K-12 Programs

Since 2003, the Speak Up National Research Project has collected authentic feedback about technology and education from over 1.1 million K–12 students. Learn about the expectations of today's digital learners for 21st-century learning environments, and how you can be prepared to address the technology needs of your future students.

The Collaboratory Project is a Northwestern University initiative that provides web-based resources, tools, and services for K–12 teachers and their students. Students use the Collaboratory to create, share, discuss, and publish short stories, annotated research, and journals in web-based document templates using a variety of media. Students are publishing for an audience of peers.

PrimaryAccess (www.primaryaccess.org) www.primaryaccess.org is a Web 2.0 digital tool developed at the University of Virginia's Center for Technology and Teacher Education that allows teachers to integrate primary source documents into the curriculum through student-created digital documentaries. This session will demonstrate the tool and discuss its use in the K–12 classroom to stimulate participant ideas for transferability to higher education.

This presentation focuses on a collaborative local history project between Duke University undergraduates and Durham eighth graders. Through their research seminar, Duke students conduct original research in local archives and then mentor eighth graders in how to use technology, particularly the Digital Durham website http://digitaldurham.duke.edu

The national Speak Up initiative annually collects and reports on the authentic, unfiltered viewpoints of K–12 students, teachers, parents, and school leaders about education technology and 21st-century learning environments. Learn about the expectations of today's K–12 students (the higher ed students of tomorrow) for technology use and their new aspirations for learning as uncovered in the most recent survey data.

Alameda County, California, conducted a field survey of the use of elementary classroom computers for academic purposes during the first half of 2006. The purpose of the survey was to help improve K–12 teacher credential training courses in educational technology (ISTE-NETS, 2006) at a local university, based on actual field conditions.

The author discusses the use of open source in the context of advancing learning in both secondary and higher education.