Sara Armstrong, PhD - Past President

Dr. Sara Armstrong has been an educator for nearly 30 years, 17 of which were spent in the classroom. She participated in her first telecommunications project in 1980. Through that experience, Dr. Armstrong was impressed with two major ideas: the fact that her students could be in meaningful communication with students they would never have had the chance to meet in person, and that this kind of interchange could alter how students learn and participate in classroom work.

Dr. Armstrong's doctoral work in the philosophy of education allowed her time to explore current ideas of educational practice and technology integration into curricula. Her dissertation, "Metaphors of Learning and Teaching," has provided the basis of one area of her consulting work. She has been a speaker at numerous conferences
Dr. Armstrong is the author of a number of publications, including Telecommunications in the Classroom (ISTE, 1995), Internet for Kids (contributing author, Sybex, 1995), A Pocket Tour of Kidstuff on the Internet (Sybex, 1996), The Internet for Your Kids (co-author, Sybex, 1996), NetSavvy: Information Literacy in the Communications Age (co-author, The NetSavvy Group, 1998), and is the editor of Edutopia: Success Stories for Learning in the Digital Age (The George Lucas Educational Foundation and Jossey-Bass, 2002).

Dr. Armstrong completed three elected terms on the Board of Directors of CUE (Computer-Using Educators), where she served as President for two years. She also serves on the Bay Area Storytelling Festival Committee, the Boards of Directors of the National Storytelling Network, Global SchoolNet Foundation, and the Center for Accessible Technology, as well as the CTAP Region 4 Advisory Council, and the IRA Technology, Communications, and Literacy Committee. She is a member of a number of professional organizations, including ISTE, ASCD, Phi Delta Kappa, NCTE, CATE, IRA, CRA, and NSDC.