Technology Policy
The school board’s tech guy came to my committee tonight to continue to seek direction on how to draft the school department’s technology policy for the day when the kids all have computers in school.
Some of the questions discussed: Do we make the kids insure the devices? Do we give devices to all kids or just those who don’t have their own? Do we take the computers away from them for misuse? How are they going to do their work if we take the devices away? If they can do the work without the devices, what do we need the devices for? Should Facebook really be part of the curriculum? Do they take the devices home? If the devices disappear, does the taxpayer eat it? When should parents be asked to opt-in? When should parents be asked to opt-out?
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Any discussion on whether making the schools wireless affects anyones health? I’m not saying it does or it doesn’t I just want the people making the decision to go ahead with what I think is the plan to check into it.
What are the policies for other school materials? For example, I would think that one of the major uses of tablets in HS would be to entirely remove the bag of books that the kids lug through the hallways. What happens now when kids abuse those books?
FB is part of the curriculum in the sense that they need to know how to represent themselves online. It’s a part of modern civics.
Regarding opting in/out, using electronic text should produce savings for the school district. If you opt out of using the electronic texts, then you can buy your own printed version.
Also, what grades are we talking about here? HS, right? It’s one thing to introduce the K-5 set to computers, but they shouldn’t be issued devices. I’m not sure about the 6-8 set.
Thanks, Haik, for bringing these issues up in this space.
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