Thomas Steele-Maley serves as Technology Coordinator and teacher/head of the eLearning and Information Studies program at Wiscasset High School in rural midcoast Maine. He has spent over eleven years working with young people in and out of the classroom in Alaska, Washington State, and Maine





Presentation Links: www.ilaboratory.net/steelemaley



Session 3 Friday "Student Networks and Curation"



Session 2 Friday "Unleash Learning"



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Thomas has led experiential education programming, developed leadership initiatives, and delivered staff development for national service learning organizations. Since 2006 he has devoted his career to teaching and learning with secondary school aged young people in school settings. His teaching, learning and design based research have focused on planning with students in technology rich, socially relevant learning spaces. He has extensive experience with networked learning, project based learning, ePortfolios, blended learning environments, and mobile learning. His curriculum development is shaped for student collaboration, communication and problem solving for an interdependent world in the twenty-first century. A graduate of University of Puget Sound and University of Maine, Thomas is currently (and slowly) working towards a Ph.D. in education.































































Thomas lives in Midcoast Maine with his wife and two young children. He is a runner, avid hiker, backpacker, and boater who has lived and played in the most remote areas of North America over the last eleven years. His deepest inspiration is derived from his family, Universalist Quaker practice, and the individuals and young people he works with who are dedicated to problem solving for our collective human futures.