• • Educational Technology
    
• Karen Kahan - Unit Manager for Educational Technology

• State Tech Report Card 2008; Texas' Grades include:
  
  • Access to tech - grade was a "C"
    
  • Use of technology - grades was B-
    
  • Capacity to use technology was a C
    
  • Overall grade was a C+
    

NCLB Title 2, Part D New Reporting Requirements

• STaR Chart data
  
• Competitive and formula
  
• Teaching and Learning
  
• Educator Preparation and development
  

• Administrator addressed letter - new requirements--first group to introduce--early part of next week, look out for this letter. This will prepare districts for new reporting requirements.
  
• Requirements include:

• Documentation of meeting the Tech Apps TEKS (K-8) is needed
  
• Assist every student in crossing the digital divide by ensuring that every students is tech literate by the time the student finishes the 8th grade.
  
• Deadline by December 31, 2006 - technology will be fully integrated into the curricula and instruction of schools. This will now be assessed!

• All current educators should strive to meet the SBEC Tech Apps standards for all educators
  
• Standards tie directly to the Tech Apps student standards.

• If adopted, effective 2008-2009 school year:
  
  • Holders of generalist EC-4 certs may teacher Tech Apps in PreK-4
    
  • Holders of Certs valid for Grades 4-8 may teach Tech Apps in an integrated manner in those subjects that the educator is certified to teacher.
    
  • Going to May 22-23, 2008 State Board of Education Meeting

• 2008-2009 grades 9-12
  
• 2009-2010 grades 60-8
  
• 2010-2011 all grades

• Teachers of electronic courses offered by a district or open-enrollment charter school through the network must be certified under Subchapter B, Chapter 21 and are required to successfully complete the approrpiate professional development course authorized by the network before teaching and electronic course offered through network.
  

• Additional or advanced course
  
• Retake courses for grad purposes
  
• Options for courses currently offered in their schools
  
• Increased access to courses because of physical disabilities, esp home-bound kids.

• Must have PD from approved provider before teaching a course
  
• Will receive documentation of course completion of TxVSN
  
• Must be tx certified in curr area they will teach in
  
• Should be briefed on TxVSN Operations
  
• should be aware that they're instructing students statewide

• Pregnant and parenting teens
  
• Homebound students

• Share with admin
  
• Do demos in meetings and at conferences
  
• Show all teachers how they can use dbases to support the TEKS and promote critical thinking
  
• Send a letter home to parents
  
• Attend K-12 Databases training.

• Use a currently available assessment administe:TEKS, and incorporate performance-based measures
  
• Participating district selects grades 5-9
  
• Web Site - http://www.tea.state.tx.us/technology/techlitassessment