Kit Laybourne: As far as fogeys go, it takes one to know one. Kit Laybourne is 78. His career has blended passions for being a teacher, producer, author, and an enthusiast of new technologies. His television work included executive producing with HBO, Oxygen, Nickelodeon, MTV, Tele-TV, and PBS. He was an Associate Professor at the New School and recently taught in Bard’s Prison Initiative. Kit has published two volumes: “The Animation Book”, and “Mediapedia”.
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Deborah Bond-Upson: It’s Kit’s fault. When Deborah was a mere junior in college, her brother-in-law-to-be got her into film animation and teaching in an experimental high school in Philly. She was bitten by the EdTech bug. With teams of talented educators and technologists, Deborah has created and delivered innovative programs to over 100,000 learners. Solutions she has spearheaded include story-based STEM learning, adaptive teacher professional development, and Apps for teachers and students to create, research, and publish using Open Education Resources. Fall 2021 her Ceeds of Peace “Peacebuilding Co-Op Toolkit” archive of strategies and resources and online peacebuilding learning model launch.
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