Ray Gallon is president and cofounder, with Neus Lorenzo, of the Transformation Society, in Prades, France, which develops strategies for humanist digital transformation and organizational learning, and researches the theory and practice of smart pedagogies.
Ray has over 50 years’ experience as communicator, most recently in the technical content industries, including major companies such as IBM, Alcatel, and General Electric Health Care. Earlier, Ray was an award-winning radio producer and journalist, working with broadcasters such as CBC, NPR, France Culture, Radio Netherlands International, Deutsche Welle, Westeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). In the late 80’s, Ray was programme manager of WNYC-FM, New York Public Radio. He is a fellow of the Society for Technical Communication (STC), and currently teaches at the Universitat de Barcelona and the Université de Strasbourg. He has also taught in graduate and undergraduate programmes at New York University, The New School, Université de Toulouse Le Mirail, Université Paul Valéry, and Université de Paris Diderot. He has contributed to numerous books, journals, and magazines, and is the editor of The Language of Technical Communication (XML Press).
Ray and Neus are co-chairs of the Transformation Society and Information 4.0 Research and Development Group of the World Federation of Associations for Teacher Education (WFATE), and former former Chair (Neus) and Vice Chair (Ray) of the Primary and Pre-primary Research and Development Community of the Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE). They have authored or co-authored book chapters and articles published by Springer, IGI-Global, Routledge and Cambridge Scholars Publishing, among others.
Sessions in which Ray Gallon participates
Monday 19 April, 2021
Neus Lorenzo Galés, Departament d'Educació, Catalonia (Spain); Ray Gallon, The Transformation Society
Tuesday 20 April, 2021
Ray Gallon, The Transformation Society; Neus Lorenzo Galés, Catalonia
Sessions in which Ray Gallon attends
Monday 19 April, 2021
How do we walk between the lines of socially aware pedagogy and consumer desire? Unlike many topics, media education and studies require equitable and conscientious lenses as we traverse the practical and the esoteric in light of contemporary world events. While we tackle the instructional and mechanical, we are obligated to grapple with the social and political nuances and implications of our work. Shirley R Steinberg consi...
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Tuesday 20 April, 2021
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Is these such a thing as Learning Experience Design? Pedagogical Innovation: Bridging the Research-Practice Chasm, Rob Cassidy, Concordia University Incorporating Mindfulness, Exercise and Healthy Screen Breaks into Your Online Courses, Erica Hargreave, University of British Columbia
Wednesday 21 April, 2021
Myriam Girouard-Gagné, Université de Montréal, Micheline Joanne Durand, Université de Montréal,
Ray Gallon, The Transformation Society; Neus Lorenzo Galés, Catalonia (Spain)
Over one million Rohingya refugees are in camps in Bangladesh, forced to flee a brutal campaign of genocide. This presentation discusses how a Canadian volunteer-based initiative has been working with the Rohingya and other displaced communities in Bangladesh, and has set up various low-cost educational initiatives including digital learning to reduce the gap of educational access for people living in camps, particularly with the effects of COVID. The session discusses the context of the work...