Preparing Teachers for the High-Tech Classroom

Teachers' unions, education schools, K-12 administrators,
and government are scrambling to teach educators the
technology skills many of their students already have

By Clorinda Valenti

Resources and Further Information:

Charlotte Country Day School, 1440 Carmel Rd., Charlotte, NC 28226; tel: 704-943-4500. www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us/

Focus on Technology. A web page by the National Education Association (NEA). www.nea.org/cet/index_educator.html

Generation www.Y. Dennis Harper, Project Director; tel: 360-753-8835. http://geN.W.hy.wednet.edu/

Mission Viejo Elementary School, 3855 South Alicia Pkwy., Aurora, CO 80013; tel: 303-693-0611. http://missionpossible.ccsd.k12.co.us/

National Teacher Training Institute (NTTI), Thirteen/WNET, 450 W. 33rd St., New York, NY 10001; tel: 212-560-2922; fax: 212-560-6992. www.wnet.org:80/wnetschool/ntti/index.html

"New Teachers and Technology" and "Technology in Education 1999," both by Market Data Retrieval, One Forest Pkwy., P.O. Box 907, Shelton, CT 06484-0907; tel: 800-333-8802; fax:203-926-0784; e-mail: mdrinfo@dnb.com. www.schooldata.com

Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology. U.S. Department of Education, 1990 K St., N.W., Room 6156, Washington, DC 20006-8526; tel: 202-502-7788; fax: 202-502-7775. www.ed.gov/offices/OPE/PPI/teachtech/index.html

Rockland Teachers’ Center Institute, 65 Chapel St., Garnerville, NY 10923; tel: 914-942-2513; fax: 914-942-1805. www.rockteach.org

School Technology and Readiness. A series of reports from the CEO Forum on Education and Technology, 1341 G Street, N.W., Suite 1100, Washington, DC 20005; tel: 202-585-0208. www.ceoforum.org/reports.cfm

Socorro Independent School District, 12300 Eastlake, Socorro, TX 79927; tel: 915-860-3400. www.socorro.k12.tx.us

Technology Counts ’99: Building the Digital Curriculum. A report by Education Week, 6935 Arlington Rd., Suite 100, Bethesda, MD 20814-5233; tel: 301-280-3100; fax: 301-280-3250; e-mail: ITO_STAFF1@ed.gov. www.edweek.org

Technology Innovation Challenge Grant Program, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC 20208-5544; tel: 202-208-3882; fax: 202-208-4042. www.ed.gov/Technology/challenge/

Edith Winthrop Teacher Center of Westchester, 457 Hartsdale Ave., Hartsdale, NY 10530; tel: 914-761-6000; fax: 914-761-8854. www.greenburgh.k12.ny.us/wtc/wtc.htm

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