Under the leadership of President Barack Obama, education is now an urgent priority with two major goals. The first goal is to raise the proportion of college graduates from 39% so that 60% of our population holds a 2 or 4 year degree. The second goal is to close the achievement gap so that all students graduate from high school ready to succeed in college and careers. The National Educational Technology Plan (NETP) was created to achieve these two goals. The Obama Administration understands that technology is at the core of virtually every aspect of our daily lives and work. Therefore we must leverage it to provide engaging and powerful learning experiences, content, and resources and assessments that measure student achievement in more complete, authentic, and meaningful ways. We want to learn from other enterprises that have used technology to improve outcomes while increasing productivity. This will shorten the learning curve. The NEPT created the 21st Century Model of Learning Powered by Technology which calls for engaging and empowering learning experiences for learners. The model states that we must focus on what and how we teach to match what people need to know, how they learn, where and when they learn, and who needs to learn. The model also calls for us to help build the capacity of educators by enabling a shift to a model of connected teaching. This will provide educators with 24/7 access to data and analytical tools as wells as resources that help them act on insights that data provide.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Technology Goals and Strategies for GCCISD
GCCISD has six goals that it would like to accomplish by 2010. The goals, objectives and strategies are outlined below. The district has also allocated a budget for each objective.
Goal 1: PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOR STUDENT LEARNING
Objective 1.1: Expand the use of 1:1 ultra mobile devices for students
Budget: $1,200,000.00
Strategy 1.1.1: Wireless ultra mobile devices will be continued to improve student learning.
Person(s) Responsible: Director Instructional Technology Director Technology Management Services
Strategy 1.1.2: Meet state technology equipment target of student to computer ratio of 1:1 as funding becomes available.
Person(s) Responsible: Director TMS Director IT
Objective 1.2: Provide teachers with additional classroom interactive hardware and software
Budget: $470,000.00
Strategy 1.2.1: Provide teachers and students with interactive boards and tablets for classroom use.
Person(s) Responsible: Director TMS Director IT
Goal 2: THE DISTRICT STAFF DEVELOPMENT MODEL WILL BE TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY
Objective 2.1: All instructional staff will receive training in teaching with technology.
Budget: $816,642.00
Strategy 2.1.1: Model teaching with technology integration in all curricular staff development sessions. Align all sessions to the ISTE NETS for Teachers and Students.
Person(s) Responsible: Directors: IT Staff Development Curriculum
Strategy 2.1.2: Instruction for teachers will include web-based learning and a variety of models accessible from the district online staff development center, libraries and classrooms.
Person(s) Responsible: Director Staff Development Director IT
Strategy 2.1.3: Staff Development sessions will be aligned to the ISTE Teacher and Student NETS.
Person(s) Responsible: Director IT Director Staff Development
Strategy 2.1.4: Students and teachers will receive training in Internet safety and digital citizenship
Person(s) Responsible: Directors Curriculum Staff Development IT
Strategy 2.1.5: Project-based learning including multimedia will be the primary focus of educational technology staff development sessions for administrators, teachers and students.
Person(s) Responsible: Director IT
Strategy 2.1.6: Continue to provide SchoolNet training for all stakeholders
Person(s) Responsible: Director of Educational Technology
Strategy 2.1.7: Add ISTE Teacher NETS to PDAS.
Person(s) Responsible: Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum & Instruction Director of Certified Personnel Director of Educational Technology
Goal 3: CONTINUE TO BUILD AND REFINE THE DISTRICT'S CURRICULUM MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (SCHOOLNET) TO PROVIDE REAL-TIME DATA FOR DATA-DRIVEN DECISION MAKING.
Objective 3.1: Ensure SchoolNet data is accessible to all district personnel on a need-to-know basis.
Budget: $828,101.00
Strategy 3.1.1: Establish benchmark assessments and CBA's for all students in the SchoolNet system.
Person(s) Responsible: All Curriculum & Instruction Directors Director IT Director TMS
Strategy 3.1.2: Transfer all scant on achievement series test engine functions to the SchoolNet test engine.
Person(s) Responsible: Directors: IT TMS
Strategy 3.1.3: Use technology to help support special population/programs (At-Risk, Special Ed., Bilingual/ESL,
Person(s) Responsible: Director: IT Special Populations Program Directors
Strategy 3.1.4: Add DRA, TELPAS and TPRI data to SchoolNet.
Person(s) Responsible: Directors: IT Curriculum Department School/Community Guidance Center
Strategy 3.1.5: Provide information to parents and to the community through the use of technology.
Person(s) Responsible: Directors: IT TMS Curriculum Campuses Public Information
Goal 4: ALIGN INSTRUCTIONAL GOALS WITH TECHNOLOGY GOALS TO IMPROVE TEACHING AND LEARNING.
Objective 4.1: Working in collaboration with Staff Development and Educational Technology, revise instructional planning to incorporate the use of 1:1 ultra mobile devices and laptops for students and teachers.
