Discovery Education & Digital Promise Conference (Digital Learning Future@Now Classrooms)

Discovery Education and Digital Promise Launch Future@Now: Transition to Digital Classrooms Event

by William Broman on March 27, 2013

Discovery Education and Digital Promise Launch Future@Now: Transition to Digital Classrooms Event

-- Congressman George Miller (D-CA), leading educational strategists, school district leaders and students from across the country come together to discuss the state of digital learning --  

Discovery Education and Digital Promise, in conjunction with Connect2Compete, ERDI, ISTE, NCERT and other leading national and state-level education organizations, are launching the first inauguralFuture@Now: Transition to Digital Classrooms conference that will gather both public sector and private industry thought-leaders from across the country to discuss one of the most important issues in education today - the state of digital learning.  Launching a year after the FCC and DOE's Digital Textbook Playbook initiative, the goal of Future@Now – Transition to Digital Classrooms is to raise awareness about the benefits of digital learning and celebrate the successes of districts that have already deployed digital textbooks in meaningful ways in their classrooms.

Discovery Education will also be making a special announcement at the conference that will impact students and educators across the county.

In attendance:

·         Congressman George Miller, U.S. House of Representatives member, Senior Democrat of the House Education and Workforce Committee and author of the “Transforming Education through Technology Act”

·         Dr. Mark Edwards, AASA Superintendent of the Year, Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools member and Superintendent of Mooresville Graded School District

·         Alberto Carvalho, Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent and recipient of the Broad Prize in Urban Education

·         Mary Moss Wirt, 3rd grade student in the Wake County Public School System and digital learner

·         Sara Schapiro, Director of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools

·         Bill Goodwyn, President & CEO, Discovery Education

·         Zach Leverenz, CEO, Connect2Compete

·         Holly Jobe, President, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)

·         Senior policy-makers, educational thought leaders, superintendents, CAOs and CFOs who will offer exclusive insight into digital learning and the strategies for its effective implementation

This event will take place on Thursday April 11 from 9am - 5pm at Discovery Communications' Headquarters located at 1 Discovery Place, Silver Spring, MD.  If you can't attend the event, be sure to follow the livestream here: www.discoveryeducation.com/futurenow