Other Sites About Computers in Schools

Visit the Microsoft sponsored site for teachers around the world involved with creative ways to use laptop computers, Anywhere, Anytime Learning. You will find information about how to start a laptop program and how to use the laptops once you have them in your classroom. For example, they provide a paper on "Introducing Parents To Your School's Laptop Program."

The United State Department of Education Office of Educational Technology (OET) encourages and leads education improvement efforts by helping educators, congressional leaders, and administrators utilize available resources to reshape instruction, teaching, and learning environments.

SNAP, the Student Notebook Access Plan is a partnership between Toshiba, Australian Schools, and resellers created to promote the use of laptop computers in education.

The Global Schoolhouse is a resource sponsored by Lightspan.com  If you need ideas on what to do with your computers once they are connected to the Internet, take a look at these links.

The purchase price of a computer is only a fraction of the true cost of bringing a computer into your school. For a paper on the Total Cost of Ownership of Computers in Schools, see the Consortium for School Networking.

The book, "Growing Up Digital" by Don Tapscott has a companion web site. The book examines the differences between the children growing up today who live in a world where digital computers are common items and their parents' generation. Other interesting items from this author can be found via his web site.

The Bonhoeffer Foundation is supporting The Copernicus Project. It is is a cooperative effort of seven school districts across Washington State designed to alter the education of thousands of students by placing laptop computers in their hands.

The Detwiler Foundation has a "Computers For Schools Program" that is bringing donated new and used computers to schools. They started in California and are now expanding nationwide. Information about them can be found via the Madera County Office of Education and Los Angeles Educational Partnership.

The CEO Forum on Education and Technology is an organization of education and business leaders. Their mission statements says that they exist "to help ensure that every child in the United States is equipped with the essential technological, critical thinking, and communications skills necessary to compete in the 21st century."

The Information network of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (InSITE) is a site dedicated to exploring ways in which the Internet can benefit teacher education programs around the world.

Classroom Connect provides information and links about the use of the Internet in grades K - 12.

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