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Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, 2008
The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education shares the Governor's concern about the need to prepare students for the 21st century economy. Technology has the power to enhance students' learning, engage them, and ultimately prepare them for the competitive world beyond school. In order to prepare students for their future in this increasingly…
Descriptors: Technology Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Technology, Technology Integration
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Buraphadeja, Vasa; Kumnuanta, Jirang – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
In its second decade of education reform and its third cycle of national ICT master plans, Thailand struggles to transform its aspirations into practice. This paper chronicles three decades of Thailand's ICT national plans and their relation to education reform. It also discusses the effect of global trends, Asian cultures, and Thai cultures on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Asian Culture
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Carlson, Randal D. – NASSP Bulletin, 1999
Policies affecting school technology exist at federal, state, and local governmental levels. This article describes a cyclical process to guide policy formation once goals have been formulated. Steps include collecting data, determining the guidance needed, identifying resources, setting priorities, developing policy, and evaluating the policy…
Descriptors: Budgets, Educational Policy, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education
Stevenson, Kenneth R. – National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities, 2010
What does the future hold for educators and facilities professionals when it comes to planning, building, funding, and operating school facilities? No one can absolutely know beforehand. However, there are many, many indicators of where public education in the United States may well be destined. These indicators take the form of already occurring…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, School Size, Educational Change, Public Education
National Coalition for Technology in Education & Training. – 1997
This report, an update of the National Coalition for Technology Education and Training's (NCTET) 1994 "National Information Infrastructure Requirements for Education and Training," is intended to serve as a guide for national and state policy makers and planners concerned with the role of technology in education. It begins with a review…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning, Educational Policy
Texas State Comptroller of Public Accounts, Austin. – 2000
This report discusses the following "Top 10" ways to make technology work for schools: (1) develop long and short-range plans and budgets--don't fly blind; (2) create policies, procedures, and standards--the bedrock of effective technological change; (3) know what you need before you buy it; (4) apply the "Yellow Pages test"…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Educational Technology
Randall, Cindy H. – 2001
According to data from the Campus Computing Project, an independent annual survey of colleges' information technology plans, less than 10 percent of colleges and universities currently require students to have their own computers. ("Growing Number of Colleges...," 2000) However, as universities fight to secure a competitive advantage for…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Computers, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning
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Hawkins, Brian L. – EDUCAUSE Review, 2007
In the spring of 2005, the author, the retiring president of EDUCAUSE, was asked to be the keynote speaker at the EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference. The conference theme was "Winds of Change: Charting the Course for Technology in Challenging Times." What that brought to his mind was the era of the great sailing ships of the eighteenth and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Information Technology, Educational Trends, Educational Technology
Hinchey, Patricia H. – Education Policy Research Unit, 2006
In January 2005, then-Secretary of Education Rod Paige submitted the Department of Education's revised National Education Technology Plan (NETP) to Congress in compliance with the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). The plan, titled "Toward a New Golden Age in American Education," recommends seven "Action Steps" urging…
Descriptors: Technology Planning, Educational Technology, Privatization, Federal Legislation
Reilly, Rob – MultiMedia Schools, 1999
Examines how educational technology's architecture preempts policy decisions, discussing filtering, copyright, and password protection. Outlines four aspects of technology that must be understood before crafting policy: (1) identify critical issues; (2) anticipate vicarious results; (3) explore the range of policies; (4) consider stakeholders'…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Copyrights, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Moll, Marita, Ed. – 1997
If the public policy goal to connect all schools to the information highway becomes a reality, public education as Canadians have known it--a shared social responsibility and a generally shared social experience--could be lost. This volume of contributed papers brings into focus the new context within which the struggle to technologize education…
Descriptors: Automation, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Mississippi State Dept. of Education, Jackson. Office of Educational Technology. – 2001
The infusion of education technology into Mississippi schools is integral to promoting higher order learning processes by students. The State of Mississippi iscommitted to ensuring that all learners have equitable opportunities to employ a variety of technological tools to enhance the learning process. To provide support for the planning process,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Development, Educational Planning
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Smolin, Louanne; Lawless, Kimberly; Dede, Chris; Jones, Steve; Johnson-Yale, Camille; Perez, Francisco Seoane; Schuler, Jessica; Pellegrino, James W.; Goldman, Susan R.; Bertenthal, Meryl; Lawless, Kimberly; Vrasidas, Charalambos; Glass, Gene V.; Haertel, Geneva D.; Means, Barbara; Penuel, William; Goldmann, Hilary; Warschauer, Mark; Tettegah, Sharon; Whang, Eun Won; Collins, Nakia; Taylor, Kona; Vasquez, Olga A.; Burbules, Nicholas C. – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2007
There is little dispute that technology has transformed people's everyday lives. People shop online, download news in their iPods, communicate via text and video, take digital photos, and conduct all manner of personal and professional business via the Internet. While these technologies have afforded new opportunities to improve efficiency,…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Access to Information, Educational Change, Educational Technology
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Muhirwa, Jean-Marie – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2009
Distance education and information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been marketed as cost-effective ways to rescue struggling educational institutions in developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This study uses classroom video analysis and follow-up interviews with teachers, students, and local tutors to analyse…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Conflict, Interaction, Foreign Countries
White, Noel; Ringstaff, Cathy; Kelley, Loretta – 2002
Spending on computer-based technology in schools continues to grow, based on an expectation that student learning will follow suit, yet, many educators and policymakers are still unsure of how to get the most return on this investment. Research shows that in addition to monetary investments, substantial planning and organization are required if…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Computer Uses in Education, Costs, Educational Administration
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