Conferences and Workshops

The traditional model of education has not changed much for more than a century. However, both our social needs and our understanding of the learning process and the brain have improved dramatically. In this conference, Dr. Salinas Fleitman will explore how education in the 21st century must change to fit our understanding of learning and the needs of a globalized and digital world.

What is education, and what are its goals? Although these seem like fundamental questions, the answers depend on the underlying models behind the educational practice. In this conference, Dr. Salinas Fleitman will present the three basic models of education - acculturation, socialization, and individuation - and the implications of their differing, and often contradictory, logics.

Constructivism, and its many branches, is becoming an increasingly popular tendency in education. However, the constructivist methods and techniques, and its evaluation principles, are fundamentally different from traditional education. In this conference, Dr. Salinas Fleitman will explain how to implement a constructivist model to achieve the goals of supporting the development of the students to their maximum potential.

Based on the Bloom/Marzano taxonomy of educational objectives, different technological tools can add great value to the educational process. In this talk, Dr. Salinas Fleitman will explain how to select and use appropriate technological tools to help achieve different levels of objectives in a learner-centered classroom.