Tony Brandenburg Biography - 2014

Tony is the International Consultant at ISTE, The International Society for Technology in Education.

Tony is an internationally recognized educator who has worked tirelessly for more than 30 years in the area of education and learning with a focus on digital technologies.

He works as a private international consultant specialising in digital technologies and education, with a focus on the implemenation of significant systemic change.

In 2012 he was recognised with the President's Award for Volunterring (United States) for his work with education and digital technologies.

In 2010 he was made a Fellow of the Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE), recognizing his work in the field.

In 2005 he was awarded the ACCE and the ICTEV awards for leadership in the use of ICT.

His previous positions include teaching at a range of levels in schools and universities, as a principal of a primary school, as an educational consultant, a manager in his state's teacher regulation authority, a project manager, a strategic planner, a program director and as an e-learning advisor.

He has a Masters Degree in Education and a Graduate Diploma in Technology in Education.

His present interests include educational pedagogical reform and strategic and government influencing.

Tony's research over many years has argued that e-learning/ICT has been a term widely misused in education, used in the most part generically to replace language that should mean integrating technology into existing educational practice. He asserts that as technology continues to develop, becomes more sophisticated and user centered, school education (and other types of education) are paying little attention to content, curriculum and pedagogy replacing them with technology gadgets and devices.