EPUBGENERATION - Key Persons

Mike King is a graduate from the University of Oklahoma in Public School Administration and has been a teacher and principal for thirty-three years. Under his tenure, his schools have been recognized as exemplary by the Oklahoma State Department of Education as a Lighthouse Project School and named a National School of Excellence Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education. This success is inseparable from his commitment to advancing learning with technology and his firm belief that digital tools can help students unleash their creativity and construct knowledge. This belief provides the foundation for the Creating the Classrooms without Walls program, in which students participate in a universal learning experience, utilizing mobile tools to continually access and create multidimensional patterns of explanations of the world around them. Mike has been Nationally recognized in his work Digital Media Literacy. He state that, "These are the new digital tools that pave a new way of generating consumable content that has taken on a new course in learning trends. Mike has been individually recognized as one of the first recipients of the NASSP Digital Principal Award in 2012, named the 2010 KGCT (Kansas Gifted, Talented and Creative) Administrator of the Year, a 2005 finalist for the Oklahoma Medal of Excellence Award in Educational Administration and was a finalist for the 2005 Association of Professional Oklahoma Educators Foundation Award in Educational Administration. In 2012 he was selected as Southwestern Kansas Music Educators Association as Administrator of the Year.