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Educational Technology: Website Analysis

The guide for teaching teachers how to evaluate technology as shown on the website www.ed.gov/pubs/ EdTechGuide, designed to aid teachers in evaluating the addition of technology to the school system, is functional, and perhaps helpful for the teacher who knows only a little about technology. The information is divided into reasonable sections such as: A) Why Am I Evaluating? B) What is an Evaluation Anyway? C) Where Do I Start? D) What Questions Should I Ask? E) What Information Do I Need to Collect? F) What's the Best Way to Collect My Information? G) What Are My Conclusions? And H) How Do I Communicate My Results? (Overview, 1998).

However, since the guide was written in 1998, it is expected that that there would be a bit more solid information concerning how to analyze "technology." Instead, we get a document that is agonizingly basic, such as might be found in a handout for a class in Freshman English on how to write a research paper.

At the end of each section is a hypothetical example concerning Rivers School District. There we learn that there was a tech plan devised and that

$200,000 in funding was used for the two main activities outlined in the technology plan. First, media centers with Internet connections were set up in the libraries of the elementary schools. Second, summer training was offered to all teachers in the district at two levels (Overview, 1998).

The challenge, we are led to suppose, is how to most effectively spend this money for an evaluation of technology. However, what actually follows in the guide is a text that basically ignores "technology" and talks about pupil evaluation. The idea, apparently is that the problems described û flagging attendance, low reading scores, and so on û can be cured by technology.

Curiously, in a document designed to instruct instructors concerning how to deal with technology, very little explanation or consideration of "technology" is given, and the...

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