PageLines- Tom_Lapping.jpgTom 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.

 

Education Leaders Re-Imagine Education as they attend the District Administration Leadership Institute
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Key leaders discuss the importance of transforming education at the 2012 ALAS Conference
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SIIA participants discuss the importance of transforming education
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Here are two videos JDL Horizons created for this year’s Horizon Report – K-12 EditionNMC logo2

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We are excited to introduce, in this year’s CoSN Horizon Report: 2012 K-12 Edition Toolkit, a video series that showcases educators, students, and top strategists and trendsetters in the education field who are enhancing education outcomes through the use of the emerging technologies highlighted in the Report. This introduction video provides a quick overview of what you’ll see.

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Augmented reality can add to the user experience, with most of the current tools doing this in ways that the user can control and manipulate in real-time.
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.