Founded in the fall of 2001, the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) is the principal association representing the state directors for educational technology. SETDA's goal is to improve student achievement through technology. Find out more >
Events
Thank you to all SETDA members for making the 2009 ET Forum such a success!
2009 Leadership Summit and Ed Forum November 1-4, 2009 Washington, DC Agenda | Hotel Information
Joint Initiatives
Tell Us about Your Data Systems: Our partner organization, The SIF Association, wants to learn what you are doing about interoperability and educational applications. Please take this 5 minute survey at http://edusystemics.net/survey and enter the code SETD. Please respond by July 17, 2009. Survey respondents will receive a copy of the Executive Summary report of the survey and will be entered into a raffle to win an iPod Shuffle.
CCSSO’s State Education Data Center launched SchoolDataDirect which includes a tool enabling users to download data directly from the website. Much of what is contained in the Coordinated Data Ask is available on this website and ready to download. For more information visit the SchoolDataDirect site www.SchoolDataDirect.org.
Pa., Maine faced with ed-tech budget woes 7/2/09 9:12 AM Two states are taking very different approaches when it comes to managing spending cuts and sustaining education technology budgets. In Pennsylvania, Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell has proposed cutting his signature Classrooms for the Future initiative, which provides laptops and training to the state's schools. Maine, despite economic worries of its own, is expanding its one-to-one laptop initiative to all state high schools.
Key words: education technology funding, Maine school technology funding, Pennsylvania technology funding, Maine Learning Technology Initiative, Classrooms for the Future, education, technology
Research Shows Schools Making Small Progress Toward Technology-Rich Environments 7/2/09 9:50 AM America's schools, colleges, and universities are making limited progress toward providing technology-rich environments for students. According to the results of a benchmark study released this week at the 2009 National Educational Computer Conference (NECC) in Washington, DC, schools improved most in the area of broadband adoption in the last year but are still weak in the use of technology for assessments and creating educational equity.