Goal+4

All students and educators will have access to a comprehensive infrastructure for learning, when and where they need it. || Goal 4: Infrastructure for Teaching and Learning All students and educators will have access to a comprehensive infrastructure for learning, when and where they need it. ||
 * National Educational Tech Plan || State Educational Tech Plan ||
 * 4.0 Infrastructure: Access and Enable
 * What will your district do over the life of this local Educational Tech Plan to ensure that all students and educators will have access to a comprehensive infrastructure for teaching and learning? || ** Please answer these questions! **

** In order to have access to digital tools, describe what kind of digital environment you think would work best for you. (For example: computer labs, bring-your-own device to classroom, web-based classroom, full wireless environment for internet access.) ** || From our meeting: include component="comments" page="Goal 4" limit="10" If you do not wish to sign up for Wikispaces to post a comment, please simply click the "edit" button at the top of this page (you can do this without signing up). Then post your comment underneath this line!
 * Tablets-provide real-time learning and many things are simplified from laptop use
 * Devices that students can grab at any time-something in the classroom
 * Perhaps tablets at the lower level and laptops in the upper grades due to nature and complexity of tasks.
 * BYOD is a something we may be forced to do. While at the elementary level, this would be difficult to manage and comes back to a teacher not knowing how to troubleshoot all the devices and students not being able to do it on their own. On the staff level, this may be a realistic move despite the model we have now where everyone has the same type of laptops.
 * Teachers hesitant to bring in own devices because of the PERSONAL tasks they do (finances, etc) and don't want it subject to the tech department "looking" at their items
 * Not replace with desktops, but maybe keep the space or have multiple smaller spaces/pods where there is power, wireless or ethernet, etc so students can work together.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: medium;">Laptops in central locations where students can grab them whenever needed. Question of power and internet access. Not all rooms have accessible outlets and internet ports.