If it changes how information is created… If it changes how information is shared… If it changes how information is evaluated… If it changes how people connect… If it changes how people communicate… If it changes what people can do for themselves… Then it will change education, teaching, and learning.

Students must master core subjects and applied skills coupled with the use of technology to participate and/or compete in the global market economy and to manage their own destinies in the workplace and community.

Though schools are providing technology, schools are not yet prepared for how to integrate the technology into the curriculum. For this reason, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) have devised standards (NETS-T, NETS-S, NETS-FT and NETS-TL ) to assist the process.

Example of how technology Is working…….

Test Scores Jump 30% After Low- Income Kids Get Smartphones EducationNews © 2012

Test Scores Jump 30% After Low- Income Kids Get Smartphones Although smartphones are forbidden in many schools, when used properly they may become powerful learning tools. When Qualcomm’s Wireless Reach Initiative, an effort aimed at bringing internet access to families that can not afford it, put smartphones into the hands of low-income students, the students’ standardized test scores improved — sometimes by as much as 30%. [...] EducationNews © 2012

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Enhance Productivity – Designing Lesson – Track student progress – Record students grades – Curriculum delivery Communication and Collaboration – Parents – Students – Community

BETHLEHEM CHRISTIAN ACADEMY PLAN FOR TECHNOLOGY PREPLANNING Identifying stakeholders and key issues (Stakeholders include school board, administrators, teachers, staff, parents, and students) COMMUNITY VISION (community business owners, libraries, government which influence how the school if organized or operates. Community identifies barriers obstructing realization of vision, and will help come up with solutions.) ASSESSING CURRENT NEEDS CONSTRUCTING GOALS AND EVALUATION PLAN ACTION PLANNING Strategies, Budgeting, Timeline, Responsibility List MARKETING AND COMMUNICATING THE PLAN Relay Plan for Technology to Stakeholders and Community

BETHLEHEM CHRISTIAN ACADEMY PLAN FOR TECHNOLOGY STAGE 1: Form committee and schedule meeting times. Write vision and mission statement for Technology Plan. STAGE 2: Assess current technology. Conduct needs assessment, analyze data and make recommendations. STAGE 3: Establish goals and objectives. Develop technology action plans. STAGE 4: Plan implementation and evaluation methods. Secure funding options. Finalize Technology Plan. STAGE 5: Submit Technology Plan to school board for approval. STAGE 6: Submit Technology Plan for state approval. STAGE 7: Secure funding. Implement plans.

BETHLEHEM CHRISTIAN ACADEMY PROCEDURES, POLICIES, PLANNING, AND BUDGETING FOR TECHNOLOGY

BETHLEHEM CHRISTIAN ACADEMY Resources For writing Technology Plan TECHNOLOGY PLAN. BELMONT PUBLIC SCHOOLS Vision Statement. kJ:leominster.schoolfusion.us/modules/groups/homepagefiles/cms/ / File/Technology/Leominster-TP-v pdf+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgOFxgyAHFrCwzwC14zEougNs1t ZYN9NcZaSYMT_425s8fOsPcTAE2OcgpR7cAoOnsTJWq72X6IzI14u7eD50SiFfQ7 YBopNrrwL4ycuedja0bvHIy4VFVUz9KJjqLI__Jb8Shh&sig=AHIEtbR2jXQHVv7kqP c4s7COJe8H24OKjw kJ:leominster.schoolfusion.us/modules/groups/homepagefiles/cms/ / File/Technology/Leominster-TP-v pdf+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgOFxgyAHFrCwzwC14zEougNs1t ZYN9NcZaSYMT_425s8fOsPcTAE2OcgpR7cAoOnsTJWq72X6IzI14u7eD50SiFfQ7 YBopNrrwL4ycuedja0bvHIy4VFVUz9KJjqLI__Jb8Shh&sig=AHIEtbR2jXQHVv7kqP c4s7COJe8H24OKjw TECHNOLOGY PLAN. LEOMINSTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Instructional Technology Plan Sample Educational Technology Plan Vision Statements. Last updated,January 17, 2007

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