The document discusses integrating technology into education. It argues that computers are tools that can enhance learning rather than subjects on their own. While schools are not spending enough to ensure all students have access to computers, technology can excite students by giving them an audience and does not diminish traditional skills. Standards like the National Educational Technology Standards and programs like Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow have found that with clear goals and design principles, technology adoption in schools can progress from initial struggles to appropriation of tools to changed instructional methods that open up learning.

1. Integrating Technology into our educational System

2. Why? Wall street journal states…Computers are a tool, not a subject.Kids flourish when everyone has a computer but schools aren’t spending enough to guarantee that.Schools can’t handle hand-me-downs.Computers don’t diminish traditional skills.The Internet and email excite kids by giving them an audience.Kids love computers.

3. STANDARDSNETS (National Educational Technology Standards)Websitehttp://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS

4. Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow“ACOT2follows in the tradition of Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT), a research and development collaboration among public schools, universities, and research agencies that Apple initiated in 1985 and sustained through 1995 with outstanding results. Its goal was to study how the routine use of technology by teachers and students might change teaching and learning. ACOT identified effective models for teaching and learning with technology, developing the professional lives of teachers and diffusing innovation.”

5. ACOT Goals“The goal of ACOT2 is more targeted: to help high schools get closer to creating the kind of learning environment this generation of students needs, wants, and expects so they will stay in school.”

6. ACOT Strategy“The ACOT2 strategy is to offer a simple approach that focuses on the essential design principles for the 21st century high school-rather than a more prescriptive school reform model. While the design principles themselves are not new, what is new is that the complexity that characterizes most education reform models has been cleared away, enabling immediate action and results.”

8. David Dwyer and ACOTImpact of Technology Over TimeAdoption StageStrugglesMay revert to traditional methodsAdaptation StageClear goals lead to improvementsLess use of content software and more of toolsAppropriation StageComfortable enough to forget the technologyChanged to “constructivist” methodsInnovation StageOpened up instructionallyProject-based learningBased on PowerPoint by Karen Work Richardson

9. ExamplesDeveloping a School or District Technology PlanClick Picture

10. Results & Conclusions Enhanced student achievementBasic skills instructionAdvance skill instructionStudent motivationIncreased family involvementImprove teachersImproved schools

11. BibliographyKaren Work Richardson PPTwww.ivyrun.com/education/techclass/techclass_files/techclass.pptNETShttp://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETSACOThttp://ali.apple.com/acot2/program.shtmlNCRELhttp://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/methods/technlgy/te300.htmU.S. Department of Education

12. http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/os/technology/plan/national/benefits.html