Strategies for Supporting Education Technology

Learn how to develop a technology plan that will help support the allocation of regular funding for the purchase, maintenance, and support for new educational technologies.
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Locating Technology Funding Sources

School systems have largely utilized federal and state monies to pay for technologies, but many of those budgets have remained flat, been reduced, or in some cases, altogether eliminated. Learn how you can find alternative ways to fund your technology plans.
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Funding Enables Rapides Parish Students to Recover Grades

Rapides Parish School District in Louisiana is one of a number of parishes that requested funding and received a competitive grant from the state to address credit recovery. With this funding, Rapides Parish purchased additional licenses for students to learn online with the PLATO Learning Credit Recovery program.
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Inspired Learning Leads to Texarkana Student Achievement

The implementation of Texarkana School District's technology program is helping teachers provide a high level of personalized learning that is tailored to the needs of each student. For years, instructors have been struggling to find a solution that inspires their students to learn, and have found that their newly purchased Plato Learning solutions are already engaging their students to learn and boost test scores.
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Funding Educational Technology Initiatives

In this month's edition in our podcast series, PLATO Learning's Group Product Manager Andy Frost and national Senior Lead, Market Solutions, Dr. Dana Jeffrey Laursen will discuss school funding challenges and provide insights on where to go to request funds that will help you finance the implementation of innovative educational technology programs at your school. Dr. Laursen has over 20 years experience in a variety of public education teaching and administrative positions in four states, including her role as an assistant superintendent in Colorado. She has worked in the educational technology industry for more than seven years, focusing much of her work in analyzing instruction, policy and funding priorities at the national, state and local levels, and supporting school and industry professionals in designing strategies that optimize resources to serve students. Listen now!

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It's Mathematics Awareness Month!

Mathematics Awareness Month is held each year in April. Its goal is to increase public understanding of and appreciation for mathematics and began in 1986 as Mathematics Awareness Week with a proclamation by President Ronald Reagan. This year the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics have announced that the theme for Mathematics Awareness Month 2008 is Math and Voting.

This month, I am very excited to provide online lesson suggestions that relate to math and voting. In addition, you will find PLATO® instructional content to further practice math principles.

Grades K–2

Ice Cream Elections
Students vote for their favorite ice cream flavor (chocolate, vanilla, or strawberry). Students will learn that the flavor with the most scoops wins the ice cream election!
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PLATO® Math Expeditions A—Number and Numeration System Students will develop an understanding of how to identify groups of one, two, or three by solving real-world mathematical problems.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Principles K–2

Grades 3–5

Kids Voting USA
Students learn how to gather data, as well as learn how to think critically and make decisions.
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PLATO® Foundational Mathematics—Exploring Congruent Figures In this interactive lesson, students will practice picking out congruent figures and learn why congruent shapes are important in our daily lives.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Principles 3–5

Grades 6–8

The Election Connection—Map the Vote
Students get a first-hand look at the electoral process and the power of individual states and their own states. Students will learn which state has the most electoral votes, which has the least, and mathematically compare the popular vote in each state.
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PLATO® Algebra—Solving Problems with Linear Functions Students will learn how to describe real-world situations as linear functions and learn how various pieces of a situation are related.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Principles 6-8

Grades 9–12

Voting
Students will analyze voter participation statistics and make inferences for why voter participation has decreased.
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PLATO® Algebra—Functions with Equations, Tables, and Graphs In this interactive lesson, students will learn how to identify equations, tables, and graphs and determine how they represent the same function.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Principles 9–12

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