Welcome to a New Age of Technology

Initiative

• Students will have access to a computer.
• Teachers will implement technology into their classroom daily.
• The leadership team will do research on what types of appropriate computer programs to use in the classroom.

Why do we need this initiative?

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• It is our desire to implement a digital learning plan for all grade levels.

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• We want to be focused on student learning and hopefully providing our students competitive advantages they deserve as they prepare for their future.

Who is this initiative for?

Implementation

• Teachers will use the appropriate technology tool to help with the lesson.
• Teachers will use one of the tools given to them at least once a day.(i.e. i-pad, chromebook, smartboard.)

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• Teachers will use programs like: Raz-kids, Frontrowed, and others given to them from adminstration.
• Teachers will document progress of students using this technolgy.

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Goals

• Create 21st century learning environment for students and teachers.
• Create a personalize and interactive learning opportunities for students.

What theorist support this change?

• Jerome Bruner. Bruner argues that " Practice in discovering for oneself one to acquire information in a way that makes that information more readeily viable in problem solving :

reference

• Bruner, J.S. (1961). The act of discovery. Harvard Educational Review. 31, 21-32.
• Davenport, A. (2009). Lessons from the zone: what we canlearn from Miami-dade's school imporovement zone. retrieved from Http://amandadavenport.wordpress.com/masters-thesis