Overview

Find out how a disruptive innovation — online learning — is leading the charge toward change in our schools. Symposium keynoters Michael B. Horn (co-author of Disrupting Class: How Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns) and Warren Buckleitner, Ph.D. (co-founder and editor of the Children’s Technology Review), will set the stage by looking at how online learning will impact the future face of education.

Keynote Speakers

Michael B. Horn, MBA

Michael B. Horn is the co-founder and Executive Director of Innosight Institute, a nonprofit think tank devoted to applying the theories of disruptive innovation to problems in the social sector. He is the coauthor of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (McGraw-Hill: June 2008) with Harvard Business School Professor and bestselling author Clayton M. Christensen and Curtis W. Johnson, president of the Citistates Group.

Prior to this, Horn worked at America Online during its aol.com re-launch, and before that he served as David Gergen’s research assistant, where he tracked and wrote about politics and public policy. Horn has written articles for numerous publications, including Education Week, Forbes, the Boston Globe, and U.S. News & World Report. In addition, he has contributed research for Charles Ellis’ book, Joe Wilson and the Creation of Xerox (Wiley, 2006) and Barbara Kellerman’s Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters (Harvard Business School Press, 2004).

Horn earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB from Yale University, where he graduated with distinction in History.

Warren Buckleitner, Ph. D.

Warren Buckleitner established Children's Technology Review following 10 years of reviewing early childhood software for the High/Scope Foundation. In 1995, he was awarded the SIIA's Codie Award for "Best Software Reviewer." From 1997-2003 he coordinated the Bologna New Media Prize, the first global award program for children's interactive media. He is an advisor to Consumer Reports WebWatch and teaches at NYU and Rutgers University's Graduate School of Education. He is also a regular contributor to the New York Times Circuits page, and writes for Parents, PARADE and Scholastic Parent & Child.

Also a former classroom teacher (preschool, fourth and sixth grades) and teacher trainer (High/Scope Educational Research Foundation), Dr. Buckleitner holds a BS in Elementary Education (cum laude) from Central Michigan University, an MS in human development (Pacific Oaks College) and a Ph.D. in educational psychology from Michigan State University. His dissertation examined the interaction styles of software interfaces. He is the founder of the Dust or Magic Institute on Children's Interactive Media and the Mediatech Foundation, a community technology center located in Flemington, NJ. He likes to try to IM with his two teenage daughters.