What+Is+Our+Dream?

=**What Is Our Dream?--- This page is to be used to record our brainstorming session from our first meeting.**= = = = = = =

//**Students:**//
__DREAMS__ - “PD” for students applicable to personal goals and needs - PD/expectations for students & families for appropriate - Implement a “Digital Driver’s License” system - System in place for leasing chrome books - An increase in student engagement with technology - Personal device for students - Students becoming more engaged in learning - iPads and Tablets for staff and students - e-books or virtual library for students - iPad for every student - User policy agreement to control inappropriate material via websites and bring your own technology - Mobile computer lab for all schools - Allow students the opportunity to become lead experts in technology <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Touch accessible platform interactive technology for <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">special education classrooms (TAP-IT’s) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Appropriate augmentative assistive devices for all <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">special needs students regardless of cost <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Student text books are all on a tablet such as an iPad <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- More tech prep. Programs-(Network, hardware, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">software, web development and data base) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Pay school lunches and fees – Online/Credit/Debit <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Textbooks online or with a Nook/Kindle *Colleges do this <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">*Library books <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Students utilizing own technology within classroom <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">and/or learning

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">**__Barriers__**
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Legal issue <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">-Students who are ill or otherwise cannot attend school, they access the classroom and the teacher from home. //Comment: Students could access material from anywhere - the movie theater for example// //- should we care where they are geographically located when they access needed material? Related: Are classrooms less relevant in a perfectly wired community?//

//**Staff:**//
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">__DREAMS__ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Opportunities for online courses outside of the school day or blended learning opportunity. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Decrease the fear of technology and make it part of our everyday interaction with students. - <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Lessons via Adobe Connect or Virtual lessons for students to access <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">-Set goals in 4 areas 1) Policy-defined 2) Outcomes-needed 3) Hardware-defined 4) Software-needed <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- No paper assignments are e-mailed, posted via media tools such as blackboard <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- PD in house for department specific training <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Projector/Smart board in classrooms with appropriate PD <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">-Professional Development for staff, students, and community <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- More content related software <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- e-lessons to compensate for snow days <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Do away with paper assignments – move students to computer assignments <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- PD for teachers on incorporating technology <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Look at January edition SKY Magazine (Delta’s in Flight Magazine) for an article on unique opportunities in education <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Paperless communication <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Identify what board policies could be viewed as an impediment to this “Future Is Now” endeavor – No action needed – just ID this

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**__BARRIERS__**
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">-Reluctance of staff and community to be on cutting edge. Fear of being ahead of the curve. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Conflict between our tech goals and Board <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">-Comfort level of staff and technology <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Filter to restrictive <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Giving up control <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Resistance <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">-Funding <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Teachers use students’ technology (such as cell phones) in instruction <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Cost <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Money to buy technology

//**Community:**//
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**__DREAMS__** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Consider a parent “Education” packet on what we think parents should know about technology implementations <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- School as technology “hot spot” for community. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">-Community based tech instruction for community members <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">-Virtual classroom for student absences. *Keep kids from getting behind. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Educating students and families about the internet <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Laptops for lease so that all families have access to programs used in classroom <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- That the school technology implementation plan is established to further EDUCATION of children

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- That the school technology implementation plan prepares children for better application of their learned skills in the workplace / college

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**__BARRIERS__** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Families not able to afford leasing or owning technology <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Have a technology center with someone there to help students with problems during school and after school <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- All stakeholders to understand and support the new ideas/plan <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- Each student have their own computer to do school work <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">- That the vociferous few will focus on small issues in the implementation of the technology plan to derail the whole process (the occasional security breach for example)