| David Thornburg conducts research and provides staff
development in the areas of educational futures, multimedia, communications
and whole mind education throughout the Americas. He also helps clients
to think intelligently about the future and is active in exploring ways
that telecommunications and multimedia will change the face of education,
both at home and in the classroom.
His educational philosophy is based on the idea that students learn
best when they are constructors of their own knowledge. He also believes
that students who are taught in ways that honor their learning styles
and dominant intelligences retain the native engagement with learning
with which they entered school. A central theme of his work is that
we must prepare students for their future, not for our past.
In addition to his work at the state and local level, he is also involved
at the Federal level in helping to shape telecommunications and education
policy for the benefit of all learners. In his capacity as Senior Fellow
of the Congressional Institute for the Future, David is able to share
his perspectives with policy makers throughout the country.
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