TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION LINKS (Planning, assessment, curriculum, reform)

US DoE - Getting America's Students Ready for the 21st Century

Michigan's State Five Year Technology Plan

The Thornburg Center is a world-renowned consulting firm that focuses on the impact of emerging technologies in education.

From Now On - The Educational Technology Journal, Educational Technology for Engaged Learning

Reinventing Schools: The Technology is Now - This publication launched by the National Academy of Science offers provocative ideas about the potential of new technologies to transform learning in schools.

ISTE - International Society for Technology in Education. Teachers helping teachers use technology in the classroom. NCREL - The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory offers excellent planning resources such as Learning Through Technology: A Planning and Implementation Guide a document which "helps educators and community members develop a comprehensive learning and technology plan.
MCREL - The Mid Continent Regional Educational Laboratory offers Technology Connections, which "provide some of the best online resources available to help educators, administrators, and parents answer common questions and solve problems related to the implementation and use of technology in education."
ITTE - Institute for the Transfer of Technology to Education.
National Center for Technology Planning


Web 2.0 Resources:

  • "Futurist: To fix education, think Web 2.0," by Martin LaMonica of CNET News.com (December 2006)
  • "Blogs, Wikis, RSS and there's more? Web 2.0 on the march," by Garry Putland (September 2006)
  • "Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 1," Solution Watch (September 2006)
  • "Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 2," Solution Watch (October 2006)
  • "Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 3," Solution Watch (October 2006)
  • P2P AND LEARNING ECOLOGIES IN EFL/ESL, by Barbara Dieu, Aaron Campbell and Rudolf Ammann in IATEFL Poland Computer SIG Journal (proceedings from the November 2005 Webheads in Action Online Convergence)
  • "Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?" by Bryan Alexander in Educause Review (March/April 2006) (HTML version)
  • "e-learning 2.0 - how Web technologies are shaping education" part 1 of 2 by Steve O'Hear and edited by Richard MacManus in Read/Write Web (August 2006)
  • "Elgg - social network software for education" part 2 of 2 by Steve O'Hear and edited by Richard MacManus in Read/Write Web (August 2006)
  • List of Web 2.0 Teaching Tools, by Alan Lew
  • "Music education moves online," by Laura Ascione in eSchool News Online (November 2006)
  • "Wiki, Blog or Moodle?" by Wesley Fryer in TechLEARNING (October 2006)
  • "A Day in the Life of Web 2.0" by David Warlick in TechLEARNING (October 2006)
  • "New Literacy" by Sara Armstrong & David Warlick (September 2004)
  • "Setting the Stage: A Future Fiction" by David Warlick (March 2004)

     

     

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