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.

 

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Fall 2011 Webinar Series: Technology, Learning and Change

Webinar #1 – Planning, Leadership and Managing Change
Watch Webinar#1 on Demand Now

 

 

Webinar #2 – Digital Content, Professional Development, and Assessment
Watch Webinar #2 On Demand Now

 

 

Webinar #3 – Infrastructure, Financing and Evaluating Results
Watch Webinar #3 On Demand Now

 

 

 

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Events

  Digital Learning Events

  10 Events in 10 Locations in 2010

 VISIT the 2010 event archives
 DOWNLOAD Event Resources

 

 

 

 Visit DLE Events Archives from Previous Years:     
2009
2008
 

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Videos

Award-winning videos that feature Tablet PCs in education - Tablet PC Videos

Intel's "I Remember" video

 

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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.

 

  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. Watch   the event.
 

 

 

  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.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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Key Topics in Digital Learning

  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.

  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.