Dr. Rick Miller
Superintendent, Riverside Unified School DistrictSpearheads the RUSD Technology Vision
Our philosophy toward computers in education is changing from censorship to student responsibility and adult monitoring.
Director, K-12 Instructional Technology and Career Technical Education
The world of technology provides us with many powerful tools for teaching and learning and this “open access” is a key step in using technology to change the way we teach and learn.
Principal, Central Middle School
As educators today, we are more pressured to accelerate student learning. The digital textbook environment enables us to do that. It accelerates what we already do, and that is teaching and learning. Computers are not everything, but they are an essential tool.
"As policymakers are fighting to improve student performance, school libraries should be considered an integral resource," [Jeff Frost, CSLA advocate] said in a letter to the state board this week. "The approval of model school library standards will give every district the opportunity to improve their school libraries and turn them into a resource for all students...." View the CDE links for further information about the role of CSLA regarding state library standards.
"Authors of the standards said ... that today's students require far more from a school library than in decades past. School libraries have evolved into resource centers that include both old and new media and where instruction encompasses information literacy and strategies for accessing, evaluating, and integrating a vast array of new sources."
Library standards return to SBE for adoption
By Tom ChorneauThursday, September 09, 2010
ISTE Advocacy Portal:
ISTE-SIGMS provides a support network to school library media specialists and others in leadership positions who are working to promote the use of instructional technologies to enhance student learning. It provides a forum where we can consider and explore ways in which we can best use existing and emerging technologies to improve and enhance teaching and instruction, student learning and management, helping students and teachers become competent, critical and ethical users of information.
The school library media specialist assists in planning, implementing, and evaluating technology-infused instructional and media programs; maintains a balanced collection of resources in all formats to meet information and curricular needs of students and teachers; and provides physical and intellectual access to information in the school library media center, in the school, and beyond; implements programs to ensure information and technology literacy skills for all students.
The school library media specialist assists in planning, implementing, and evaluating technology-infused instructional and media programs; maintains a balanced collection of resources in all formats to meet information and curricular needs of students and teachers; and provides physical and intellectual access to information in the school library media center, in the school, and beyond; implements programs to ensure information and technology literacy skills for all students.
ACSA TECHNOLOGY LEADERSHIP GROUP POSITION PAPER
Purpose: "To provide recommendations for educational leaders to strategically and urgently promote effective integrated technology into the teaching and learning experience for the benefit of all students."
