Goose Creek Consolidated

School District

Technology Plan

Created by Michella Joseph

EDLD 5362-8011

GOOSE CREEK CISD

TECHNOLOGY PLAN

According to the GCCISD website

GOOSE CREEK CISD Technology Plan for

E-Rate Year 12 - 2009 - 2012

• Goose Creek CISD will provide technology for literacy,

integration and transformative learning to prepare

students to successfully live, learn and work in the Digital

Age.

• Our wireless infrastructure provides connectivity for ultra

mobile devices, laptops, smart tablets, interactive white

boards, classroom performance systems, iPods,

document cameras, and more.

• Technology will be incorporated in all areas of the

curriculum.

GOOSE CREEK CISD Technology Plan for

E-Rate Year 12 - 2009 - 2012

• Staff development will focus on teaching the existing

curriculum with technology.

• Curriculum and Instruction will continue to build the

Information Management System that will provide

stakeholders information on student performance and

align the curriculum vertically and horizontally.

• This technology will be used to collect data and to

analyze it to best serve each student's individual needs.

GOALS FOR GCCISD

TECHNOLOGY PLAN

According to the GCCISD website

Goals for Technology Plan

• GOAL I: PROVIDE EDUCATIONAL

TECHNOLOGY FOR STUDENT LEARNING

– Expand the use of 1:1 ultra mobile devices for

students.

– Provide teachers with additional classroom

interactive hardware and software.

Goals for Technology Plan

• GOAL II: THE DISTRICT STAFF

DEVELOPMENT MODEL WILL BE TEACHING

WITH TECHNOLOGY.

– All instructional staff will receive training in

teaching with technology.

Goals for Technology Plan

• GOAL III: CONTINUE TO BUILD AND REFINE

THE DISTRICT'S CURRICULUM

MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (SCHOOLNET)TO

PROVIDE REAL-TIME DATA FOR DATA-

DRIVEN DECISION MAKING.

– Ensure SchoolNet data is accessible to all

district personnel on a need-to-know basis.

Goals for Technology Plan

• GOAL IV: ALIGN INSTRUCTIONAL GOALS WITH

TECHNOLOGY GOALS TO IMPROVE TEACHING AND

LEARNING.

– Working in collaboration with Staff Development and

Educational Technology, revise instructional planning

to incorporate the use of 1:1 ultra mobile devices and

laptops for students and teachers.

– Include technology planning in all planning for

executives, curriculum directors, curriculum

specialists, content specialists, principals and

teachers.

Goals for Technology Plan

• GOAL V: Provide Technology Infrastructure for

student learning.

– Improve the wide area network router distribution and

wireless modules

– Increase wireless access points and network

electronics for greater instructional device coverage.

– Consolidate instructional servers into a centralized

location to provide student data storage and retrieval.

GOAL V continued

– Provide network electronics for video conferencing to

increase educational and library technologies.

– Provide network electronics for distance learning with

video and audio capabilities to allow students to

interactively participate

– Consolidate instructional servers into a centralized

location to provide student data storage and retrieval.

Goals for Technology Plan

• Goal VI: Improve school

telecommunications coverage.

– Complete BDA "build outs" for all campuses to

improve daily Nextel service and emergency

communications.

NEW NATIONAL

TECHNOLOGY

STANDARDS

According to the National Education

Technology Plan website

New Technology Standards

• Learning: Engage and Empower – Focus what and how we teach to match what people

need to know

– How they learn

– Where and when they will learn

– Who needs to learn

New Technology Standards

• Productivity: Redesign and Transform – Rethink the way we organize students into age-

determined groups

– Restructure separate academic disciplines

– Reorganize learning into classes of roughly equal size

with all the students in a particular class receiving the

same content at the same pace

New Technology Standards

• Infrastructure: Access and Enable

– Provide every student, educator, and level of

our education system with the resources they

need when and where they are needed

– Provide people, processes, learning

resources, policies, and sustainable models

continuous improvement; also broadband

connectivity, servers, software, management

systems, and administration tools.

New Technology Standards

• Teaching: Prepare and Connect

– Teams of connected educators replace solo

practitioners

– Classrooms are fully connected to provide

educators with 24/7 access to data and

analytic tools

– Educators have access to resources that help

them act on the insights the data provide

New Technology Standards

• Assessment: Measure What Matters

– Requires new and better ways to measure

what matters

– Diagnose strengths and weaknesses in the

course of learning when there is still time to

improve student performance

– Involve multiple stakeholders in the process of

designing, conducting, and using assessment.

IMPROVEMENTS TO

GCCISD PLAN

Improvements to GCCISD Plan

• Increase access to educational technology

for all students.

• Provide additional educational technology

hardware and software for all campuses.

• Replace aging teacher workstations with

interactive whiteboards.

Improvements to GCCISD Plan

• Align curriculum and instruction staff

development with technology staff

development.

• Improve media retrieval and

communications systems.

REFERENCES

References

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• GOOSE CREEK CISD Technology Plan for E-Rate Year 12. (n.d.).

GCCISD Educational Technology. Retrieved May 11, 2011, from

http://schools.gccisd.net/docs/38-Tech%20e-Plan%202009-2012.pdf

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Center for Technology Planning. Retrieved May 11, 2011, from

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References

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