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Technology Integration

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• America Connects Community Technology Works-Research
  http://www.americaconnects.net/research/
  America Connects, as the Technical Assistance provider for the Department of Education's CTC program, has received many inquiries about the Annual Performance Reports (APRs). In order to provide assistance on APRs, we are pleased to make available information from SRI International.
  
  
• Apple K-12 Effectiveness Reports
  http://www.apple.com/education/k12/
  leadership/effect.html
  ACOT was a research and development collaboration among public schools, universities, research agencies, and Apple Computer, Inc. Its goal was to study how the routine use of technology by teachers and students might change teaching and learning.
  
  
• Apple Technology Planning Guide
  http://www.apple.com/education/planning/
  The Planning Guide is a tool designed to assist you in creating and implementing a technology integration plan for your school or district.
  
  
• ASCD Research Brief
  http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/menuitem.a074776fee6dbe98dd1b2110d3108a0c/
  ResearchBrief is a Web-based publication designed to offer field-based practitioners and policymakers focused summaries of original, interdisciplinary, high-quality research.
  
  
• Ask ERIC
  http://ericir.syr.edu/
  In response to questions we've received at AskERIC, our network information specialists have compiled over 3000 resources on a variety of educational issues. This collection includes Internet sites, educational organizations, and electronic discussion groups.
  
  
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  http://www.gatesfoundation.org/education/
  researchandevaluation/default1.htm
  These pages contain annotated links for those who wish to learn more about the research underpinning the foundation's work in education and the evaluation of that work.
  
  
• Boolean Searching on the Internet
  http://library.albany.edu/internet/boolean.html
  The Internet is a vast computer database. As such, its contents must be searched according to the rules of computer database searching. Much database searching is based on the principles of Boolean logic. Boolean logic refers to the logical relationship among search terms.
  
  
• CARET
  http://caret.iste.org/
  Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology bridges education technology research to practice by offering research-based answers to critical questions.
  
  
• The Center for the Future of Teaching & Learning
  http://www.cftl.org/home.html
  The Center is a public, not-for-profit organization with roots in California’s education reform movement. While we are interested in many different aspects of improving state and national education systems, our primary focus is strengthening California’s teacher workforce.
  
  
• ENC OnLine - Data Driven Decision Making
  http://www.enc.org/features/focus/archive/data/
  Links to articles by various authors about using research data to improve education.
  
  
• Evaluating the Quality of Information on the Internet
  http://www.virtualchase.com/quality/
  This guide defines the criteria, documents incidents of questionable, false or fraudulent information as reported in the news or trade literature, provides examples of Web sites that illustrate good or bad information, and suggests strategies that help you detect bad information.
  

• Fern Elementary Technology Integration Tutorial
  http://www.k12.hi.us/~fern/technology/
  techintegtoc.html
  What is Technology Integration? What are Multimedia/Hypermedia Projects? Kinds of Assessment Tools. What are Standards,...
  
  
• Connecting Student Learning and Technology
  http://www.sedl.org/pubs/tec26/flash.html
  Computers are not inherently instructional tools, and most teachers need suggestions for using them. This guide provides such suggestions.
  
  
• Curriculum Integration
  http://www.lea.co.nz/citest/ciinpractice/index.htm
  This section contains case studies from schools that have been exploring curriculum integration as an approach to learning and teaching.
  
  
• Curriculum Integration of Educational Technology
  http://camellia.shc.edu/byrne/RefGuide/
  Educational_Technology.htm
  A Select Guide to Research Archives. This site includes a catalog tutorial, circulation desk, electronic databases, and URL's.
  
  
• Education Line
  http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/BEID.html
  Education-line is a freely accessible database of the full text of conference papers, working papers and electronic literature which supports educational research, policy and practice.
  
  
• Educational Technology Impact Analysis
  http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~etia2/
  This site presents 14 case studies, profiles of technology projects in different educational settings, links to technology resources, and other information on the uses, evaluation, and growth of technology in education.
  
  
• The Endeavor Group
  http://www.theendeavourgroup.net/research.html
  On this page you can look at research conducted on the SDMSM and review the studies, books and articles on which the model is based.
  
  
• ERIC Digest
  http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/
  index/index.html
  ERIC Digests are: short reports (1,000 - 1,500 words) on topics of prime current interest in education, targeted specifically for teachers, administrators, policymakers, and other practitioners, but generally useful to the broad educational community, designed to provide an overview of information on a given topic, plus references to items providing more detailed information, produced by the 16 subject-specialized ERIC Clearinghouses, and reviewed by experts and content specialists in the field, funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), of the U.S. Department of Education (ED).
  
