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Student Profile: Robert Rector
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The reality is that the world has changed, and, even in the walled-off sanctuary of the classroom, teachers must aggressively compete for the mindshare of their students. We are competing with an awesome, ever expanding, sophisticated and calculated grab for their attentions from music, movies, TV, video games, shopping malls, and the Internet. In order to engage students we need to make the learning process relatively seamless and connected with this hyper-stimulating reality outside the classroom. Lessons and assignments delivered and graded in a perfunctory manner without context and meaning can only result in bored, disaffected students...”
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 Robert Rector credits his deep love of science and an even deeper desire to share it with others as his overriding
motivation to enroll in the DML and the Teaching Credential program. He completed his undergraduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he majored in electrical engineering and computers. Initially, Robert went to work in the private sector designing computers and digital communication equipment. Later he became a consultant working with companies like AT&T to map out their digital communication strategies while training their employees to embrace digital technologies.
After co-founding, managing, and then selling a software company (TIBCO Software Inc.), Robert has now joined the DML program where he is broadening his experience and exploring the powerful role that technology can play in education. He looks forward to applying this knowledge both in the classroom and in the broader educational community to enhance the performance of our schools.
View products from Robert's DML Portfolio:
- Exploring the Solar System
Curriculum Unit, DML Practicum
Students travel through a virtual cosmos and orbital space colony that we will enter in the annual contest held by NASA: High School
- Did They Meet?
Interactive Project in PowerPoint (Exploring Constructivism)
An Investigation of the Geologic Timeline
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