Feb
14
Written by:
Dan Maas
2/14/2008
Providing guidance on what technologies we, in ITS, believe schools should implement is a challenging assignment. Today, we present the "yourIT" magazine linked here...
Littleton Public Schools is a district where site-based decision-making is a high value, and one that has helped keep LPS a premier district not only in our region, but nationally as well. The balance we need to strive to achieve is to provide leadership while honoring the flexibility our principals need to implement the best possible programs they can for students. It is in seeking that balance that we present "yourIT" magazine as our annual IT advisor for schools. Linked below, we attempted to capture the great things happening in our district so as to help propagate successful approaches across the system.
You will not find every detail about given technologies here. We take a quick look at many things hoping to spark interest and provide enough guidance for success in our schools. To be sure, this is our first effort and it is a work in progress. But we're hoping that we've created something that our principals and PTO presidents will use to inform decisions about information technology at their schools.
You can download yourIT magazine here: http://www.littletonpublicschools.net/Portals/0/ITS/yourIT.pdf
2 comment(s) so far...
Re: Advising our schools for technology
With Your IT we celebrate our district's embrace of 21 Century learning tools and practices, not as a destination but a milestone in our own professional journey toward making learning rigorous, relevant, and rewarding for each student in our schools. Thank you to CIO Dan Maas and his extraordinary team for a great first edition of Your IT.
By marj mcdonald on
2/17/2008
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Re: Advising our schools for technology
Parents, Students, Teachers and other Staff need to have "techno-guidence" through a set of workshops that can be videoed and then turned into CDs, DVDs, and USB sticks. Yes, that are "rigorous, relevant and rewardiing." For all ages, and cultures. These must be "home grown" in terms of "local truth" and substance.
From experience: novice/
casual/
newbie/
techie
Once the workshops are completed there can be an English to a specific language translation. With this being done at the district, school or classroom level. Yes, where parents see their peers involved. Where students see their peer involved. We teachers see their friends involved.
Same for other Staff. The techno-guidence person should be allowed to have parents, students, teachers and other staff involved in a "techno-guidence" workship. All learning can be identified. The existing "computer coaches" could be involved.
Installation, protocols, software defined radios and cyber-security can be involved. And back-up with batteries as well as solar and wind for the immediate or longer range future.
By Charles Wimber on
3/8/2008
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