The Hun School of Princeton 5 Year Technology Plan (2012-2017) Prepared by: Jim Huffaker LeRhonda Greats

Introduction
The following is a Technology for The Hun School. A private co-ed grades sixth through twelfth boarding school located in Princeton, New Jersey. The school sits on 43 acres and was founded in 1914 by John Gale Hun who wanted a school to help teach students math. Technology Plan Team Members IT Director Department Chairs from at least 2 different departments Educational Technology Coordinator [upper and middle school divisions] Upper School Division Head Middle School Division Head Webmaster Business Manager Head Librarian Director of Residential Life

Table of Contents
I. II. III. IV. V. VI. INTRODUCTION MISSION AND VISION STATEMENT ISTE STANDARDS GOALS LOGIC MODEL REFERENCES 2 3 5 6 15 29

Mission and Vision Statement

Mission Statement The Hun School provides a diverse community that places a high value on a creative and rigorous traditional college preparatory curriculum in a structured environment; develops character, community and values; meets the students differing talents, interests, and academic needs through a supportive staff and a variety of programs; and encourages students to widen their horizons, gain an appreciation for and an excitement about learning and achieve their full potential. www.hunschool.org Vision Statement Create a community that supports the latest in technology innovation. Faculty are encouraged to incorporate technology into their courses and provided the tools that are needed for them to be successful. Students are provided with the tools to explore, create and use critical thinking to enhance their learning and global awareness. There are state of the art computer labs, art rooms and a television production studio at the students disposal. The goal is to offer the best 21st century education available by providing our end users the means for success. This includes creating a ubiquitous infrastructure that will support the growing technology needs of the community.

ISTE Standards
ISTE's NETS for Teachers (NETST) are the standards for evaluating the skills and knowledge educators need to teach, work, and learn in an increasingly connected global and digital society. As technology integration continues to increase in our society, it is paramount that teachers possess the skills and behaviors of digital age professionals. Moving forward, teachers must become comfortable being co-learners with their students and colleagues around the world. All teachers should meet the following standards and performance indicators. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments Model Digital Age Work and Learning Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership

ISTE's NETS for Students (NETSS) are the standards for evaluating the skills and knowledge students need to learn effectively and live productively in an increasingly global and digital world. Simply being able to use technology is no longer enough. Today's students need to be able to use technology to analyze, learn, and explore. Digital age skills are vital for preparing students to work, live, and contribute to the social and civic fabric of their communities. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Creativity and Innovation Communication and Collaboration Research and Information Fluency Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making Digital Citizenship Technology Operations and Concepts

Goals
Goal #1 Ipad Integration. Strategies In the first year iPads were purchased in 2 sets of 20 for teachers to sign out as their class found uses for them. In the second year parents would be required to purchase iPads for their eighth and ninth grade student. In the third year the program would extend from sixth to tenth grade, and subsequent years iPads would be required for all students. The goal being all textbooks used by students converted to iBook or ePub format. This would be constrained to the publishing houses conversion of the books and their time frame. An added benefit to the program is the weight difference between the iPad and traditional textbooks. The integration of iPads will reduce the cost of textbooks and will then lighten the heavy backpack that students carry. The parents were sent a survey asking various questions about the cost of textbooks and their interest in new ways to reduce that cost. Apple has been growing in its support for education and when they introduced iBooks and the low cost of the electronic version of the books the school decided that this is the way to go. Some things dont get better with age. Paper textbooks are expensive to produce and expensive for schools to buy. Which is why schools are forced to use a book for several years to make the finances work. But information changes so quickly that some textbooks are out of date almost before theyre published. And as books are passed along from one student to the next, they get more highlighted, dog-eared, tattered, and worn. Heavy backpacks. Weighed-down students. Its no secret that paper textbooks are heavy. But what you may not know is that backpack weight is an increasing problem among kids. Studies show that heavy backpacks can lead to both chronic back pain and poor posture and many kids are carrying a quarter of their body weight in textbooks. (Apple.com, 1997) Timeline 2011 Pilot iPad program [2 sets of 20] 2012 Continue the test program 2013 Rollout iPad requirements for 8th graders and 9th graders 2014 Expand iPads for 6-8th graders and 9th and 10th graders 2015 All students in grades 6-12 must have an iPad

