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Week 1 Alan Kay "Father of the Personal Computer" former Xerox PARC researcher dreamed the concept of a personal computer in the early 1970s. Proposed DYNABOOK, a computer the size of a typical book that would contain all of the knowledge of recorded history. |
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Week 2 Mitchel Resnick MIT Researcher in the Epistemology and Learning group and speaker on "Lifelong Kindergarten", is a driving force behind StarLOGO and many of the MindStorm robotics "toys". |
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Week 3 Sherry Turkle MIT Ethnographer and "CyberShrink", studies ways that computer experiences are shaping childrens views of reality. |
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Week 4 Glen Bull CoDirector of the Curry School Center for Technology and Teacher Education, pioneered the idea of remotely located collaborative classrooms. Established the first state-wide network connecting all teachers and schools. |
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Week 5 Chris Dede Futurist at George Mason University (en route to Harvard Graduate School of Education), explores applications of Virtual Reality and Distributed Learning environments. |
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Week 6 Dave Moursund One of the first "Computer-Using Educators", former ISTE president and founder of the Oregon Computing Teacher, which evolved to The Computing Teacher, now known as Learning and Leading with Technology. |
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Week 7 Seymour Papert MIT Education Researcher, Father of the LOGO language and author of MindStorms--Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas |
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Week 8 Roger Schank director of the Institute for the Learning Sciences (ILS) at Northwestern University, is a leader in the field of artificial intelligence and multimedia-based interactive training. His work stresses the value of learning from experts, developing skills rather than perfecting routines, and applying the benefits of "just-in-time" training. |
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Week 9 Elliot Soloway For the past 10 years, Soloway and his colleagues in the University of Michigan Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education (Hi-Ce) have been exploring the ways in which computing and communications technologies can be the catalyst in bringing a constructivist, project-based pedagogy to science classrooms. |
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Week 10 Roy Pea Director of the Center for Technology in Learning (CTL) at SRI International. At SRI he directs the Center for Innovative Learning Technologies and is a consulting professor at Stanford in the School of Education, with emphasis on visualization and modeling in learning. |
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Week 11Barbara Means Co-Director of CTL at SRI International, is an educational psychologist whose research focuses on ways in which technology can support students' learning of advanced skills and the revitalization of classrooms and schools. |
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Week 12 Ray Kurzweil Cybernetic researcher and futurist, pioneer in applications of voice and audio technology for learners with special needs. |
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Week 13 Bob Tinker Founder and president of the Concord Consortium, pioneer in the development of science applications for K-12 education, internationally recognized as a pioneer in constructivist uses of educational technology, he developed the MBL and Network Science concepts and has directed numerous educational research projects. |
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Week 14 John Bransford Vanderbilt University educational researcher, expert in constructivist learning using computer technology. Editor of 1999 book on "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School" for the National Research Council. |
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Week 15 Alfred Bork Professor Emeritus at University of California, Irvine, he pioneered discovery based learning in K-12 science using interactive computer-based laboratories. |