Technology Application

Goal A - Objective 1: Allow access to advanced educational resources
Goal A - Objective 2: Provide information about AgrowKnowledge and its lead partners.
Goal A - Objective 3: Enhance the communication between AgrowKnowledge and its partners
Goal A - Objective 4: Encourage the development of collaboration and partnerships
Goal A - Objective 5: Promote agriculture, food, and natural resources (AFNR) as a challenging career option
Goal A - Objective 6: Offering a forum for issues critical to agriculture, food and natural resources and related to education
Goal A – Objectives 7 & 8: Beta testing of the website
Goal C – Objectives: Identify emerging technologies to be explored and incorporated into Faculty Development Workshops or other appropriate venues. The group identified the following and would like additional input.

Goal A - Objective 1
Allow access to advanced educational resources

Action Steps:

  • provide a list of instructional resources organized by occupational category
  • provide linkages to websites or companies that provide instructional material
  • create a clearinghouse to allow presentation and format for resources
  • Create a format for web based peer review of material
  • Create a process by which partners can nominate material for inclusion
  • provide a clearinghouse of student and faculty internships and scholarships
  • Allow searches for specific resources
  • Utilize career cluster pinwheel as a model
  • Link to national math and science standards
  • Support implementation of concepts from Faculty Development Workshops


Goal A - Objective 2
Provide information about AgrowKnowledge and its lead partners.

Action Steps:

  • Provide a link to each partner’s own website
  • Provide access to summary of partner contacts and summary of activities
  • List mission, goals and objectives of AgrowKnowledge
  • Provide informational updates of partner activities
  • Allow and encourage the registration of participants to AgrowKnowledge events.
  • Provide an electronic archive of AgrowKnowledge publications.

Goal A - Objective 3
 Enhance the communication between AgrowKnowledge and its partners

Action Steps:

  • Provide ability to easily find address, phone and email to AgrowKnowledge partners.
  • Provide a forum for multiple user live discussions.
  • Provide and promote message board for ongoing discussions.
  • List results of mini-grants, reports and products to improve communication

Goal A - Objective 4
Encourage the development of collaboration and partnerships

Action Steps:

  • Provide information of each partner’s specialties and interests
  • List opportunities for participation and activity.

Goal A - Objective 5
Promote agriculture, food, and natural resources (AFNR) as a challenging career option

Action Steps:

  • List different career pathways and specific occupations.
  • List general tasks and science and math requirements for each career.
  • Promote site to high school students and parents.
  • Create link to/from other related sites.
  • Create a clearinghouse of job opportunities or linkages to job postings.

Goal A - Objective 6
Offering a forum for issues critical to agriculture, food and natural resources and related to education

Action Steps:

  • List by category the issues and actions developed at the Critical Issues conferences
  • Allow an interactive sharing of actions taken by individuals, companies or schools.

Goal A – Objectives 7 & 8
Beta testing of the website

Action Steps:

  • Explore the needed human element to keep the inputs to the website up-to-date and relevant and to offer support to the users

Goal C – Objectives
Identify emerging technologies to be explored and incorporated into Faculty Development Workshops or other appropriate venues. The group identified the following and would like additional input:

Action Steps:

  • Bioinformatics – the use of computer science to aid the biologist in figuring out complex questions
  • Electro-static technology – the use of the positive and negative charges of all matter to aid in solving problems
  • Nanotechology – engineering a molecule at a time
  • Precision Agriculture –
  • Remote Sensing –
  • GPS/GIS –
  • Sensor Technology –
  • Electrical Conductivity-
  • Nutritional genomics –
  • Acoustic Technology –
  • Site specific technology-
  • Responses to Bioterrorism
  • Alternative fuels; bio fuels; biomass conversion; carbon sequestration –
  • Bioremediation


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AgrowKnowledge is funded, in part, by a grant from the Advanced Technological Education program of the Division of Undergraduate Education of the
National Science Foundation [DUE #0434405]. Opinions expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the National Science Foundation.