A technology infrastructure is composed of equipment, communication lines, and software that support education technology in a school or district. This section includes articles about innovative technologies and methods for developing an infrastructure suited to a specific community’s education program and operating environment.

 

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Assistive Technology for Alternate Assessment and Evidence-Based Practice

Find out some ways to use technology for ongoing accessible diagnostic and prescriptive curriculum planning and alternate assessment through general education curriculum software that has been designed for universal access and provides scaffolds for differentiated instruction.

Classroom 2.0 Wiki

This site is devoted to building resources for the classroom and professional-development use of Web 2.0 and collaborative technologies. It provides you with a good overview of the technologies, some ideas for lesson plans, and then points you in the direction of more detailed resources.

Classroom Technology Management

Discover tips for arranging classroom technology to maximize learning and minimize potential disruptions.

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.

Differentiation with the TechMatrix

Use the TechMatrix to search for specific tools that allow customization for different types of learners by searching for features and limiting your search to differentiation. Many professional development programs are focusing on differentiating instruction to reach a wide variety of learners.

Educational Technology

Educational Technology provides news, techniques, and theories of effective use of technology in education for use and consideration when implementing professional development.

Enhancing Your Instruction Through Differentiation

Enhancing Your Instruction Through Differentiation is a professional development module created by Access Center staff for technical assistance providers or district or State personnel. This module provides background information about differentiated instruction, demonstrates differentiation strategies, and addresses issues of implementation at the school and district level.

Access Center

Evaluation of the Enhancing Education Through Technology Program: Final Report

Information Technology Making a Difference in Children's Lives: An Issue Brief for Leaders for Children

This Issue Brief urges groups working on children's issues to include technology planks in their platforms and policy agendas. In addition to working for equitable access to digital tools for underserved children, the report encourages leaders of children to lobby for changes in public programs serving children to make them more effective, efficient and accessible by incorporating information and communications technology.

Instructional Module Assessment

The assessment module is meant for use either after completion of the project-based learning module or with participants who are familiar with project-based learning. The module is designed for a two to three hour class or session, divided into two parts.

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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Maine Learning Technology Initiative: Successful Strategies for Maine Schools

What makes for the successful implementation of one-to-one technology in the classroom? Explore this resource to find a list of strategies that will ease the process. Each strategy refers to supporting resources, including many from Maine schools.

Maine Learning Technology Initiative

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.

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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Online Technology Tutorials

Learn classroom technology teaching techniques through these online tutorials.

Programs Aim to Stop Cyber Bullying

Learn more about the effects of cyber bullying on today’s students, and what steps schools are taking to address the problem.

Progress Monitoring Webinars and Online Trainings

Investigate these free, online training Webinars on topics such as Using Student Progress Monitoring in a Response to Intervention Model, and Using CBM for AYP and Other Data Reporting.

Route 21

Help yourself and your staff infuse 21st century skills into education. Explore this one-stop-shop for 21st century skills-related information, resources, and community tools.

Science, Art, and Technology

Science, Art, and Technology was originally offered by The Art Institute of Chicago to Chicago Public School science teachers interested in exploring the relationship between science and art within a museum setting. Search the website for lesson plans, professional development materials, and other resources to explore the intersections of science, art, and technology.

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