Bill Baker on Journalism in Crisis

The Media: Journalism in Crisis, is a timely documentary that explores how a tough economy and changing technology threaten the survival of responsible journalism in the 21st century. Bill Baker, President Emeritas of WNET.org, returns to public television to trace the history, milestones and possible collapse of America's traditional news industry.

The documentary premiered on Sunday, April 4th, at 11pm on WNET/Channel 13 (check local listings for other public television stations).

For more details, click here.

Celebration of Teaching & Learning in the News

This year's Celebration of Teaching & Learning was the most successful ever, with record attendance of almost 10,000 educators from all 50 states and the world over. GSE was proud to partner with WNET Channel 13 to participate in such a wonderful event for the educational community.

To view photos from the event, click here!

"Celebration of Teaching & Learning Showcases Big Names in Education"

Read the article from Inside Fordham here.

"WNET.ORG Commemorates Five Years of the Celebration of Teaching & Learning During New York City's First 'New York Celebrates Teaching & Learning Week'"

Read the full article on PR Newswire click here.

Looking forward to next year's Celebration! Save the Date: March 18 & 19, 2011!

GSE in Inside Fordham

GSE is having a very busy spring! Below are some of the recent stories featuring our events and happenings in Inside Fordham.

Education Leaders Debate Changes in New York City Schools
Eric Nadelstern was the keynote speaker for "The Changing Landscape of Public Education: New Challenges and New Opportunities in Urban Education", a conference staged by GSE to focus on the 10 items that the Department of Education has learned over the last eight years. For the full story click here.

New York's Media Moguls are Making Waves
New York's most sucessful Internet impresarios shared personal startup stories and career secrets on March 16th at "Digital Entrepeneurs 2.0" sponsored by the Graduate School of Education and the Center for Communication, and moderated by Bill Baker, Ph.D., Claudio Aquaviva Chair of Education and Journalist in Residence. To read more click here.

Borough President Says Education Will Lift the Bronx
At an appearance at Fordham's Rose Hill campus, Bronx Borough president Ruben Diaz Jr. said that better education can link the residents of the Bronx to the world-class institiutions that already call it home. For full story click here.

Celebration of Teaching and Learning Showcases Big Names in Education
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told a packed hotel ballroom at the WNET Celebration of Teaching & Learning (sponsored by GSE) that education reform is the great civil rights movement of our time. Education, he said, is increasingly dividing the line between the haves and the have-nots. To read more click here.

Funny Business: Late Night TV

Tuesday, 30th March 6:30-8:00 PM
Pope Auditorium
Lincoln Center Campus

Q: Who's funnier than Concan, Leno and Letterman? A: Their writers! They have to think up a hundred jokes a day for just one of them to land in the monologue. And being funny is only the beginning. You have to be well informed, politically savvy, and hip to pop culture. Learn what it takes to survive and thrive in the rarified and competitive world of late night comedy.

Speakers:
Doug Abeles, writer/producer, "Weekend Update"
Saturday Night Live
Amy Ozols, writer, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

Moderator:
Adam Buckman, freelance writer, former TV editor/writer, New York Post

Presented with the Center for Communication. For more information or to register, call (212) 686-5005 or e-mail info@cencom.org or visit http://www.cencom.org/.

New GSE Student Ambassador: Introducing Jen

The Office of Admissions is pleased to announce a new addition to our Graduate School of Education Student Ambassadors!

Jen (like Matt and Ali) is a current GSE student. She is now available to answer questions that prospective students may have about the admissions process and/or questions concerning life as a graduate student here at Fordham. For more information, click here, and please feel free to email Matt, Ali or Jen for the "on the ground" perspective on student life at GSE!





JEN
Class of 2011
MST
Adolescence English
JenGSE@fordham.edu

2nd Annual Assessment Conference: The Role of School Neuropsychological Assesssment in SLD Identification

We are pleased to announce the 2nd Annual Assessment Conference on May 14, 2010 at the Graduate School of Education at Fordham University.

