Expert
Biography
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Ted
M. Kahn, Ph.D.
Interactive
Learning Technologies
Expertise:
learning, knowledge management, digital media, interactive
learning technologies, school reform
Industries:
government, non-profit institutions (public school,
universities and other higher education, museums), high
tech
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Dr. Ted M. Kahn has been actively involved in advanced R&D,
marketing and support of innovative projects involving the
use of digital media and interactive learning technologies
for over 30 years.
Most
recently he has focused on creating collaborative online learning
communities that integrate digital media and the Web. Dr.
Kahn is known internationally as a pioneer and innovator in
technology and learning projects for grade schools, higher
education, workplaces, government agencies and museums.
Ted
is Senior Scientist and National Director of Online Learning
& Knowledge Management at the Galef
Institute, a non-profit educational organization dedicated
to comprehensive school reform, based on its innovative Different
Ways of Knowing curriculum, teacher professional development
and school leadership methodologies.
Dr.
Kahn has worked for numerous Silicon Valley high tech companies,
including: Atari Inc. (where he was founding Executive Director
of the Atari Institute for Educational Action Research), Picodyne
Corp. and Digital F/X. Prior that he conducted advanced research
and curriculum development at the Lawrence Hall of Science,
where he co-founded:
- Xerox
PARC
- Center
for Educational Technology (Israel)
- The
Institute for Research on Learning, where he was a Senior
Research Scientist and Learning Technologies Strategist
Kahn
has co-developed several award-winning educational multimedia
products, co-authored three books on recreational learning
with computers, published numerous articles and technical
reports, and has been invited to give keynote addresses or
presentations at over 40 conferences. He is the first lifetime
NMC Fellow of the New
Media Consortium, the NMC's highest individual honor,
and he was formerly a GLEF Fellow of The George Lucas Educational
Foundation and a Senior Fellow at UCLA Graduate School of
Education and Information Studies.
He
has also been an invited participant or chair of workshops
on education and technology at the National Academy of Sciences,
the Transforming Learning Panel of the President's Information
Technology Advisory Committee, and the former Office of Technology
Assessment of the U.S. Congress. Dr. Kahn was also a founding
board member of the award-winning Children's Discovery Museum
of San Jose, and the founding director of the Bay Area Science
Education Collaboratory.
He
holds a B.A. in computer science (with distinction), and an
M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology, all from the University of California,
Berkeley.
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