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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Teacher, scholar and speaker: Internationally known professor receives honorary doctorate, delivers several keynote speeches

MANHATTAN -- A Kansas State 1xbet online games login professor is receiving international recognition for his research on digital media, culture and education.

Michael 1xbet online games login , associate professor of cultural anthropology, recently received an honorary doctorate from the Universidad de San Martin de Porres, Peru's largest university.

1xbet online games login said university leaders reached out to him last year because many of his ideas had been highly influential to them and the structure of their educational programs.

1xbet online games login received the honorary doctorate at a recent ceremony in Peru. Hundreds of people, including the university chancellor and all of the university's deans, attended. Chancellor Raul Eduardo Bao Garcia presented 1xbet online games login with a diploma as well as a gold medallion, and 1xbet online games login gave a speech presenting his most recent ideas about education and technology.

"It was wonderful to be there and meet so many people who had been learning from me and building from my work simply by watching my talks and videos on YouTube, following my blog and reading my published works," 1xbet online games login said. "It is always inspiring to see how a few ideas hatched here in the Flint Hills of Kansas can find their way to other parts of the world where they mix with other ideas and blossom into something new, exciting and effective."

1xbet online games login has 12 more keynote speeches scheduled for the summer. These keynotes will be given at the World Conference on Educational Media and Technology in Denver, the Society for College and 1xbet online games login Planning international conference in Chicago, the InsideNGO annual conference in Washington, D.C., as well as events in Hawaii and Canada.

1xbet online games login 's speeches focus on inspiring wonder in students. While new technology provides numerous tools to create an "Age of Whatever" where anything seems possible, enthusiasm can be tempered by another "Age of Whatever" -- an age in which people feel disconnected and alienated. 1xbet online games login notes that it is not enough merely to deliver information in a traditional fashion or to give students the skills to become knowledgeable.

"What is needed more than ever is to inspire our students to wonder, to nurture their appetite for curiosity, exploration and contemplation, to help them attain an insatiable appetite to ask and pursue big, authentic and relevant questions, so that they can harness and leverage the bounty of possibility all around us and rediscover the end or purpose of wonder, and stave off the historical end of wonder," 1xbet online games login said.

1xbet online games login has also given several recent keynote speeches and presentations throughout the spring semester, some of which include:

* A speech at USA Today's Great City Schools Education Forum. 1xbet online games login spoke to superintendents from the nation's largest school districts. These people oversee the education of more than seven million children.

* A lecture as part of the 1xbet online games login of California Santa Barbara's "Innovation Matters" lecture series, which feature bestselling authors and world-renowned thought leaders.

* A presentation at The Creative University conference, where 1xbet online games login was a feature presenter along with Sir Ken Robinson.

* Presentations at Barkley, Cerner Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. All three companies are major employers of Kansas State University graduates and 1xbet online games login is working to build connections to create internships and other student opportunities.