As part of the 30th anniversary celebrations of Tech&Learning Magazine, they are creating a compendium of important people in the creation and advancement of the use of technology in education.
The first set of honorees will be the pioneers— the founding fathers and mothers whose inventions, declarations, and theories set the table for where we are today.
And guess who is on the list of nominations - Generation YES founder Dr. Dennis Harper. For those of you who don’t know, Dr. Harper definitely belongs on this list.
Dennis wrote the first textbook for educators about computing and taught the first graduate level educational technology class in the world back in the 1980’s. He also he brought the first computers into K-12 schools in over 30 countries across Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. He was one of the four founders of California Computer Using Educators (CUE) and ran the first computer camp for kids with David Thornburg (also on this list.) And all along the way, he has been a tireless advocate for student empowerment as the only path to true technology integration in schools.
Tech&Learning has created an online poll to vote for ten of of these leaders. There are some other names on the list that will surely catch your attention, for example, Seymour Papert, the undisputed father of educational technology.
You have 10 votes - it would be great if you used one of them to acknowledge Dennis Harper and his legacy of student empowerment and student ownership of their own learning through modern technology.
Sylvia
