70329 Arizona and Technology Counts 2007
Submitted by Ted on Thu, 2007/03/29 - 7:38am.
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Every year Education Week publishes their Technology Counts edition that addresses the statistical eLearningi situation in each state.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/toc/2007/03/29/index.html
This year their theme is the Digital Decade. You can access Arizona’s data at:
http://www.edweek.org/media/ew/tc/2007/AZ_STR2007.pdf
Arizona gets a D- for Access, A for Use and C for Capacity on itsi State Technology Report Card. Overall Grade is C+. Go figure!!!!
To bad they don’t take a systems approach. Their Access criteria are computer in classroom and lab/media center, yes or not. Why not percentage of time that student is engaged learning using digital curriculum. One computer in the back of the room or 50 minutes every 6 school day does not eLearning make. I guess that they have to use the data available.
TECHNOLOGY COUNTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In its 10th annual report, Technology Counts looks back, and ahead, after a decade of enormous upheaval in the educational technology landscape.
FEATURE STORIES
With Internet access now nearly universal in U.S. schools, an important technology-policy goal has been reached. But many other challenges remain.
• E-Rate’s Imprint Seen in Schools
- Teachers and students have used the program to tap resources for learning, to publish their own work on the Web, and to share information worldwide.
The digital aids in many of today's classrooms are giving teachers instructional options unheard-of in the past, but the majority of teachers are not tech savvy.
Dubbed "digital natives" because of their facility with devices that confound their elders, today's students typically use technology more outside school than in.
Reflecting the impact of broader federal education policy, the researchi focus for school technology has shifted from experimentation to effectiveness.
- Technology Counts has chronicled a 10-year period of momentous growth and change in educational technology.
The boom in virtual education, barely a blip 10 years ago, is now posing myriad policy questions as students and teachers do more learning online. [They are still equating eLearning with online learning – and not the more universal meaning: “any learning supported by digital means.” Ted the ed]
More schools are using digital data-analysis tools to spotlight, share, and respond to information on student achievement at a school wide level.
• Digital Portfolios: An Alternative Approach to Assessing Progress
- Student mastery is being tracked on something other than tests.
State Data Analysis
Technology Counts 2007 grades states on leadership in educational technology, and finds wide variation among them in the core areas of access, use, and capacity.
Table PDF | Excel Technology Leaders: Grading the States
• How Education Week Graded the States
- For the Technology Leaders section of Technology Counts 2007, the EPE Research Center collected data on 14 indicators covering three major areas of state technology policy and practice: access, use, and capacity.
• About the EPE Research Center’s Annual State Technology Survey
- To assess state policy and practice in education technology, the EPE Research Center surveyed the chief state technology officials in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia.
- March 29, 2007
Live Chat
Tech Counts 2007: A Digital Decade
Join us for a live chat on Friday, March 30, from noon to 1 p.m. (EST), to talk about the findings in this year's Technology Counts report and how they relate to the use of educational technology over the past decade.
