Most Influencial People in Ed Tech
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eSchool News Reveals This Year's
'IMPACT 30'
--the 30 Most Influential People in Education Technology
Washington, DC - Technology doesn't transform education; people
do. But those who have the greatest impact on school technology
have often gone largely unnoticed.
Not anymore.
The February issue of eSchool News , America's only national
newspaper devoted exclusively to school technology, contains the
ultimate roster of education's techno-elite.
Based on polls of its readers and the judgment of its editors,
eSchool News has named the 30 most influential people,
nationwide, in education technology. This list, known as the
"eSchool News' Impact 30” is being made public in the current
issue of the newspaper.
A special report on the “Impact 30” shows those who have had a
powerful effect on technology in the nation’s schools. The list
of movers and shakers is divided into these categories;
Policymakers, Newsmakers and Opinion Shapers, Researchers,
Activists and Community Leaders, and Corporate Leaders.
Vice President, Al Gore, leads off the list as one of the high-
impact players on the policymakers side of education technology.
“Al Gore was an obvious choice for the Impact 30, because he
was the key government official pushing to connect all schools to
the internet. His program ultimately led to the controversial
eRate,” said Gregg W. Downey, publisher of eSchool News. “Gore
really has pushed the administration’s focus on educational
technology and brought in an era which federal funding for school
technology is at an all time high.”
Some others on Impact 30 are less well known nationally:
Bill Janklow, governor of South Dakota; John Bailey, director of
the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s office of Educational
Technology; Todd Oppenheimer, outspoken critic of technology in
education; Linda Roberts, special advisor on educational
technology for the U.S. Department of Education; John Gage,
director of science for Sun Microsystems; Mark Root, manager of
technology services for the Council of the Great City Schools; and
Yvonne Andres, director of Global Schoolhouse.
“In choosing our Impact 30, we looked for people who have
affected education technology—for good or ill,” said Downey. “Our
list includes people who have done great things for education and
some who have set schools back. But most importantly, these are
the people who have had an enormous impact on technology in our
schools.”
The eSchool News' Impact 30 special report describes how each
person has made his or her mark on education technology.
eSchool News, reports on major news and trends related to
school technology and the internet. The national newspaper based
in Bethesda, Md., outside the nation's capital, is read by more
than 120,000 K-12 school administrators every month.
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