[net-gold] After Ten Years, Federal Money for Technology in Education
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Subject: [Net-Gold] After Ten Years, Federal Money for Technology in Education
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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.
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