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THE PRACTICE: Vision - School leaders must articulate a shared vision of how technology will be effectively used to support teaching, learning, and school management.


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  • Becoming a Technologically Savvy Administrator
    http://www.eric.ed.gov/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?a
    ccno=ED438593

    The article by Joseph Slowinski guides administrators in ensuring productive technology use in their schools. The digest discusses legal issues, vision development, fund raising, and support for curriculum development.

  • Edtechnot.com
    http://www.edtechnot.com/

    This site might be called a meeting of ed tech leaders throughout the world. Its purpose is to bring those who are guiding technology use in schools together to discuss divergent opinions. The site includes information on plans, web logs, books, and ideas related to educational technology.

  • ISTE Technology Foundation Standards for Students
    http://cnets.iste.org/students/

    To live, learn, and work successfully in an increasingly complex and information-rich society, students must be able to use technology effectively. These ISTE standards provide guidelines for technology use in schools. The information provided includes links to performance indicators, curriculum examples, and scenarios.

  • Technology in K-12 Education: Envisioning a New Future
    http://www.air.org/forum/wpapers.htm

    This white paper by David Thornburg was presented in December 1999 at the "Forum on Technology in Education: Envisioning the Future" to help inform and guide participant discussions on the visions of the future of technology in education, as well as in the major content areas--social studies, science, mathematics, the arts, and reading/language arts.

  • The Florida Educational Technology Corporation Conference
    http://www.fetc.org

    The mission of the Florida Educational Technology Corporation (FETC, Inc.) is to advocate and support the use of technology in education by providing an annual world class conference and other initiatives for the education community. Information about the conference is provided on this site.

  • Understanding the Impact of Media on Children and Teens
    http://www.aap.org/family/mediaimpact.htm

    American Academy of Pediatrics offers this overview of the impact of media on children and teens. Addressed is the power of the media, good and bad.

  • Wired Schools: It Takes a Village
    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-201-322933-0.html?feed.msnbc.alert

    From C/Net News this site contains brief case studies of two schools and includes information on teacher training, the dream classroom, NetDay, access to equipment, at-risk students and technology.

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