Dr. Daniel Miller, Dr. James Hale, and Dr. Elaine Fletcher-Janzen will host sessions discussing neuropsychology and its implications on school psychology, learning disabilities and education. The event will conclude with a book signing and meet the authors.

For more information, or to register, click here.

Faculty in the News: Dr. Kristen Turner

Dr. Kristen Turner (Assistant Professor, Division of Curriculum & Teaching, GSE) recently published, "Flipping the Switch; Teaching Students to Code-Switch from Text Speak to Standard English" in the English Journal. She discusses digitalk used in text messages and instant messaging and its place among other types of written communication for today's students. For the full article click here.

Academic Lessons from Video Game Learning Conference, Coming October 2010

October 7-10, 2010
Fordham Lincoln Center

This conference is designed to bring together leading researchers and practitioners from developmental and cognitive psychology, media, and game design to examine home learning transfers from video game play to elementary and secondary school classroom.

This issue remains largely unaddressed despite a growing body of literature linking video game play to improvement in spatial skills, problem solving and inductive reasoning, and attention. Invited attendees represent leading national and international researchers and practitioners in developmental and cognitive psychology, media, communications and game design.

Talks and activities during the conference will address cognitive skills and content knowledge that children and adolescents acquire and refine during video game play; game features that captivate and promote skill development amongst game players; and evidence of skill and content knowledge transfer from video game play to the classroom context of game players of different ages.

For more information click here.

GSE Alumni in the News

GSE alumnus, Father Arogundade has been appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Ondo in Western Nigeria. He earned his master degree Religious education and his doctorate in Educational Administration, both at Fordham University. He has since been serving as a administrator at Our Lady of Mount Caramel in Elmsford, NY. He will be returning to his native coutnry of Nigeria to begin his role as Bishop. To read more click here.

Women of Influence Series welcomes Senaca Nation Memeber and GSE Alumni, Dr. Lori Quigley. She will be speaking on "Women's Power and Leadership in Native Cultures". Dr. Lori Quigley recieved her PhD. from Fordham in Langauge, Learning, and Literacy. For more information of the series click here.

Faculty in the News: Dr. Bill Baker

Dr. William F. Baker (Claudio Aquaviva Distinguished Professor of Education and Journalist in Residence, Fordham University) speaks on American media in a speech entitled "The Audience: How America Uses its Media". To read the full article in the Tennessee Journalist click here.

Read Dr. Baker's Media News Blog at Channel 13.

Digital Entrepreneurs 2.0

The Graduate School of Education and the Center for Communication present:

Digital Entrepreneurs 2.0

Tuesday, 16th March 2010

6:30-8:00 PM

Pope Auditorium

Lincoln Center Campus

New York City, home to media giants, is becoming a launching pad for hundreds of Internet start-ups, particularly in the field of social media. Twitter was "inspired by my time in New York," says co-founder Jack Dorsey. Today's digital lanuches cost less than most brick-and-mortar startups, technology is more accessible and cheaper than ever before, and the city government of New York is offering cut-rate office space to promising young firms. Learn how these go-getters turned their digital dreams into successful realities.

Speakers:

Adam Rich, co-founder/editor-in-chief, Thrillist

Stella Grizont, managing director, Ladies Who Launch New York City and New Jersey

Steve Gordon, entertainment attorney and consultant, Steve Gordon Law; author, The Future of the Music Business: How to Succeed with the New Technologies, A Guide for Artists and Entrepreneurs (2008)

Jonah Peretti, founder, BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, ContagiousMedia.org and the Eyebeam Open Lab

Moderator:

Bill Baker, Ph.D., the Claudio Aquaviva Chair and Journalist-in-Residence at Fordham University; president emeritus, Channel Thirteen/WNET

Presented with the Center for Communication. For more information, or to register, call (212) 686-5005 or e-mail info@cencom.org or visit http://www.cencom.org/.

Rosa A. Hagin School Consultation & Early Childhood Centers Therapeutic Intervention Workshop Series

Attention GSE Faculty & Students:
Rosa A. Hagin School Consultation & Early Childhood Centers Therapeutic Intervention Workshop Series will be held on March 11th and April 15th.

