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Sharon
Sutton
Coordinator of Technology
and Outreach
Seeds University
Elementary School, UCLA
Dr. Sharon Sutton has
been an educator for 28 years. She is currently the Coordinator of Technology
and Outreach at the Corinne A. Seeds
University Elementary School (UES), the laboratory school of the Graduate
School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Dr. Sutton also taught
in the Vista Unified and the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School Districts.
During her tenure at UES, she has led the school to national prominence for
it's model use of technology in a student-centered learning environment. In
1999, Seeds University Elementary School was recognized as one of five Featured
Schools in the nation by the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
(NCREL) for the integration of technology into classroom instruction.
From 1989 to 1993, Dr.
Sutton was Supervisor of Teacher Education in the Teacher Education Laboratory
of the Graduate School of Education, UCLA. During that time she taught Curriculum
and Instruction, Educational Psychology, and directed over 120 pre-service
multiple subject candidates in their field experiences.
Dr. Sutton has a doctorate
in Educational Technology from Pepperdine University. She received her Bachelor
of Arts from UCLA and a Master of Science in Educational Computing, also from
Pepperdine University. In addition to her degrees, Dr. Sutton has a General
Elementary Life Teaching Credential and a and Language Development Specialist
Certificate.
Dr. Sutton has conducted
extensive professional development inservice sessions on the integration of
technology into instruction. In addition to her professional development work
for teachers at Seeds UES, she has worked as an independent consultant with
local school districts (Palos Verdes, Santa Monica-Malibu, Los Angeles) and
with NCREL. She has also presented to California legislators and at local
and national conferences on this topic.
Dr. Sutton's work with
NCREL included traveling to Washington, D.C. and Korea to work with Department
of Defense teachers on the integration of technology into instruction. In
2000, Dr. Sutton was asked to co-author the Implementation Guide for Department
of Defense Schools for the Integration of Technology into Instruction.
Dr. Sutton was project
leader of a team of teachers from Seeds UES and Santa Monica Unified that
developed an information literacy curriculum that serves as the foundation
for project-based learning. This Managing Information in the Digital Age has
become the basis of the Creating a Thinking Curriculum Institute presently
being piloted with administrators and teachers from three elementary schools
in Local District D of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Focused on
developing information literacy and the integration of technology into the
curriculum, the institute is designed to develop the foundation skills necessary
for successful project-based/inquiry -based learning.
