3. GOOSE CREEK CISD Technology Plan for
E-Rate Year 12 - 2009 - 2012
• Goose Creek CISD will provide technology for literacy,
integration and transformative learning to prepare
students to successfully live, learn and work in the Digital
Age.
• Our wireless infrastructure provides connectivity for ultra
mobile devices, laptops, smart tablets, interactive white
boards, classroom performance systems, iPods,
document cameras, and more.
• Technology will be incorporated in all areas of the
curriculum.
4. GOOSE CREEK CISD Technology Plan for
E-Rate Year 12 - 2009 - 2012
• Staff development will focus on teaching the existing
curriculum with technology.
• Curriculum and Instruction will continue to build the
Information Management System that will provide
stakeholders information on student performance and
align the curriculum vertically and horizontally.
• This technology will be used to collect data and to
analyze it to best serve each student's individual needs.
6. Goals for Technology Plan
• GOAL I: PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL
TECHNOLOGY FOR STUDENT LEARNING
– Expand the use of 1:1 ultra mobile devices for
students.
– Provide teachers with additional classroom
interactive hardware and software.
7. Goals for Technology Plan
• GOAL II: THE DISTRICT STAFF
DEVELOPMENT MODEL WILL BE TEACHING
WITH TECHNOLOGY.
– All instructional staff will receive training in
teaching with technology.
8. Goals for Technology Plan
• GOAL III: CONTINUE TO BUILD AND REFINE
THE DISTRICT'S CURRICULUM
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (SCHOOLNET)TO
PROVIDE REAL-TIME DATA FOR DATA-
DRIVEN DECISION MAKING.
– Ensure SchoolNet data is accessible to all
district personnel on a need-to-know basis.
9. Goals for Technology Plan
• GOAL IV: ALIGN INSTRUCTIONAL GOALS WITH
TECHNOLOGY GOALS TO IMPROVE TEACHING AND
LEARNING.
– 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.
– Include technology planning in all planning for
executives, curriculum directors, curriculum
specialists, content specialists, principals and
teachers.
10. Goals for Technology Plan
• GOAL V: Provide Technology Infrastructure for
student learning.
– Improve the wide area network router distribution and
wireless modules
– Increase wireless access points and network
electronics for greater instructional device coverage.
– Consolidate instructional servers into a centralized
location to provide student data storage and retrieval.
11. GOAL V continued
– Provide network electronics for video conferencing to
increase educational and library technologies.
– Provide network electronics for distance learning with
video and audio capabilities to allow students to
interactively participate
– Consolidate instructional servers into a centralized
location to provide student data storage and retrieval.
12. Goals for Technology Plan
• Goal VI: Improve school
telecommunications coverage.
– Complete BDA "build outs" for all campuses to
improve daily Nextel service and emergency
communications.
13. NEW NATIONAL
TECHNOLOGY
STANDARDS
According to the National Education
Technology Plan website
14. New Technology Standards
• Learning: Engage and Empower
– Focus what and how we teach to match what people
need to know
– How they learn
– Where and when they will learn
– Who needs to learn
15. New Technology Standards
• Productivity: Redesign and Transform
– Rethink the way we organize students into age-
determined groups
– Restructure separate academic disciplines
– Reorganize learning into classes of roughly equal size
with all the students in a particular class receiving the
same content at the same pace
16. New Technology Standards
• Infrastructure: Access and Enable
– Provide every student, educator, and level of
our education system with the resources they
need when and where they are needed
– Provide people, processes, learning
resources, policies, and sustainable models
continuous improvement; also broadband
connectivity, servers, software, management
systems, and administration tools.
17. New Technology Standards
• Teaching: Prepare and Connect
– Teams of connected educators replace solo
practitioners
– Classrooms are fully connected to provide
educators with 24/7 access to data and
analytic tools
– Educators have access to resources that help
them act on the insights the data provide
18. New Technology Standards
• Assessment: Measure What Matters
– Requires new and better ways to measure
what matters
– Diagnose strengths and weaknesses in the
course of learning when there is still time to
improve student performance
– Involve multiple stakeholders in the process of
designing, conducting, and using assessment.
20. Improvements to GCCISD Plan
• Increase access to educational technology
for all students.
• Provide additional educational technology
hardware and software for all campuses.
• Replace aging teacher workstations with
interactive whiteboards.
21. Improvements to GCCISD Plan
• Align curriculum and instruction staff
development with technology staff
development.
• Improve media retrieval and
communications systems.
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24. References
• Shimabukuro, J. (n.d.). A Glimpse at the 2010 National Education
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