Attendees: Frank Krasicki, Bruce Silva, Nancy Silander (early departure), Lou DeLoretto (early departure), Bill Green, Doug Melody, Jojo Phillips, Brad Martin, Tim Nolan, Alan Trotochaud
Bruce Silva opened the meeting by talking about the initiative to introduce WIFI throughout the school. The Request For Quotation is done, the narrowing of vendor candidatesis in process, and a preferred vendor is identified.
Hopefully this will result in a Summer WIFI install. This, however is not a given.
We took a look at the teacher survey on the DLIC blog. More questions are needed and those that already exist need to be vetted by the committee.
We took a look at the Technology inventory spreadsheet and discussed how we might identify the quality of usage of the equipment. This may require the intervention of a standing school committee.
Policy issues: Alan asserted that the school needed policy to govern digital practice. The committee intends to harvest existing policies from other school districts to formulate our own.
The strong consensus was that we prefer teaching and advocating responsible internet usage rather than creating unenforceable rules and regulations - in other words, build better digital citizens rather than cyber-handicapped teens.
We had a discussion about what teachers think important policies might be. Lou promised to deliver an existing survey that might prove useful.
Access issues: Jojo raised the issue that the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) strategy might discriminate against less fortunate students. Bruce’s research indicated that this is historically not the case.
School phone use: In a rather humorous aside, Doug responded to a discussion about cell phone manners of students by pointing out the committee’s own cell phone dependencies.
We watched this Will Richardson inspired video:
Learning: Doug reminded us that we were losing sight of the intent of the committee - to address the issue of learning.
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