Talk:ICT Educational Pioneers





Note from Bob Tinker, 25 December 2007
Great list!!!! How about:

Dick Roupe. The moving force behind the Bank Street Writer and the Voyage of the Mimi, while he was president of Bank Street College. Also served as a member of the board of TERC and directed an early network science project.

Jan Hawkins, head of the computer group "Center for Children and Technology" at Bank Street that split off and later joined EDC.

Paul Horwitz. Created ThinkerToys and BioLogica at BBN and then CC.

Donald Bitzer, creator of PLATO.

Marcia Linn. Her long-running research on the Computer as a Lab Partner drew international attention to the value of probes and sensors in science education. She now serves as PI for a TLC Center and head of ICLS.

Wayne Grant. Created three films that helped people visualize coming technologies, including the Wireless Coyote. Has been at the interface between non-profits and corporations, including Apple, SRI, and now Pasco.

John Bransford, for the Jasper project, anchored instruction, and related research.

David Vernier. Former middle school science teacher who started making probeware part time and now heads the only company completely focused on educational uses of probes.