The National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Project goal is to develop standards that will guide educational leaders in planning for effective use of technology to support learning, teaching, and educational management.

Prairienet is a member- and donation-supported community network serving Champaign-Urbana and the surrounding East-Central Illinois region, and host to hundreds of community organizations and small businesses. The Prairienet Community Network is a community service of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Libraries, in Texas and around the world, provide access to a variety of resources including the Internet. By increasing your information literacy skills, you can more effectively select, search and evaluate those sources. This interactive library tutorial, created by the Digital Information Literacy Office at the University of Texas at Austin, will prepare you to explore in the online world.

TeenLit.com is dedicated to publishing teen writing, as well as book reviews by teenagers. Teachers and parents of adolescents will find useful information. Teen and teacher discussions, author home pages, and more ...

D-Lib Magazine December 1999 Volume 5 Number 12 ISSN 1082-9873 Free at Last: The Future of Peer-Reviewed Journals Stevan Harnad Professor of Cognitive Science Department of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton harnad@cogsci.soton.ac.uk http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ ...

Information Literacy as a Liberal Art Enlightenment proposals for a new curriculum By Jeremy J. Shapiro and Shelley K. Hughes Sequence: Volume 31, Number 2 Release Date: March/April 1996 What does a person need to know today to be a full-fledged, competent and literate member of the information society As we witness not only the saturation of our daily lives with information organized and ...

New telecommunications and information technologies are radically transforming the world in which colleges and universities operate. They are accelerating changes in the higher education marketplace, presenting at the same time revolutionary tools with the potential to make education more effective, more cost-effective, and more widely available. What are the real opportunities and challenges

Critical Thinking in an Online World Debra Jones Internet Librarian Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA Copyright 1996, Debra Jones. Used with permission. Abstract In a rapidly evolving information technology era, librarians find their foundations of professionalism shaken. Critically evaluating the intrinsic role of the librarian reveals our responsibility for the education of independent information ...

White Papers on Technology Issues for Educators Spring 1999 Revised: Summer 2002 During the Spring semester of 1999, a course was offered at the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign as part of an online Masters program called CTER: Curriculum, Technology, and Educational Reform. This course, Educational Policy Studies 304: Ethical and Policy Issues in Information Technologies, included an ...

Virtual School in a Networking Learning Environment Tella, Seppo (1995) Department of Teacher Education University of Helsinki OLE Publications 1 The OLE Publications of the Helsinki University Department of Teacher Education was launched in late 1995 in order to give a forum for teachers and researchers to publish articles in English, French or German on themes and topics connected to the OLE ...

ICT, as used in New Zealand is a tool to enhance teaching and learning. This site focuses on how ICT can be sued to facilitate higher thinking.

Technology CyberTrends Professor John M. McCann Fuqua School of Business Duke University Additions to this document since November 6, 1997 are preceded with the icon. This document contains a list of trends I have identified based upon quotes from managers, professionals, consultants, journalists, futurists, and educators who study the technologies that are driving the digital revolution, ...

Article about FUTUREKIDS South Florida in the Miami Herald Futurekids Partner Schools Futurekids Summer 2002 (Word Document) a Principal an Administrator a Tech Coordinator a Media Specialist a Teacher a Kid a H.S. Student an Adult a Professional a Parent a PTA Member a Journalist School Solutions Public Schools Private Schools School Tech. Sols Turnkey Sol School Sol. FAQ ----- Tech Planning ...

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Rality, iteracy, and the Future of Computer-Mediated Communication I suspect that Ong is correct that a new orality is emerging in the Electronic Age. -Robert M. Fowler, 1994 ith the continued emergence of new forms of electronic communication, speculation has increased about the future of human interaction and the ways in which the new media will influence that interaction. As with any new ...

Selected Papers by Robert W. Lucky ...

The Boston Phoenix July 22 - 29, 1999 Cult of the Palm Pilot When the Internet invades our shirt pockets, it's time to worry by Dan Kennedy I'm sitting on a plane bound for Austin. In my left hand is a Palm Pilot, the shirt-pocket-sized computer that's become a cultural phenomenon (nearly three million sold) since its introduction in 1996. And I'm reading from it -- not just a to-do list, not a ...