OREGON DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

The goal of the Oregon Title IID ARRA 21st Century Technology Rich Learning and Teaching Initiative is to implement programs that will stimulate the use of educational technology to improve learning and teaching. Grant funds are to be used to assist schools in providing 21st Century classrooms where students and teachers have access to technology rich resources within the classroom. To achieve this goal, schools must assess their technology needs and implement programs that make substantial progress in meeting the goals of the Title IID program: 1. Students enhance their knowledge of reading, writing, math and/or science through 21st Century contexts and the use of 21st Century learning tools 2. Assist every student in crossing the digital divide by ensuring that every student is technology literate by the time the student finishes the eighth grade regardless of the student?s race, ethnicity, gender, family income, geographic location, or disability. 3. Teachers improve their technology skills and use those improved skills to integrate technology across content at increasingly advanced levels of integration. The 21st Century Technology-Rich Classroom Subgrant program is geared to provide evidence that technology, when integrated into a technology-rich learning environment and supported by strong, on-going professional development, can produce positive changes in the classroom environment that results in improved student learning in reading, math, and/or science. This competition supports Subgrants to Local Education Agencies and LEA Partnerships to develop collaborative teams to: a. Establish 21st Century Technology-Rich Classrooms in grades 3-8; b. Focus the used of educational technology for enhancing learning in English Language Arts, English Language Development, Mathematics, Science or STEM; c. Build capacity to integrate technology into the classroom using research-based instruction methods and professional development; d.Provide data to support academic achievement through the use of technology in schools. In a 21st Century classroom, students have access to appropriate technology and digital resources for technology-integrated curriculum activities. Teachers seamlessly integrate technology in a student-centered learning environment where technology is used to solve real-world problems in collaboration with business, industry, and higher education. Teachers and students apply technology across subject areas to provide learning opportunities that are not possible without the technology. Teachers create and integrate web-based lessons that include Oregon Educational Technology and Academic Content standards based content, resources, learning activities and interactive communications that support learning objectives. The grant award amount is distributed as follows: 95% competitively, 3% administrative, 2% non administrative, and 0% formula.

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