THANK YOU FOR A GREAT 2011 ED TECH GOVERNMENT FORUM
Speaker Presentations and Session Summaries are now available! Check out the Forum photo album!
Thank you to our speakers, partners, sponsors and SIIA member attendees for making the SIIA Ed Tech Government Forum another great success in 2011! The Forum brought some 100 SIIA members together with 150 local, state and national education leaders. With federal programs, national initiatives and state policies all fundamentally shaping education practice, this is a must-attend annual forum for meeting with education leaders and policy makers and gaining the information you need to translate government programs and regulations into actionable market intelligence.
Forum COMMENTARY 
SIIA Testimony to NY Education Reform Commission Calls for School System Redesign to Personalize Learning through Technology
Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:45
I had the opportunity yesterday to provide invited testimony to the “New NY Education Reform Commission” appointed by NY Governor Andrew Cuomo to study and make recommendations for the reform and improvement of the state’s education system. My submitted written testimony describes a comprehensive vision for redesigning education to pesonalize learning through technology, and then makes dozens of reccommendations around Read More
Leaders or Laggards: The State Role in the Shift to Digital Content
Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:55
The focus at the recent annual meeting of the State Instructional Materials Review Association (SIMRA) was the shift from print to digital. While paper weight and book binding standards remain on their agenda, the shift is symbolized in part by this group’s recent name change that replaced “textbooks” with “instructional materials.” I had the opportunity Read More
A Digital Learning Framework for Systems Change
Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:50
I had the great opportunity last week to speak to the CIOs of the Council of Great City Schools, representing the nation’s largest school districts. While their agenda and roles are traditionally focused on enterprise technologies, their summit focused last week on “Transforming Education through Digital Learning.” Most CIOs recognized that their school systems were Read More
