eastern Illinois University in 1995 with a double major in Administrative Information Systems and Business Education. With the desire to expand her personal learning network, she is currently working towards her Masters degree in Curriculum, Technology, and Educational Reform from the University of Illinois. Melissa currently guides her students in the development process of gaining technical skills in Computer Graphics, Computer Animations, Web Design, and Desktop Publishing where she incorporates the importance of digital citizenship throughout their learning process.

**Tricia Rodriguez** is currently working on her 4th year as a Chicago Public School teacher. After receiving her BA in English Education from the University of Illinois at Champaign, she moved to the "big city" and has never looked back. She is currently happy to be working with Freshmen and seniors through their English literature experience. Currently Tricia is working towards receiving both her Masters Degree in Curriculum and Technology Reform from her alma mater, as well as achieving National Board Certification. If she is successful, she will have gained both status within the same year. While her entire educational experience has occurred within the United States, she plans to teach abroad in the coming years. She would be very excited to participate in a teacher exchange program to either England or Australia. This has always been her dream.

**Katherine Schwebe** is a certified teacher in Elementary Education, Business, Marketing and Computer Education and German. She has experience at the Elementary, Middle School and High school levels. Additionally, she has taught intermediate and advanced German to adults in the U.S. Army, while stationed in Augsurg, Germany. Katherine holds a B.A. in International Relations and German from Syracuse University and organized Syracuse's first student exchange program with the Universität Tübingen near Stuttgart, Germany. She also has completed graduate work from the University of Illinois, Chicago, in Business Administration and has completed a Teaching Certificate Program from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

=The Project=

The **Istruzione 2025** group project was completed for Professor Karen Hamilton of EPSY 556: Analysis of Advanced Instructional Technologies in the fall of 2011 as part of the Curriculum, Technology and Education Reform (CTER) Master's program at the University of Illinois.

The goal of this inquiry-based course is for you, as an educator, to define and to begin to answer the question "what does the future of learning look like"? In doing so, you will be asked to critically consider emergent and advanced learning technologies such as Web 2.0 media and other digital technologies, and how their integration in the classroom may transform the way we teach and the way students learn and what a future learning environment may look like. To do this, you will be designing the classroom or learning space of tomorrow. The focus of the course has you exploring and evaluating advanced technologies and the means by which educators learn about them and sustain them in a learning environment. Your goal is to determine how best to engage these technologies and in so doing, determine new ways to construct and share knowledge. This course is designed to assist you in identifying, analyzing and evaluating new media and digital technology so that you determine exemplary practices in the uses of advanced instructional technologies as they relate to the learning environment. The course aims to provide you with practical experiences that are framed within theories related to blended learning, digital (and other new) literacies, ubiquitous learning, and creativity.
 * EPSY 556 Course Description**

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