To help your teachers take advantage of Web 2.0 tools, it’s important for you to set the example. By Cathy Higgins, SETDA member and State Educational Technology Director for the New Hampshire Department of Education.
This column is an overview of the recently published SETDA case studies that highlight the work that was completed with the support of the education through technology programs. By: Christine Fox, SETDA’s Director of Educational Leadership and Research.
A grassroots effort to combine resources across the state is creating powerful, integrated tools for Illinois educators. By Vicki Dewitt, Director of Area V Illinois Learning Technology Center, Melinda Fiscus, Director of Learning Technology Center 6 North, and Kathleen Barnhart, Principal Consultant for the Special Education Services, Illinois Board of Education and SETDA member.
To teach and access technology literacy, ensure that it goes hand-in-hand with the curriculum. By Kathy Boone, SETDA member and Assistant Director of the Office of Instructional Technology for the West Virginia Department of Education.
Ensuring affordable home access to broadband for all students, especially those from low-income and at-risk families, will give educators the capacity to offer students important educational opportunities not otherwise available to them and to better meet the full range of student needs. The cable industry’s Adoption Plus (A+) proposal is an innovative approach to addressing the nation’s social challenges via education, technology and public-private partnerships. On behalf of educational technology leadership of state departments of education, we look forward to working with the industry, NTIA, the FCC, the US Department of Education and any and all others to comprehensively address the critical needs highlighted in the A+ program proposal.
We applaud Representatives Markey, Capps, and Matsui for their introduction of the e-Rate 2.0 Act in support of bolstering federal support of broadband for educational purposes. Since schools and libraries first began to receive telecommunications discounts in 1998, the e-Rate has been instrumental in increasing educational opportunities for all students, especially those from low-income and underserved communities. The move by Congress to reassess the program and strengthen it is most welcome. We look forward to the dialogue.