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Members from Lamar: kayabernathy gbc848 raghava198615 gmjones3

Members from Mauriceville Elementary: Buffy Knight (Principal) Kayla Casey (Asst. Principal) Kim West (Counselor)

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Purpose:  To collaborate as an administration to come up with ideas to accomplish our technology goals which are: for teachers to feel more knowledgable about technology, for teachers to use a variety of technology in their classrooms, and for our students to ultimately be better prepared to thrive in a global workforce.

Questions:

What types of technology are being used now in the classrooms and what types would we like to be used in the classrooms but are not? What kinds of teacher development can be offered to increase our technology use?

Response by member raghava 198615: The types of technology being used in the present classrooms varies from school to school, and approximately 70% of the schools are the stage of Developing Tech in the key areas of Teaching and Learning, and Educators preparation. In many of the present classrooms instruction is teacher-directed and students regularly use technology on an individual basis to access electronic information and develop communication and presentation projects. There is minimal use of technology in foundation TEKS. There is direct connectivity to Internet in 75%of classrooms and library. Web-basedlearning is available. The types of technology to be used in the classrooms are the teacher must serve as a facilitator, mentor,and co-learner. Students must have on-demand access to all appropriate technologies to complete their tasks. All Technology Applications TEKS must be met. The types of technology developments to be offered to the teachers to increase our technology use are 100% of the teachers must meet [|SBEC standards]. The teachers must be professionally trained to act as coach or facilitator while students work collaboratively(Jones, Valdez, Nowakowski, & Rasmussen, 1995; Kupperstein, Gentile, & Zwier, 1999), to work together on schoolwide programs, to help find solutions to problems, act as peer advisors to provide information and feedback, and collect data to test hypotheses (Lieberman, 1996; Little, 1982) and, to involve in distance collaboration with cross-school peer groups and study groups through telecommunications (Kosakowski, 1998).


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