Benjamin Dylan Porter, School2Home

Benjamin Dylan Porter is an educator focused on giving teachers, students, and families access to high quality, technology centered resources, strategies, and applications. A former high school dropout, Benjamin graduated summa cum laude from Northeastern Illinois and received his master's in educational technology from Cal State Fullerton as an Edwin Carr Fellow.

Benjamin has been a classroom history teacher in both Chicago and Los Angeles, where he focused on using blended learning to drive student engagement. He is currently a Senior Program Manager at School2Home where he works to close the digital divide in Southern California. He is also the founder of Educational Urban Technologies.

San Bernardino Digital Empowerment - Inclusivity

Benjamin Dylan Porter on Digital Citizenship vs. Digital Empowerment:

"This is something for you to be empowered, digitally, to be able to utilize the tools that your students are using, [in order to] understand your student's grades, how to help support them online, and where to find resources."