As part of EdNET's 20th Anniversary celebration we're pleased to launch a new component of the program - EdNET Foresight. As we examine how the industry has evolved over the past 20 years, EdNET Foresight will enrich the dialog at EdNET with the presentation of five commentaries by EdNET attendees on where K-12 schools and the marketplace should or could be in five years and how we can get there. With its presentations distributed across the conference agenda, EdNET Foresight aims to tap the wisdom of the EdNET community in yet another way that adds value to the conference experience.

2008 EdNET Foresight Winners:

• Larry Berger, CEO, Wireless Generation
• Ken Kay, CEO and Co-founder e-Luminate Group and President, Partnership for 21st Century Skills
• Kevin Pawsey, Managing Director, RM Educational Software
• Douglas Stein, Principal, MemeSpark LLC
• William Zaggle, President, Excelsior Software

Call for Commentators

The call for commentators is now closed.

Each of the chosen five commentators will make a 5-minute presentation sharing their vision of the opportunities and critical hurdles to moving education and the K-12 market radically forward.

Proposals will be judged by an independent panel of industry and education experts, on the basis of scope, potential value to schools and our industry, and freedom from promotional content for specific organizations or products.

The goal of the commentaries is to highlight insightful visions of critical trends, innovations, market drivers, tactics and strategies that can significantly advance student achievement, teaching and school administration, and that enrich K-12 industry viability.

Judging

Proposals will be judged by an independent panel of industry and education experts on the basis of scope, potential value to schools and our industry, and freedom from promotional content for specific organizations or products. To see the detailed criteria by which proposals will be judged (and a copy of the evaluation form judges will use for each submission), click here.

Ellen Bialo, President, Interactive Educational Systems Design, Inc. (IESD) Principal, EDRoom

Richard "Dick" Casabonne, President, Casabonne & Assoc.

Kevin Custer, Founding Partner, Arc Capital Development

Anita Givens, Deputy Associate Commissioner for Standards and Alignment, Texas Education Agency

Bernice Stafford, Consultant, Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC)

Dana Truby, Editor, Instructor and Administr@tor, Scholastic Professional Media