Budget The rollout of the iPads for teachers includes the cost of the iPad, Apple Care Plus, iPad cover, and a $50 gift card for app purchases targeted for their curriculum. When the iPads are distributed we also include several core apps that were preloaded on the iPads before distribution to teachers. Budget Over View: iPads $59,220 iTunes gift cards $4,500 iPad covers $4,410 pre-loaded apps $1,000 $69,130 amortized out over three years. The iPads are expected to have a life expectancy of 4 years. Faculty will receive the device a year prior to students. The goal is to provide training for faculty over the course of the school year. With the help of the Educational Technology Coordinators in the Upper and Middle Schools, faculty will be able to gradually use the device and decide how to best incorporate the technology in to their classroom. Teachers will handle ePublication distribution the same way they handled hard cover text purchase expectations. The faculty member will provide a list of apps(eBooks) via ISBN that the students will have to purchase and have installed prior to the beginning of the school year. The goal being a significant cost savings to the parent and a tremendous reduction in back pack weight.

Goal #2 Provide High Speed Wifi Throughout 43 Acre Campus. Strategies Installation of a new Aruba 3600 wireless controller, 115 Access Points, a proper site survey to balance the signals of the access points, and to identify areas on campus that might need high saturation access points. The high saturation access points are for areas like the auditorium were more than 40 connections per AP can occur. With the Aruba software we will be able to manage the wireless environment and identify problem areas on campus that might not be working or have a weak signal, interference, or be over saturated. The school had been wired between buildings since 2000 but as wireless devices have expanded so has the demand for service. The more affordable the mobile devices, the more demand for wifi access both within our community but also for visitors so it is necessary to plan to meet those needs. How will your entitys technology plan increase student achievement and improve schools or impact productivity/profit margins for private organizations? The modernization of our campus Wi-Fi system throughout the campus will provide the end user with a ubiquitous wireless environment, being accessible campus wide. Students will be mobile from the classroom to the library, to the cafeteria, to outdoor spaces, etc. Being able to access resources on the move will provide the faculty member with a more fluid-learning environment. No longer tethered to the classroom or library the access to information to information or production can occur any where on campus. Needs Assessment Demand for a more reliable system was needed. Our end users were inundating our technology help desk with all kinds of wireless issues. So the IT department and the administration had to respond to our customers and not only modernize our wireless system but also upgrade our broadband speeds from 20 mbps to 100mbps. We also had to install a packet shaper to customize the broadband throughput to our faculty in the classroom when it was needed most during the school day. In the end, the increased use of technology on campus and mobile devices in the hands of even our youngest students drove the need for this improvement. Budget The Aruba wireless system controller and access points cost of $103,285 and has a shelf life of between 6-8 years. There is also a application add on for the Aruba system called Clearpass. Clearpass helps the network administrator to monitor the system and its various access points for any failures.

Goal #3 Community Access To Technology. Strategies Grades six through ten will have iPads at the start of the 2013-2014 school year. They will have access the schools wireless service as well a printing to the Canon Uniflow follow me print system. Our eleventh and twelfth graders will not have a BYRD (Bring Your Required Device). Instead, they and the faculty will have access to 20 iPads through sign out and two Apple equipped computer labs with 20 iMacs each. As well, they will be able to print to the Canon system. The eleventh and twelfth graders will be able to bring their own device on campus. How will your entitys technology plan increase student achievement and improve schools or impact productivity/profit margins for private organizations? Providing computers and iPads for classes to use in the library/media center or in a computer lab will ensure that teachers can bring their classes in and integrate the technology into their curriculum. Teachers will have the support of the Upper and Middle School Educational Technology Coordinators. This will help the teachers to expose their students to 21st century learning with support. Needs Assessment Because students are not required to have a computer or iPad in every grade, the school recognized the need to provide them access to technology. Students need to be able to check email and type up assignments. Teachers need to be supported in their efforts to integrate technology in the classroom and their lives. School Year Timeline 2011-12 2012-13 Mac/PC labs BYRD operational iPad Pilot 8th/9th grades 2013-14 PC labs removed. Two Macs labs iPad Charging stations installed. iPad BYRD moves to 6th-10th grades 2014-15 Summer,replace administrative computers. 2015-16 Replace the iMac computers (this may not be necessary, depending on the success of the iPad program. Replace faculty Macbook laptops and iPads.

