The United States House Education and Labor Committee held a hearing today in Washington DC, “The Future of Learning: How Technology is Transforming Public Schools.” Seven speakers, including Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officer White House Office for Science and Technology and Abel Real, a student at East Carolina University Greenville, North Carolina, testified to the impact that technologies, used well, can have on learning.

The hearing archives are available here and on their YouTube channel.

Below is the testimony of Lisa Short, a science teacher at Gaithersburg Middle School, who demonstrated the power of an interactive whiteboard for learning and teaching:

What might the Future of Jewish Learning look like? Not only school-based learning, but authentic, engaging Jewish learning for all in this digital age…

Our friends over at JESNA’s Lippman Kanfer Institute are coordinating the Jewish Education 3.0 Project (JE3). Project members are in the process of developing and collecting articles, case studies, and resources towards a working paper that focuses on technology and Jewish education. [Full disclosure: jlearn2.0 is involved in this project as well]  Several articles have already been posted, including:

Share your “testimonies” about what Jewish learning and Jewish education can look like – not just for the future, but now! Post them on the JE3 wiki or below in the comments section.