Innovation a key theme at NECC 2007 by Dennis Pierce, Managing Editor, eSchool News

Futurist Andrew Zolli challenges educators to help students find their ‘creative center’


The need to produce a generation of students who are creative thinkers and innovators was a key theme at this year’s National Educational Computing Conference (NECC) in Atlanta.
More than 18,500 educators and exhibitors gathered at the Georgia World Congress Center June 24 through 27 for the nation’s premier educational technology conference, hosted by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).
Conference-goers heard from keynote speaker Andrew Zolli, a futurist and author who urged those in attendance to cultivate students’ creativity to maintain America’s position as a global leader in innovation. Later in the conference, Zolli moderated a roundtable discussion on what it takes to unlock the creative potential in all of us.
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Source: eSchool News