Workshop: Education

The goal of this workshop is to identify potential impact of increased broadband access on education outcomes and how broadband policies can help improve those outcomes. The FCC hopes to learn about ways in which broadband can impact education at the early childhood, elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels in a cost-effective manner. The workshop will look at current programs, such as e-rate and evaluate how such programs can be improved, for example, to take advantage of new technologies that have arisen since it was established. The workshop will also look at what applications and devices might be used to improve educational performance.

Topics

• Broadband and educational outcomes
• Opportunities and benefits of broadband in education
• Future use of broadband in education
• The future of the e-rate
• Most promising broadband related applications and devices for education
• Digital literacy

• Queue video introduction (CoSN Student video).

• (10 minutes from each panelist followed by 15 minutes for questions from the FCC moderating panel and public)

• Jim Shelton will provide thoughts on how to create, sustain and support educational innovation across government and in the private sector. 

• Joel Smith will discuss important research work at Carnegie Mellon examining the effectiveness of digital learning resources. 

• Kumar Garg will share the latest strategy and policy thinking on educational innovation at OSTP.

• FCC Panel:
  • Carlos Kirjner, Senior Advisor to the Chairman 
  • Kristen Kane, Director National Purposes
  • Steve Midgley, Director Education

• Susan Zelman, Vice President, Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • Susan Zelman will consider how broadband can enhance the ability of public service media and educational institutions to work together to reform America’s educational system.
• Todd Hitchcock, Vice President, Pearson Learning
  • Todd Hitchcock will consider the role that the Publishing Industry can play in the rapidly emerging digital landscape and the future of online learning, enabled by ubiquitous broadband. 
• David Johnson, Senior Resident Fellow, Center for Democracy and Technology
  • David Johnson will consider his work on State of Play Academy, a broadband approach to instruction that makes it possible to attend a class from anywhere. 

• FCC Panel:
  • Carlos Kirjner, Senior Advisor to the Chairman 
  • Kristen Kane, Director National Purposes
  • Steve Midgley, Director Education

• Sheryl Abshire, Chief Technology Officer of the Calcasieu Parish School System, Lake Charles, Louisiana
• Tom Greaves, Chairman, The Greaves Group
• Carrie Lowe, Director, Program on Networks for the Office of Information Technology Policy, American Library Association
• Chris Lehmann, Principal, Science Leadership Academy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

• FCC Panel:
  • Regina Brown, Wireline Competition Bureau
  • James Bachtell, Wireline Competition Bureau
  • Cara Voth, Wireline Competition Bureau 

• Continuous Improvement in Learning: Data from the Open Learning Initiative
  • Joel Smith, Vice-Provost & CIO
• Public Service Media: An Essential Partner in Student Success
  • Susan Tave Zelman, Senior Vice President, Education & Children’s Content
• Todd A. Hitchcock, Vice President, Pearson Learning Solutions
• State of Play Academy
  • David Johnson, Senior Resident Fellow, Center for Democracy and Technology
• Broadband and Schools: The Key to Better Schools AND a Better Economy
  • Tom Greaves, Chairman, The Greaves Group
• Our Biggest Problem: A Lack of Vision
  • Chris Lehmann, Principal, Science Leadership Academy
• Workshop Transcript
• Panelist Videos
  • CoSN Student Video
  • Common Sense Media 
  • Bruce Umpstead Message 
  • Curriki - Presentation from FCC Workshop: Education 
  • Increased Broadband Access for Education