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While nearly all U.S. schools currently use computers, the demand to create one-to-one access for all students is increasing exponentially. Here are resources for creating a one-to-one plan for the future.
While nearly all U.S. schools currently use computers, the demand to create one-to-one access for all students is increasing exponentially. To ensure access to technology, leaders must create a vision, enlist others and successfully develop a strategic plan to accomplish educational objectives that maximize the use of technology.
Two useful resources exist to help you plan for the future.
Visit the K12 Computing Blueprint Web site
Download the K-12 Computing Blueprint PDF
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Assessment and accountability are the cornerstones of NCLB legislation and technology offers K-12 school districts many opportunities for addressing these unique challenges. Research has shown that the best strategy to achieve adequate yearly progress (AYP) is by employing technology.
By integrating technology into your school's assessment and accountability systems, you can streamline testing and reporting processes, centralize student information systems, keep track of diverse student data, monitor student progress years into the future, take advantage of online curriculum, and align your coursework with state standards.
While annual tests are important, students need to acquire thinking and analytical skills as well. In addition, there is no better way to encourage development of student collaboration and communication skills than with technology. Technology used appropriately helps students to develop these 21st century skills.
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With numerous users to please, a budget to meet and an exciting array of available technology options, there are many considerations when building an Intelligent Classroom solution. These eight steps will help ensure that you meet the needs of your stakeholders and optimize the placement and use of your technology:
1. Obtain faculty buy-in and input: They are the ones who will use the technology you implement.
2. Keep it simple: Implement the technology you need and make it easy to manage.
3. Provide support: Do you have the staff needed to support the technology you are implementing?
4. Stay current: Regularly review the quality, currency and usefulness of your Intelligent Classroom tools.
5. Be informed: Stay up on the latest technology; it will help you conduct realistic assessments of your equipment.
6. Motivate interaction: Incorporate technology to enable collaborative learning and facilitate movement around the classroom.
7. Make it user-friendly: Make classroom technology simple, friendly and non-intimidating to encourage use by all.
8. Sweat the details: Ponder a variety of scenarios in which your technology will be used and account for the details of each scenario. -
The following components can help you create interactive, collaborative learning environments:Wireless pads allow teachers to annotate and control presentations.
Interactive whiteboards enable documentation of notes that can be saved electronically and sent via email or stored on the network.
Polling applications let students respond instantly to questions supporting interactive, dynamic lessons.
Document imaging cameras enable teachers and students to capture printed material to present to or share with the entire class.
Multimedia devices (i.e. DVD or VCR) and TVs or LCD TVs enable teachers to share media with the entire class.
Digital cameras and camcorders enable students to capture images and create dynamic presentations they can share with their peers.
Personal and workgroup printers provide hard copies of electronic information and assignments.
Notebooks, desktops, handhelds, and tablet PCs connect students with teacher and peers, enabling their active participation in the learning process.Combining some or all of these technologies can help schools maximize their technology investments and student learning.
How do you know which components to incorporate in your Intelligent Classroom solution? Working with a single technology provider enables you to consolidate your decision-making and your purchases. All of these components are just a click away.
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Building an Intelligent Classroom
Getting Started
You may already have at least some of the technology needed to create an interactive environment. So what should you do? The two elements that are critical to a successful Intelligent Classroom solution are assessment and planning. By assessing your existing resources, you can determine what additional technology you need. By planning carefully, you can determine what will work for every purpose and can add components as you need them.
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Students today have embraced technology in their personal lives and they crave that interaction with technology when they enter the classroom. A Model Intelligent Classroom is a combination of computers and related technologies such as projectors and cameras that together transform classrooms into high-tech, interactive learning centers in which students acquire the 21st Century skills they’ll need to compete in the digital economy.
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Intelligent Classroom Resources
Implementing education technology isn't simple. Aside from purchasing equipment, many more decisions need to be made. Everyone needs advice and information on these aspects.
Find the resources you need.
Find the resources you need.
