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Join us on November 2, 2018 for the 10th annual Learn21 Conference. As the Ohio CoSN chapter, Learn21 brings together educational technology leaders, technology directors, superintendents, district leaders, and innovative teacher leaders to focus on eductional technology leadership and innovative practices at our annual conference.  This year, we are featuring two nationally-recognized speakers and numerous innovative ed-tech leadership and practice sessions.

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As always, included in registration is a light breakast, lunch, afternoon snacks, and parking.  

 

Special Speakers:

Lenny Schad, Houston ISD CTIO
"Making the Digital Transformation"

 Chief Technology Information Officer Lenny Schad is responsible for the maintenance and improvement of the district’s network security system. He also oversees HISD’s Research and Accountability Department, which manages student performance data. Schad’s duties include overseeing the expenditure of $100 million in classroom technology funds at campuses across the district. The technology money was included in the $1.89 billion bond proposition approved by voters in 2012.

Prior to joining HISD, Schad served as the chief information officer for Katy ISD. He also managed and led technology departments for the 1991 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations and the 1992 Republican National Convention.

Schad has earned a number of professional recognitions for his work in education. In 2008, he was named one of “20 to Watch” educators by the National School Board Association. His first book, Mobile Learning: It’s Not About the Device, was published in 2013

Eric Curts, SPARCC
"The Bionic Educator" 

 

Eric has been in education for 27 years, and currently serves as a Technology Integration Specialist for SPARCC in Canton, Ohio where he oversees Google Apps for Education implementation, training, and support, as well as other technology integration initiatives. Eric is an authorized Google Education Trainer and Innovator, and provides Google Apps training to schools, organizations, and conferences throughout Ohio and across the country. He is a co-leader of the Ohio Google Educator Group at bit.ly/gegohio and runs the award-winning blog www.ControlAltAchieve.com where all of his Google Apps and edtech resources can be found.

Linnette Attai, Playwell LLC
"Student Data Privacy: Fundamentals for the Future"

Linnette Attai has over 25 years of experience guiding clients through the complex compliance obligations governing data privacy matters, online user safety and marketing, with a focus in the education and entertainment sectors. As the founder of PlayWell, LLC, Linnette works with private and public companies, schools and school districts, youth groups, education leadership, lawmakers and policy influencers, children, and parents. Linnette also serves as a virtual Chief Privacy Officer and Data Protection Officer to select clients.

She created an FTC-approved Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) safe harbor program, and the nation’s first student data privacy and security self-regulatory program. She advises a variety of trade organizations and schools on privacy and marketing regulation and industry self-regulation, compliance capacity-building and policy development.

Prior to founding PlayWell, Linnette served as Vice President, Standards & Practices for Nickelodeon, where she developed and managed compliance policies and practices for all lines of business, overseeing company compliance with COPPA, the FCC’s Children’s Television Act, advertising regulation and industry self-regulation. She has also served as a compliance executive with CBS.

Linnette has also advised the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) on compliance issues, helping to write their guidelines on children’s advertising and leading a subcommittee on children’s privacy.

Linnette often presents to developers, marketers, researchers and attorneys about privacy, safety and advertising concerns, including compliant innovation, monetization models and user engagement. She works with schools and youth groups, teaching children, parents and educators how to manage privacy and safety in the digital world, and also serves as the Project Director for the Consortium of School Networking (CoSN) Privacy Initiative and their Trusted Learning Environment program. In addition, Linnette is an adjunct professor of marketing at the Fordham Graduate School of Business, where she teaches a course she designed on marketing to millennials and young consumers, and an adjunct professor of marketing at The New School. A native of New York, Linnette completed her undergraduate degree at Connecticut College and received her MBA in Marketing and Management from the Fordham University Graduate School of Business.

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