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Technology and Education
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JUST PUBLISHED! Enhancing Professional Development for Teachers: Potential Uses of Information Technology, Report of a Workshop (2007)
This report summarizes a workshop where more than 90 participants representing teacher leaders, professional development providers, education researchers, school administrators, and state policy makers discussed the potential of online teacher professional development (OTPD) to improve student learning through flexibility and versatility, development of community, and increased accountability. Read more about the workshop in the Teacher Advisory Council summer newsletter or click here for presentations from the workshop.
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ICT Fluency and High Schools: A Workshop Summary (2006)
The Center for Education (CFE) through the Board on Science Education (BOSE) and the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council conducted a public workshop about the status of information and communications technology (ICT) fluency in high school. The workshop explored what is known, and what remains unknown, in the world of ICT fluency in terms of exit skills for high school graduates. This project builds up and examined the recommendations of an earlier CSTB report, Being Fluent with Information Technology (1999).
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Planning for Two Transformations: in Education and Learning Technology: Report of a Workshop (2003)
This project grew out of ongoing concern by the U.S. Department of Education, education practitioners, education researchers, and members of the information technology (IT) community that the potential to transform K-12 education for all remains unrealized. Despite frustration about the unrealized potential, however, there is a sense of optimism the motivation to confront and address the issue is gaining momentum. What may be needed are mechanisms and incentives for the IT, education research, and practitioner communities to share their challenges and collective wisdom, to work together in strategic and sustained ways, and to focus on quality improvement of products and services for the improvement of all students. The purpose of this project was to explore opportunities for moving these communities in this direction.
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Tech Tally: Approaches to Assessing Technological Literacy (2006) outlines how the federal government, state governments, and the private sector should develop tests and surveys to measure Americans' knowledge of technology, how they use it in their daily lives, and their ability to make informed decisions on issues involving technology. You may read and search the full text of this book online at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11691.html
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Information Technology (IT) Based Educational Materials: Workshop Report with Recommendations (2003) explores strategies to achieve broad compatibility and transferability for existing and future IT-based learning materials and outlines the committee’s recommendations for initiating a dialogue leading to a national strategy for the development of IT-based education materials in STEM disciplines. You may read and search the full text of this book online at http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10768
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Improving Learning with Information Technology: Report of a Workshop (2002) summarizes the proceedings of a symposium where participants considered better strategies for using IT in the education arena, highlighting issues to consider, constituents to engage, and strategies to employ in the effort to build a coalition to harness the power of information technologies for the improvement of American education. You may read and search the full text of this book online at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10352.html
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Enhancing Undergraduate Learning with Information Technology (2002) reports on a meeting of scientists, policy makers, and researchers convened to discuss new approaches to undergraduate science, mathematics, and technology education. The goal of the workshop was to inform workshop participants and the public about issues surrounding the use of information technology in education. You may read and search the full text of this book online at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10270.html
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Technology and Assessment: Thinking Ahead—Proceedings from a Workshop (2002) is a collection of papers exploring the role that technology could play in bringing together the advances in cognitive science synthesized in the report Knowing What Students Know. You may read and search the full text of this book online at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10297.html
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Technically Speaking: Why All Americans Need to Know More About Technology (2002) provides a blueprint for bringing us all up to speed on the role of technology in our society, including understanding such distinctions as technology versus science and technological literacy versus technical competence. It clearly and decisively explains what it means to be a technologically-literate citizen. You may read and search the full text of this book online at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10250.html
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The Power of Video Technology in International Comparative Research in Education (2001) discusses how video technology can help education researchers to examine teaching strategies in countries around the world and create a record of classroom practices for future studies. You may read and search the full text of this book online at http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10150
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Being Fluent with Information Technology (1999) sets the standard for what everyone should know about IT in order to use it effectively now and in the future and presents detailed descriptions and examples of current skills and timeless concepts and capabilities, which will be useful to individuals who use IT and to the instructors who teach them. You may read and search the full text of this book online at http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=6482
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See the list of Educational Technology reports from the National Academies Press.
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