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Dr. Larry Johnson is an acknowledged expert on emerging technology and its impacts on society and education, and has written five books on the topic. He speaks regularly on the topics of creativity, innovation, and technology trends. He is the founder of the Horizon Project, which produces the acclaimed series of Horizon Reports that are used by over a million educators in more than 75 countries.
Dr. Johnson currently serves as Chief Executive Officer of the New Media Consortium, an international not-for-profit consortium dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies, and Director of the Edward and Betty Marcus Institute for Digital Education in the Arts (MIDEA). The NMC’s and MIDEA’s hundreds of member institutions constitute an elite list of the most highly regarded universities, museums, and research centers in the world. The NMC’s annual Horizon Report, now published in six languages and has become one of the leading tools used by senior executives in universities and museums to set priorities for technology planning. NMC summits and large-scale projects have helped set the agenda for topics such as visual literacy, learning objects, educational gaming, immersive learning, the future of scholarship, and social networking.
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Karen Cator is the Director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education. She has devoted her career to creating the best possible learning environments for this generation of students. Prior to joining the department, Cator directed Apple's leadership and advocacy efforts in education. In this role, she focused on the intersection of education policy and research, emerging technologies, and the reality faced by teachers, students and administrators.
Cator joined Apple in 1997 from the public education sector, most recently leading technology planning and implementation in Juneau, Alaska. She also served as Special Assistant for Telecommunications for the Lieutenant Governor of Alaska. Cator holds a Masters in school administration from the University of Oregon and Bachelors in early childhood education from Springfield College. She is the past chair of the Partnership for 21st Century Skills and has served on the several boards including the Software & Information Industry Association—Education.
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Bruce Dixon is the co-founder and president of the Anywhere Anytime Learning Foundation. In 1987, Bruce and a partner established an educational technology company, Computelec. The company was fundamental to the establishment and growth of laptop programs in more than 80 schools across 3 states in Australia, before he sold it in the mid-nineties to focus on consulting. Since 1995 he has worked extensively in North America, and was in part responsible for developing the 1:1 program there, through the Anytime Anywhere Learning initiative. He consults to schools, School Districts, Education Departments, Ministries of Education as well as technology companies such as Microsoft, HP-Compaq, Apple, Bertelsmann and Toshiba on 1:1 teaching and technology in education.
Richard Olsen is the Assistant Director of ideasLAB, an education research and development incubator in Melbourne, Australia. In his role at the lab, Richard identifies new technologies and their transformative possibilities for schools and for learning. Prior to joining the lab, Richard was a teacher and ICT Coordinator at Concord School and Mill Park Heights Primary School. . He is the creator of Pulse, a learning analytics and assessment tool used to understand how learning is occurring in online learning communities.
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