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Digital Promise Project: An Education Initiative

Digital Promise is a proposal to establish a major educational trust fund that would help transform education, training, and lifelong learning to meet the needs of the nation's new knowledge-based economy. More to this story.

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Release Date: 10/16/2002
Running Time: 9 min.

Video Credits

Produced, Written, and Directed by

  • Ken Ellis

Associate Producer:

  • Leigh Iacobucci

Editor:

  • Karen Sutherland

Original Music:

  • Ed Bogas

Narrator:

  • Gary Williams

Consultants:

  • Milton Chen, Executive Director
  • The George Lucas Educational Foundation
  • Tom Kalil, Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Science and Technology UC Berkeley

Additional footage courtesy of

  • The Getty Museum
  • iEARN
  • Institute for Creative Technology
  • The JASON Project
  • Journey North
  • Joy2Learn Foundation
  • NCSA
  • Scientific Learning Foundation
  • Silicon Graphics Inc.
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • UCLA Urban Simulations Team
  • Bill Jepson, Director
  • UCSD School of Medicine
  • Helene Hoffman, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
  • U.S. Army/TACOM

Special Thanks to:

  • Virtual High School
  • Patrick Campbell
  • © 2002
  • The George Lucas Educational Foundation
  • All rights reserved.

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DCV
Posted on 3/03/2008 7:22pm

Digital Promise project

Today it is amazing what children can learn in the classroom. I have been working with children before they are school age and it will be incredible what they will be able to learn in their years to come ahead.

How different things are today for our children than they were when we were younger. Hooray for technology!

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