Ed 2.0: The Rise of Digital Learning
How can digital learning transform education into a student-centric system? Author and lecturer Michael B. Horn will share how online learning could be the next “killer app,” the one thing that every school, parent, teacher and student has to have. While providing individualized learning for students, it may also be a game changer for teachers, providing them opportunities for to facilitate rich and rewarding project-based learning experiences for their students to receive meaningful experience in the so-called 21st-century skills.
“First and foremost, digital learning is for everyone, everywhere,” Horn writes. “It’s not something designed for “those children” or one specific slice of the population. It’s not something that a group of parents support in theory but for whom in practicality it doesn’t matter. It’s not just for charters or districts. And even more fundamentally, it’s not just for private schools or for public schools. It cuts across all of these categories.”
Monday, September 12th
7-8:30pm
Bellevue College, Carlson Theatre
3000 Landerholm Circle SE
Bellevue, WA 98007-6484
(More detail directions are on the registration page)
Michael B. Horn is the co-founder and Executive Director, Education of Innosight Institute, a not-for-profit think tank devoted to applying the theories of disruptive innovation to problems in the social sector. He is the coauthor of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (McGraw-Hill: June 2008) with Harvard Business School Professor and bestselling author Clayton M. Christensen and Curtis W. Johnson, president of the Citistates Group. BusinessWeek named the book one of the 10 Best Innovation & Design Books of 2008, Strategy + Business awarded it the best human capital book of 2008, Newsweek named it as the 14th book on its list of “Fifty Books for Our Times,” and the National Chamber Foundation named it first among its 10 “Books that Drive the Debate 2009.” Disrupting Class uses the theories of disruptive innovation to identify the root causes of schools’ struggles and suggests a path forward to customize an education for every child in the way she learns. Horn has been a featured keynote speaker at many conferences including the Virtual School Symposium and Microsoft’s School of the Future World Summit. Tech&Learning magazine also named him to its list of the 100 most important people in the creation and advancement of the use of technology in education. Prior to this, Horn worked at America Online during its aol.com re-launch, and before that he served as David Gergen’s research assistant, where he tracked and wrote about politics and public policy. Horn has written articles for numerous publications, including Education Week, Forbes, the Boston Globe, and U.S. News & World Report. Horn earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB from Yale University, where he graduated with distinction in History.
Blog Posts
Why ‘Soccer Moms’ Matter for Digital Learning (Education Next)
Why Digital Learning Will Liberate Teachers (Innosight Institute blog)
Past Events
Innovations in Learning: Technology in (and out of) the Classroom
Technology has revolutionized our lives. But has it changed education in the 21st century? Join us to hear leaders share their experiences using technology to deliver better individualized learning and outcomes for students. Read our blog series on technology in the classroom.
John Danner, CEO of Rocketship Education
Shantanu Sinha, President of Khan Academy
Moderated by Tom Vander Ark
Thursday, June 9 at 7:00 p.m.
University of Washington
Kane Hall, Room 210
4098 15th Ave NE, Seattle (map)
John Danner, Co-Founder and CEO – Rocketship Education
Before starting Rocketship, John served as a teacher in the Nashville public school system for three years, the last two as a second-grade teacher of students with limited English proficiency. In 2000, John co-founded Sacred Heart Nativity School, a private Catholic middle school for at-risk Latino boys in San Jose. From 2001-2005, John served as the Chairman of the Charter School Resource Center of Tennessee, working for the successful passage of Tennessee’s charter school law in 2002 and assisting the subsequent establishment of 12 charter schools in Tennessee. John served as a founding director of KIPP Academy Nashville, a charter middle school in Nashville. Prior to his work in education, John founded and served as CEO of NetGravity, an Internet advertising software company. John took NetGravity public and sold the company to Doubleclick in October of 1999. John holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Master’s Degree in Education Policy from Vanderbilt University. John is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.
Shantanu Sinha, President and COO – Khan Academy
As President and COO, Shantanu focuses on overall organizational strategy, partnerships, and operations.
Before teaming up with Sal (his college classmate and high school math competitor), Shantanu was an Associate Principal in McKinsey & Company’s Silicon Valley office, and received four degrees from MIT.
Tom Vander Ark, CEO, OpenEd Solutions
Tom serves as CEO of OpenEdSolutions a blended learning service provider that helps states, districts and school networks design schools and solutions that are innovative, personalized and deliver better results at the same or lower cost.
Tom is also a partner in Learn Capital, a Seattle and Austin based private equity investor concentrating on improving formal and informal learning globally. Tom served as President of the X PRIZE Foundation and Executive Director of Education for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation where he developed and implemented more than $3.5 billion in scholarship and grant programs to improve education throughout the United States. In December 2006, Newsweek readers voted Vander Ark the most influential baby boomer in education. Prior to his role with the Gates Foundation, Vander Ark was the first business executive to serve as a public school superintendent for one of Washington State’s larger school districts that has been recognized for narrowing achievement gaps and reducing administrative costs.
Tom is chairman of the International Association of K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) and is a board director at several nonprofits including LA’s Promise, Enterprising Schools and Strive for College.
Wendy Kopp: An Excellent Education for All
The founder and chief executive of Teach for America will share her thoughts on what it will take to truly transform education – improving the academic and life trajectories of children.
