Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id i47G6om00338; Fri, 7 May 2004 12:06:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 12:06:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1a2.23e1a6e7.2dcd0d36@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: MWPotts2001@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2751] Use Information and Communications Technology X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5015 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Status: O Content-Length: 1666 Lines: 36 Colleagues, The EFF Assessment Team has recently completed the revisions to the EFF Standard: Use Information and Communications Technology. And just in time it seems, as the article below warns that the US is behind in the use of computers and use of the Internet in school settings. Perhaps someone from the Assessment Team will speak to this issue: How can the Adult Education teachers become the leaders in the use of technology in the classroom? TECHNOLOGY COUNTS 2004: GLOBAL LINKS, LESSONS FROM THE WORLD The United States is among the leaders in the world in providing access to school computers, but it lags behind other countries in frequency of school computer use and Internet availability at school, according to Education Week’s seventh annual report on school technology. However, some technology-oriented countries have more than twice the percentage of school computers connected to the Internet than the United States does. "These numbers show that our schools need to move beyond the goal of simply putting computers in classrooms," said Virginia B. Edwards, the editor and publisher of Education Week. This year's report presents an overview of technology in schools around the world, examining developments in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. The special report also includes its annual review of national trends in the use of educational technology and state-by-state snapshots of the steps states have taken to use educational technology more effectively. http://www.edweek.org/sreports/tc04/ All the Best, Meta Potts, Moderator 4-EFF List FOCUS on Literacy Glen Allen, VA mwpotts2001@aol.com
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