Keith Krueger
CEO of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) 

Spotlight Session

Web 2.0 in Our Schools: Protect? Preserve? Progress?

Web 2.0 has brought an extensive - and ever growing - collection of applications that are widely used by children and adults. Are they a threat to schools, apps that just need to be integrated into the existing school program, or a basis for school transformation? This session will be based on the CoSN/MacArthur Foundation sponsored project dealing with Web 2.0 and will focus on the challenge and opportunities that Web 2.O presents to school leaders. It will also give a “sneak preview” of a forthcoming CoSN toolkit called “Leading with Web 2.0The goal of this toolkit is to help school administrators to be effective technology leaders and advocates for using Web 2.0 applications in their districts.

Keith R. Krueger (CAE) is CEO of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a national nonprofit organization that serves as the voice of K-12 technology leaders, especially school district CTO’s, who use technology strategically to improve teaching and learning. He has extensive background in nonprofit/association management and is particularly interested in using information technologies for education, health and libraries. He received a Masters of Arts in Public Affairs from the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota.

He serves on the Advisory Boards for eSchool News, and Scholastic Administr@tor Magazine, GetNetWise and Generation Y. He is a past Board Member for the Organizations Concerned about Rural Education (OCRE) and served for many years as Board Member and Treasurer of the National Committee on Technology in Education & Training (NCTET). He has been honored as an eSchool News IMPACT 30 key national leader in educational technology.

Mr. Krueger has a global reputation as a key thought leader. He has represented the National Science Foundation on a joint EU/US committee planning a joint research agenda for eLearning, and served as a delegate to various United Nations and G8 international ICT in education meetings. He has organized senior level U.S. delegations to visit Australia, Asia and Europe to examine best practices in educational technology.