Wednesday, March 2 at 6:30pm
MOHAI (Museum of History & Industry)
2700 24th Ave E
Seattle, WA 98112-2099 (map)
Wendy Kopp is the chief executive officer and founder of Teach For America, whose mission is to build the movement to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting the nation’s most promising future leaders in the effort. She is also chief executive officer and co-founder of Teach For All, a global network of independent social enterprises pursuing this mission in their countries.
Wendy proposed the creation of Teach For America in her undergraduate senior thesis in 1989. Today more than 8,000 Teach For America corps members are in the midst of two-year teaching commitments in 39 regions across the country, reaching over 500,000 students, and 20,000 alumni are working inside and outside the field of education to continue the effort to ensure educational excellence and equity.
Since 2007, Wendy has led the development of Teach For All to be responsive to requests for support from social entrepreneurs around the world who are passionate about adapting the model to their contexts. Teach For All has already grown to include programs in 14 countries across the globe, from India and China to Peru and Brazil to Lebanon and Israel.
Wendy is the author of One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach For America and What I Learned Along the Way (2000) and of the forthcoming A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn’t in Providing an Excellent Education for All. She resides in New York City with her husband Richard Barth and their four children.
The Parent Revolution: Using Your Voice for Your Kids, Your Community and Our Future
Ben Austin, Executive Director of the Parent Revolution
Trise Moore, Advocate for Effective Family/School Partnerships for Federal Way Public Schools
Wednesday, December 8th at 5:30pm
Aki Kurose Middle School
3928 South Graham Street, Seattle (map)
Our kids can’t wait. We are failing our children. Your children. We can’t wait for the grownups to negotiate an agreement about how to fix things.
Others are revolutionizing education. We found a couple of people who will give us ideas of how to do that here. Ben Austin of California’s Parent Revolution and Trise Moore of the Federal Way School District will lead parents in a conversation about how we put the power back in the hands of the only people who care only about children – parents.
Ben Austin has served as the Executive Director of the Parent Revolution since April 2008. A proud parent of two young daughters, he has dedicated much of his career to fighting for a California where every child can get a great public education. Prior to joining the Parents Union and launching the Parent Revolution campaign, he directed the successful campaign to transform Locke High School from the worst high school in Los Angeles into a college preparatory model of reform.
Trise Moore has lived in the Northwest for 20 years with her husband of 24 years and two children: a daughter who is a junior in college and a son who is a high school senior. She has designed and developed community outreach programs and strategic partnership processes for several non-profit organizations and educational institutions within the State of Washington. She is presently in her 7th year as Federal Way School District’s first Family & Community Partnership Director, and has built a team of parents and community leaders that helped the district gain Harvard Family Research Project’s recognition as one of six exemplary family engagement programs in the Nation.
Trise was recently selected by North West Asian Weekly Foundation to become a member of their 2010 ‘Women of Color Empowered’ alumni of courageous education leaders. She previously served as the Chair of the City of Federal Way’s Diversity Commission and Chair of Community Outreach for South King County’s Habitat for Humanity. She was also appointed as a member of the Governor’s K-12 Education Advisory Committee to WASHINGTON Learns, and in 2007 she was selected to represent her district at Harvard University’s Training Institute for Large School Leadership.
She has a Master’s degree in Program Management from City University and is an adjunct faculty member at City University Seattle, where she teaches a course in Multicultural Perspectives on Student Achievement and Family Engagement.
More on the Parent Revolution in California
Richard Barth, CEO – KIPP FoundationTimothy Daly, President – The New Teacher Project
Steve Barr, Founder & Emeritus Chair – Green Dot Public Schools
Moderated by Adam Porsch – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Monday, October 25 at 6pm
MOHAI (Museum of History & Industry)
2700 24th Ave E
Seattle, WA 98112-2099 (map)
What Works: Changing Our Schools
We want our public schools to be among the very best in the country. But to get there, we need to answer some tough questions: How do we close the achievement gap? How do we prevent students from dropping out of school? How do we prepare ALL kids for life after high school?
Join us for our second Voices from the Education Revolution Speaker Series event on October 25th for a thought-provoking discussion about strategies that are working to provide an outstanding education for every child.
Richard Barth joined KIPP in December of 2005. As president and CEO of the KIPP Foundation, Barth has overseen the growth of the network from 45 to 99 schools and secured over $100 million in new, long-term philanthropic commitments as well as $60 million in federal funding.
Timothy Daly is the President of The New Teacher Project. Since his appointment in 2007, he has helped lead the organization’s efforts to end educational inequality by aligning policies and systems to better support teaching effectiveness.
Steve Barr founded Green Dot Public Schools in 1999 with the vision of transforming secondary education in California by creating a number of high-performing charter high schools using available public dollars. Under Steve’s leadership, Green Dot became the leading change agent in the region, starting in fall 2000 by founding one of the first comprehensive public high schools in the Los Angeles area in thirty years.
More on: KIPP | New Teacher Project | Green Dot Public Schools
Kevin Johnson
Mayor of Sacramento & Founder of St. HOPE
Thursday, October 7 at 7pm
Mount Zion Baptist Church
1634 19th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122 (map)
What does a former NBA star have to do with kids and education? A lot, if you’re Kevin Johnson.
After an all-star career in the NBA, Johnson went back to his hometown of Sacramento, CA, and established the St. HOPE Foundation to help inner-city kids get to college through community engagement, quality educational opportunities, and after-school programs. Now the Mayor of Sacramento, Johnson will speak about his true calling to do something bigger and more important than basketball.
More on: Kevin Johnson | St. Hope
