The crunch…
Dr. Snyder would like us to pursue the 5 year plan aggressively leading to the due date of the TOP proposals (the first week of December). We would like to begin seeing the manifestations of our efforts next fall. She stressed both the importance of adding technological hardware, and personnel to support it.
Our first exercise was to construct our ideal classroom (if money were not an object) and to discuss what the instructional implications of our hardware “wish list” would be. For example, if all of our students had laptops and we had wifi access in these classrooms, our teachers would not be so limited with the direction of their lessons. When teachable moments present themselves, new content and resources are never more than a few mouse clicks away. Students would not need to be given hardcopies of worksheets, as these could all be distributed and collected electronically.
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I am trying once more! I want to thank you, Adrien, for getting this up and running. I have had a conversation with Dean and it looks like we might be able to set up the professional development training center with smart boards sooner rather than later. That way, the lead teachers and the staff dev folks can model, practice and become comfortable with the technology so that as we move ahead we will have some turn key trainers totally up to speed with the capacity, which will undoubtedly serve the faculty well.