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April 2012 Region 19 - Digital Committee
Present:
Frank Krasicki, Denise Abercrombie, Bill Green, Sue Palmberg, Sue
Biren, Lou DeLoreto, Doug Melody, Nancy Silander
Absent:
Bruce Silva, Alan Trotochaud, Jojo Phillips, Tim Nolan
Opened
at 5:15 p.m.
PD
for teachers and options for helping them access programs. Using
PLC’s (Personal Learning Communities) will allow for more
collaboration. Encourage teachers to go to SECA and other technology
conferences.
Wireless
project – P.O.’s have been initiated for all necessary building
wi-fi. Worked on over spring break. Equipment will be put in place
once it arrives. On target for timing of September.
Saving
paper – Faculty needs to be encouraged to save paper. Possibly a
copy center. Lou will organize a sub committee to look into this.
Flipping
a classroom: need to model for others. If have BYOD, teachers will
begin to experiment. Some content can be watched on-line at home;
some teachers will be comfortable doing this, others less so.
Curriculum dependent. Discussion on how students develop knowledge
of credible sources.
BYOD
– policy probably not needed - do not want to have policies just
for outliers. Health, safety and privacy concerns need to be
anticipated. Perhaps could work with a retailer for discounting
prices. What will happen if not every student has a device: share?
Give out? Lend? Can expand current policies to include BYOD.
Administration can develop guidelines as needed.
Teachers
need to be backed up appropriately by administration. Board needs to
see comments from faculty meeting after the PD technology day –
Frank and Nancy will present at next board meeting. Need to protect
teachers’ willingness to experiment; board and administration needs
to reduce risk for teachers by backing them up.
Policing
what students watch – with BYOD, firewall non-existent. It would
be difficult to police students and what they are watching. Do we
need to be able to control some of this?
Meeting
adjourned at 6:50 p.m.
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