Meet the Journal Zone Team

Peter Skillen
Lead Designer for Journal Zone

Peter is a teacher who has spent 15 years in elementary schools and 15 years as a Computers in Education consultant for the Toronto District School Board, that include over 600 schools.  He has been an outspoken advocate for constructivist approaches to learning and teaching.  This has led to many speaking and consulting engagements across North America and throughout the world including MIT, Brazil, St. Petersburg, Czech Republic and Israel.  His presentations are both entertaining and provocative.

Peter's academic studies in educational psychology and cognitive science are focused on constructivism, self-directed learning, and social cognition theory. Journal Zone was conceived as a result of these investigations.

Peter is currently contracted by LCSI as the Lead Designer of Journal Zone – an online collaborative journal.

His breadth and depth of expertise include:

• integration of tool software into the curriculum
• planning for implementation at the classroom, school and district level
• a focus on pedagogy, thinking skills, and societal implications
• the development and promotion of collaborative classroom and software environments

Peter has pioneered project-based telecommunications through the introduction of such applications as: FrEdMail, National Geographic's Kids' Network, GlobalLab, I*EARN, ThinkQuest, CitySpace, Global SchoolHouse and FirstClass.

In 1994, Peter received the Certificate of Excellence from the TelEd division of ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) for an exemplary telecommunications project that encouraged and supported cognitive collaboration.

Publications 

• HyperMedia - Are Students Really Constructing Knowledge? The Computing Teacher, 1995
• Many articles published in the journal, ECOO Output - Educational Computing Organization of Ontario
• Numerous articles in conference proceedings

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