. Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:51:50 -0500 From: BBracey@xxxxxxx Reply-To: Net-Gold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: wwwedu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, mlsalumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, sigde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ednet2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Net-Gold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ajones@xxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: johnwtempleton@xxxxxxxxx, rat@xxxxxxxx, dbond@xxxxxxxx, scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [Net-Gold] After Ten Years, Federal Money for Technology in Education . January 25, 2010 After 10 Years, Federal Money for Technology in Education <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/technology/25center.html> By ELIZABETH JENSEN More than a decade ago, Lawrence K. Grossman, former president of both NBC News and PBS, and Newton N. Minow, the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, were asked by several foundations to explore how nonprofits like schools, libraries and museums could tap into emerging digital technologies. Their bold recommendation in 2001 was to set up a multibillion dollar trust that would act as a venture capital fund to research learning technology. After a tortuous journey It's been one starting all over again after another after another after another, Mr. Minow said their organization, what is now being called the National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies, finally has Congressional appropriation through the Education Department and will be introduced Monday. It could be handing out grants by fall. It's time that education had the equivalent of what the National Science Foundation does for science, Darpa does for the national defense and what N.I.H. does for health, Mr. Grossman said in an interview. He and Mr. Minow, senior counsel at the law firm Sidley Austin, will be the co-chairmen of the nonprofit organization, along with Anne G. Murphy, former director of the American Arts Alliance. <snip> To build support for the project, the group created three prototypes: an educational video game for biology students called Immune Attack; a game for museums, called Discovering Babylon; and a computer simulation to train firefighters in high-rise fires. They typify the projects the center will be looking to finance. <snip> The complete articles may be read at the URLs provided for each. Forwarded by Bonnie Bracey Sutton Bonnie Bracey Sutton Outreach GLEF.org http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/bbracey My communities http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/summitforchildren http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/gendergap CyberEd Resources : ICT's and Education (owner) Games and Education (owner) Science without Frontiers STEM Initiatives K-12 (owner) http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/bbracey Portal Work http://edreform.net/ Technology Applications for learning in the portal applications.edreform.net Technology Applications for Learning The Technology Applications for Learning Network is a catalog of technology applications for learning. http://www.digitaldivide.net/community/STEM .