MentorNet is a consortium of current and future educators whose mission is to challenge and support each other in the creation and critical application of emerging technologies for 21st century classrooms. Twenty-first century teachers will need a deep, critical understanding of the uses and potential of instructional technologies, a lifelong capacity to refine that understanding in the face of new content and technological innovation, and the ability to cultivate that capacity in their students.

In this endeavor, NC State joins with Shaw University, Meredith College, and the Triangle East partnership counties of Wake, Franklin, and Johnston. Our goals support a mission to reform the preparation of teachers across three undergraduate programs that collectively graduate an average of 200 new elementary, middle, and high school teachers annually.

• Goal 1: Improve proficiency and understanding in instructional technology of all who instruct preservice teachers (to include teacher education faculty, arts and sciences faculty, and cooperating teachers.)
• Goal 2: Accelerate and systemize current reforms of our teacher preparations so that graduates achieve critical understanding of instructional technologies and gain context-based experience in their development and use through structured service to partnering and low income and/or rural schools.
• Goal 3: Extend MentorNet's benefits to teacher assistants and alternative entry teachers seeking initial NC licensure through development and delivery of Web-based courses in instructional technology and lending of technology supplied for learning in the classroom.
• Goal 4: Institutionalize and disseminate best practice of MentorNet within and beyond North Carolina.