The K20CETC: K-20 California Educational Technology Collaborative

Annual Internet Survey by the Center for the Digital Future -- USC Center for the Digital Future • (Published 2008): Are Americans becoming more concerned about the role the Internet plays in children's lives? The 2008 Digital Future Project has identified several sobering trends in views about going online -- in particular in adults' opinions about Internet use by children. "In general, opinions about the Internet remain overwhelmingly positive," said Jeffrey I. Cole, director of the Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. "But after seven years of tracking the impact of the Internet, we are also seeing evolving trends which show that adults view some aspects of going online by children to be as troubling as their use of other media -- or even potentially dangerous."
Lost in Transition: Building a Better Path from School to College and Careers -- Southern Regional Education Board • (Published 2008): A new report from the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) raises concern about the "career readiness" of young adults in America and recommends that schools, school districts and states do a better job in providing career guidance and information and assisting students in the transition to technical studies on their way to the workforce. "Lost in Transition: Building a Better Path from School to College and Careers" promotes a better balance in services afforded college-bound and career-bound students and points to the role of community colleges in responding to the needs of students not being adequately addressed by the existing programs.
STEM: The Push To Improve Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics -- Education Week • (Published March 2008): Business leaders, governors, and others are urging a redoubled commitment to strengthening U.S. students. preparation to succeed in the subjects known by the increasingly familiar shorthand of STEM. Included are articles, case studies, and individual state reports.
A Blueprint for Big Broadband -- EDUCAUSE • (Published January 2008): The United States is facing a crisis in broadband connectivity. The demand for bandwidth is accelerating well beyond the capacity of our current broadband networks, especially as video traffic and home.based businesses become more prevalent. In the very near future, a single family will be watching HDTV video at the same that they engage in remote health monitoring, videoconferencing, gaming, distance education class lectures, and social networking. Moore.s Law, as well as several studies of future Internet growth, predicts that homes and businesses will need a minimum of ...
The State of Connectivity: Building innovation through broadband -- CA Broadband Task Force • (Published January 2008.): As a result of Executive Order S-23-06, the California Broadband Task Force ... spent [2007] identifying opportunities for -- and challenges to -- broadband deployment and adoption. The enclosed report represents the culmination of that work, including maps of current broadband availability and speed, recommendations to achieve ubiquitous access and increased use, and a timeframe in which to meet these critical goals.
Technology in Schools: What the research says -- Cisco Systems • (Published Fall 2006.): Three decades after the first computer was introduced into school classrooms, educational technology remains surprisingly controversial. This paper provides a forum for informed use of technology in the context of emergent research from the learning sciences. Today's schools cite a myriad of purposes for technology in schools, including improved teaching, leadership, and decision making, as well as the following student-focused purposes ...