Yesterday I met with district leadership to officially get started toward what our digital future will be. We are establishing a committee to examine the digital readiness of our school and to explore the direction we need to take to fully support learning in our digital world. All along the way toward whatever may be I plan to blog about our journey. I hope to make our learning journey visible.
I have to admit I'm a little impatient. I really want to see students have the opportunity for consistent access throughout the school day and even beyond school. I feel like each day that passes is filled with missed opportunities for learning. But I realize we need to get this right. We need to enlist all the voices and get a shared vision and make the decisions confidently, knowing we had all the information we needed.
1. We need to assess what access our students have to devices at school and at home. We plan to develop a survey to do this.
2. Where are our teachers in their thinking on using technology in the classroom? How can we help everyone understand this is a learning initiative and not a really expensive project that won't change pedagogy.
3. We will ask our committee to help establish goals for our school. What do we really want our students to gain from their digital experience as learners?
4. Before we get too far into this process, we have to make sure our network infrastructure is right. We can't launch a new initiative on a crippled network.
5. We recognize that teachers need professional development for any digital initiative to be successful. What will that look like?
6. We will start with the big picture of why we are doing this and then move to more specific decisions about what, how, and when.
7. And one more that I considered after the meeting, how can we include student and parent voices in the process? We need engagement to arrive at the best solutions.
Our first committee meeting is in less than two weeks. Exciting stuff!
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