Is Technology Making a Difference? Update 5

These checklists are based on what I call the Johnson Hierarchical Technology Planning Model that looks something like this:

A more complete explanation can be found here.

Anyway, over the next 5 days or so, I will be putting my checklists for each level of planning on the Blue Skunk. I invite readers to please add, delete and/or comment to these.

Established Infrastructure
The district will have a reliable, adequate, cost-effective, and secure technology infrastructure that supports the learning, teaching, and administrative goals of the district. Indicators of success:

Effective Administration
The district will use technology to improve its administrative effectiveness through efficient business practices, communication, planning and record keeping. 

Extensive Resources
Technology will be used to provide the most current, accurate and extensive information resources possible to all learners in the district and community in a cost effective and reliable manner at maximum convenience to the user.

Enhanced Teaching
All district teachers will have the technology training, skills and resources needed to assure students will meet local and state learning objectives and have the technological means to assess and record student progress.

 Empowered Learners
All students will demonstrate the mastered use of technology to access, process, organize, communicate and evaluate information in order to answer questions and solve problems.

• Integrated curricular use of individual skill practice and simulation software titles
• Planned use of proven computerized instructional systems
• Integrated curricular use of subject-specific technologies such as science probes, graphing calculators, accounting software, and CAD programs, etc.
• Planned use of adaptive technologies for special needs students
• Planned use of reading promotion software (Accelerated Reader, Reading Counts, etc.)
• A written information literacy skills curriculum that includes grade level benchmarks K-12 in research and technology use
• Information and technology literacy competencies formally integrated and written into each content area course curriculum.
• Units at each grade level team-taught by classroom teacher and library media specialist tied to the curriculum and information and technology literacy curriculum
• Assessment tools for information literacy units
• Method of reporting information literacy and technology skill attainment to individual students and parents
• Method of aggregating information literacy and technology skill attainment and reporting results to board and community
• Plan for continuous assessment and revision of information and technology literacy curriculum
• Plan for teaching and assessing safe and ethical technology use by students
• Opportunities for students to participate in distance learning opportunities
• Other?

Comments

[graphing calculator]

Just amazing how technology has changed the fact of education and so much more in our everyday lives. Thanks for the post.