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** Anne Balsamo ** Anne Balsamo's work focuses on the relationship between the culture and technology. This focus informs her practice as a teacher, scholar, researcher, new media designer, and entrepreneur. Balsamo teaches courses in culture and technology, the cultures of new media, design across the disciplines, and public interactives. She recently completed a grant from the MacArthur Foundation to investigate the future of libraries and museums as mixed-reality learning sites. This research inform the development of an edited volume called: "Ways of the Hand: Tinkering in a Digital Age" that includes an interactive map of DIY culture. Her forthcoming transmedia book project, //Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work//, will be published by Duke University Press in Spring 2011. For more information about her previous projects and the forthcoming book: []
 * Biographies of Panelists **

** David Gibson ** // David Gibson // is Associate Research Professor of Education at Arizona State University and directs the Continuous Improvement efforts of the Equity Alliance (__ []). __ Dr. Gibson’s research and publications include work on complex systems, modeling of educational processes, the future of learning, using technology to personalize education, and the potential for games and simulation-based learning. He founded The Global Challenge Award (__ http://[|www.globalchallengeaward.org]// __//), a team and project-based learning and scholarship program for high school students that engages small teams in studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics in order to solve global problems. He is creator of simSchool (__ http: __//__[|www.simschool.org]__ ), a classroom flight simulator for training teachers, and the eFolio (__ http://[|www.my-efolio.com]// __//) online performance assessment system. His business, CURVESHIFT (__ http: __//__[|www.curveshift.com]__ ) is an educational technology company that assists in the acquisition, implementation and continuing design of games and simulations, e-portfolio systems, data-driven decision making tools, and emerging technologies.

** Nils S. Peterson ** Nils S. Peterson (__ [|http://www.nilspeterson.com]) __is Assistant Director of the Office of Assessment and Innovation at Washington State University and a founding member and 2009-10 Board Chair of Palouse Prairie School of Expeditionary Learning, a public charter school in Moscow, Idaho using the Expeditionary Learning model ( [] ). He has 25 years of experience implementing technologies for teaching and learning. Recently, Peterson and colleagues at WSU have been working on questions related to credentialing peer-to-peer learning—including the Harvesting Gradebook (__ []) __—its impact on faculty roles and implications for organizing the University and peer-to-peer pedagogies beyond the university. He collaborates in the Community Learning blog ( [] ).