Toward Universal Participation in the NII: Phase 2 of the National School Network Testbed

9454769亨特利拟议的Testbed合作伙伴关系，由BBN，加州大学，欧文分校和全球学校网基金会领导，包括1000多所学校，近500个学区和19个州。60多个试验床伙伴组织代表小学和中学、学区和区域合作机构、国家教育机构、职业技术学校、社区学院、学院和大学、科学中心和博物馆：数千个家庭、教育出版商、商业/行业组织、教育研究组织和服务提供商，共同致力于教育改革的各个方面。该试验台在具有共同的建构主义精神和追求公平的合作伙伴之间建立协同作用。试验平台伙伴和活动的目标是通过向纳税人、政府和私营企业提供经验证据，证明“扩大”国家信息基础设施需要人人积极参与，而不仅仅是获得，从而对教育联网产生重大影响。Testbed伙伴关系将提供对通信网络和信息服务的设计、建设和管理的具体理解，以支持当地学校和社区的教育创新。该试验平台将通过以下方式帮助社区对全面的、自我维持的教育网络进行适当投资：1）开发工具和服务，使个人和当地团体能够在网络上创造价值-使用户能够构建数学和科学改革所必需的能力; 2）组织共享一台计算机的人的信息访问，（3）通过试验台交流建立和评估技术和培训支助模式;（4）制定评价框架和成本效益评估; 5）在学校和地区内以及跨学校和地区结合广泛的高质量教育应用; 6）积极向地方、州的决策者传播合作伙伴的经验，在国家一级，并与诸如InterNIC和Ask ERIC等信息机构建立联系。合作伙伴通过地方税收和债券税、州立法机构、私人基金会、行业捐款等投资，为集体测试床基础设施带来数亿美元，并通过多种形式的成本分摊，保守地在三年内为测试床议程贡献2000万美元。

9454769 Huntley The proposed Testbed partnership, led by BBN, University of California, Irvine, and Global SchoolNet Foundation, includes over 1000 schools, within nearly 500 school districts and 19 states. Over 60 Testbed partner organizations represent elementary and secondary schools, school districts and regional collaboratives, state education agencies; vocational-technical schools, community colleges; colleges and universities; science centers and museums: several thousand homes; educational publishers; business/industry organizations; and educational research organizations and service providers, collectively working on all aspects of educational reform. The Testbed builds synergy among partners sharing a common spirit of constructivism and a quest for equity. The goal of the Testbed partners and activities is to achieve significant impact on educational networking by providing empirical evidence to taxpayers, governments and private industry that "scaling up" the NII requires active participation, not just access, for everyone. The Testbed partnership will provide concrete understanding of the design, construction and management of communications networks and information services to support educational innovation in local schools and communities. The Testbed will help communities make appropriate investment in full-scale, self-sustaining educational networking by: 1) developing tools and services to empower individuals and local groups to produce value on the network - enabling the user-constructability essential to reform in math and science; 2) organizing information access for people who share one computer, 3) establishing and assessing technical and training support models through a Testbed Exchange; 4) developing an evaluation framework and cost-benefit assessments; 5) combining a wide range of high-quality educational applications within and across schools and districts; 6) pro actively disseminating the learnings of the partners to decision makers at loca l, state, and national levels and linking to information agencies such as the InterNIC and Ask ERIC. The partners bring hundreds of millions of dollars to the collective test bed infrastructure through investments from local tax and bond levies, state legislatures, private foundations, industry contributions, and conservatively contribute $20 million to the Testbed agenda over three years through many forms of cost-sharing.