Tom Lapping, CEO of JDL Horizons, has been in the education business his entire career. He has been named as one of the top 30 most influential leaders on the use off technology in schools, a list that includes Bill Gates and Michael Dell.
Tom loves to interview top leaders in the industry to understand leading edge thinking and to share it with the education community. He has interviewed key people in schools, education associations and state and federal government. He has a library of hundreds of interviews from people from all over the globe.
In addition to sharing these videos, he has incorporated their thoughts along with practitioners who are implementing new ways of educating and finding new ways to engage students and close the gap on learning outcomes in the US.
Below are two key interviews as well as some example videos created for The Horizon Report, a highly respected annual report on the use of technology in education.
Here are two videos JDL Horizons created for this year’s Horizon Report – K-12 Edition
While augmented reality is much simpler to create and use now than ever before, it is still several years away from widespread adoption in schools, although for informal education, it is already commonplace.