The Guide to Technology Requirements

As school districts transition from traditional paper-and-pencil student assessments to next generation online assessments, education leaders charged with helping their schools becoming ‘technology-ready’ must consider the implications, trends and context of the full range of technology issues that schools are and will be addressing. SETDA strongly encourages education policymakers and leaders to undertake a proactive systems approach to addressing school technology needs for the long-term—explicitly considering the present and future technology needs to meet curricular, instructional, assessment, professional learning and school operations goals. While the guidance provided on this site is by no means comprehensive, it does provide a framework for addressing critical questions for different nested dependencies of readiness.