Technology in the Classroom

Links to the practical benefits and challenges of integrating technology into regular classroom instruction, and a discussion of the accompanying legal issues. You'll find planning guidelines, pilot projects, and additional resources helpful to the administrator on the Planning for Technology page in our At The District section.

Why Bother?

Integrating Technology in the Classroom

A slide show prepared by Loogootee Community Schools (Indiana) for presentation at the February, 1997, ICE Conference, detailing why they believe technology benefits students and how they successfully integrated it into their K-3 classrooms.
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/slides/integrate/index.html

Telementoring: One Perspective

A graduate student's perspective on the benefits and challenges of telementoring projects. By Kevin O'Neill.
http://nsn.bbn.com/news/newsletters/newsfiles/newsletter12/telementoring.html

Classroom Stories From Technology and School Reform

The experiences of students and teachers at nine schools where the staff was actively involved in technology integration. A research project sponsored by the Department of Education.
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/EdReformStudies/EdTech/

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Issues Affecting Internet Use in Schools

Forewarned, Forearmed

An excellent discussion of the potential problems that come with Internet use in schools and how to prepare for and avoid them. By William A. McIntyre.
http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/mcintyre.htm

Child Safety on the Information Highway

Guidelines for parents and rules for kids. By Lawrence J. Magid, published by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
http://www.safekids.com/child_safety.htm

The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette

Guidelines for responsible and ethical use of the Internet and the World Wide Web. By Arlene H. Rinaldi, Florida Atlantic University.
http://wise.fau.edu/netiquette/net/

10 Big Myths About Copyright Explained

A clarification of some common misconceptions about copyright law and the Internet. By Brad Templeton.
http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

The New Plagiarism

"The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age"--how to tailor classroom assignments to help students effectively use the Internet for research and at the same time avoid the pitfalls of plagiarism (whether purposeful or inadvertent). By Jamie McKenzie, editor of From Now On - the Educational Technology Journal.
http://fno.org/may98/cov98may.html

Electronic Plagiarism

A segment from the Oregon Teachers Network online Internet Academy discusses Web sites designed to help students plagiarize.
http://otn.uoregon.edu/eisenhower/internet_learning/internet/plag.html

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Resources

Integrating Technology into the Classroom

"Integration should align with your goals for your curriculum, not guide what your curriculum will be." A practical guide to integrating technology into *your* classroom by Ken Cardwell, Redmond (OR) School District.
http://www.redmond.k12.or.us/jitt/intro.htm

Learning on the Web... ( PDF )

a Self-Directed Course for Educators. This excellent guide to using the Internet for teaching and learning, from TeleEducation NB (New Brunswick, Canada), includes a general introduction to the Web, example learning scenarios, the "best of the Web"--annotated links to some great educational sites, and sections on creating Web pages, designing learning environments, and Internet issues.
http://teleeducation.nb.ca/content/pdf/english/lotw2002.pdf

Designing Instruction for Web-Based Distance Learning

This online guide from the Distance Learning Resource Network will help you design a course for the Web or convert an existing course into an online course.
http://www.dlrn.org/educ/course.html

Finding the Trees in the Digital Forest

Links to some best sites for learning about: the Web, locating information, evaluating Web sites, curriculum resources, resources for library/media specialists, incorporating technology in instruction, and issues affecting Internet use in schools. Annotated and maintained by Janet Murray (former Telecommunications Chair, Oregon Educational Media Association), Nile C. Kinnick High School, Yokosuka, Japan.
http://surfline.ne.jp/janetm/ascd900.html

The Scout Report

Current issue of the Scout Report, a weekly publication of Net Scout Services, Computer Science Department, Univ. of Wisconsin. A "selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators." Well-annotated.
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/index.html

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