Assisting Educators on the Use of Technology. (Editorial)

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Increasingly, educators are adopting business methods and processes. They have increased their overall efficiency, use business process management software to automate routine business procedures, and integrate new technologies into teaching and learning. Educational institutions must now be involved in activities that result in significant financial and academic improvements, as well as increase user satisfaction. The number of activities designed to assist educators in keeping up with new technology and its implementation is growing. These activities include:

1. Alliances and collaborative activities on the local, national and global level. For example, the NY Talks Initiative is expected to involve 70 percent of New York state's 7,200 school principals and superintendents in an effort to improve the use of technology in classroom learning and administration. Each participant will be provided with a free PDA containing specialized school management software. Training opportunities will be available as well. This activity is sponsored through a $7.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Information technology companies are to deliver a series of white papers to the White House stating some of their best …