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Jim Klein

Jim Klein is the Director of Information Services and Technology for the Saugus Union School District, a position he has held for nearly 14 years. Through over two decades of IT experience, Mr. Jim Klein has become widely renowned as an aggressive technology leader, particularly in the areas of open source and social media. Not only does he vigorously pursue technologies that he believes will make a significant difference in the lives of students, teachers, and staff, but he also actively challenges his peers to do the same through dozens conference presentations and sharing of information, tools, and best-practices. Mr. Jim Klein freely gives the fruit of his labor to others, and selflessly offers assistance that drives similar success in their schools and districts. He has written a number of articles for industry magazines, advocates for education technology personally within his state and on capital hill, and serves on a number of national and international committees and panels. Mr. Jim Klein has been recognized as a T.H.E. Journal Innovator, NetworkWorld All Star, and a National School Boards Association “20 to watch” educator.

Jim Klein has spoken on a variety of topics at various locations across the United States, including at such prestigious educational institutions as Harvard University and schools of education in the University of California system. He has also been featured at CoSN’s Annual School Networking Conference, the ISTE National Education Computing Conference (NECC,) the National School Boards Association (NSBA) T+L conference, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) Ed Tech Industry Summit, the Community College Foundation’s TechEd Conference, Iowa and Minnesota State Education Technology Directors Summits, the Georgia Education Technology Conference (GaETC,) the California Education Technology Professionals Associaion (CETPA) Annual Conference, the New York State Association for Computers and Technology in Education (NYSCATE) Leadership Summit, the Red Hat Summit, and a variety of other meetings, webcasts, and events.

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Social Media in Education: Creating a 21st Century Collaborative Environment

With over 120,000 new blogs and 375,000 new people joining social networks each day, social media technologies are being woven into the very fabric of our society. Not only are they changing informational, social, and political landscapes, they are having a profound impact on our daily lives. Students and teachers have access to a rich set of online tools for media creation, communication, and collaboration on a global scale, and yet most of these tools are banned from our schools. Fear, uncertainty, and doubt rule environments where creativity, discovery, and opportunity once reigned. Discover the tranformational power of social media tools in the education space, and learn why they might just be the last, best hope for bringing creativity and innovation back to the 21st century classroom.

Learning 2.0: New Strategies for Classroom Transformation

The potential of technology to transform learning has always been clear, yet the implementation of a technology rich learning environment has been obscured by a fog of complexity and impracticality. However, the latest advancements in hardware are creating new opportunities and, when combined with free tools coupled with social media, become a powerful mix of ingredients for transforming the learning environment. Come and learn how combining netbooks, open technologies, and social media tools can reshape the culture of school and create an effective, reliable, and sustainable 21st century participatory learning environment.

Open Technologies in Education: Creating Effective, Sustainable, Technology-Rich Learning Spaces

Open-source software, open standards, and open content have been described as "the most disruptive technologies of the 21st century." Unfortunately, much of the focus has been on the "costs," as Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) studies stating cases both for and against abound in the media, professional reports, and public presentations. The mentality of "doing the same for less" has sadly overlooked the true benefit of open technologies: innovation in the learning space. The potential of open technologies is not merely cost savings, but a fundamental transformation of the way education technology leaders drive innovation. In this session, attendees will not only learn about open technologies, but also their potential to change a school's approach to teaching and learning.

Life 2.0: A Vision for Education in the 21st Century

The world our students are about to enter is nothing like it was just ten years ago, and all evidence suggests that the pace of change is continuing to accelerate. Yet too often, when we as educators contemplate the role of technology in education, we focus on the "technology" more than the "education" because our vision of the future is blurred by perceptions driven by politics, marketing, and the media. As a consequence, there has been a disturbing trend to focus on tools as a solution to the problems facing education, rather than literacies that will empower our kids to thrive in their 21st century world. Through this session, attendees will explore five key areas that define what Life 2.0 will be about, will discuss their implications for education, will explore literacies that the 21st century student will need to survive in that world, and will discover ideas for utilizing that knowledge as a framework for change in the 21st century learning environment.

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