WHEN: May 19 - 21
 
WHERE: The Children’s Museum of Houston

WHAT:  The Association of Children’s Museums (ACM) conference “Innovation is Child’s Play” Interactivity 2011. The conference will take place at the Hyatt Regency in Downtown and some sessions will be held at the Children’s Museum of Houston.
We’re going to have fabulous keynote speakers at the event.  They were really hard to get!  They are:
 
·         Steven Berlin Johnson, Social Critic and Technologist—May 19
·         Milton Chen, Senior Fellow and Executive Director, Emeritus, The George Lucas Educational Foundation—May 20
·         Lisa Henson, CEO of the Jim Henson Company—May 21
 
WHO ARE THESE GUYS?
 
Steven Berlin Johnson Best-selling author; contributing editor for Wired magazine; won Mirror Award for his TIME magazine cover article “How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live”; considered a genius for predicting and explaining the real world impact of cutting-edge innovations.
 
Milton Chen Big cheese at George Lucas’ (yes, Star Wars director) multimedia foundation Edutopia.org, which uses documentaries to communicate a new vision for 21st century schools.  Edutopia.org is known as a destination website for educators; it won the 2009 Webby People’s Voice Award for best education website.
 
Lisa Henson She’s Jim Henson’s daughter (creator of the Muppets!) and CEO of the Jim Henson Company where she oversees all TV and feature film production for many kid TV series.  She was a former president of Columbia Pictures; worked a decade at Warner Bros. and produced films like “Lethal Weapon” and “Batman”.

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