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Washington State Superintendent Reveals Plan to Boost School Technology Funding
A Computer for Every Student?
| Source: Strategic News Service
FRIDAY HARBOR, WA--(Marketwire - October 26, 2009) - Washington State Superintendent Randy
Dorn revealed a plan to designate funding to technology implementation in
K-12 classrooms from the stage of the FiReGlobal : West Coast technology
conference last week. Responding to a suggestion by David Engle, SNS
Project Inkwell Director of Operations, that the state designate $500 per
student for the implementation of 1:1 computing, Dorn revealed that such a
movement is already under discussion in the state-level Quality Education
Council. Dorn stressed the necessity of technology in improving Washington
State assessment utility and effectivity.
"We're actually meeting," Dorn told Engle and the audience. "We have a
state-level [council] called the Quality Education Council and we're
looking at the funding of education and technology in basic education and
doing just like you said. This piece of that funding has to go to
technology, and the state [is] stepping up to that mark."
FiReGlobal : West Coast 2009, held October 15th at the Seattle Four Seasons
Hotel, was the first ever gathering of world-class thought leaders in
technology and economics designed to produce fresh and innovative solutions
to large-scale regional problems. Problem areas were selected by a steering
committee of 50 community leaders. Solutions were achieved beforehand by
CTO work groups and produced on-the-fly by presenters on-stage. FiReGlobal
was the first regional event for producer Strategic News Service (SNS),
whose yearly Future in Review (FiRe) conference has been labeled "the best
technology conference in the world" by The Economist.
"We welcome Superintendent Dorn's shared vision of one to one computing in
K-12 classrooms. We look for his continued leadership on this issue,
knowing this may be the only affordable path for achieving radical
improvements in K-12 outcomes. Our kids need this exact change in moving
to the 21st century competitive environment," said SNS CEO Mark Anderson.
Anderson opened the conference by encouraging participants to "not just
talk, but to take action." Other speakers included Michael Dell, chair and
CEO, Dell Inc.; Irwin Jacobs, co-founder, Qualcomm; Rob Glaser, founder,
chair, and CEO, RealNetworks; Lee Hartwell, Nobel Laureate and president
and director, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Steve Reynolds,
president and CEO, Puget Energy and Puget Sound Energy; Rogers Weed,
director, Washington State Department of Commerce; Larry Smarr, director,
California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology,
UCSD; Denis Hayes, president and CEO, Bullitt Foundation; and Roger Payne,
founder and president, Ocean Alliance.
To register for FiReGlobal : West Coast 2010, go to
www.futureinreview.com/global/wc.
Strategic News Service was founded by Mark Anderson in 1995 as the first
paid online news service. Since its inception, SNS has proven the most
accurate predictive newsletter covering the computer and telecom
industries. Its subscribers include top managers at technology companies
across the globe, including Microsoft, Dell, HP, Cisco, Intel, Sun, Google,
and Telstra.
SNS has been operating the annual FiRe Conference for seven years. The
Economist calls FiRe "the best technology conference in the world." FiRe
exposes world experts and participants to new ideas, producing an accurate
portrait of the future and focuses on creating technology solutions to
current local and global problems. FiRe 2010 will take place May 11-14,
2010 at Terranea Resort in Palos Verdes, CA. For more information to go
www.futureinreview.com.
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