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Session Three and Four
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A district's technology plan is the
driver for their technology integration. As leaders for infusing technology
into student learning your job is to become familiar with the document that
drives this process. For the next few weeks, you will be analyzing your
district's technology plan and recognize it's strengths and provide input
for improvement.
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Please start this session by viewing
the Session Three and Four presentation found at:
Presentation
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This week you will begin by reading
the following articles:
Developing Effective Technology Plans
Technology Planning: Recipe for Success
Critical Issue: Developing a School or District
Technology Plan
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Review of
District's Technology Plan For
the next two weeks you well be analyzing your
district's technology plan. Your first task will be to find the
district's technology plan. Using this plan, you will answer the list of
questions found below. As you answer these questions, please include only
the part of the district's plan that is relevant to the questions and your
answers. You will find an example in the course documents link. If you are
unable to find your district's plan, I've provided some samples in the
course document section. A rubric for this assignment can also be found in
the course document link.
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Below are a list of the questions:
Questions on District's
Technology Plan
- What is your district's vision or mission
statement? Five years from now, would a visitor coming to your school
see technology supporting learning and teaching? Would there be an
improvement from today?
- Has the district established levels of
proficiency in technology by
grade levels? If so, are these proficiencies woven into the academic
curriculum? Are they taught in separate stand-alone technology
lessons/classes?
- What are some of the classroom management
strategies that work
with the amount of technology actually available in the classrooms?
- Does the district have an inventory system
or does one need to
be developed to track the type and age of hardware? (Feel free to
visit the
California Department of Education Web site to complete a technology
survey online.
Ca Tech Survey )
- Are assistive technologies available to
students with special needs as well as to
other students, such as English language learners, who might benefit
from the use
of those devices and software?
- What replacement cycle has been built into
the plan? Will adequate funding be set aside for replacements?
- How does the tech plan address technology
proficiencies and information
literacy skills?
- How will the school district know whether
implementation of this
plan has made a positive impact on teaching and learning?
- Does the plan address a time frame by
which the district proposes to implement the various components of the
plan?
- Do you think this plan has addressed
issues such as equity for all students? Please explain your thinking.
- Does this plan provide tools to help lower
the achievement gap? Please explain your thinking.
- If you could recommend some improvements
to your district's technology team regarding this plan, what would
they be and why?
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Please include the portions of your
school or district technology plan that correspond with your responses to the questions above.
Please name your file with the following protocol: First Initial of your first Name_LastName.doc
and attach it to the assignment box.
This project will be due at the conclusion of Session 6- June 28th.
A rubric for this assignment can also be found in the course document link.
A student example from a previous class can be found in the course document
link also.
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