The Role of Information Technology in Creating New Kinds of High Schools
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Date: Jul 16 2009 - 9:00am - 10:30am
The Role of Information Technology in Creating New Kinds of High Schools
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
1101 K Street, NW, Suite 610
Washington, DC 20005
Thursday, July 16, 2009
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
The United States has been focused on K-12 education reform for over two decades, with mixed results at best. One reason why progress has been slow is that the fundamental nature of pedagogy has largely been unchanged. Now a small, but growing number of American high schools are using information technologies to redesign schools in fundamentally new ways.
Please join us for a discussion of a new ITIF report, "How IT Can Enable 21st Century Schools" with the report authors, Tim McDonald and Curtis Johnson of the Education|Evolving, a Minnesota- based group of thought leaders in education reform. The authors will discuss why the existing school reform movement has stalled; how information technology (including computers, software and communications) can enable the emergence of fundamentally new kinds of schools, particularly middle and high schools; and what the states and the federal government can do to drive the emergence of these new ways of educating our nation's future generations.
Moderator: Robert Atkinson
President, The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Presenters: Curtis Johnson
Managing Partner, Education|Evolving
Tim McDonald
E|E Associate, Education|Evolving
Respondent: Alan Shusterman
Founder and Head, School for Tomorrow
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