Fall 2006

Planning Retreat Reading Resource

Video Introduction to the Retreat, Dean Duke, RCOE

Here are some links that might be of interest and value to our planning efforts:

Growing Up Digital

http://www.growingupdigital.com/ 

Educating the NetGeneration

http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?page_id=5989&bhcp=1

PEW Internet andAmerican Life Project

http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/113/report_display.asp

Listen to the Natives by Marc Prensky

Schools are stuck in the 20th century. Students have rushed into the 21st. How can schools catch up and provide students with a relevant education?

http://www.ascd.org/authors/ed_lead/el200512_prensky.html

Frances Bradburn, Director of Instructional Technology for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction blogged recently on 21st Century Schools.

http://itdivision.blogspot.com/2006/03/21st-century-schools.html

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/266/

Who are the Millenials ?

http://www.millennialsrising.com/

Some architecture/classroom design links:

NC DPI IMPACT Model resources, http://www.ncwiseowl.org/Impact/TOC.htm

Digital Designs, a complete strategy guide to building digital classrooms, http://www.centerdigitaled.com/story.php?id=100512

Some older TAC links.

REICH COLLEGE OF EDUCATION, STRATEGIC PLAN FOR USES OF TECHNOLOGY, 2000

Document from the ARTTA initiative: Principles Guiding the Implementation of Instructional Technology

Strategic directions in the RCOE

Western Carolina Example- Strategic Plan for Instructional Technology

Questions or comments? Contact John Spagnolo