Curriculum development refers to the development of classroom-ready instructional materials. Resources in this section include articles, case stories, toolkits, and information on training opportunities about incorporating assistive and educational technology into a curriculum that is accessible to all students.

 

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Arcademic Skill Builders

Arcademic Skill Builders is a nonprofit web site that features online educational games offering a new approach to learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills. Inspired by arcade games and the intense engagement they foster between the game and player, the site's programs stem from experience, systematic observations, and research in understanding student learning in school and social situations.

Assistive Technology Implementation Model: CETT TEAM

The CASE Collaborative CETT Team provides guidance in the selection and use of appropriate Assistive Technology to support students with learning challenges access the curriculum and meet individual education goals. A model of ongoing consults, a lending library, and training workshops support classroom success.

Best Evidence Encyclopedia (BEE)

This website presents information on high-quality evaluations of educational programs, including "educator's summaries" of research on educational programs and full-text reviews on each topic.

Concord Consortium Blog

The Concord Consortium is a nonprofit educational research and development organization that works to create interactive materials that exploit the power of information technologies. The blog for the Concord Consortium features brief articles on a variety of topics relating to educational technology.

CoSN Small District Technology Leadership Wiki

The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) is a voice for K-12 education leaders who use technology strategically to improve teaching and learning. The objective of this wiki is to provide a space for collaborative work around topics regarding effective planning for and use and implementation of technology.

Education is Key to Better Security

Discover what schools are doing to protect their networks and how they are educating students and teachers about acceptable use policies.

eLections: Your Adventure in Politics

Navigate the process of a presidential campaign by playing a virtual game using broadband technology! Students can choose a political party, a platform, hold fundraisers, watch poll numbers, and more.

Elements Present in Good Models of Teaching with Technology

This resource is a tool that desribes the essential elements and strategies utilized in models of teaching with technology. It can be used as a reference when observing technology being implemented to support student learning.

The Knowledge Loom

Free Software Turns One PC Into Two

As school leaders look for inexpensive ways to extend computing resources to every student, a Canadian company says it is giving away software that turns one computer workstation into two.

GenYES 2.0

GenYES is a student-centered research-based solution for school-wide technology integration. Students work with teachers to design technology-infused lessons and provide tech support. The resulting collaboration provides the students with project-based learning and the teachers with on-site, sustainable professional development. GenYES includes innovative online tools that support student and teacher collaboration and a student-run help desk.

Guidelines for Ensuring the Technical Quality of Assessments Affecting English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities

The Guidelines provide research-based information on key issues relevant to the technical quality of assessments for English language learners (ELLs) and students with disabilities (SWDs).

Intel Education

Coordinate technology needs through Intel’s Education web site, which provides unit and lesson plans created by teachers, as well as other resources for math, science and technology.

Literacy - Teacher to Teacher

The annual Teacher to Teacher summer workshops sponsored by the U.S.Department of Education have become popular places for teachers to pick up lesson ideas and teaching strategies from accomplished colleagues (and share some of their own). This page collects the 2007 presentations and handouts from literacy workshop sessions around the USA. Materials are provided on teaching reading, comprehension, vocabulary and writing across the curriculum, working with struggling adolescent readers, narrative writing, expository compositions, persuasive writing, reading and writing in math and science and with limited English proficient students, plus literature and the arts. Browse dozens of articles and click anything of interest to read a summary. Middle grades teachers and literacy coaches will want to examine the several presentations on unlocking the mysteries of informational text.

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Maggie’s Earth Adventures

Motivate your students to learn about environmental issues through on-line interactive games and activities. Theme units and printable lesson plans are included.

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Managing Classroom Technology: Tips from Experts

Learn tips and tricks from the Education World Tech Team for teaching successfully with technology.

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Maryland Assistive Technology Network

The Maryland Assistive Technology Network (MATN) provides assistive technology specialists information on the most up-to-date AT policies, practices, and devices. CTE offers professional development opportunities to MATN members through its semi-annual institutes with nationally acclaimed leaders in assistive technology, regional meetings, and the MATN Online Web site.

Maryland Online IEP

The Maryland Online IEP is a tool developed by Maryland State Department of Education Division of Special Education and Early Intervention Services in Partnership with Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education with funding from IDEA Part B, the U.S. Department of Education. The tool produces and maintains one complete record of IEP information for each child. The result is a high level of data integrity and accuracy from which educators and the families they serve can make effective decisions.

Math Matrix

The math matrix is intended to serve as a resource that matches technology tools with supporting literature on promising practices for the instruction of math for students with disabilities. Search for products and evidence among the six purposes of technology that support reading for students with special needs.

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MATNOnline Wiki

This wiki provides educators in Maryland with resources to support the education of all students in a Universally Designed for Learning Classroom supports students with disabilities with the use of Assistive Technology.

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Middle School Math Project

Although the Middle School Math Project was developed specifically for California teachers (it's aligned to CA standards and textbooks), middle grades math teachers in every state will be rewarded when they explore this website. This project seeks to make the connections between math and technology. Visit the link above to examine collections of video and print lesson components, many with teacher support material, aligned to standards (and several popular texts) by grade level.

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