Teaching the History of Innovation: A History Institute for Teachers

A History Institute for Teachers

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Saturday and Sunday, October 18-19, 2008

Hosted by

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Kansas City, Missouri

Sponsored by

The Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Wachman Center

The teaching of U.S. and world history is incomplete if it does not address the history of innovation from economic, scientific/technological, and sociological perspectives. We feel it important for students to be encouraged both to explore the role of innovation in U.S. and world history and to develop their own sense of innovation and creativity.

Webcast

The History Institute will be broadcast over the web. To view the webcast, you must register using the link below. You will receive an e-mail containing the appropriate link on the day of the event.

Topics and Speakers:

Opening Keynote: Ideas: A History of Thought from Fire to Freud
Peter Watson, Oxford University
The Technological Revolution
Maury Klein, University of Rhode Island
From Stone to Silicon: A Brief Survey of Technology and Inventions
Lawrence Husick, Senior Fellow, FPRI
The Relationship Between Social and Technological Change in American and Western History
Alex Wright, author of Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages
Teaching Innovation
Lawrence Husick, FPRI
Paul Dickler, FPRI’s Wachman Center
Joy Hakim
Evening Keynote: The Evolution of Information Technology and How It Shapes the Future
Ray Kurzweil, Author of The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Viking Adult, 2005)
Innovation and Invention: The Computer as a Case History
Rocco Martino, Chairman & CEO, CyberFone, and Senior Fellow, FPRI
Dennis Shasha, Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
War and Technology
Alex Roland, Professor of History, Duke University
How the West Grew Rich
Nathan Rosenberg, Fairleigh S. Dickinson, Jr., Professor of Public Policy, Stanford University

Sponsors

Core funding for these programs has been contributed by The Annenberg Foundation. For specific weekends, additional funding has been contributed by FPRI Trustees W. W. Keen Butcher, Bruce H. Hooper, and John M. Templeton, Jr., and by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Support for our programming on Teaching the History of Innovation is provided by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.