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Vice President and Center Director |
Glenn Kleiman is Vice President and Senior Research Scientist at EDC and is on the faculty of the Technology in Education Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A cognitive psychologist who completed his doctorate at Stanford University, he has been involved in technology in education since the "days of 8K PET computers", as a software developer, author, instructor, workshop leader, and consultant.
His writings about technology in education span from an early book in the field, Brave New Schools: How Computers can Change Education (Prentice Hall, 1984) to a recent article in the Harvard Education Letter, Myths and Realities about Technology in K-12 Schools. He has also taught at the University of Illinois, where he was a senior researcher at the National Center for the Study of Reading, and at the University of Toronto and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
At EDC, he has directed several large scale projects funded by the National Science Foundation, the most recent of which produced the MathScape: Seeing and Thinking Mathematically middle school curriculum and the Graph Action software published by Tom Snyder Productions. He now directs COPE and the Leadership and the New Technologies and EdTech Leaders™ Online projects.
He is the father of two children, six-year-old Jeremy and four-year-old Rachel, who are both expert computer users.