Document Type
Issue Area Eight
Abstract
"Stop the train; I want to get off!" Everyone who is involved with technology has probably thought that or actually said it out loud. The changes come so fast that you barely turn around and there is an entirely new area to think about. How do we ensure equal access and opportunities for every student to learn through technology? Every district in the state of Iowa is concerned that each of its students can be all he or she can be. Everyone can learn. Technology can be one of the key ingredients to make it happen if it is integrated into everything we do as a school. That includes instruction, communication, administration, assessment, public relations, etc. For each child to have equal access and opportunities, the skills needed to use technology successfully must be integrated into every curriculum area. That is the only way that equal access can occur. Otherwise, those teachers who are entrepreneurs of technology are the ones who will use it in their classrooms, and then only selected students are able to use technology successfully. The Department of Education has identified three development areas to ensure that each student has access to technology by the end of the century: (a) staff development for teachers, (b) equipping and connecting schools, (c) and making quality content software available (Mageau, 1995).
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
6
Issue
1
First Page
236
Last Page
238
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1996 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and the University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Garn, Karlene
(1996)
"Equal Access Means Integrating Technology into all School Activities, Curriculum,"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 6:
No.
1, Article 68.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol6/iss1/68