Budget 3 computer labs with 20 iMacs each (60 computers) 21.5-inch: 2.7GHz 2.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz 8GB (two 4GB) memory

21.5-inch: 2.7GHz 2.7GHz quad-core Intel Core i5 Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz 8GB (two 4GB) memory 9

1TB hard drive1 1TB hard drive1 NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M with 512MB NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M with 512MB $1,299.00 each Cost $77,940 Cost $51,960 Total $129,900 Goal #4 Teachers Are Provided With Macbook Pro Laptops. Strategies The school provides each teacher with a production computer for not only planning purposes but also as an instrument to use in the classroom. The laptop can be used for presentation purposes, but also for audio/video duties. Prior to the Macbook Pro (MBP), Hun faculty had Dell laptops for the same purposes as stated before. The Macbook became the choice for Hun faculty when the new Head of Upper School had a vision of iPads for faculty and students but he also new that faculty would still need a production computer to handle the every day performance tasks that a iPad cannot provide. With the MBP and iPad concentration now on campus, the school recognized that infrequent professional development would not meet the training requirement to implement the technology in the classroom. In the summer of 2011, the school hired a full time, dedicated Educational Technology Coordinator for Upper School and a part time Coordinator for he MS. The part time position was deemed adequate as there are 12 faculty in MS compared to US 63 faculty. How will your entitys technology plan increase student achievement and improve schools or impact productivity/profit margins for private organizations? Providing teachers with laptops and upgrading the laptops regularly will provide the teacher with a tool that they can use both at school and at home. They can work on lesson plans, edit their classroom management system (CLMS) environment, surf the web, and check their emails from the laptops. The use laptop and mobile devices in conjunction with email and CLMS provides a port(s) of communication between the student and teachers beyond the classroom period. Having these tools can provide students with access to critical information long after school has ended. Needs Assessment The advancement of technology and the need to communicate faster and provide more detailed information to parents will keep driving the need to provide the teachers with the necessary equipment to update the schools constituents. Parents will be provided with written progress reports and they will be kept up to date with the students assignments online. These expectations will drive the need to provide the teachers with equipment that supports their efforts to stay up to date with assessments and student progress.

Timeline 2011-12

2012-13

2013-14

2014-15

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Teachers laptops

Faculty receive Apple TV iPads installs to work in colbaration with iPads

All students move to BYRD

Laptop upgrade for all teacher computers

Budget 13-inch: 2.5GHz with Retina display 2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz 8GB 1600MHz memory 128GB flash storage1 Intel HD Graphics 4000 Built-in battery (7 hours)2 $1,499.00 each

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Goal #5 Go To The Cloud. Strategies The traditional model of the school network was a system of authentication to gain access to the schools technological resources. One of the primary resources was the storage of data. As technology advanced that storage became not only document data but also music, pictures, movies, etc. With todays move to more mobile devices, the end user is not just using their desktop or laptop to access their digital files. They want access to their data from all devices on and off campus. With the introduction of Google Apps for Education to Hun in the winter of 2012 we not only received a new email system but free cloud based data storage. The generous storage capacity of Google Drive at 30gigs per user and no cost to the school. This solution provides the end user with access to their data any were in the world. The move to the cloud has not only occurred with our email, data storage environment but also our Classroom Management System, Schoology is also a cloud based system. Schoology is accessible any were a student has access to the internet. There is no need to always be on campus for access. From the IT perspective, all of these systems take the burden of maintenance off of the department. Cost savings are also quite considerable. The annual support contract for MS Exchange server was a few thousand dollars a year not to mention the costs associated with the physical server environment to host the application(s). Google Apps cost the school $0.00. Professional Development for the use of both Google Apps for Education and Schoology was minimal. Many of our end users already had Gmail accounts and were very familiar with how it functioned. The Schoology CLMS had adopted a very familiar Facebook environment. This familiarity made the learning curve for the end user of the Schoology interface much lower and quicker to learn than other CLMS. Our Education Technology Coordinators provided summer hours as well as staggered hours for professional Development during the school year. How will your entitys technology plan increase student achievement and improve schools or impact productivity/profit margins for private organizations? Using Google Apps for Education instead of Microsoft Office saves the licensing fee and the cost of upgrades. There is no added cost to tuition for parents. Using Googles email will improve the reliability of the email system for the entire school as well as remove the need to have IT staff support email. Having the professional development hosted in-house allows for a more flexible training schedule and saves money on outsourcing the training. Having the Ed Tech staff available on campus provides easy access to the support needed as problems arise in the classroom. Help is only a phone call or email away. 12

Needs Assessment There is a help-desk established for users to report their technical needs. Through the help-desk ticketing system, Spiceworks the end users needs will be assessed and a solution offered. Timeline 2011 free 2012 free 2013 free 2014 free 2015 free

Budget Only cost to the school is the annual renewal with Schoology at $4,500.00.

