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District School Board Technology Resources - The Ottawa-Carleton
District School Board is committed to providing educators with
quality resources in order to wisely integrate technology into
the learning environment.
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Early Childhood Techology Literacy Project - is an instructional project in Montgomery County Public Schools funded by the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund. The instructional focus of this project is to integrate technology into instruction and increase early childhood students' skills in reading and writing.
EOT-PACI : Education, Outreach and Training partnership for Advanced Computing Infrastructure - The mission of EOT-PACI is to develop human resources through the innovative use of emerging information technologies to understand and solve problems.
The New Curriculum - The New Curriculum provides ideas and resources for teachers who want to integrate technolgy into their teaching.
Education Reform Portals - The Education Reform Portal System is a collection of resources addressing educational reform.
National Institute for Community Innovations - The mission of the National Institute for Community Innovations is to foster local economic and social well- being through educational innovation, especially in economically distressed communities.
Educational Technology Innovation Challenge Grants - The Technology Innovation Challenge Grants (TICG) program supports partnerships among educators, business and industry, and other community organizations to develop innovative applications of technology and plans for fully integrating technology into schools.
Science Education Research in Visual Instructional Technology - their mission is to research the effects of electronic instructional delivery systems and technology tools on the learning and teaching of science.
Technology at Your Fingertips - online guide to implementing technology solutions for educators.
Teaching for Understanding - provides an introduction to education with new technologies.
Educational Technology Resources - The Web sites listed are useful in teaching and training, both in the classroom and via the Internet.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Computing and Technology - a directory of education technology resources designed to help K-12 educators make decisions about how to implement and effectively use technology.
Educational Technology Resources - Just getting started with IT and teaching and learning ? Follow the 5 step process to implementing IT in teaching and learning outlined at this site.
Educational Technology - Resources include publications, programs, and outreach activities for all educational levels.
Schoolmaster.net - created by BiblioTech Ltd., this site offers a place where students and educatots from diverse backgrounds and countires can meet and use the Internet and its tools.
Kathy Schrock's Technology Integration Guides - comprehensive collection of books for teaching Internet skills and integrating the Internet into the curriculum.
Building a School Web Site - ( Grades K - 8 ) - a recipe for building a school Web site created by Wanda Wigglebits.
Museum - School Connections in the Digital Age - Schools and museums are finding lively synergy as the collaborate to make learning happen in new ways.
Making the Virtual Connection - Collaborate on documents, design and post a course, videoconference with colleagues, participate in a group Web project. Read on for the tools that make it all possible.
Talking to Parents Online - Increasingly, teachers are using computers and the Internet to maintain contact with parents, many through free Internet sites that act as "communications hubs" between the school and the home. Most of these sites offer a venue for teachers to post assignments, publish examples of student work, and send and receive messages from parents.
An IT Planning Guide: Integration of IT into Teaching and Learning - Larissa Brenner writes, teaching styles are varied and it's up to each individual teacher to find a way of integrating instructional technology (IT) into teaching and learning that compliments his or her teaching style.
A Conversation on Techogy Leadership with Jason Ohler and David Warlick - What does it take to be a school leader in the digital age? We asked two education technology experts, Jason Ohler and David Warlick, to explore the issues in an online roundtable discussion.
How to implement a ThinkQuest project - Where do you start?
The Digital Divide
The Digital Divide Network - (teachers) - includes many articles relating to education, including a section on lifelong learning.
The Digital Divide Project - (6 - 12) - offers a wealth of information and numerous resources appropriate to middle and high school-age students.
Top 10 Technology Breakthroughs for Schools
1. Virtual Learning - From funding formulas to the tradition of tenure to the role of the community in education, virtual learning is revolutionizing the way we think about "school."
2. Wireless Networking - Wireless computing lets students and educators share resources across classrooms and in authentic learning scenarios, paving the way for technology integration across the curriculum.
3. Collaboration Tools - Twenty-first-century education will not be happening in isolation. It will depend on ongoing conversations among parents, teachers, students, and community members.
4. Digital Video - Internet2 is enabling digital video to achieve professional-quality, two-way interaction. It will be one of the rare cases where education will be leading a technological shift in society as a whole.
5. ASPs - Move over client-servers, Application Service Providers are challenging schools to outsource their critical information and administrative systems.
6. Handheld Devices - At the zoo, by the pond, on the bus-and even in the classroom-students and educators are finding new freedom for teaching and learning with these powerful, pocket-sized devices.
7. Optical Networking - Fiber-optic systems let information ride a beam of light through a small fiberglass tube. How will this rapid transit system impact schools?
8. Videoconferencing - Three-dimensional virtual reality telecommunication, top-quality audio and video that lets users examine minute objects through remotely controlled microscopes, and "in-person" interviews with experts are just a few of the activities the new videoconferencing will bring to schools.
9. XML - XML's seamless data sharing can make school administration exponentially more efficient, freeing up teachers to focus more on what they do best: teaching.
10. Simulations
- High-end gaming technology meets core curriculum subject matter.
The result promises to radically transform traditional education
technology.