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Classroom Rules??? by Bill Page

Learning Your Students' Names: Fun, Fast, Easy and Important by Bill Page

Making 2002-2003 The Best Year Ever by Bill Page

Your Summer Reading List: The Process of Change in a School System by Dr. Rob Reilly

Beware of the Standards, Not Just the Tests by Alfie Kohn

The Importance of Reading Aloud by Lisa Frase

Dear Old Golden Rule Days, Chapter 2 - Creative Activities by Janet Farquhar

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The Maiden Week by P R Guruprasad

Is Learning to Read Easier Than Learning to Play the Piano? by Grace Vyduna-Haskins

School was GREAT today because... by Linda Todd

The New Teacher and Coping With Special Needs Students in the Classroom by Dave Melanson

Learning About Community Service by Jay Davidson

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Class Books Around the Year Compiled by Terry

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Why the Center Approach? from The Mentor Center

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Your Summer Reading List: The Process of Change in a School System

by Dr. Rob Reilly

The process of technology integration into the curriculum and into school systems themselves is a systematic process. It involves a number of aspects (e.g., policy formulation, cultural issues, budgetary considerations, etc.). I thought that I'd use my August column in a different way. Instead of using my column for my opinion, I thought that I'd 'assign' a Reading List to all of you! I'll make the Reading List clickable so that you can stay here at Teachers.Net and do your work.

I have selected 4 articles for you to delve into (none of them is written by me either).

David Thronburg, (1999), Technology in K-12 Education: Envisioning a New Future

Jan Hawkins, Bob Spielvogel and Erica Marks-Panush, (1996), National Study Tour of District Technology: Summary Report

Han-cha Chang, et al., (1998), The Union City Story: Education Reform and Technology Center for Children and Technology.

Judith Davidson Wasser, (1998), Technology Infusion: A Systemic Proposition, TERC.

Good luck with these articles. They are seminal pieces written by leaders in the process of systematic change in school systems.

About Dr. Rob Reilly...

Dr. Rob Reilly is the computer education teacher at the Lanesborough Elementary School in Lanesborough, Massachusetts USA. He is also a Visiting Scientist at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is conducting NSF funded research in the area of affective computing, emotions and learning. He has been a Visiting Scientist at MIT's Center for Educational Computing Initiatives, a Post Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Massachusetts' Office of Information Technologies, and a Teaching Associate, at the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts. His email address is: reilly@media.mit.edu His Web site is: http://www.media.mit.
edu/~reilly

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