Welcome to North Daviess Community Schools

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Welcome to North Daviess Community Schools

• Empowering Students and Teachers with Technology

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Technology Grants Received

• High Tech 2000 - 233,000
• Infrastructure at HS, 4 computers for each room
• Ed Tech Title II D Comp 03-04 - 259,200
• 75 laptops, 35 tablets, wireless infrastructure
• Ed Tech Title II D Comp 04-05 - 231,881
• 100 more laptops

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Technology Setup

• Wireless Campus Wide
• 1 teacher desktop computer per room
• 3 student desktop computers per room
• 2 open labs in each building
• 240 wireless laptop student computers
• 200 laptops/notepads go home every day

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Laptop Computers

• Grades 4-7
• 25 of grades 4-7 have laptops 24/7 (all day
  every day)
• 75 of grades 4-7 have laptops on rotation but
  still have access to desktop computers via the
  lap and/or classroom
• Grades 9-12
• Business lab
• Technology lab
• Language arts
• Mobile cart environment

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Scoring Guide Vs. Rubrics

• The Scoring Guide for Student Products is
  intended to be used as a scoring guide, not as a
  rubric. Although scoring guides and rubrics are
  related, they are not identical. The two are
  complementary in function
• A scoring guide is designed to help set and raise
  the bar of student achievement
• A rubric is designed to measure each student's
  performance vs. that bar.
• http//goal.ncrel.org/spsg/GetProd.asp

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What could be a better fit than language arts and
technology!

• Todays world demands that we possess an
  ever-increasing level of proficiency in literacy.
  As we look around us, we note the many ways that
  technology can enrich lives inside and outside of
  the classroom
• From the moment students enter school, they are
  eager to publish their thinking so that others
  can read and respond. Technology provides
  students a myriad of possibilities to communicate
  ideas with others.

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Benefit Inquiry

• Inquiry is second nature to human beings. We ask
  questions, wonder about ideas, and explore and
  extend our own thoughts through research.
  Todays technology allows opportunities for
  searching and retrieving information that have
  never before been possible.

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Benefit View and Represent

• Technology provides students with tools that
  allow them to view and represent their thinking
  so that they make connections and discover ways
  to organize ideas. The need for visual literacy
  increases as icons and symbols become more common
  ways of communicating.

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Benefit Toolbox

• A speakers message is clearer when we employ
  technology to communicate and explain ideas.
  Students begin to see technology as a toolbox
  to assist them in a variety of ways.

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Benefit Enhanced Learning

• Students learning is enhanced as they utilize
  technology for many purposes and in many formats.
  
• Other learners discover a regularly misspelled
  word because the computer highlights that word in
  some way. Still other students discover ways to
  format and tailor their writing to fit any
  purpose.

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Benefit Differentiation and Multiple
Intelligences

• Students' "multiple intelligences" have more
  opportunities for suitable expression in
  multimedia and interactive documents.
• The linguistic intelligence traditionally valued
  in English/language arts settings can be enhanced
  and supported by students' additional talents
  with video, graphics, animation, music, painting,
  and dancing.

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Benfit Authentic assessment and Collaborative
learning

• Students have greater opportunities for process
  and project-based learning to engage their
  reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills.
  
• Technologies provide social centers that bring
  students together rather than isolate them. This
  regularly occurs in settings where students can
  cluster around computers to help each other solve
  problems or move from computer to computer to
  compare their work.
• Similar benefits come from students' taking part
  in collaborative projects with other classrooms
  around the country and the world--a common state
  of affairs these days.

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Benefit Real-world applications

• Students can develop skills that will benefit
  them greatly at later stages in their education
  and in the working world.
• Understanding how to use new information sources
  efficiently and appropriately (including
  laserdiscs, CD-ROMs, the Internet, and the World
  Wide Web) will prepare students for the
  increasing dependence on such technologies in
  college and on the job.
• Being able to use technology to acquire and
  evaluate information, organize and maintain that
  information, and interpret and communicate it, is
  one of the sets of necessary competencies
  identified by the U.S. Department of Labor in its
  1991 report "What Work Requires of Schools"--the
  so-called SCANS Report, from the Secretary's
  Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills.

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Benefit Increased Communication

• Students willing to submit questions
  electronically
• DyKnow Vision
• Email
• Instantaneous feedback
• Teacher collaboration
• Student collaboration

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Benefit Tracking of Progress

• Teachers complete weekly Technology Progress
  Reports (TPR)
• NWEA testing is tracked
• Students in the 24/7 laptop classes are being
  looped (not teachers) for more extensive research
  of the data
• Discipline referrals and attendance are tracked
  for comparison data

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Concerns

• Cost
• Parents request for 24/7 classrooms
• Maintenance and upkeep of computers
• Ongoing training requirements
• Community perception that all should have a
  laptop for take-home use
• Focusing on enhancing standards-based curriculum
  with technology and not vice-versa