Teaching and Learning is defined as the use of technology in the classroom to enhance the learning environment. The various levels of progress and accomplishment is determined by the role that teachers and students are currently playing in the use of technology. Also, the types of technology that are provided and used help to define the progress being made.
As far as progress being made, our campus has improved slightly in this area moving from 13 points to 14 points (developing tech). The statewide summary indicates that campuses on average are in the developing tech stage as well.
Our district tries to improve in this area. I imagine an issue for any district that serves 30+ campuses and 30,000+ students is that technology is a massive project when serving a "business" of that size. Acquiring the hardware itself is an enormous endeaveor not to mention the software that must be installed in order to apply the hardware. Our campus in particular has 6 different individual buildings to go along with portable buildings and separate locations such as fieldhouses and vocational classrooms.
I think a way that our district and campus can improve is to provide training and specific lessons per course or subject that will be easily adaptable to our students. In the past we have had either great pieces of technology with few ways to incorporate in to a lesson or an idea to incorporate technology yet not have the equipment and software needed to bring it to fuition. There are technology specialists in place and they help with this process but there are 2 of them for 5 different high schools. In order to move from a developing level of technology to an advanced level, there has to be a concerted effort from our teachers to take the next step and have learning and instruction be teacher-facilitated rather than teacher-directed.
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