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Educational Technology
Research
Research is a crucial
part of looking at the effect that technology has on teaching and learning.
The following sites offer many slices of how technology is being used
as a powerful instrument of change in 21st century schools.
Center
for Children & Technology
For more than two decades, the Center for Children and Technology has
been investigating how technology can make a difference in children's
classrooms, schools and communities.
Future
of Learning Group
The Future of Learning Group
explores how new technologies can enable new ways of thinking, learning,
and designing. The group creates new "tools to think with" and
explores how these tools can help bring about change in real-world settings,
such as schools, museums, and under-served communities.
WestEd
From database design to creating online communities, from interactive
textbooks to distance learning curricula, WestEd helps educators and students
make full use of new technology. Among our largest efforts are projects
that promote the power of educational networks and that focus on improving
technology use by disadvantaged schools and students.
Milken
Family Foundation - Education Technology
The Milken Family Foundation was established by brothers Lowell and Michael
Milken in 1982 with the mission to discover and advance inventive and
effective ways of helping people help themselves and those around them
lead productive and satisfying lives, including projects in education
and technology.
Center
For Learning in Technology
CTL's research and development seeks to advance theory and research on
effective learning and teaching, and to embody these insights in the innovative
design, use, and assessment of interactive learning environments. Much
of their work is conducted in real educational settings, such as classrooms
and teacher education programs.
Thornburg
Center
The Thornburg Center was founded by one of the national leaders in educational
technology, Dr. David Thornburg. The web site features access to resources
from many of the great minds in the field of educational technology.
Regional
Educational Laboratories
The nation's network of support
for research-based school reform including educational technology.
ED Office of Educational Technology
The U.S. Department of Education's
Office of Educational Technology (OET) develops national educational technology
policy and implements this policy through Department-wide educational
technology programs.
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