How would you run Instructional Technology differently, and how would that change everything in your District? What would you change to make things better in your district? Here are a few thoughts along that road…help me push these ideas and make them more revolutionary, or is evolutionary the term I’m looking for? I’m just brainstorming and these aren’t in any particular order.

• Get rid of interim/benchmark assessments except those done once per nine weeks.
• Increase 1:1 access at the middle school and high school level with desktop computers rather than laptops, similar to what the New Tech High Schools do. If we don’t have the room, then get inexpensive laptops running GNU/Linux and FOSS
• Give every teacher an Internet capable, wireless laptop running open source software, GNU/Linux (eliminates viruses/spyware), and a CD so they can reimage their machine when they mess things up. Also, give each teacher a digital projector
• Fully fund high school technology applications courses
• Mandate the integration of technology applications and information literacy into core curriculum areas, especially district’s scope and sequence.
• Require all classroom teachers to complete the Technology Competency Certification Plan and receive an incentive.
• Provide campus administrators with the tools to do electronic appraisals of staff.
• Swing the door open on technology workshops for the community
• District-funded campus instructional technologists
• Set online learning for all workshops and only do instructor-led workshops when absolutely necessary
• Use content management system to empower all teachers and administrators to maintain a web page/blog.
• Create short 10 minute podcasts around specific topics of interests to different groups.
• Require every Campus Instructional Coordinator to go through LOTI Mentor Training
• Use Concerns-based Adoption Model (CBAM) to collect data on innovations adoption
• Come up with a VISION for use that is broad-based and involves all stakeholders
• Set up webcasting/videoconferencing for high school class electives instruction
• Look at various teaching situations and then invite teachers to develop technology-rich solutions (e.g. Journalism teachers at the High School level).
• Set up sustained professional learning opportunities for teachers by establishing a district-funded (partially at least) graduate level course in 21st Century Skills.
• Require digital citizenship completion for every student

What would you add/drop/change? Next draft is to drop these into sections for staff, students, parents, administrators.

var addthis_pub=”mguhlin”;

Subscribe to Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org

Be sure to visit the ShareMore! Wiki.

Everything posted on Miguel Guhlin’s blogs/wikis are his personal opinion and do not necessarily represent the views of his employer(s) or its clients. Read Full Disclosure