Every year Education Week publishes their Technology Counts edition that addresses the statistical eLearningi [0] situation in each state.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/toc/2007/03/29/index.html [1]
This year their theme is the Digital Decade. You can access Arizona’s data at:
http://www.edweek.org/media/ew/tc/2007/AZ_STR2007.pdf [2]
Arizona gets a D- for Access, A for Use and C for Capacity on itsi [2] State Technology Report Card. Overall Grade is C+. Go figure!!!!
To bad they don’t take a systems approach. Their Access criteria are computer in classroom and lab/media center, yes or not. Why not percentage of time that student is engaged learning using digital curriculum. One computer in the back of the room or 50 minutes every 6 school day does not eLearning make. I guess that they have to use the data available.
TECHNOLOGY COUNTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A Digital Decade [3]
In its 10th annual report, Technology Counts looks back, and ahead, after a decade of enormous upheaval in the educational technology landscape.
FEATURE STORIES
Getting Up to Speed [4]
With Internet access now nearly universal in U.S. schools, an important technology-policy goal has been reached. But many other challenges remain.
• E-Rate’s Imprint Seen in Schools [5]
- Teachers and students have used the program to tap resources for learning, to publish their own work on the Web, and to share information worldwide.
Teaching Assistants [6]
The digital aids in many of today's classrooms are giving teachers instructional options unheard-of in the past, but the majority of teachers are not tech savvy.
Outside Interests [7]
Dubbed "digital natives" because of their facility with devices that confound their elders, today's students typically use technology more outside school than in.
Collecting Evidence [8]
Reflecting the impact of broader federal education policy, the researchi [8] focus for school technology has shifted from experimentation to effectiveness.
• Technology Counts, Times 10 [9]
- Technology Counts has chronicled a 10-year period of momentous growth and change in educational technology.
E-Learning Curve [10]
The boom in virtual education, barely a blip 10 years ago, is now posing myriad policy questions as students and teachers do more learning online. [They are still equating eLearning with online learning – and not the more universal meaning: “any learning supported by digital means.” Ted the ed]
Information Exchange [11]
More schools are using digital data-analysis tools to spotlight, share, and respond to information on student achievement at a school wide level.
• Digital Portfolios: An Alternative Approach to Assessing Progress [12]
- Student mastery is being tracked on something other than tests.
State Data Analysis
Tracking U.S. Trends [13]
Technology Counts 2007 grades states on leadership in educational technology, and finds wide variation among them in the core areas of access, use, and capacity.
Table PDF [14] | Excel [15] Technology Leaders: Grading the States
• How Education Week Graded the States [16]
- For the Technology Leaders section of Technology Counts 2007, the EPE Research Center collected data on 14 indicators covering three major areas of state technology policy and practice: access, use, and capacity.
• Sources and Notes [17]
• About the EPE Research Center’s Annual State Technology Survey [18]
- To assess state policy and practice in education technology, the EPE Research Center surveyed the chief state technology officials in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia.
- March 29, 2007
Live Chat
Tech Counts 2007: A Digital Decade [19]
Join us for a live chat on Friday, March 30, from noon to 1 p.m. (EST), to talk about the findings in this year's Technology Counts report and how they relate to the use of educational technology over the past decade.
Submit a question. [20]