  
• ETIPS - Education Technology Integration Principles - Principles
  http://www.etips.info/Principles/principles.html
  The six Educational Technology Integration and Implementation Principles (eTIPs) are are organized into two groups, classroom and school wide. Each principle is linked to research that explains conditions that should be present in order for educational technology use to be effective. All six eTIPs are mapped to technology integration standards for teachers.
  
  
• Graduate Studies in Adult Education
  http://nlu.nl.edu/ace/
  The Department of Adult and Continuing Education, located within the College of Arts and Sciences, provides a forum for critical reflection on adult education practice. The future of our economy, and of democracy itself, rests on an informed and critical populace. This web site provides resources for educators of adults--teachers, organizers, trainers and "grass-roots" activists who, through their work, seek to contribute to the emergence of a productive society grounded in equity and justice.
  
  
• Introduction to Integrating the Internet
  http://www.buddyproject.org/
  resources/default.asp
  This site contains things to consider before attempting to integrate technology into a lesson, such as the formats of integration, NETS standards, designing the actual lesson and assessment.
  
  
• Literacy.Org
  http://www.literacyonline.org/pubs.html
  NCAL/ILI produce a variety of print and multimedia products, including technical reports, policy briefs, international papers, video conference materials, practice guides, newsletters, books, and CD-ROMs, as well as reports on and proceedings from conferences such as the ILI Second Asia Literacy Regional Forum held in Delhi, India, in 1998.
  
  
• Morino Institute
  http://www.morino.org/
  Marino Institute: understanding the Internet & society, advancing a more effective philanthropy, closing social divides, and stimulating new economy entrepreneurship.
  
  
• Multimedia Projects: An Effective Use of Technology as a Tool in Elementary Education
  http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/
  archives/WCE/archives/soos.htm
  This article discusses the merits of multimedia projects and how to assess them.
  
  
• National Center for Education Statistics
  http://nces.ed.gov
  NCES is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the United States and other nations.

• NEA Foundation for Improvement in Education
  http://www.nfie.org/
  Created by the National Education Association, The NEA Foundation empowers public education employees to innovate, take risks, and become agents for change to improve teaching and learning in our society.
  
  
• North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
  http://www.ncrel.org/
  NCREL is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to providing research-based expertise, resources, assistance, and professional development opportunities to educators and policymakers.
  
  
• Regional Technology in Education Consortia (R*TEC)
  http://www.rtec.org/
  The Regional Technology in Education Consortia (R*TEC) program is established to help states, local educational agencies, teachers, school library and media personnel, administrators, and other education entities successfully integrate technologies into kindergarten through 12th grade (K-12) classrooms, library media centers, and other educational settings, including adult literacy centers.
  
  
• Successful Technology Integration In An Elementary School: A case study
  http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~bwilson/
  peakview.html
  This evaluation study examined the impact of the technology on the school community. Using a variety of data collection instruments (e.g., classroom observation, surveys and interviews of school personnel and students), we found consistent evidence that technology plays an essential role in facilitating the school's goals.
  
  
• Tech-Learning
  http://www.techlearning.com/
  content/new/new.html
  From Tech-learning a collection of articles on education and technology.
  
  
• Technology Integration Model (TIM) Project
  http://www.lofti.tie.net/tim/
  The purpose of the project is to develop and teach units that model effective technology integration and telecommunication. Teams comprised of teachers, pre-service students, and university faculty design the units using a framework presented by Wiggins and McTighe in their book Understanding by Design.
  
  
• TERC Publications
  http://ra.terc.edu/publications/TERC_pubs/
  The publication reports on the organization's work in developing curriculum, fostering teacher development, conducting research on teaching and learning, and in developing technology tools.
  
  
• The Tomas Rivera Policy
  http://www.trpi.org/research.html
  TRPI's information and communication technology (ICT) research encompasses an examination of the impact of telecommunications tools on the economic, social, political, and educational life of Hispanic communities throughout the United States. Current research projects continue to explore the status of advanced telecommunications deployment in low-income and minority communities.
  
  
• WestEd
  http://www.WestEd.org/
  WestEd is a nonprofit research, development, and service agency, which provides many links to resources of information in regards to research and projects.

Last Updated
August 4, 2005

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