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Director's Report (399 words) |
 | Advanced Broadband Enabled Learning (ABEL) promotes a learner-active, technology infused classroom within the context of Information Communications Technology and the Learner: A curricular Document, the YRDSBs Plan for Continuous Improvement and the Commitment to System Literacy. |
| This is achieved by building collaborative learning communities (administrators, teachers, faculty, pre-service teachers and students); implementing blended learning environments for classrooms, schools and districts; using interactive web-based learning resources; and developing sustainable inter-jurisdictional and inter-institutional collaboration. |
| Various reports confirm that broadband can improve educational effectiveness by enabling a school boards network to be world connected and capable of providing enhanced services district-wide (see http://nationaledtechplan.org/theplan/Recommendations.asp and http://www.becta.org.uk/corporate/extra_out.cfm?id=3320). |
| Canarie - Press Release (389 words) |
| Through videoconferencing, on-line discussions with experts in the use of broadband technologies in the classroom, and other training techniques, the ABEL project will use CANARIE's CA*net 4 research network to develop a model for an innovative, collaborative means of on-line professional development for teachers. |
| "ABEL is designed to address the major structural barriers to widespread use of broadband networks in education", explained CANARIE's President and CEO, Andrew Bjerring. |
| CANARIE's mission is to accelerate Canada's advanced Internet development and use by facilitating the widespread adoption of faster, more efficient networks and by enabling the next generation of advanced products, applications and services to run on them. |
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