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GOAL #6 Network Printers. Strategies The school had adopted a printing strategy of using color laser jet printers across campus with a direct print solution. There were also Ricoh multi-function printers on campus, primarily in the administrative offices. The IT budget to support the sixty plus color laser jets was given fifty thousand dollars annually for toner. This did not include maintenance fees. Also, each end user had to be granted access via the Systems Administrator to be able to access and print to a specific printer; a tethered approach if you will. The responsibility of toner purchases, installation and disposal falls on the technology department. There is no telling how much time a week was spent just supporting these printers. Another cost associated with this printing strategy was the cost and waste of copier paper. Students, faculty and staff had a tendency to hit the print button more than once if they do not receive immediate gratification after the first press. Once the print que spooled those multiple print jobs, they all printed leaving a tremendous amount of waste. The Hun School needed a more efficient, cost effective approach. That is when Canons Follow-Me print solution came to Hun. How will your entitys technology plan increase student achievement and improve schools or impact productivity/profit margins for private organizations? Our new approach to campus printing was a follow-me print solution. We removed all the color lasar printers from the environment except those that are in use in administrative offices. Then we brought in Canons Follow-Me print solution, Uniflow. This solution allows the end user to print to a universal print queue. The end user can go to any Canon printer on campus and using their school issued ID card, can swipe their card through the magnetic card reader. The information for that person is authenticated against the schools Active Directory service and then granted access into the printers command interface. From there they can scan, copy or print. In the case of printing, if the end user did press print more than once those print jobs will show up in the universal print queue. The person can pick just the one print job then delete the duplicate job that was created. If they do not delete the duplicate print jobs, after twenty-four hours those duplicate jobs are deleted from the system. The Follow-Me approach has saved the school significant money in costs associated with toner and printer. Another advantage to the system is not being tethered to a computer or printer. Once the print job has been sent to the universal print queue, the end user can go to anyone of the twenty-four multifunction copiers on campus and retrieve their print job. Needs Assessment The cost of toner and paper as well as the manpower that it took to keep the large quantity and variety of printers up and running helped to determine the need for a better system. Timeline 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 14

The copiers in classrooms will be replaced as they die off

Make the investment in 20 copy machines to Total cost: $54,500

At the end of the first year with the new copiers the school will see a savings with paper and toner costs of approx. 30%

Budget Cannon Imagerunner models, 9075, 4045, 5045, 7065 and 1730 leased. 24 copiers total, the toner cost is included in the lease and the company charges $.0045 for each black and white copy printed and $.0065 for each color copy printed over the initial 500,000 free copies. Goal #7 Apple TVs. Strategies The Hun School currently has Smartboards with all of its audio/visual aids in approximately twenty classrooms. Of those twenty rooms, our Educational Technology Coordinator has observed less than half being used on a daily of weekly basis. This lack of use has caused us in IT, upper school, and middle school to change the approach in the classroom to make learning more interesting for the student. Having adopted a BYRD (Bring Your Required Device), all students sixthtenth grade with the eleventh- and twelfth grades in the consecutive school years will have iPads. With the iPad in the hands of faculty and students we decided to find a solution that will utilize the presenters and audiences devices to become a more interactive member in the classroom. Our group of current Smartboards does not possess the technological capability to handle the iPad. Therefore, a solution that includes the iPad as well as interacting with the audience was needed. That is when the Apple TV came to our attention. How will your entitys technology plan increase student achievement and improve schools or impact productivity/profit margins for private organizations? The need for a more interactive approach in the classroom has spurned us at Hun to look at the Apple TV. The iPad can connect to the Apple TV wirelessly and with the aid of the app, AirPlay. This allows the end user(students) to remotely demonstrate their iPad via a projection or television presentation. Not only can the iPad be passed around, but different users can take control and present. What the iPad solution does not, as of yet, afford us is touch interaction between the iPad and the display device, nor can more than one iPad be displayed in a single instance. With the applications available for the iPad that can replicate the Smartboard Notebook application, the Apple TV is a viable replacement to a Smartboard as well being much more cost friendly. 15

