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.

Fall 2011 Webinar Series: Technology, Learning and Change

Webinar #1 – Planning, Leadership and Managing Change
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Webinar #2 – Digital Content, Professional Development, and Assessment
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Webinar #3 – Infrastructure, Financing and Evaluating Results
Watch Webinar #3 On Demand Now

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
 

Videos

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

Intel's "I Remember" video

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
 

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.