Budget: $135,000.00
Strategy 4.1.1: Incorporate the use of Internet resources in all subject areas.
Person(s) Responsible: Directors Curriculum Director IT
Strategy 4.1.2: Incorporate the use of streaming video, concept mapping and a variety of multimedia formats in every
Person(s) Responsible: Curriculum Directors IT Director
Objective 4.2: Include technology planning in all planning for executives, curriculum directors, curriculum specialists,
Budget: $17,900.00
Strategy 4.2.1: Using the Texas Long Range Plan for Technology and the teacher, campus and district STAR Chart
Person(s) Responsible: Director IT Directors of Curriculum All stakeholders
Goal 5: Provide Technology Infrastructure for student learning.
Objective 5.1: Improve the wide area network router distribution and wireless modules
Budget: $450,000.00
Strategy 5.1.1: Wide area network distribution and wireless access will remain current to meet the demands of student learning.
Person(s) Responsible: Director of Technology Management Systems
Objective 5.2: Increase wireless access points and network electronics for greater instructional device coverage.
Budget: $300,000.00
Strategy 5.2.1: Wireless access and network electronics will support the instructional needs for student learning.
Person(s) Responsible: Director of Technology Management Services
Objective 5.3: Provide network electronics for video conferencing to increase educational and library technologies.
Budget: $300,000.00
Strategy 5.3.1: Video conferencing will be introduced to improve student learning.
Person(s) Responsible: Director of Technology Management Services
Objective 5.4: Provide network electronics for distance learning with video and audio capabilities to allow students to interactively participate
Budget: $400,000.00
Strategy 5.4.1: Distance learning will be introduced to improve student learning and offer alternative educational opportunities for diverse students and credit recovery.
Person(s) Responsible: Director of Technology Management Services Director of Educational Technology
Objective 5.5: Consolidate instructional servers into a centralized location to provide student data storage and retrieval.
Budget: $200,000.00
Strategy 5.5.1: Provide the capability for students to store electronic portfolios and instructional materials which will improve student data management.
Person(s) Responsible: Director of Technology Management Services Director of Educational Technology
Objective 5.6: Upgrade the wide and local area network internal connections as needed to meet the instructional needs of students and teachers.
Budget: $450,000.00
Strategy 5.6.1: Upgrade internal connections in order to keep the local and wide area network safe, secure and reliable for student learning.
Person(s) Responsible: Director of Technology Management Systems
Goal 6: Improve school telecommunications coverage.
Objective 6.1: Complete BDA "build outs" for all campuses to improve daily Nextel service and emergency communications.
Budget: $200,000.00
Strategy 6.1.1: Install additional telecommunication infrastructure for all campuses.
Person(s) Responsible: Director of Maintenance and Operations
Progress on this plan will be monitored and documented by the Director of Educational Technology, Director of Technology Management Services, Director of Maintenance & Operations, the Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum & Instruction, the Superintendent's executive council and the board of trustees. Timelines for specific projects will be established by the project leader and be reported on a regular basis. The Educational Technology Department will evaluate the plan(s) for effectiveness in serving the students of the district, and will communicate and distribute the evaluation results to district officials as requested.
GCCISD. (2009, February 23). Tech e-Plan. Retrieved November 28, 2010, from GCCISD.net: http://schools.gccisd.net/docs/38-Tech%20e-Plan%202009-2012.pdf
Assessing the Valuse of Educators' and Students' Technology and Leadership Knowledge and Skills
The importance of accessing the value of educators’ and students’ technology and leadership knowledge and skills and their perceived needs is critical to the ongoing drive to adapt the educational learning process to include technology at all learning levels. President Barak Obama’s goal for the United States is for America to have to highest proportion of college graduates in the world (U.S Deaprtment of Education, 2009) . In order to achieve this goal, our educators must know what our students need to graduate from high school and be successful in college. Many campuses have veteran teachers who are stagnant in their teaching process. They are excellent teachers when it comes to the basic R’s of learning. But, we are leaning that the basic R’s of education are changing and the teachers must be held accountable to those changes. This same concept applies to students. They must have their skills assessed to determine what they need to master in order to make them successful in this technology filled 21st Century. One of the downsides of assessing the value of teachers and students knowledge and skills of technology is that technology is changing at such a rapid pace. For example, a veteran teacher may feel as though they have finally mastered the use of email. Now, she is told she must use blogs with her students in order to communicate. Once she has mastered blogs and is effectively using it in her classroom, a new form of communication appears. It would seems as if he teacher will never successful incorporate the current technology trends in her classroom; therefore she cannot successfully transfer the information and learning process to her students
U.S Deaprtment of Education. (2009, Aaugust 29). Draft of the National Educational Technology Plan 2010. Retrieved November 28, 2010, from U.S. Department of Education: http://www.ed.gov/
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