0. 21st Century Learning Spaces
Technology Modernization
Office of the Chief Technology Officer
Montgomery County Public Schools

1. Outcomes By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
Describe the 21st Century Learning Spaces initiative and the implications for teaching and learning
Describe Google Apps for Education and the implications for communication, collaboration, and differentiating students’ learning experiences
Identify MCPS safety and security precautions to protect students in this closed virtual environment.

2. MCPS Strategic Technology Plan

3. 21st Century Learning Spaces
Anywhere, anytime access to learning
Creating connected classrooms
Ubiquitous access to mobile technologies
Foster communication and collaboration

4. Play
Chromebooks

5. Google Apps for Education
Gmail – inbox
Google Sheets – create spreadsheets & charts online
Google Drive – online storage (30 GB)
Google Slides – create presentations online
Google Docs – online word processor

6. What is a Chromebook?
Designed to be used primarily while connected to the Internet, with most applications and data residing "in the cloud".
Login to devices using an MCPS GAFE account.

7. Examples of Instructional Uses
Building class rules using a shared document
Creating a book trailer for an adventure story students are writing
Read an article and watch a video about the same topic to compare perspectives
Creating an “all about me” poster in Google Draw
Use a site to model a science concept before reading about it
Learning to type using proper form
Using web-based virtual manipulatives to learn mathematics concepts
Your idea here!

8. Student Accounts Students have assigned accounts (654738@mcpsmd.net)
Logins and passwords match all desktop and laptop logins that students have used every year to access documents and interactive websites
Students use this account to access their Drive, share files with each other, and receive and send files to their teachers

9. How Do Teachers Manage? All documents created
Teachers have a dynamic class dashboard that lets them see and manage:
All documents created
All s sent, received, and thrown away
Every open tab on a student’s device
The current screen a child is viewing

10. What Can Teachers See?

11. Google & MCPS Agreement
Per terms of agreement with MCPS, Google will:
Comply with Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
FERPA - Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records
Comply with Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule
COPPA - Prevents Google from collecting students’ personal information while using Google Apps account

12. Safety & Security Precautions
mcpsmd domain - “walled garden” where only MCPS staff and students can connect
Students can only send and receive from authorized MCPS account holders.
No advertising
No data mining
No Google + (Can’t be contained)
Chat is turned off (can’t be monitored)
All communication is visible and monitored
All communication is https encrypted to prevent hacking or unwanted 3rd party data collection

13. Safety & Security Precautions
Internet Monitoring
Students’ online interactions are monitored in accordance with the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA).
Online content deemed harmful to minors is blocked/ filtered.
Any device connected to MCPS network is subject to Internet filtering policies.

14. Safety & Security Precautions
Google Safe Search
enabled within domain
When SafeSearch is on, inappropriate video and images will be filtered from Google Search result pages, along with results that might link to explicit content.

15. How do we help teachers? Orientations
Already-made lessons and materials
Collaborative planning
Shoulder to shoulder modeling, co-teaching
On-going support

16. Questions….