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Consumer Guides

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These simple and easy-to-use Consumer Guides are decision support tools to help school administrators and educational technology vendors learn what questions to ask and how to make informed decisions relating to education technology. School administrators can use this tool as a one-stop resource to becoming an informed and empowered consumer of educational and assistive technology and to help find the appropriate educational technologies to address a variety of needs. The educational technology vendors section provides vendors a tool to help navigate the shifting demands of the educational marketplace and understand — as well as meet — the concerns and needs of purchasers.

The Guides provide assistance in the following five areas:

Alignment of standards and curriculum goals;
Implementation of technologies;
Scientifically-based research;
Funding for purchasing educational technology; and
Legislative mandates such as IDEA and NCLB.