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 **Chris Dede:**

Chris Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. His fields of scholarship include emerging technologies, policy, and leadership. His funded research includes four grants from NSF and the US Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences to explore immersive simulations and transformed social interactions as means of student engagement, learning and assessment. In 2007, he was honored by Harvard University as an outstanding teacher, in 2009 he was awarded The Friday Medal at the //William & Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation// and in 2011 he was named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association.

 Chris has served as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Foundations of Educational and Psychological Assessment and a member of the 2010 National Educational Technology Plan Technical Working Group. He serves on Advisory Boards and Commissions for PBS TeacherLine, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center, and several federal research grants. His co-edited book, __Scaling Up Success: Lessons Learned from Technology-based Educational Improvement__, was published by Jossey-Bass in 2005. A second volume he edited, __Online Professional Development for Teachers: Emerging Models and Methods__, was published by the Harvard Education Press in 2006. His latest book, __Digital Teaching Platforms__, will be published by Teachers College Press in 2012.

Below, Dr. Dede shares his views about 1:1 computing initiatives. media type="custom" key="9996777"

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