This document presents the Calcasieu Parish technology plan for 2007-2014. The plan aims to strengthen leadership, improve teacher training, support e-learning and virtual schools, and provide improved access to technology. It correlates the goals of national, state, and district technology plans from 2007-2010. Key action steps include developing district-wide systems, supporting leaders, conducting needs assessments, improving teacher technology integration and knowledge, increasing access through wireless connectivity and funding strategies, and moving toward digital content and integrated data systems.
5. Action Step 1: Strengthen Leadership
"I'm calling on our nation's governors and state education chiefs
to develop standards and assessments that don't simply measure
whether students can fill in a bubble on a test, but whether they
possess 21st century skills like problem-solving and critical thinking
and entrepreneurship and creativity."
—President Barack Obama,
Address to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, March 10, 2009
District wide systems Electronic communication
Support to leaders Tech integration monitoring
Yearly technology needs assessment
Electronic SIS
6. Action Step 2: Improve Teacher Training
Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly
into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on,
an afterthought, or an event.
–Heidi Hayes-Jacobs, Educational Consultant
Technology knowledge
Technical troubleshooting
Seamless integration
7. Action Step 3: Support E-Learning and Virtual Schools
The need to know the capital of Florida died when my phone learned
the answer. Rather the students of tomorrow need to be able to think
creatively; they will need to learn on their own, adapt to new challenges,
and innovate on-the-fly.
--Andy Chivetta, high school student in Missouri
Inform stakeholders
Encourage participation
Develop funding
8. Action Step 4: Provide Improved Access and
Technology Usage
There can be infinite uses of the computer and new age technology,
but if the teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom
& make it work, then it fails.
–Nancy Kassebaum, US Senator
80% have 4:1 computer-student ratio
100% wireless
Funding strategies
9. National Technology Plan
2007
Considering innovative budgeting
Moving toward digital content
Integrating data systems
16. Goal 5: Productivity: Redesign and Transform
The illiterate of the 21st century will be those
who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
-Alvin Toffler
19. References
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http://www.louisianaschools.net/lde/uploads/10213.pdf
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