Technology Planning Resources

Print Resources

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction - Publication Sales
Drawer 179, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53293-0179
Contact: (800) 243-8782
E-mail: pubsales@dpi.wi.gov

Dealing With Selection and Censorship: A Handbook for Wisconsin Schools & Libraries. No. 0046, 1999, 63 pp. This handbook is intended to provide information and resources to help librarians and educators establish policies and procedures to guide them as they develop collections, provide Internet access, and handle challenges to resources.

Information and Technology Literacy: A Collaborative Planning Guide for Library Media and Technology. No. 02107, 2002, 80 pp. The intent of this publication is to provide schools with guidelines for collaborative planning and ideas for a unified, rather than competing, approach to the delivery of information and technology programming.

Information & Technology Literacy Standards Matrix. No. 0332, 2000, 264 pp. This publication will help library media specialists, instructional technology coordinators, curriculum directors, and teachers identify where specific information and technology competencies might fit best into the assessed subject areas.

Wisconsin Educational Information and Technology Plan, PK-12. No. 4035, 2003, 115 pp. This publication is not about wire, cable and computers, but focuses instead on students, teachers, and learning institutions. The desired outcome of this plan is to strengthen teaching and learning using technology, and for the use of technology to become seamless and institutionalized.

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL)
1900 Spring Road, Suite 300, Oak Brook, Illinois 60521
Contact: (800) 356-2735

Critical Issue: Promoting Technology Use In Schools
Many obstacles to implementation of educational technology still exist--equipment placed in not easily accessible locations, hardware and software problems, unavailable tech support. Teachers may lack time or motivation to learn technology skills. Professional development activites may not provide ongoing hands-on training or practical strategies for implementing technology into lesson plans. Initial technology funding may not be sustained to provide upgrades, maintenance, and ongoing professional development. Fortunately these obstacles can be addressed and overcome. This Critical Issue provides practical information for promoting technology use in schools.

Critical Issue: Technology Leadership: Enhancing Positive Educational Change
Knowledgeable and effective school leaders are extremely important in determining whether technology use will improve learning for all students. School administrators may be uncomfortable providing leadership in technology areas, however. They may believe their own knowledge is inadequate to make meaningful recommendaitons. This Critical Issue focuses on leadership qualities of superintendents and principals, responses to change, and effective uses of technology as major themes associated with technology leadership.

Learning Through Technology: A Planning and Implementation Guide
This guide is designed to assist school districts with the planning process. It provides research overviews, quality examples where appropriate, and references to other resources that will help with the planning task.

A Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Teaching and Learning with Technology on Student Outcomes
In 2002, NCREL commissioned a meta-analysis to study the effects of teaching and learning with technology on student outcomes. That paper calculated 138 effect sizes using data from 20 research studies representing a combined sample of approximately 4,400 students. In 2003, the study was extended to include data representing a combined sample of approximately 7,000 students.

National Educational Technology Standards (NETS): Rubrics
The purpose of this publication is to define four achievement levels in relation to the NETS. The rubric was developed to assist state and district leaders in their efforts to measure and monitor the development of student technology literacy throughout the elementary and secondary grades.

Planning for Data-Driven Decisions About Technology
This resource, also known as Planning for D3T, will help school improvement teams generate a comprehensive technology evaluation plan and can be used by adminstrators for allocating resources and by technology and curriculum coordinators involved in technology infusion. This resource asks school improvement teams to evalute technology from three perspectives: the systemic organization, the teaching practice, and student learning.

Scoring Guide for Student Products was created to evaluate the content knowledge and the effective use of technology in communicating ideas and information that is evident in the products that students create with computers.

Teacher Education and Technology Planning Guide
This guide provides a framework of eight key categories for assessing the readiness levels of teacher education programs to ensure that their students graduate with the knowledge, skills, and predispositions for teaching effectively with technology in any setting.

Electronic Resources

Educational Institutions
National School Board Association (NSBA)
NSBA's site offers technology planning tools including the Educational Leadership Toolkit, a free online planning resource for school boards and education leaders.

National Center for Technology Planning (NCTP)
Information on technology articles, external Web links to planning resources, state technology plans, school district technology plans, building-level technology plans, higher education, regional, national, and city technology plans, and technology planning aids.

Northwest Educational Technology Consortium
NETC is a consortium that provides professional development opportunities, access to technical assistance, and support for collegial interaction that allow and encourage educators throughout their region, especially in K-12 schools, to become informed and critical users of technology.

Library Resources
Wisconsin Library Technology Strategic Plan

For questions about this information, contact Donna C. Steffan (608) 267-1282
Last updated on 7/22/2009 8:03:25 AM