For more information on this series click here. For more information on the March 11th event, click here.

Career Services Tip Information Video with Margaret Motto

Margaret Motto, Graduate School of Education Advisor for Career Services, offers tips and advice to students and alumni. Join her at the GSE Career Fair at Fordham Lincoln Center campus on Tuesday, March 11th!

Borough President Speaker Series

GSE Presents:
The Second Annual Borough President Speaker Lecture Series

Thursday March 11
Keating First
Fordham Rose Hill Campus
4:00-5:30pm



Ruben Diaz Jr., Bronx Borough President, will be the speaker in the second of this annual lecture series. Elected borough president in 2009, Diaz previously served in the New York state assembly for 13 years, advocating on behalf of the working families in the Bronx.

No RSVP required. Coffee, tea, and cookies will be provided.

GSE Faculty in the News

"Airports Discover Courtesy Helps Their Bottom Line"
While Portland, Minneapolis-St. Paul and other airports are creating their own customer service initiatives, many others have signed up for the Tom Murphy's Resiliency Edge program, which is based at the Graduate School of Education's Human Resiliency Institute. To read the article on MSNBC.com, click here.

"Dynamic New Book: Power of Learning From Inquiry"
Transformation Education announces the new release in the adult education series at Information Age Publishing: The Power of Learning from Inquiry: Teacher Research as a Professional Development Tool in Multilingual Schools by Dr. Aida Nevarez-La Torre of Fordham University's Graduate School of Education. For more information, click here.

"Using Social Media to Keep Students Engaged"
Kathleen King (Professor, GSE) discusses using social media in higher education to promote engagement. To read the full article, click here.

Celebration of Teaching and Learning

It's not too late to register to attend this weekend's WNET Channel 13 Celebration of Teaching and Learning 2010, sponsored by Fordham's Graduate School of Education! For more information or to register, visit the website at http://thirteencelebration.org.

If you plan to attend the event, stop by the GSE table in the Exhibition Hall and say hello to our Admissions staff. We look forward to seeing you there!

Dr. Terry Osborn Elected President of Society of International Language Studies

Terry A. Osborn, Professor and Chair of the Division of Curriculum and Teaching was recently elected President of the International Society for Language Studies. The Society is an interdisciplinary association of scholars from Europe, Asia, North America and South America who explore critical perspectives on language. Within these perspectives, language is understood as both shaping and being shaped by historical, political, social, and cultural contexts. Research on language from such perspectives has historically been marginalized as well as compartmentalized within artificially constructed academic disciplines. The primary purpose of ISLS is to bridge these arbitrary disciplinary territories and provide a forum for both theoretical and empirical research, from existing and emergent research methodologies, for the exploring the relationships among language, power, discourses, and social practices. The society sponsors both a bi-annual conference and an international journal, Critical Inquiry in Promoting Language Studies, published by Routledge. "The society's goal of promoting social justice and language scholarship echo the Fordham Graduate School of Education's commitment to the same," says Osborn. Dr. Osborn's term as President is 2010-2012.

GSE Alumni in the News

Jocelyn Baitz-Unger received her masters degree in counseling and personnel services from GSE in 2002, and is being recognized for demonstrating dedication, leadership, and excellence in adolescent mental health counseling by the exclusive registry of Cambridge's Who's Who. She is a guidance counselor for The New York City Department of Education and is responsible for counseling mandated and at-risk students indivdually and as a group.

Dr. Steven DiSalvo was appointed new president of Marion University. DiSalvo recieved his PhD in educational leadership (GSE), as well as his BS in psychology and MBA in marketing all from Fordham University.

Dr. Stacey Gross has been named the 2010 Connecticut Principal of the Year and recognized for her increasing achievement for all students, and in closing gaps in achievment among student sub groups. Dr. Gross received her BS in psychology, MS in Special Education, Professional Diploma in Administration and Supervision, and her doctorate of Education/Executive Leadership all from Fordham University.