Needs Assessment By combining the Apple TV with a LCD TV and iPad. Students and faculty can become much more involved in the classroom. This will promote the concept of technology being a trigger for a more inter-active, connected classroom. The device will become secondary in promoting discussion, collaboration, and presentation after it has been accepted into the learning environment. The goal is to make the technology ubiquitous on campus. Budget: Apple TV - $99.00 x 43 = $4,257.00 Hun received a grant from the State of New Jersey for Apple TVs. Cost = $0.00 Goal #8 LCD TVs. Strategies Currently each classroom has a audio/video setup for most every room on campus. What is frustrating is that very few of the a/v setups are the same. There is a mix of LCD projector model types, audio devices if at all, and a multitude of connectors for the devices for the laptop or desktop. By bringing in LCD TVs in conjunction with the Apple TVs, every classroom will have a a/v setup that will be the same through every class. What his means is that a teacher can go from class to class and find the same setup and connect with out the help of the technology department. How will your entitys technology plan increase student achievement and improve schools or impact productivity/profit margins for private organizations? For the teacher the difference between the LCD projector and TV is no longer having a bright light shine in their face as they try and teach class. It is also a more appealing setup with out the need for audio receivers and speakers with cables running all over. The picture is also a big plus as a projector has a more washed out presentation were as the TV is crisp and sharp. Needs Assessment The needs assessment is much the same as the Apple TV considering that they are apart of the same classroom, technology strategy. Budget: A typical Smartboard, LCD Projector, and a/v classroom setup with installation is three thousand plus dollars. The LCD TV and Apple TV plus installation is sub-two thousand dollars.

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Logic Model
Goal #1 Ipad Integration. NETST 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity 2. Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments 3. Model Digital Age Work and Learning The iPad allows each student to have access to the curriculum at their fingertips The iPad has apps that teachers can use to provide online feedback and assessments to their students When classrooms are equipped with Apple TV and projectors the iPad will allow teachers to demonstrate the work that they have created for their students. If the projectors or Apple TV are not available students can still access the teachers work online with the iPad. The iPad allows students to collaborate with each other in the classroom. Teachers can teach online ethics and etiquette to make students more responsible online. There are webinars and online sites for teachers to help them learn more about the iPad and ways to integrate its use in the classroom. The iPad gives the students access to online websites and apps through the Apple store to be more creative and innovative. Email and wifi access helps the students to work together either across the classroom or across the world. Because the iPad is dependent upon the Internet it puts all of the World Wide Web in the students hands. They have access to research from top notch universities and even experts in the fields of research. Using the iPad to solve problems and make decisions is one of its greatest gifts to a classroom. Students who use iPads are online and they will be exposed to a variety of ways to present themselves online. They will develop a digital footprint that they will also learn to control using the iPad. Apple Store, iTunes, iBooks and much more are 17

4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility 5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership NETSS 1. Creativity and Innovation 2. Communication and Collaboration 3. Research and Information Fluency

4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making 5. Digital Citizenship

6. Technology Operations and

Concepts

technical operations and concepts that the students have to learn when using the iPad.

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Logic Model Goal #2 Provide High Speed Wifi Throughout The Entire 43 Acre Campus NETST 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity 2. Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments Whether the teachers are using the iPad or their laptop computer the need for high speed wifi is important when they deliver the content of their lessons electronically. The assessments and digital age experiences can be completed off line but they are not accessible to the world until they are sent out via email or Learning Management Systems or via a website. Wireless connections allow teachers to share their content with a broader audience, anytime and anywhere. On a beautiful spring afternoon it is great for a teacher to take their class outside and have their lesson under a tree and having the wireless access throughout campus allows them to do that. A high speed Internet connection allows the teacher to share their digital footprint with their class. This allows them to model good online citizenship and the responsible use of the Internet. Having access to a high speed Internet connection gives the teacher freedom to move around the schools campus with their device. This is beneficial when teachers have prep periods and would like to use this time to participate in professional development online. Students who have access to high speed wifi can bring any device into their classroom to display their work. They can demonstrate their creativity and flexibility. High speed wifi connections helps students connect with their teacher and other classmates. They can work together both at home and from various locations around the school. The schools media center has subscriptions to various databases that students can have access to but not everyone can fit into the media center at the same time. Having a strong wifi connection allows students to stay in their classroom if they have a device that will allow them to log into the network that contains the 19

