Technology for Learning: A Guidebook for Change

Today's students are connected: they use communications, media, and digital technologies easily and thus their worldview is different from that of previous generations. As learners, they need both new and traditional skills. The good news is that schools have technology enhanced tools and methods to help them change the system and improve student achievement.

This guidebook provides a process for creating effective, robust technology initiatives based on real-life practitioners' successes. It is based on the complex confluence of variables that impact today's schools. It is designed to help you get started with the process.

***NEW: Technology for Learning: Buyers' Guide.
Two essesntial questions to guide technology purchase decsions and some basic information to help you decide.

Fall 2011 Webinar Series: Technology, Learning and Change

This webinar series, based on the new book Technology for Learning: A Guidebook for Change, provides information about the process of creating effective, robust technology initiatives based on real-life practitioners' successes. The three webinars will focus on the issues that help educators to transform today's schools into thriving digital learning environments. The goal is to help you to identify and plan for key success factors and strategies that will help you get started, expand your existing program, or take your program to the next level.

Webinar #1 — Planning, Leadership and Managing Change
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Webinar #2 — Digital Content, Professional Development, and Assessment
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Webinar #3 — Infrastructure, Financing and Evaluating Results
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Webinars On Demand

Cloud Computing and 24/7 Learning: How, What, and a Test Drive

Learn what cloud computing means for anytime anywhere learning in a time of shrinking budgets and how Buffalo NY's public schools moved into the cloud. Plus find out about a new product and a research project that you can apply for to test drive the cloud.

PC Double Duty for K-12: How two districts reach more students with fewer PCs

Learn about a simple solution that can double computing resources within an existing budget by enabling each PC to reach up to 10 students. These districts leverage computing investments, streamlines IT management, and increases power efficiency.

Netbooks in K-12: Thinking Big by Thinking Small

In today's challenging economy, school districts must do more with less. Some have found success with new technologies that allow them to address student needs at a lower cost than ever before. View the strategy that two districts are using to think big by thinking small.

DLE eBooks:

How Web-based Tools Change Teaching and Learning
Understand how valuable Web 2.0 technologies are and how we can help educators to use these tools to meet the challenges ahead

Netbooks in K-12: Thinking Big by Thinking Small
Growing one-to-one programs and creating digital learning environments with low-cost, high-impact technology

Getting Started with Tablet PCs: A Guide to Innovation, Flexibility, and Mobility for Learning Digitally

Fundamentals of K-12 Technology

The Fundamentals of K-12 Technology Program is a series that covers the educational technology topics that matter most to the profession's leaders, practitioners, and innovators as they plan and implement effective instructional technology integration programs.

Register once and download as many as you need.
http://www.techlearning.com/K12/Fundamentals

Topics for the series include: Anytime, Anywhere Learning, Infrastructure & Networking, Educational Technology Leadership, Safety & Security, Money Matters, 21st Century Learning and Assessment, Web 2.0, Professional Development, and Mobile Learning.

Guide to Digital Learning

Today’s students grew up with technology and expect to use it to get information, solve problems and communicate. These are the very skills they need now and in the future. When classrooms are equipped with the right combination of technology tools, students can learn all the skills they need to prepare.

This web site is your guide to digital learning, dedicated to demonstrating how the technologies available in a digital learning environment can be the catalyst for teaching and learning in an era where new skills - and the ability to change as times demand - are paramount.

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