A Brief Look at Education's Technological Past
Blackwell History of Education Museum
The Blackwell Museum, located at Northern Illinois University, is dedicated to promoting interest in the history of American education. The "Cool Artifacts" section of their website tells you a little bit about some historical technology.
How Are Schools Being Pressured to Change?
Technology in Education
A look through this compilation of articles from the weekly online publication Education Week shows some of the many influences that affect technology use in today's schools.
Association for the Advancement of Computers in Education (AACE)
This organization's web site provides access to several journals as well as a chance to subscribe to Edutech, an email service that keeps you updated on developments in educational technology.
How Are Technologies Affecting Student Learning?
Educational Technology
The educational technology area of AskERIC is a handy collection of recent articles and links to publications and organizations dealing with educational technology, selected from the vast resources available about this topic on the World Wide Web.
eSchool News
This site provides summaries and links to news about technology that affects teaching and learning in schools.
Web 66
Web 66 links you to the web sites of hundreds of schools around the world, where you can see examples of students' work, including multimedia projects and student-produced virtual field trips.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
This professional organization for math teachers offer separate sections on its web site for elementary, middle school, and high school teachers, as well as information about the organization itself.
Field Trips
This is the list of virtual field trips available for K-12 students from one educational software company.
Virtual Architecture
This site, by author Judi Harris, is an excellent resource for teachers who want to explore telecollaborative projects.
National Center to Improve Practice
The full name of this organization is the National Center to Improve Practice in Special Education Through Technology and, as the name implies, the web site profiles many ways technology can help in special education. Try one of their "tours" through exemplary classrooms.
disABILITY Links
This is a helpful site for information and resources about a wide range of disabilities and health conditions.
How are Technologies Affecting Teaching?
ISTE
The International Society for Technology Education publishes journals, including Learning and Leading with Technology, and has developed a set of standards for technology education.
INTASC
Learn more about the INTASC standards at this website.
Digital Edge Learning Interchange
This site offers an online library of videos showcasing best practices for teaching with technology, to help both current and aspiring teachers use technology in the classroom more effectively.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
This is a huge collection of links, all helpfully annotated and organized. There is an extensive set of links available to sites that can help you integrate technology into your classes.
ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology
This portion of ERIC provides a searchable database of journal articles focused on educational technology, as well as access to current issues of journals, lesson plans, projects, and more.
Technology in the Classroom
This portion of the Education World web site offers lots of practical help for teachers who want to incorporate technology into their curriculums, including reviews of software and how-to "techtorials."
Cybercheating: A New Twist on an Old Problem
In this 2001 article from Phi Delta Kappa's journal, the Phi Delta Kappan, the author describes how he discovered students using the Internet to cheat, and provides some tips for preventing and dealing with cybercheating.
Learning and Teaching Information Technology Computer Skills in Context
This 2002 ERIC Digest by Michael B. Eisenberg and Doug Johnson provides one model for integrating technology skills into teaching general information skills.
Teaching to Your Tech Type
Take a short quiz to find what your "tech type" is, and then learn what tools might work best for you, as a teacher.
How Are Computer Technologies Organized for Student Use?
Tracking Tech Trends
This report, part of the 2002 Technology Counts survey conducted annually by Education Week, describes, state-by-state, how computers are being used in schools.
Study: PDAs Good for Education
This 2002 article from Wired describes a recent study of the positive application of handheld computers, such as Palms, in the classroom.
What are Key Issues in Educational Technology?
The New Divides
This 2001 special report from the online publication Education Week examines inequities in technology access and use.
Edutopia
Edutopia is a rich resource of articles related to the future of public education, with a strong emphasis on technology.
Enriching Your Classroom Through Equitable Technology Integration
This article originally appeared in the IDRA Newsletter by the Intercultural Development Research Association. The article focuses on the use of technology as a tool for teaching and learning, and includes benchmarks and key indicators that teachers and campus instructional leaders can use to assess and improve technology integration in diverse classrooms.
Web Sites Listed in the Chapter
This chapter of your textbook included the URLs for many companies and organizations that create products or standards mentioned in the chapter. This section provides a convenient way to link to those addresses.
AlphaSmart, Inc.
Microsoft (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Knowledge Adventure
Broderbund (Living Books)
Galapagos Quest
Christopher Columbus Expedition online project
Protecting Children and Communities from Commercialism
ERIC
The Learning Company (KidPix)
Apple (iMovie)
Palm, Inc.
GLOBE
Global Schoolhouse
NASA Quest
IMMEX (True Roots)
Valley of the Shadow
Tom Snyder Productions (Decisions, Decisions)
Jason Project
Adobe (Photoshop)
National Center for Health Statistics
Boxer Learning, Inc. (Fundamental Math)
Key Curriculum Press (Geometer's Sketchpad)
Texas Instruments (Ranger)
Espan_L
Virtual High School
Independent Study High School
ERICA
Don Johnston, Inc. (Co-Writer)
Software Maintenance, Inc. (Dragon Dictate)
IntelliTools (IntelliTalk II)
Kurzweil Educational Systems
Project CHILD
WINGS
Classroom Connect
Buddy Project
