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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 / [...]

Focusing on Classrooms Rather than Schools

Last weekend at the Podstock 2009 conference in Wichita, Kansas, I was very interested to learn more about Kansas’ Technology Rich Classrooms (TRC) project. This is a competitive grant project utilizing EETT (Enhancing Education through Technology) federal dollars, but instead of focusing on entire school campuses the program focuses on individual CLASSROOMS. According to the [...]

How should your state use EdTech Stimulus Funds?

If you live in the United States, how do you think your state department of education should use forthcoming federal stimulus funds earmarked for educational technology? If you live outside the U.S. how do you think leaders in the states should use these funds, to model best-practices for ICT in the classroom? If the upcoming [...]

U.S. Educational Technology Funding Updates

What was included in the stimulus package recently passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Obama for educational technology? What are the expected funding levels for EETT (Title IID) next year?
One of the best places to turn for answers to these questions is the ISTE Community blog of Hilary Goldman. Her February 13th [...]

Attend NECC for free on ISTE!

Last week I highlighted an opportunity to win a free trip to NECC from NetTrekker. This week I’d like to share another way educators can win a free NECC trip, this time by submitting a digital story to ISTE. The official guidelines explain:
To be entered into the Grand Prize drawing, we are asking members to [...]

Get a scholarship from netTrekker for NECC

The recession is being felt by individuals as well as organizations around the United States, so any opportunity to get financial support for a professional development conference like NECC is likely welcome news to educators everywhere. netTrekker is offering two $1500 scholarships to educators to attend NECC in Washington D.C. this year. Anyone who is [...]