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As more early childhood programs use computers, Internet access, and other digital technologies, teachers often look for examples of adapting and integrating these new technologies to enhance children's learning. This article provides a glimpse into the world of early childhood through the lens of meaningful technology use.

This Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning (HETL) has been designed as a resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities.

Welcome to the workspace for the Horizon.K12 Project, which will produce a report focusing on emerging technology and its applications for K-12 education. This space was created as a place for the members of the Horizon.K12 Advisory Board to manage the process of selecting the topics for the Horizon Report: 2009 K-12 Edition. Horizon.K12 is a new project that applies the process developed for the New Media Consortium's Horizon Project with a focus on emerging technologies for elementary and secondary learning institutions. Members of the K-12 education community are encouraged to follow the Advisory Board's progress as the discussion unfolds and to use the wiki as a resource and reference tool.

"Technology is an integral and growing part of daily living in the twenty-first century. The challenge, then, for teachers, is to use technology effectively in classrooms to help students take ownership for learning and develop the practical and critical thinking skills necessary to better understand the world around them."

Technology isn't a "tool".....it's part of the ecology. Blog post from Kim Cofino

The purpose of this course is to provide "Just in Time" training through an online interface for K-12 educators based on the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T). These standards are the basic technology skills every educator should possess. In the process, educators will develop their own skills and discover what students need in order to meet the NETS for Students, as well as the new MMC Online Experience requirement. Participants who fulfill all of the requirements have the opportunity to earn SBCEU's. To learn more about the session, look under the tab "The 21 Things". We hope you take advantage of this unique opportunity.

Obama administration National Ed Tech Plan proposed in March 2009

Over the past few years, I have been collecting interesting Internet videos that would be appropriate for lessons and presentations, or personal research, related to technological and media literacy. Here are 70+ videos organized into various sub-categories. These videos are of varying quality, cross several genres, and are of varied suitability for classroom use.

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader and it has begun releasing its talks online under a Creative Commons license so that they can be downloaded for free for non-commercial use. Their applications for education are endless. The purpose of this wiki is to share ideas how these talks can turn into broader discussions, projects, and actions

education, literacy, pln, technology, warlick

"The Concord Consortium undertakes innovative projects that bridge the gap between research and practice. Some projects are at the level of nuts-and-bolts technology, while others focus on learners. In all cases our projects strive to create new structures for learning and are strategically placed to achieve important long-term goals."

"Extended interviews with educators on the meaning of "21st century literacies," recommendations for using new technologies, and ideas for updating lesson plans to support 21st century learning. "

A blog post on Tips, Tools and Technology for Educators that suggests 6 sites that promote educational gaming. Quality varies.

"Challenge Based Learning applies what is known about the emerging learning styles of high school students and leverages the powerful new technologies that provide new opportunities to learn to provide an authentic learning process that challenges students to make a difference."

"Examining the role of new media and technology in shaping the future of education"

A very interesting video from Jon Udell analyzing the development of a wikipedia article. This demonstrates how technology allows for the collaborative creation of knowledge, even around niche topics.

In this film, Larry Rosenstock, describes a vision for educaiton that blends the head, the heart, and the hands. High Tech High embraces learning that flows from personal interests, passion for discovery and a celebration of art, technology and craftsmanship.

How can we use new media to foster the kinds of communication and community we desire in education? This presentation discusses both successful and unsuccessful attempts to integrate emerging technologies into the classroom to create a rich virtual learning environment

New technologies and a closely related culture of collaboration present radical new models of social organisation. This project brings together leading practitioners and thinkers in this field and asks them to determine the opportunity for government.