Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged techplan
What’s the purpose of going 1:1
May 13th
(Full Disclosure: I believe every high school student should have a laptop)
The New York Times wrote an article on May 4th, 2007 that resurfaced via Twitter last night. Titled Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops, It took me less than four paragraphs to start shaking my head in disbelief at the way this school district went about trying to, should I say, force students and teachers to use laptops and technology.
It’s easy to say that technology is just a tool or that the technology needs to be invisible, but actually making that happen is harder than just saying it.
Scores of More >
Planning for 21st Century Technologies
Jan 7th
Finished!
Thank you to everyone who gave feedback over the five posting about a 21st Century Tech plan. I have been rethinking, reworking, and rewriting based on the comments left on the blog posts and created this 21 page PDF document that brings it all together.
Planning for 21st Century TechnologiesI hope it is useful to someone!
Update: This plan was polished up, reorganized and published in this book in June 2009.
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Tech Plan Part 5 – Conclusion
Nov 19th
Full PDF of the entire Tech Plan will be out shortly with updates from those who left comments and made me think!
In the 21st Century, schools need to support locally but think globally. School’s must have a local infrastructure that supports learning but that allows students and teachers to learn and interact globally. Technology plans of the 21st Century must focus on student learning and continue to ask the questions “What do students need to learn and what skills do they need to accomplish that learning objective?”
If schools can embrace the changes of the 21st Century: The skills, learning theories, More >
Tech Plan Part 4 – Implementation
Nov 13th
When you get right down to it all the technology in the world and the best support structure are nothing if you do not take the time to implement the technology in a way that supports the structure of the entire plan. The process of implementing your tech plan can have lasting consequences on the buy in you get from stake holders. Implement the plan correctly and you bring the stake holders and the system along at the same time. Implemented incorrectly you can end up alienating stake holders or never fulfilling your tech plan’s goals.
Most schools do not have More >
Tech Plan Part 3- Support
Nov 1st
Support Structure
You can have the best educational portal, and the best infrastructure, but if you do not have the support in place to both help teachers use/understand technology and support infrastructural needs then the money you spend on hardware will be lost.
Throughout the late 90s and into the 21st century schools have spend a lot of money on computer hardware and technology systems and infrastructures. Now that these systems are in place we must think and rethink the support needed to not only keep these systems up-to-date but also how it impacts teaching and learning in the classroom.
I wrote a More >
Tech Plan Part 2 – School Wide Systems
Oct 22nd
Technology whether we like it or not reaches into everything we do in schools today. The Student Information Systems that run our schools hold more critical data than any other single program in most schools. As we design our school wide systems in the 21st Century we must think about how all this information is connected, how and who needs access to what information and how do we make it available to them in as few clicks as possible.
The Circle:
As you see not much has changed from the educational portal plan that focuses on student learning to the infrastructure plan More >
