ERIC Number: ED471140
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2001
Pages: 27
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Factors Influencing the Effective Use of Technology for Teaching and Learning: Lessons Learned from the SEIR-TEC Intensive Site Schools. 2nd Edition.
Byrom, Elizabeth; Bingham, Margaret
From 1995 to 2000, the SouthEast Initiatives Regional Technology in Education Consortium (SEIR-TEC) provided technical assistance and professional development to 12 schools, referred to as intensive sites. Typically, this effort entailed a member of the SEIR-TEC staff spending three or four days per month working with teachers and administrators on various aspects of technology integration, especially professional development and technical assistance. The nature and extent of the initiatives were determined in large measure by the needs of local teachers and administrators, such as technology planning, teaching with technology, and program evaluation. Most of the intensive sites have made substantial progress toward technology adoption and integration. This booklet sheds some light on factors that influence technology adoption by sharing some of the lessons learned and observations made from work with resource-poor schools across the region. Accompanying each of the eight lessons are suggested steps that educators might take in order to move their technology programs forward and a story from one of the SEIR-TEC intensive site schools. (Contains 14 references.) (AEF)
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: SERVE: SouthEastern Regional Vision for Education, Greensboro, NC.; SouthEast and Islands Regional Technology in Education Consortium, Durham, NC.
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