Educational Technology

Use of technology as an educational tool and resource.

Resources in this category:

CARET: Center for Applied Research in Education Technology
http://caret.iste.org/

A project focused on developing educational technology research and studies that can be applied to areas such as student learning, curriculum and instruction and assessment and evaluation. For example: how can technology influence student academic performance? CARET is a collaboration between the International Society for Technology in Education, Education Support Systems, the Sacramento County Office of Education with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Community Learning Network
http://www.cln.org/

"The Community Learning Network WWW home page is designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. It has over 265 menu pages with more than 5,800 annotated links to free resources on educational WWW sites -- all organized within an intuitive structure. Since September of 1996, visitors from 165 different countries have made over 16 million hits on the CLN Web site."

Curriki
http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/

Community edited resource for educators to find and submit lesson plans, assignments, lectures, and a variety of other educational materials. Covers wide range of subjects and age/grade levels. Searchable.

Digital Divide Network
http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/

An Internet community dedicated to working to bridge the digital divide. Contains different groups (such as Literacy & Learning) and provides articles, blogs, discussion boards, and lists of events.

Educational Technology News
http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/et/blogger.html

A blog published Ray Schroeder, the director of the Office of Technology & Enhanced Learning at University of Illinois-Springfield. Mr. Schroeder publishes relevant news he finds in the areas of educational technologies, education, and online learning.

Encyclopedia of Educational Technology
http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/

The EET is a large series of articles utilizing text, pictures, and video, focused on educational technology laid out in a manner similar to a more typical encyclopedia. It is published by San Diego State University.

Harnessing the Power of the Web
http://www.gsn.org/web/

Global SchoolNet is a non-profit, public service organization that focuses on using communications technologies to support learning. This site gives K-12 teachers suggestions on how to incorporate the Web into student-centered, project-based learning.

Microsoft Education - Lesson Plans
http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.mspx

"Looking for some great ideas on how to integrate technology into your curriculum? Search our lesson plans, and explore the resources below." Lesson plans here can be searched by grade level, theme, or learning area.

Pathways to School Improvement
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/

Pathways synthesizes research, policy, and best practices on issues critical to educators engaged in school improvement, such as assessment, at-risk students, family & community, instruction, leadership, literacy, mathematics & science, policy, professional development, and technology in education, as well as access to archived favorites.

Teachers' Domain
http://www.teachersdomain.org/

"The Teachers' Domain collections include classroom-ready multimedia resources for use in lessons or independent study." Find video, audio, interactives, images, documents, explanatory background articles, correlations to U.S. state and national curriculum standards, media-rich lesson plans, and resource management tools. Free registration required.