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New national research
program focused on technology and learning
President
Bush’s reauthorization of the Higher Education Act on August
14, 2008, included legislation authorizing a major new research
center focusing on technology and learning. Read
press release.
Digital Promise, the initiative that played an important part in
the creation of the new authorization, was established in 1999 by
Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Century, Knight, MacArthur
and Open Society foundations. Read Carnegie Reporter story.
The new research center, the
National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital
Technologies, will bring the same focused, sustained research
funding to technology and learning that the federal government has
provided for years in technology for health care at the National
Institutes of Health and technology for energy at the Department
of Energy.
This center will conduct research essential to maintaining U.S.
economic competitiveness in this digital age. To date, the creativity
that developed extraordinary new information technologies has not
focused on finding ways to make learning more compelling, more personal,
and more productive in our nation’s schools. Innovative information
tools developed for business, entertainment and service industries
have not made their way into the nation’s classrooms.
Researchers have demonstrated that children learn faster if education
can be personalized, and if students are motivated through demonstrations
of how their knowledge can be applied to help them understand and
solve real-world problems they—and their future employers—value.
Information technologies can help deliver on this promise.
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