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Esther Kustanowitz of JTA blogging, MyUrbanKvetch, PresenTense, and Jewish Week fame, recently posted on the need for Jewish education to embrace new media for learning: What CAJE’s next conference needs — and really what the whole Jewish non-profit world could benefit from — is a systemwide technology overhaul from an equipment and a human resources/skills [...]

Virtual CAJE 32 continues to be an interesting experiment. The three primary arenas are the CAJE 32 blog on WordPress, the CAJE 32 wiki on wikispaces, and cajenet, the CAJE 32 social network on Ning, an online social networking platform. The blog and the wiki are open to the public. The blog includes postings from [...]

Although I am not at this year’s CAJE conference physically, I have been following it online. This year’s conference theme is “Engaging 21st Century Jewish Learners.” As previously noted, there is quite a selection of sessions that address issues of technology. Some of these are specifically listed as part of the conference track, “Technology as [...]

CAJE’s Summer 2007 issue of its publication, Jewish Education News, is now available online at the CAJE 32 wiki. In accordance with the conference theme, this edition focuses on the “Landscape of 21st Century Learning.” Posting the articles on the wiki provides opportunities for readers to respond out loud and share their ideas. The articles [...]

The 32nd annual CAJE Conference is a week away. This year’s theme is “Engaging 21st Century Learners.” In addition to the technology sessions mentioned in a previous post, there are tracks on adult learners, early childhood, family education, Israel and Klal Yisrael, Jewish history, music education, special needs, text, theology and philosophy, and more. In [...]

This year’s annual CAJE conference includes a number of interesting sessions that address the use of educational technology in Jewish education. An entire conference track is devoted to technology as a tool to engage learners. There are at least 28 sessions that address the field, including Wednesday evening’s keynote (see the previous jlearn2.0 posting for [...]

This year’s CAJE conference will be held August 5 – 9, 2007, at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. The keynote for Wednesday, August 8 is titled “Jewish Education 2.0: Identity, Community, and Religion in the Age of Internet 2.0.” The keynote will be delivered by Brian Amkraut, Provost and Professor of Judaic Studies and Director [...]