Pop!Tech 2006: Dangerous Ideas

Working in collaborative alliance with Pop!Tech and Curriki, Sun selected Fellows from around the world that are focused on using technology in innovative ways to improve education. "Sun's Fellows program is crucial to bringing new participants into the Pop!Tech community," said Pop!Tech Curator Andrew Zolli. "The program uniquely demonstrates our shared belief that technology is critical to solve challenges such as the educational divide."

Deneen Frazier Bowen, consultant helping teachers and schools expand students' learning opportunities through harnessing new technologies,

Mark Horner, founder of Free High School Science Textbook (FHSST) to further science education in South Africa

Adam Kenner, director of technology at Horace Mann School in Riverdale, NY and a thought-leader on the future of curriculum and technology integration,

Kerri Richardson, director of academic technology at Brooklyn Friends School in Brooklyn, NY, whose educational work focuses on information and media literacy

Dr. David Wiley, associate professor of Instructional Technology at Utah State University, director of the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning, founder of OpenContent.org, and author of the first open source license for educational, artistic and other non-software materials.

Andrew Rasiej , founder of the Personal Democracy Forum and has served as an advisor to Senators and Congressman and political candidates on the use of information technology for campaign and policy purposes since 1999. He is also founder of MOUSE (Making Opportunities for Upgrading Schools and Education), an educational non-profit organization started in 1997 focused on providing technology support to public schools.

Bobbi Kurshan , head of Curriki, founded by Sun Microsystems in 2004 as the Global Education & Learning Community (GELC). From the beginning, Curriki's mission has been to empower people worldwide using Open Source Curricula, and to eliminate the Education Divide by moving learning into the Participation Age.