Nora Young has a love hate relationship with technology, culture and armchair sociology, which she pursues on CBC Radio, on television, in print and online. She is the host and creator of Spark, a show about technology and culture, which airs nationally on CBC Radio, and lives online at cbc.ca/spark.
As a journalist and speaker, Young is interested in how new technology shapes the way we relate to ourselves, each other, and to the world around us, a subject she is currently pursuing in book form. When away from the computer, Young loves teaching yoga, cycling and being in nature. She lives in Toronto.
Clarence Fisher
Clarence Fisher has been a classroom teacher for the past 18 years. He blogs professionally at evenfromhere.org, with his class at ideahive.org and has spoken at conferences worldwide.
Fisher has won several awards, including one of Canada's highest teaching awards - the Prime Minister's Award for Teaching for his integration of technology into daily classroom life. Fisher's innovative classroom practices have been featured online, in books, magazines and newspaper articles. He is an advocate of classroom 2.0, learning spaces that take complete advantage of the tools that are available to learners in their quest to learn rather than having school be something that is done to them.