Ed Tech Tops Agenda

Via the YouthLearn Newsletter and eSchool News online comes this tidbit:

"Education, government, and industry leaders gathered April 28 in Washington, D.C., to discuss key issues regarding the use of technology in the nation's schools. Among the topics addressed at the fifth annual Intel Visionary Conference: how to secure funding for educational technology during a period of lean federal budgets; how to deliver targeted and sustained staff development; and how to prepare students for an increasingly uncertain future.

Opening the conference was Tim Magner, director of ED's Office of Educational Technology, who prompted his audience to imagine the future by considering the past.

'Think about the jobs you're doing now--were they around when you were in the fourth grade?" Magner asked. Noting that few participants had job titles that would have made sense a generation ago, Magner said educators are in the strange position of having to prepare students for jobs that don't yet exist or that "we might not even be able to imagine.' "


I think Magner's comment is particularly true when it comes to careers in health and health communication.