Ken Komoski
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Ken Komoski
Quoting from: http://www.linct.org/_mgxroot/page_10751.html:
- Ken Komoski, a former teacher, UNESCO consultant, and founder of EPIE Institute, started the LINCT Coalition in 1994.
- LINCT, aided by major foundations via EPIE, helps low-income families to bridge the learning, earning, and digital divides. See a related Newsday article and test scores from LINCT's successful program for welfare mothers on Long Island--a prototype for other successful activitiesful in Harlen and Watts and elsewhere.
- Ken earlier was an associate professor in the Teachers College, Columbia University, where EPIE was located for more than a decade. A jazz singer-song writer, he has performed and recorded with well-known musicians in New York and on Long Island, where he lives with his wife and his dog Soz, a Leonberger.
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Q. What else do you want to say to today's students, teachers, parents, and other people?
References
This includes references to sources of information about the Pioneer as well as references to some of the published works or and other activities of the Pioneer.
Komoski, Ken (July 13, 2005). No Child (Consumer) Left Behind. Education Week. Retrieved 8/14/08: http://www.linct.org/_mgxroot/page_10756.html.
Komoski, Kenneth and Priest, W. Curtis (7/15/2006). Educational Products Information Exchange (EPIE): “Learning Objects” Progress Assessment Program.Retrieved 8/14/08: http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:nRYU76stxhgJ:www.elearningspace.org/INTERNATIONAL%2520AWARD%2520WINNER.doc+EPIE+Ken+Komoski&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=6&gl=us&client=firefox-a. Alternatively, see: http://www.elearningspace.org/INTERNATIONAL%20AWARD%20WINNER.doc. Quoting from the abstract:
- For over three decades, EPIE Institute has worked to assure that learning resources be targeted to learning needs, that they be of high quality, and that they are produced cost-effectively. Over the last decade, a new kind of learning resource has appeared, the learning object. As described in the 2004 Komoski/Priest review, considerable effort is being expended on developing such “objects” without any coherent way for creators and designers to build on each other’s work.
- In this pioneering field, the many parallel efforts, all seeking to build the best learning objects, should be able to benefit from an organized, collaborative approach through which all these independent efforts are organized, interrelated and transformed to a generation of objects that are as useful as possible to learners and teachers. This can be accomplished through inter-object messaging, organization, user feedback, reducing duplication of effort.
Komoski, Ken (April 1984). Guest Editorial. The Computing Teacher. Eugene, OR: ICCE. (Note that the April 1984 issue of TCT was a theme issue on Equity. ) Retrieved 8/14/08: http://www.uoregon.edu/~moursund/dave/LLT-Eds/LLT-editorials.html#Komoski. Retrieved 9/25/2010 from http://i-a-e.org/downloads/doc_download/183-april-1984-komoski.html.
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