PT3 and SITE

Defining the Digital Divide and Digital Equity
Examination of Exemplar Learning Communities and Knowledge Networks
Resource Sites: Weightless Goods for Learning Communities, and Knowledge Network Sessions
Resources for Bridging the Digital Divide for Communities
Digital Divide: At a Glance
Professional Development

Organizing Committee:
Bonnie Bracey, George Lucas Foundation
Ray Rose, Concord Consortium
Lucretia Carter
Karen Buller
Joy Wallace
Robert McLaughlin
Zahrl Schoeny, University of Virginia

Background

Preparing future teachers to use technology effectively to improve learning is a major challenge facing our nation’s schools of education. Over the next decade about 2.2 million teachers must be recruited to replace retiring teachers and to accommodate student population increases. If our information technology investments are to pay off in improved education, these future teachers must be technology-proficient educators who know how to use these modern learning tools to help students meet high standards.

To meet this urgent need for technology-proficient teachers, the Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) initiative is providing $75 million in grant support to 225 teacher education programs and consortia in the coming year. Consult the PT3 web site at www.ed.gov/teachtech for more information about this grant program.

The Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE) is working closely with the U.S. Department of Education and with the teacher education professional associations in core subject areas such as Mathematics Education, Science Education, English Education, and Social Studies Education to advance the PT3 initiative..