Strategic Resources

The following resources will give you a sense of the process of reviewing technology and education.

While these analytical rubrics indicate some of the types of questions that can be asked, they do not make translation from a global model to local specifics very easy-or clearly relevant. Moreover, educational organizations inevitably find it difficult to objectively apply external measuring sticks to their own experiences (not unlike the problem of lawyers representing themselves in court or physicians treating their own illnesses). Finally, as worthy as these models are, they lack the specific connective trail from specific institutional objectives to human resources and technology that the Mass Networks approach espouses.

• General Strategic Resources
• Resources for IT in K-12 Education
• Resources for IT in Higher Education

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General Strategic Resources

Tech Atlas: An on-line inventory tool for non-profits developed by TechRocks and NPower:
http://www.techrocks.org/Techatlas.html

ISTE Technology Support Index:
http://tsi.iste.org/

Resources for IT in K-12 Education

The Texas STaR (School Technology and Readiness) chart:
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/technology/etac/campus_txstar/

Massachusetts STaR chart (in draft form):
http://www.doe.mass.edu/boe/sac/edtech/star.pdf

Massachusetts Department of Education Local Technology Plan Benchmark Standards for 2003:
http://www.doe.mass.edu/edtech/standards/benchmrk.pdf

National Center for Educational Statistics: Technology in Schools--Suggestions, Guidelines, and tools for assessing technology in elementary and secondary education (November 2002):
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2003/2003313.pdf

Resources for IT in Higher Education

IT Master Plan for University of Massachusetts Boston-written by Mass Networks:
http://moveitforward.umb.edu/strategicplan.pdf

The COSTS project:
http://www.costsproject.org/

"Creating a Realistic Vision":
http://www.educause.edu/asp/doclib/abstract.asp?ID=SER0214

The Pew Learning and Technology Program: Improving Learning & Reducing Costs
http://www.center.rpi.edu/PewSym/mono1.html