A committee of nationally renowned experts in the field provides advice to the KSN project staff.

Margaret Honey, Director of EDC's Center for Children and Technology (CCT), has worked in the field of educational technology since 1981. Her primary research interests include the role of technology in school reform, the use of telecommunications technology to support online learning communities, and gender and technology, including issues of equity and access. Dr. Honey's studies include the first national survey to look at K-12 educators' use of telecommunications, one of the first development projects to cultivate the Internet as an environment in which to conduct teacher professional development ( http://www.edc.org/CCT/mlf/MLF.html), and the nationally recognized Union City Online project, investigating the educational potential of networked, technologies when coupled with district-wide systemic reform (http://www.union-city.k12.nj.us). Currently, she is directing Project Hiller, a longitudinal study funded by the National Science Foundation on the impact of ubiquitous technologies in a school district that has overcome many of the initial challenges of urban school reform and technology integration.

Gerald Wheeler, Executive Director of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), heads the world's largest professional organization representing science educators of all grade levels, kindergarten through college. Prior to coming to NSTA, Dr. Wheeler headed the Public Understanding of Science and Technology Division at AAAS and before that was Director of the Science/Math Resource Center and Professor of Physics at Montana State University. Dr. Wheeler was involved in the development of 3-2-1 Contact and served on the advisory boards for the Voyage of the Mimi and the PBS children's series CRO. He also co-directed the National Teachers Enhancement Network, a NSF-funded distance learning project offering science and math courses nationwide. Dr. Wheeler holds a B.S. in science education from Boston University and a Ph.D. in experimental nuclear physics from Stony Brook. Between degrees he taught high school physics, chemistry, and physical science. Dr. Wheeler is the recipient of numerous awards for his teaching and mass media work. He is a fellow of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and AAAS. Dr. Wheeler's publications include numerous books, research and education articles.

Karen Worth has been a member of the Wheelock College faculty for over 25 years, where she teaches early childhood and elementary education at the graduate level, directs grant programs in science education, and works as advisor and technical assistant with the Boston Public Schools. She served as chair of the working group on teaching standards for the National Science Education Standards. She also is a senior scientist at Education Development Center, Inc., in Newton, Massachusetts, where she was principal investigator for the development of the NSF-supported Insights Elementary Science Curriculum and currently serves as co-director of the NSF Center for Urban Science Education Reform, which provides technical assistance and resources to 22 urban school districts. Karen is Co-PI for the K-12 Science Curriculum Dissemination Center at EDC and works as a consultant and advisor to many urban systemic reform efforts and science education programs nationwide.

The Franklin Institute gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the National Science Foundation and Unisys Corporation.