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

9454769亨特利拟议的试验床伙伴关系由BBN、加州大学欧文分校和全球学校网基金会牵头，包括19个州近500个学区内的1,000多所学校。60多个测试床合作伙伴组织代表中小学、学区和区域合作机构、州教育机构、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。测试床在合作伙伴之间建立了协同效应，分享了共同的建构主义精神和对公平的追求。测试床合作伙伴和活动的目标是通过向纳税人、政府和私营行业提供经验证据，证明“扩大”国家基础设施需要每个人都积极参与，而不是仅仅获得机会，从而对教育网络产生重大影响。Tested伙伴关系将提供对通信网络和信息服务的设计、建设和管理的具体了解，以支持当地学校和社区的教育创新。测试床将帮助社区在全面、自我维持的教育网络方面进行适当的投资，方法是：1)开发工具和服务，使个人和地方团体能够在网络上创造价值--使用户能够构建对数学和科学改革至关重要的能力；2)为共享一台计算机的人组织信息访问；3)通过测试床交换建立和评估技术和培训支持模式；4)开发评估框架和成本效益评估；5)结合学校和地区内和跨地区的各种高质量教育应用程序；6)积极主动地将合作伙伴的经验教训传播给当地L、州和国家各级的决策者，并与互联网信息中心和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试验台基础设施带来数亿美元，并通过多种形式的成本分担，在三年内保守地为试验台议程贡献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.