{"id":319,"date":"2010-01-25T17:37:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=319"},"modified":"2010-01-25T17:38:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T22:38:32","slug":"after-10-years-federal-money-for-technology-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/01\/25\/after-10-years-federal-money-for-technology-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"After 10 Years, Federal Money for Technology in Education &#8212; from the New York Times by Elizabeth Jensen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Fed money could be on the way!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/25\/technology\/25center.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>After 10 Years, Federal Money for Technology in Education<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from the New York Times by Elizabeth Jensen<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">More than a decade ago, Lawrence K. Grossman, former president of both NBC News and <a title=\"More articles about Public Broadcasting Service\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/p\/public_broadcasting_service\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">PBS<\/a>, and Newton N. Minow, the former chairman of the <a title=\"More articles about the Federal Communications Commission.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/f\/federal_communications_commission\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Federal Communications Commission<\/a>, were asked by several foundations to explore how nonprofits like schools, libraries and museums could tap into emerging digital technologies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Their <a title=\"The publication in which the two men laid out their plan.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tcf.org\/list.asp?type=PB&amp;pubid=79\">bold recommendation<\/a> in 2001 was to set up a multibillion dollar trust that would act as a \u201c<a title=\"More articles about Venture Capital.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/topics\/reference\/timestopics\/subjects\/v\/venture_capital\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">venture capital<\/a> fund\u201d to research learning technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">After a tortuous journey \u2014 \u201cIt\u2019s been one \u2018starting all over again\u2019 after another after another after another,\u201d Mr. Minow said \u2014 their organization, what is now being called the <strong>National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies<\/strong>, finally has Congressional appropriation through the Education Department and will be introduced Monday. <strong>It could be handing out grants by fall.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 10 Years, Federal Money for Technology in Education &#8212; from the New York Times by Elizabeth Jensen More than a decade ago, Lawrence K. Grossman, former president of both NBC News and PBS, and Newton N. Minow, the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, were asked by several foundations to explore how nonprofits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,32,3,46],"tags":[91,92],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-side-of-he","category-education-technology","category-higher-education","category-k-12-related","tag-grants","tag-venture-capital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}