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The Science Technology program at the University at Albany, SUNY has been provid<strong>in</strong>g basic skills<br />

development for students <strong>in</strong> middle and high school for six years. The program has used the resources of the<br />

university to give these students experiences that they might not have an opportunity to do <strong>in</strong> their normal<br />

school activities. For several years Center for Urban Youth and Technology (CUYT) has developed a body of<br />

work that <strong>in</strong>vestigates the design, implementations, and research issues of <strong>in</strong>tegrat<strong>in</strong>g technology <strong>in</strong>to the<br />

school curricula. We have focus on the K-12 population, specifically the middle school and high school age<br />

range. We believe that has technology is placed <strong>in</strong> educational environments, it will become part of the reform<br />

and/or restructur<strong>in</strong>g efforts that are ongo<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> education. It is another opportunity to provide <strong>in</strong>structional<br />

approaches that are novel, excit<strong>in</strong>g and keep pace with the technological capabilities of this time.<br />

Much attention is given to development of math and science skills expertise, but there are other factors that<br />

make this skills development possible. Students need to able to read and write <strong>in</strong> order to understand the math<br />

and science concepts that will be presented to them <strong>in</strong> their classes. Student must have keyboard<strong>in</strong>g, media<br />

literacy, and technology skills to access, manipulate, and present data/<strong>in</strong><strong>format</strong>ion <strong>in</strong> school and <strong>in</strong> the<br />

workforce.<br />

We have <strong>in</strong>itiated several partnerships with the Albany Tri-city area and with New York City schools. In this<br />

collaborative environment we have developed several afterschool, weekend, staff development, and<br />

parent/community technology-based <strong>in</strong>itiatives. These programs have been designed to provide a test bed for<br />

specific questions that CUYT has developed as it relates to multiple curricula design, technology <strong>in</strong>tegration<br />

<strong>in</strong>to the curriculum, design of technology <strong>in</strong> school reform concerns with shared decision mak<strong>in</strong>g teams<br />

(SFMT), and multi-variant analysis of student learn<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> an <strong>in</strong>teractive and student-centered learn<strong>in</strong>g<br />

environment.

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