| 1 To 1 Learning |  |
| How do we take our classrooms into the future, empower teachers and students with the tools and functions for the challenges ahead, and enable deep, sustained learning? Providing every student and teacher with his or her own laptop computer is one important step we can take to achieve those goals. However, this end result cannot be achieved overnight. |  |
| 1:1 Computing | |
| the information in this guidebook can provide administrators with useful advice, practical strategies, and best practices to consider when implementing 1:1 computing. | |
| 11-Year-Old Boy Takes School Network By The Horns | |
| When Victory Baptist School, a small private school in Sherwood, Ark., was struggling to keep its computer network together last year, an 11-year-old student named Jon Penn stepped in as network manager. | |
| A Commentary On The Future Of Education | |
| A commentary on the future of education in an increasingly flat world. | |
| A Good Teaching Technique: WebQuests | |
| In this article, the author first introduces and describes a new teaching tool called WebQuests to practicing teachers. He then provides detailed information about the structure of a good WebQuest. Third, the author shows the strengths and weaknesses of using WebQuests in teaching and learning. Last, he points out the challenges for practicing teachers and administrators. Keywords: Internet, mathematics, teachers, WebQuests | |
| A Homegrown Design For Data Warehousing | |
| Report on how a district created its own process for generating detailed information about students in real time | |
| A New Day For Learning | |
| In most areas of the contry, schools have not changed in many years, and the educational system looks the same as it always has. Some people are making efforts to change the educational system though. This video illustrates examples of reform efforts throughout the country, where schools are emphasizing things like community collaboration, real world learning, and distance learning. | |
| A New Way To Teach: Begin With The End | |
| At the Marin School of Arts and Technology, teachers have implemented a project-based learning curriculum. Students work in the field, take their data back to the labs, and ultimately present their findings through digital media. School administrators believe that the students should be doing the learning work in project based learning, not the teachers. However, this curriculum requires teachers to brainstorm and work together to develop questions and projects for their students. | |
| A School Decision-Maker's Guide To Student Technology Support Programs (PDF) | |
| The Decision Maker's Guide is not a how-to guide for launching a program. Rather, these pages provide background for decision makers to make a case for such a program and also determine what type of program is most appropriate to pursue. The resources section links to documents and Web sites with specific program development resources. The YTSC white paper: "Youth Technology Support Programs: Meeting the Challenge of Technology Support in Schools," Douglas Levin, American Institutes for Research, February 2004, provides a summary and review of programs and literature. | |
| A Technological High | |
| Access to computers, multimedia labs and advanced software engages students at this San Diego charter school. | |
| Acceptable Use Policies | |
| Description of why you must have an acceptable use policy and what it should have | |
| Access To Technology In South Dakota Schools Among Tops In Nation | |
| South Dakota once again ranks among the top three states for technology in K-12 classrooms, according to an annual survey. | |
| Accessible Technology For All (PDF) | |
| Powerpoint presentation on fostering collaboration between K-12 technology and special education leaders | |