3. Model Digital Age Work and Learning

4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility 5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership

NETSS 1. Creativity and Innovation

2. Communication and Collaboration 3. Research and Information Fluency

database. 4. Critical Thinking, Problem Whether the students are logging in from a Solving, and Decision Making computer lab or the media center or from home the speed of the internet is important. When given a problem to solve or working on homework this is all greatly improved with a faster network that allows the student to move through the information faster. 5. Digital Citizenship Wifi gives students access to the Internet and this is where they are becoming digital citizens, the fast the wifi the more information the student is able to move through. 6. Technology Operations and Students have to learn to gain access to the Concepts Internet on whatever device they are using. If they are using a wifi connection there will be times that the connection is not immediately available. In this case they need to know how the technology works and how to make it work for them.

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Logic Model Goal #3 Community Access To Technology NETST 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity There are not many schools that are set up as a 1-to-1 which means that not all students have their own computer for classwork. This is the reason the computer labs and media centers in the library are helpful. They help the teacher to develop plans for their classes and then give the students a place to practice the task on a computer. With spaces available that can accommodate a class full of students a teacher can design and develop experiences that can be shared with everyone. The teacher can also design their own webspace and require that students check their assessments on this website in the community space. Teachers can create webpages and blogs and assign the students different projects online which model for the students different uses of digital learning and workspace. Through blogs and webspaces that the teachers share with their students they can demonstrate the proper way to conduct yourself online. The students can either be taken as a class into a computer lab or media center or they can be given an assignment to make time during their free periods to visit these places to access the teachers work online. When a faculty room is equipped with computers and scanners and webcams this allows the teacher a place for them to participate in different types of professional development opportunities online. These are also spaces that they can come together with their colleagues to share some of the successes that they have experienced in their classrooms. Bringing a full class together in a space that is equipped with computers allows the students to work on projects individually and to demonstrate their own creativity. In a computer lab or media center with a class 21

2. Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

3. Model Digital Age Work and Learning 4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility

5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership

NETSS 1. Creativity and Innovation

2. Communication and

Collaboration

3. Research and Information Fluency

4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making

5. Digital Citizenship

6. Technology Operations and Concepts

working on a classroom assignment the students can work together in groups to collaborate. They can communicate with each other or with experts or other students in another classroom in a completely different city or country. Working in a computer lab or media center on a research project opens the access to the information. Students not only have their ideas and the Internet at their disposal or word process but they also have the ideas of their classmates with doing research which can be extremely valuable. Project based learning is very popular in education and having the entire class work together collaboratively on a project in a computer lab helps them to develop their critical thinking and decision making skills. Teachers who bring their classes together can teach them about digital citizenship as a group. They can demonstrate what makes good citizens and give the students the opportunity to work together and role play amongst themselves to ensure their understanding. Working in a computer lab exposes students to computer technology operations and concepts. They work on the computer hardware and software and learn to work their way around the equipment.

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Logic Model Goal #4 Teachers Are Provided With Macbook Pro Laptops. NETST 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity Teachers work very hard and they dont do all of their required work in a regular 9-5 timeframe. By giving teachers a laptop this gives them freedom to develop lessons and different ways to teach those lessons without being chained to one location. The laptop gives the teacher access to online tools and computer applications/programs that they can use to organize their classroom and provide assessments of their students electronically. With a laptop and a printer a teacher can design worksheets for their students that are specific to the material that they are teaching. They can create their own lesson supplements and this demonstrates their understanding of digital age learning. Teachers who have their own laptop can create digital content that can be used online or just within their classroom. This content can then be shared with their students in a variety of different ways. A laptop helps to create a professional image. It allows the teacher to type a report rather than handwrite it. They can share the information that they have discovered with colleagues via email or blog as well as participate in online events without having to leave the schoolhouse. When a teacher has a laptop they can expand their teaching to the students. Often the younger generation has more advanced electronic equipment than anyone and when a school provides the teacher with a laptop it helps to the develop lessons that can challenge their students creativity and innovation. Teachers need to communicate and collaborate with their students and providing the teacher with a laptop helps 23

2. Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

3. Model Digital Age Work and Learning

4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility

5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership

NETSS 1. Creativity and Innovation

2. Communication and Collaboration

3. Research and Information Fluency

4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making

5. Digital Citizenship

6. Technology Operations and Concepts

to facilitate this. When a teacher has the tool to research a project before they assign it to the student it gives them more knowledge about the assignment. The more the teacher knows about a subject the better the overall design of the lesson is. The online community has expanded extensively with online teacher support tools. Websites like Thinkfinity.com and Free Technology for Teachers among others can provide resources that teachers can find to help them to develop lessons that will extend the critical thinking, problem solving and decision making capabilities of their students Teachers who have their own laptops can learn to be good digital citizens and it is much easier to teach a student to do something that you have mastered yourself. Teaching students how to work with technology and to understand the concepts of working with computers can be done by teachers who have used the technology themselves. When they have run into problems and solved those problems they are better equipped to help students work through similar problems and need less tech support.

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Logic Model Goal #5 Go To The Cloud. NETST 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity 2. Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments 3. Model Digital Age Work and Learning 4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility Having limited storage space for online projects can hamper student and faculty creativity. When teachers have the ability to access student work online it also helps them to collect their students electronic work more consistently. Saving work to the cloud helps the teacher have even more freedom than just having the information saved on their own laptop or a floppy disk or thumb drive. The cloud is more reliable and consistent. Cloud storage and computing are still fairly new and when teachers use them they are demonstrating their understanding of some of the most up to date digital age learning. Requiring students to save their work to a location in the cloud takes away their excuse that they forgot to bring in a disk or they saved it on their computer at home. If the teacher requires the cloud saving method and reinforces this method then they will promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility. The teacher who is using www.dropbox.com is the leader in technology at a time when many are still relying on thumb drives or even CDs. Creating assignments and saving them to dropbox.com gives the student access to their work anytime and anywhere. They can demonstrate their understanding of an innovative program like Dropbox displaying their stored work in their cellphone and then on their iPad and even on their desktop computer. Using a program like Google Apps for education to create a word processing document, creates a document that saves automatically and that users can share and work on collaboratively in the cloud. Online research offers a greater access to information than even the largest public library. There are databases and research papers that were written and are stored online and the cloud allows you save a copy for yourself. The cloud eliminates the age old problem of not being able to locate your files. Once you get into the 25

5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership NETSS 1. Creativity and Innovation

2. Communication and Collaboration 3. Research and Information Fluency

4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision

Making 5. Digital Citizenship 6. Technology Operations and Concepts

habit of saving files online then you know they are safe there. Saving and retrieving your work online makes you a better digital citizen because you have more practice. Whether you save your work on Google Drive or www.dropbox.com you have to learn how to manipulate the technology to place your files in the right location. You also have to know where to find your work when you need it.

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Logic Model Goal #6 Network Printers NETST 1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity When teachers have access to a high speed internet connection, a laptop and cloud storage that is all helpful but there are still times when they need to print. Being able to print anywhere is very helpful if one machine goes down or there is a line at the machine closest to your classroom a network printer lets you have options. The network printer does more than just printout. It also can scan documents and send them to your account via email. The printer can help you to print out your electronic assessments as well. The network printer can print out the work that you created digitally to distribute to your students. By using the network printer the teachers are contributing to savings that the school will incur over time and this will model and promote responsibility to your students. Teachers can get training in the proper use of the network printer and share that knowledge with their colleagues. Students can use the network printer to provide a copy of the work that they created either on their computer at home or in the schools computer labs or media center. The network printer can create multiple collated copies of student work that they can distribute to other classmates when working collaboratively. There are times when doing research the research needs to be printed out to help gain a better understanding. Using the network printer will stop the problem of printing too many copies and allow you to only print the information that you need. Todays printers require much more than just pushing a button to make them run. If they are network printers they need to have a card swipe or some type of log in. If you want to staple copies of your work or print in color 27

2. Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments 3. Model Digital Age Work and Learning 4. Promote and Model Digital Citizenship and Responsibility 5. Engage in Professional Growth and Leadership NETSS 1. Creativity and Innovation

2. Communication and Collaboration 3. Research and Information Fluency

4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making

5. Digital Citizenship

6. Technology Operations and Concepts

or double sided you have to know how to work through all of the different screens on the machine to accomplish your goal. The network printer is online and you send your print job from either a laptop or iPad or even a cellphone if your printer has those capabilities all of these skills improve your overall digital citizenship. In order to get your paper to come out of the printer you have to have a certain level of technical competency. You have to read the instructions and then follow the instructions to accomplish your goal of printing using the network printer.

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