About Peter Reilly

Peter Reilly is the Director of Technology for the Lower Hudson Regional Information Center in New York State. The Lower Hudson Regional Information Center (LHRIC) is a non-profit, technology consortium consisting of 62 school districts in Westchester, Putnam and Rockland counties, located just north of New York City.

Peter and the LHRIC are supporting hundreds of local and wide area networks with approximately 20,000 workstations and many thousands of Internet accounts in 250 schools buildings in the region.

Peter is a former educator, who taught high school English for 9 1/2 years. He spent three years as a consultant for Instructional Systems Inc., planning and implementing technology in the classroom. Peter has spent the last (15) years at the LHRIC helping teachers, and administrators maximize their use of technology to improve learning, as well as to help schools operate more efficiently.

Peter has presented to many audiences including:

• The School's Executive Conference in Atlanta, Georgia;
  
• Keynote speaker for the Virginia Leadership Conference in Richmond;
  
• IBM's Discovery '95 in Las Vegas,
  
• The ECNO Conference in Toronto, Canada;
  
• The Ontario Public Supervisory Official's Association;
  
• The Global Village Schools National Conference,
  
• Other diverse audiences throughout the United States and Canada.

Peter has worked on a consulting basis with the Edsion Project, numerous school districts around the country and has been featured in articles in Electronic Learning, Curriculum Product News, Media and Methods, and the Heller Report.

In September, 1995, Peter visited China and on behalf of UNICEF and developed a report on the state of educational technology in China today, as well as outlined strategic directions for future educational technology development.

In the spring of 1996, as Phase II of Peter's work with the Chinese Education Commission, he hosted a high level delegation from China including the Director of the State Educational Technology Commission on a tour of schools, research facilities, technology companies and higher education institutions throughout the United States. The result of Peter's work is the China Educational Technology Experiment, the introduction of classroom-based educational technology in 1,000 schools throughout the China.

Peter and the staff have been instrumental in introducing and developing Data Warehousing and the concept of data infrastructures to K-12 education for the sake of contiuous school improvement. Recently, Peter has spoken nationally on Internet risk management for schools, as well as providing advice on the growing need for serious security measures to meet the tidal wave of cyberattacks that are beginning to plague our schools.

Peter and Mark Samis, head of Reasearch and Development at the LHRIC, have been in the forefront of the computer archeology movement rescuing the vestiges of first and second generation computer equipment being relegated by schools to local landfills. They maintain an extensive collection of computer artifacts and software for future generations to explore.

Peter is presently focused on shifting the technology discourse from "cables and chips" to the human issues involved in creating schools and personal learning environments that enable students and teachers to take better care of themselves and the things they care about in a world where change is constant.

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