Classroom setup
The ideal interactive classroom has much more than computers. Integrated seamlessly into the learning environment are: books, an art center, a computer center, a musical instrument (e.g., a piano), and a white board.
Parents
Volunteer in the classroom and offer technical expertise. Help get corporate contributions. Reinforce the school's goals at home by tutoring
children and ensuring that they practice.
Politician
Follow up on wiring schools with funding for: teacher training, modernization, and tech support.
Principal
Writes and implements technology plan for school. Seeks community/parent input, forms tech committee. Puts computers in classrooms, not labs.
Mandates teacher training.
Private industry
Donates hardware, software, Net connections--based on communication with schools about what they need. Helps schools set up equipment. Partners with schools to train teachers. Lends tech support to schools.
School Board member
Implement tech plans for district. Approve budget line items for tech support staff for each school.
Students
Use the Net and books to research; know how to weed out the best resources. Collaborate on projects with students in other schools via the Net.
Teacher
Uses the computer as an administrative tool. Works with tech integrator to see how computers/Net can enhance curriculum. Considers computer as a
component when creating lesson plans.
Teacher's aide
Helps teacher work with groups of students and assists with physically disabled, learning disabled, and ESL students. Helps teacher keep up with the various learning levels of students.
Tech integrator
Helps teachers plan and execute projects that involve use of technology. Holds one-on-one teacher training sessions. Keeps ongoing list of useful Web sites for educators.
Tech support
Comes to the aid of teachers who are having tech trouble. Every campus should have at least one who is not also a teacher.
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