Ed-Tech Event Hosts Obama Officials
At a reception honoring the winners of Virginia's Innovative App Contest on Saturday, Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and Jim Shelton, head of the Education Department's Office of Innovation and Improvement, shared the stage to give remarks and field questions from the audience. Technology's role in the classroom is less about hardware and software and more about the marriage of ideas and relevance, Chopra said. The tech guru was careful not to endorse a particular product in a room full of educational technology vendors. The State Educational Technology Directors Association hosted the event as part of a five-day forum on emerging technologies.
The forum overlaps with the National Educational Computing Conference, which began Friday with opening remarks from popular author Malcolm Gladwell. The event ends Wednesday afternoon. When asked what tops his ambitious agenda on leveraging technology to improve education, Chopra stated that data and analytics are the key. "We know more about retailing than we know about the educational experience," he said. Shelton agreed, adding that improvements to the infrastructure of education must be made to enhance decision making. Shelton also emphasized the importance of boosting access in education through broadband. -- Eliza Krigman
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