In March 2001, Intel hosted educators and technology leaders from around the country who came together in a landmark event. The first Education Visionary Conference was so successful that it is now in its sixth year and took place April 26-27, 2007, at the beautiful Hotel Sofitel in Washington, DC.
Hosted by Intel and produced by the Center for Digital Education, the conference theme was
1:1 Computing and Digital Empowerment.
Educators and technology leaders came from around the country to share ideas and network with an elite audience - education visionaries, key government officials, policy makers and executive management from leading technology companies, not-for-profits and professional associations, as well as press and media.
AGENDA
Thursday, April 26
1:15 to 4:40 p.m. - Field Trip to McKinley Technology High School
Attendees visited McKinley Technology High School. The curriculum at McKinley is structured to challenge students to be prepared for both future academic study and a world of technology-based employment. All students will learn college and job entry-level skill standards in the bioscience, information and broadcast technologies in the first two years of study. Students then select a focus for in-depth pursuit that will allow them to finish high school with an individualized mixture of internship, early college and traditional high school experiences. Graduates are prepared to perform at the highest standards in their academic and professional life.
Attendees had the opportunity to observe students in their classrooms and learn about all three disciplines.
Attendees then experienced a class of their own - economics taught by DyKnow.
7 to 10 p.m. - Dinner Cruise on the Potomac
Featured Speaker
Hudson LaForce, Senior Counselor to U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings
Friday, April 27
8 to 8:45 a.m. - Breakfast
8:45 to 9 a.m. - Welcome
Eileen Lento, Ph.D., K-12 Lead Strategist, Intel
9 to 50 a.m. - Visionary Speaker: Speak Up
Julie Evans, Chief Executive Officer, NetDay
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Handout
Evans is the Chief Executive Officer of the new organization, Project Tomorrow, that was formed from the merger of NetDay, a national education technology nonprofit, with a Southern California-based science education nonprofit group.
During her previous six year tenure as NetDay's Chief Executive Officer, the organization expanded its impact specifically through several highly regarded and innovative national research programs such as the NetDay AmeriCorps Bridge program, the NetDay TESS (Technology Enhances Student Success) program, the NetDayCompass.org, the NetDay Cyber Security Kit for Schools and the organization's latest initiative, NetDay Speak Up, to collect students', teachers' and parents' views on science, math and technology, and how to improve education for the 21st century. Since 2003 over 850,000 K-12 students and their teachers and parents have participated in the annual online Speak Up surveys, and the data findings have impacted federal, state and local policies on education and technology.
9:50 to 10 a.m. - Break
10 to 10:50 a.m. - Visionary Speaker: 1:1
Leslie Wilson, Director/President, Freedom to Learn and 1:1 Institute
Wilson served public education in seven school districts over the course of thirty-one years. She held positions of special education teacher, administrator, adventure-based counselor/teacher, high school principal, assistant principal and executive director of secondary curriculum and instruction. She was recruited to work in the Freedom to Learn program in October 2003.
As an Education Policy/Program Fellow with the Institute for Educational Leadership, Wilson has facilitated the creation of an advanced fellowship program for educational technology visionaries in Michigan.
10:50 to 11:40 a.m. - Visionary Speaker: Digital Empowerment
Karen Archer Perry, Founder and Principal Consultant, Karacomm
As the founder and principal consultant in Karacomm, Perry is professionally and personally committed to putting technology into service for people and businesses. She brings to any program her ability to clarify issues, advocate solutions, mobilize cross-functional teams and facilitate decision making. Karacomm specializes in putting the community in community wireless by working with communities to develop programs that ensure that their investment in municipal wireless deliver value to residents.
Perry has worked with planners in Philadelphia, San Francisco and Winston-Salem to shape community programs for wireless broadband services. In these cities and others, she has collaborated on Digital Inclusion strategies, created PC purchase programs, conducted focus groups, developed community engagement programs, evaluated pilot networks, researched and documented best practices and created and implemented community marketing programs.
11:40 a.m. to 12:25 p.m. - Lunch
12:25 to 1:30 p.m. - Working/Discussion
1:30 to 2:50 p.m. - Report Out
2:50 to 3 p.m. - Closing
3 p.m. - Adjourn
