Technology and Innovation

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Category: One-day Conferences

November 4, 2008 

 

Twenty-eight educators spent Election Day 2008 at The Korea Society to learn about Korea's history of technological achievements and how to teach it to their students. The conference got underway with a lecture on the 25 most important technological innovations in history titled "From Stone to Silicon: A Brief Survey of Technology and Innovation" by Lawrence Husick, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. After a video presentation on the evolution of printing technology in Korea, Seung-Cheol Lee, curator of Korea's Ch'ongju Early Printing Museum, explained how Buddhist monks in Korea began using moveable metal type technology a full 70 years before Gutenberg began using it in Europe. After a complementary Korean lunch, there was an overview of Korea's information technology industry by David Steel, senior vice president of Samsung Electronics North American Headquarters. These lectures were tied together and connected to the classroom by the final speaker, Paul Dickler, a senior fellow at the Marvin Wachman Center for International Education at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, who gave a presentation titled "Developing Technology-Related Curricula." The conference earned plaudits from the participants. One teacher wrote, "I'm leaving with a much greater knowledge of Korean advancements in the area of technology. The concept of innovation was certainly redefined for me. The discussion about practical applications was extremely helpful and I learned many concepts that I can incorporate into my classroom."

 

 

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