This document discusses best practices for using technology in schools. It asks whether the technology supports core literacy skills, adds value to instruction through activities like digital storytelling and visual literacy, and is implemented through sound pedagogical design with assessment of both learning and the technology.

1. A Best Practice Framework Governors State David Jakes

3. Does the technology support a fundamental literacy that the school believes in?

4. Connect, collaborate, create, contribute

5. Does the technology add value to the instructional process?

6. Digital Storytelling Writing Visual literacy Project management skills Intellectual property Network literacy

7. Is the instruction framed within a sound pedagogical design?

8. How is the learning and the technology assessed?