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
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
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

The conference begins 11 am CT on Saturday, October 18 and concludes at 1 pm CT on Sunday, October 19, 2008.

What Participants Receive

Social studies and history teachers, curriculum supervisors, and junior college faculty are invited to apply for participation in the History Institute. Forty participants will be selected to receive:

To Apply

Please email to lux@fpri.org a resume and a short statement describing your current teaching or professional assignments, your reasons for wanting to attend, and how your students or school district will benefit from your participation. NOTE: At the time of application, you are asked to make a commitment either to prepare a curriculum unit based on the weekend or to do in-service activities based on the weekend.

Schools with a school membership in FPRI’s Wachman Center are guaranteed one place at one History Institute weekend per year. For information about school membership, contact lux@fpri.org.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: August 1, 2008

If you cannot participate in person, note that portions of the History Institute will also be webcast and will be viewable online at no cost. Video will be posted subsequently on our website. For information about registering for the webcast, please contact lux@fpri.org.

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.