Project TNT

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Project TNT

• Teaching with New Technologies
• A 971,000 US Department of Education Grant from
  2000 to 2003
• Part of the PT3 program
• Preparing Tomorrows Teachers to Use Technology

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Purposes

• To develop innovative technology-integrated
  pedagogies
• To restructure teacher education

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How?

• Develop a Community of Practice
• consisting of
• Learning Circles
• Task Forces
• Project Partners

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Learning Circles consist of

• A CSUB professor
• A K-12 tech mentor
• Select students who will be teachers
• Others

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Task Forces

• Flexible groups of educators with a common
  project meeting TNT goals
• Language Acquisition and Development
• Teacher Education Professional Organizations
• Technology Proficiencies
• Character Development
• Teacher Education in Community College
• Systemic Change
• Distance Learning

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Partners include

• CSUB School of Ed
• CSUB School of AS
• CSUB TLC
• CSUB MST
• KCSOS
• CTAP
• DSC
• SLICK
• ELD Institute
• College of the Canyons
• Bakersfield College

• Allan Hancock College
• San Francisco States PT3
• Cal Lutherans PT3
• Five Teacher Ed Professional Organizations
• Apple Computer
• California Learning Interchange
• Agency for Instructional Technology

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TNT Projects include

• Various content areas
• All levels

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Content Areas Include

• Physical Education
• Special Education
• Language acquisition and development
• Math
• Science
• History

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Lessons from CB Year

• Provide Incentive Structure for Participants
• Add other groupings Task Forces and Project
  Partners
• Infuse the California Standards for the Teaching
  Profession
• Use CLI to disseminate projects

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Future Plans

• Other Task Forces may be added
• Other Partners may be added
• Future funding efforts may be based on Project
  TNT

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Thats All Folks

• David Georgi, Project Director
• http//projecttnt.com
• dgeorgi_at_csub.edu