Tech+Plan+Links

Use this page for appropriate tech plan links as they relate to Strategic Priority 3:

North Carolina State Technology Plan []

NCDPI Tech Plan Template []

//CA Free Textbook Initiative// []

NC Wise Owl Link: []

LearnNC DIgital Textbook (8th-grade North Carolina history) @http://www.learnnc.org/nchistory/

Link to the article below: []

||  ==//CDW-G //, in association with //T.H.E. Journal//, presents the third in a four-part series that examines key issues of technology within K-12 education. ==
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Part 3:
==[| __USING E-BOOKS IN SCHOOL: NEGOTIATE, TRAIN, PILOT, EXPAND__] == ||  || In 21st century classrooms, blackboard chalk is on the endangered list, the pop quiz has been replaced with clicker questions, and bowling alley technology (overhead projector transparencies) has disappeared, thanks to digital projectors and document cameras. But if you're going to point to any aspect of the classroom that still hasn't covered much ground on its trip into the 21st century, it has to be the textbook. In a world rich with alternative delivery content methods that are exemplified by digitized conversation, Google books, the Kindle and iPad, the textbook is the next classroom tool worthy of transformation. [|**__Read more__**] about how two school districts on opposite sides of the country and the economic spectrum are leading the charge to move digital delivery of information to students, resulting in lower textbooks costs and achieving 1-to-1 computing goals.
 * 21st Century Classroom: Transforming the Textbook **

Thank you, T.H.E. Journal, in association with CDW-G || 



==== [|Discovery Education's Digital Textbook Launching in Texas Classrooms this Fall] ==== View the press release Addressing students’ 21st century learning styles, over 100,000 students in grades 5-8 across Texas will be using the interactive Discovery Education Science Techbook as a digital resource for instruction in their classrooms.  [|Read More »]