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Evening reading with the iPod Touch

Here’s a new sight around our house this summer: My 11 year old son reading in bed using his iPod Touch. He just finished reading “Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson over the weekend thanks to Project Gutenberg, and is now starting “Animal Farm” by George Orwell. These are two of the required summer reading [...]

How does your state measure tech literacy?

Tis the season for educational technology grant writing, now that ARRA funds have been released and many states have announced competitive grant programs for disbursing these funds to schools. In Texas, the “Target Tech in Texas (T3) Collaborative Grant” program was announced in May to provide $28 million in educational technology funds to schools striving [...]

Tell us How Your School will Spend ARRA Dollars

We are beginning to hear from schools and districts around the country as to how ARRA dollars will be used toward school and classroom technology advances and professional development. For example, a district in West Virginia “hopes to use additional Title I funding to upgrade classroom equipment, hire professional personnel, support extended school year initiatives and provide [...]

The American Recovery Reinvestment Act Interview with Hilary Goldmann

If you are an educator, a parent of a student, or just an involved citizen, then you need to be thinking about how the American Recovery Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds are going to be spent in your district and school. Realizing that this topic is immensely important, and in many ways as equally confusing, I decided to [...]

If Obama doesn’t really care about 21st century skills, perhaps EETT proposed cuts don’t matter?

How jaded are you when it comes to school reform / transformation efforts, particularly when it comes to educational technology? Thursday President Obama proposed a cut in 2009-2010 EETT funding (the TitleIID, Enhancing Education through Technology program) from $269 million to $100 million. Hillary Goldman is surprised, quoting the joint ISTE / COSN / [...]

ISTE Funding Webinar available free

ISTE has made the webinar archive available from its April 2, 2009 members-only event, “So the Stimulus Passed, Now What?” available to anyone, for free. Click here to launch Adobe Acrobat Pro Meeting and view the archived event.
Webinar panelists provided detailed information about education program funds in the stimulus package, including timing and guidelines as [...]