An article in the Sunday, August 9th New York Times by Tamar Lewin takes a detailed look at the move to digital textbooks that is gaining traction around the country.
The story quotes Marina Leight from e.Republic's Center for Digital Education and Converge magazine and gives a good overview of developments in the still nascent but probably inevitable move away for traditional text books. This trend got a big shove earlier this summer when Governor Schwarzenegger announced a California initiative to move to digital math and science resources for students.
Not mentioned in the NYT article and worth a look: Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems has been an outspoken champion of free open source educational resources for many years. More recently, Aneesh Chopra, currently U.S. Chief Technology Officer, was working towards a physics digital flexbook in in his previous job as Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Chopra outlined his views on Virginia's digital flexbooks in the video below, filmed in the fall of 2008.
Showing posts with label 21st Century Government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 21st Century Government. Show all posts
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
21st Century Government For Real?
e.Republic is a media and research firm focused exclusively on the public sector - primarily state/local government and education. Central to our mission is the idea that a dramatically new era requires new kinds of government and educational systems. We’ve stated this in many ways over the 20 + years we’ve been at this but they boil down to the belief that you can’t successfully run 21st century schools, cities, counties and states on 20th century “operating systems”.
Clearly public organizations are frustratingly slow to evolve. Much of the current economic crisis has its roots in governments overwhelmed by a world made smaller, faster and complexly interdependent by new technologies.
This week President Barack Obama was inaugurated as our 44th President. I watched the inauguration ceremony, streamed live over the web, with tremendous pride and hope as a citizen of both America and the world.
Politics aside, there is strong promise in the new administration in Washington. President Obama is a one of a new generation of leaders who get it - for real – it’s in their DNA. They know we won’t succeed in this new century with a 20th century government.
As President Obama said in his inauguration Tuesday: “The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works.” Also speaking about the scope and ambition required to meet the challenges ahead he remarked: “What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them…the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply.”
No doubt the obstacles and inertia to transforming our public institutions are nearly insurmountable, but a new spirit is loose in the land and here at e.Republic a recommitment to our goal of being at the forefront of informing 21st century government.
Clearly public organizations are frustratingly slow to evolve. Much of the current economic crisis has its roots in governments overwhelmed by a world made smaller, faster and complexly interdependent by new technologies.
This week President Barack Obama was inaugurated as our 44th President. I watched the inauguration ceremony, streamed live over the web, with tremendous pride and hope as a citizen of both America and the world.
Politics aside, there is strong promise in the new administration in Washington. President Obama is a one of a new generation of leaders who get it - for real – it’s in their DNA. They know we won’t succeed in this new century with a 20th century government.
As President Obama said in his inauguration Tuesday: “The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works.” Also speaking about the scope and ambition required to meet the challenges ahead he remarked: “What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them…the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply.”
No doubt the obstacles and inertia to transforming our public institutions are nearly insurmountable, but a new spirit is loose in the land and here at e.Republic a recommitment to our goal of being at the forefront of informing 21st century government.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
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Dennis McKenna co-founded and directs the leading media company focused on information technology in the public sector, most specifically serving the state and local government and education markets.
Launched award-winning trade magazines in this field, including, Government Technology, Public CIO, Emergency Management and Converge. In 2007 e.Republic's Public CIO was named “Magazine of the Year” by the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). In 2008, e.Republic titles won seven additional editorial and design awards with Government Technology named as “Best Overall Publication/Trade” by the Western Publications Association (Maggie Awards).
In 2007 e.Republic premiered Government Technology TV(GTtv), an online video news and information channel as part of govtech.com. In 2008 BtoB Media Business magazine awarded GTtv best "Overall use of Video, Small BtoB".
Designed and developed the Government Technology Conferences and Executive Event series, the largest intergovernmental events for public sector IT leaders, held each year in more than thirty jurisdictions around the US.
In 2008 launched the Conference on California’s Future.
Developed and oversees management of the Center for Digital Government - the first of its kind research and business intelligence consultancy focused exclusively on state and local government.
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