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Technology and the Educational Workplace

Understanding Fiscal Impacts 1997 AEFA Yearbook

By: Kathleen C. Westbrook

This volume focuses on the power of technology to improve education and to create global educational environments. The contributors present exciting new programs for training administrators and teachers, and makes clear the possibilities that technology brings to the lives of researchers and policymakers.

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780803965614
Published By: Corwin
Series: Yearbook of the American Education Finance Association
Year: 1998
Page Count: 224
Publication date: August 31, 1998

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If you're interested in how education and technology can work together to improve relations in the "global village," you'll want to read this book. Here is the latest research on how technology can improve education and help create a worldwide educational environment. Chapter authors discuss various ways in which technology is changing education. They explore exciting new programs for training administrators and teachers how to use, teach, supervise, and get the most from the technology in their schools. You'll gain insights on how to develop the negotiating skills to obtain funds to implement and run your technological programs. Find out how to ensure a technologically-advantaged education for all your students. Learn strategies you can use to overcome technology-resistance from staff, parents, and students.

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Kathleen C. Westbrook

Table of Contents

Preface

PART ONE: POLICY CHANGES FACING THE GLOBAL VILLAGE

The GINIE Project

Responsible Neighbors, Many Generations

State Financing of International Higher Education Partnerships for Trade and Development

Education, Technology and the Social/Economic Order

PART TWO: NATIONAL AND STATE ISSUES

Common `Mythstakes' in Technology Planning

The Coming Crisis in Student Access to Educational Technology

Revisioning the State and Federal Roles in Funding

Teachers and Parents without School Buildings

How Teacher Unions Can Use Technology Creatively

PART THREE: CURRICULUM, TRAINING AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT

At a Distance

Using Technology in Distributed Learning in Higher Education

Technology and Change in School Administrator Preparation

Preparing Teachers to Teach with Technology

The Costs and Benefits of Developing an Electronic Community of Learners

Images of the Future

Crystal Ball Gazing and Technology Policy making

Bits n' Bytes

Epilogue and Prologue

Other Titles in: Administration & Leadership | Finance/Funding/Grantwriting | Technology

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