How does technology impact learning? Does it help kids or hurt them? Is it a good investment or a waste of money? What's the best thinking on how technology should be used in schools? Looking for answers to question like these? These resources will help you track down answers to these and other questions:   The Maine Learning with Laptop Study The Maine Learning with Laptop Study (MLLS) is exploring the impact of MLTI on Maines students and teachers. MLLS is a collaborative project of the Maine Center for Meaningful Engaged Learning at the University of Maine at Farmington and the Institute for the Integration of Technology into Teaching and Learning at the University of North Texas. http://www.mcmel.org/MLLS   Digital Kids Apple's research into who today's kids are and how they learn. http://www.apple.com/education/digitalkids/   edtechnot.com edtechNOT.com has been created to encourage debate on the merits and pit falls of using educational technology in real schools. Contains a list of "Mavens," theorists who are Pro, Con, or Neutral on technology. Also check out the link to research on educational technology. http://www.edtechnot.com/index.html   CARET: Center for Applied Research in Educationl Technology CARET bridges education technology research to practice by offering research-based answers to critical questions. Browse Questions & Answers to learn what studies show about topics such as student learning, curriculum and instruction, and professional development. CARET is a project of the International Society for Technology in Education. http://caret.iste.org/index.cfm   Journal of Research on Technology Education Original, peer-reviewed research on educational computing published quarterly by the International Society of Technology in Education. There are other wonderful ISTE publications linked from this page, as well. Click on the JRTE link. It opens to the current issue but there is a "Past Issue" link near the top of the page. http://www.iste.org/publications/index.cfm   IITTL - Institute for the Integration of Technology into Teaching and Learning The Institute for the Integration of Technology into Teaching and Learning, at the University of North Texas, is chartered by the UNT Council of Deans to conduct research and implement best practices in the area of teaching and learning with technology. It has a well developed and tested, online data collection system that currently collects data from thousands of educators participating in a collaborative data sharing program. IITTL has generated four books and more than one dozen refereed journal articles in the area of information technology in education over the past three years. http://www.iittl.unt.edu/   Ubiquitous Computing Evaluation Consortium This group is sharing research and evaluation data on K-12 ubiquitous computing initiatives. The consortium includes several well-known institutions in the technology and learning field, including the University of Virginia, the University of Minnesota, the Metiri Group, Kent State University, ROCKMAN ET AL,and EDC's Center for Children and Technology. In addition to collaborating on a national level, each organization is working separately to evaluate a number of computing initiatives in several states. http://www.ubiqcomputing.org/index.html   Education Policy Analysis Archives A searchable journal of peer reviewed articles on policy issues (Published at the Education Policy Studies Laboratory at Arizona State University). Search on "technology" or other keywords. http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/search.html   Findings from the Teaching, Learning, and Computing Survey: Is Larry Cuban Right? Interesting research paper exploring Larry Cuban's assertion that technology is underused and a waste of funds. This study found that although there are many classrooms where that is the case, ther eare also many where technology is being used well. One of the interesting findings is that the teachers who do a good job of integrating also tend to score high on a constructivism scale. http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v8n51/   Educational Issues Around Technology McMEL's own collection of links to research and other writing about educational technology. Warning- it's an older site (Aug. 2001) and some links may be out of date. http://www.mcmel.org/tech/issues.html

Home Featured Projects Meaningful Engaged Learning Integrating Technology   Maine Center for Meaningful Engaged Learning University of Maine at Farmington 252 Main St. Farmington, ME 04938 Mike Muir, Director mmuir@maine.edu 207-778-7179 Wendy Kennedy, Assistant wendyk@maine.edu 207-778-7213   Inservice Available Created by Mike Muir Last updated: June 4, 2004