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=Resources (23 dots)=

- More money needs to be available for technology - More funds for training - More funds for laptops, iPods, etc - Get school board invested in technology (through workshops) - Get parents more invested in technology - 1 mobile computer per class - Every child has a laptop- access to tools inside each classroom- not school-wide - Eliminate the headache of scheduling- the pain of signing out - Buy more equipment - More continual access to classroom computers - Provide low cost tech solutions to families - Make tech cap. improvement plan a separate warrent article outside budget - More resources available to everyone at all times - Give teachers time to collaborate - Ethirpad or collaborative tools - Build more prof. devl. time into staff`s day- extra paid time each day- each week?

=Collaboration (16 dots)=

- Open lines of communication - Teachers are working actively sharing and collaborating within our building and among many PLN - Collaborative conversations about balance between tech integration and "meeting the standard" - More teacher collaboration around technology - More frequent colleague collaboration - Tech integrator available for assistance/training - Reluctant teachers. Full-time technology integrators (not in computer labs, but in the classroom) - Effective teacher education of what schools vote is in 2.0 - Collaboration time to meet with teachers on technology - PLP Peeps Project- getting teachers on board in sage learning environment - Individuals can make a commitment to share and acquire knowledge - More opportunity for teachers to share and collaborate - Share lesson plans, ideas, projects - Sharing - Use the people i work with, particularly team members, more efficiently to "divide and conquer" some of the roadblocks

=Structure of schools (20 dots)=

- Could students pick the hours of school that work for them? slot a 5-12 slot b 12-7 - Eliminate brick and mortar schools - Eliminate NCLB - Innovation ideas; actually these have been around for a while but.. inquiry based learning, project based learning - Start a school/district from scratch - Government support of true learning - Stop wasting time with standardized testing - More structured time for personal technology exploration - My school should have its own IT department - Revise curriculum to make it more UBD based - Change grade structure overall- students move between rooms for studies in area of interests - Allow ELO`s - learning outside of classroom - Show best practices - Instead of PLC, demonstrations of lessons using technology - Allow teachers and students to complain openly and freely - Change from 5 days with students to 41/2 day to work with team member in curriculum

=Curriculum (10 dots)=

- Make standardized testing more inquiry based and embedded in curriculum - We should have an elementary school (tech based) - Digital portfolios as a graduation requirement - Redesign "high stakes" testing - Make e-learning and VLE an emphasis of instructional practices - Change curriculum to reflect that students dont need to know all the details \ - Incompatibility with stand. testing: lobby to change NCLB - Standardized assessments should not be based on memorizing fads but process for learning, exploring, gain knowledge, creating - Teachers can continue to push the technology march on! - Integrate- look at the curriculum/units, where would technology fit? - Protest NCLB - Increase emphasis on skills, not just content knowledge (review curriculum)

=Time (33 dots)= - Have kids create tutorials to teach the class needed skills - Split up the workload, maybe unit by unit - Get more planning time in the contract, more time to share ideas with the contract - Restructure the school day - Share time in contract - If time is a factor, split the planning/research with someone on your team. Increase your resources through others - Individual- find time each day to connect with my network to see how they are managing to change - Work more collaboratively - Divide workload - Time to explore with someone available to answer questions - Create shared spaces where lessons, resources, and conversations can be shared - Individuals/teams can share what they know with each other daily/weekly - Consolidate curriculum into more relevant and manageable pieces - Restructure school day to maximize time - Restructure school year to include time for teachers to collaborate through out the year - Schedule share time for web 2.0 - Extend school day or learning opp more time flexible - Be more flexible about scheduling resources - More planning time in the contract - Increase amount of time given to teachers to learn technology (decrease workload) - More paid opportunities during the summer for teachers - Build in time at staff meetings for technology sharing - Allocated time to learning new technologies including basic trouble-shooting - Specific time during the work week for teachers to develop their PLN - Give teachers time to teach each other about technology - Play time- workshops on web 2.0 tools - Time away from the classroom to explore - Instead of a huge opening meeting; save time for the whole SAV to share discoveries

=Pre-service Ed. ( 2 dots)= - Better training in colleges with technology connected to teaching program

=Pedagogy (3 dots)=

- If you have child based education- can it be standards based too?

=Hardware (3 dots)=

- We need district financial support for technology-increasing equipment, access, etc - Use more money for education to "keep technology running well and upgraded regularly" - Less restrictive access to resources to allow for "just in time" teaching - Purchase more computers - Equipment that does what it is supposed to do in a timely manner - Hand held devices in the hands of teachers and students (access to tech) - Give us technology/resources - Additional technology resources

=Professional Development (8 dots)=

- Helping staff get on board. Mentors for staff that are less comfortable. Small group lessons. Sharing of activities using tech in classroom - Individuals can teach out to others to find out what is working in other learning environments (and what is not) - Investment in the 20th century way and fear. Share ideas. 1 on 1 training/help - Opportunities for PD/tech shares

=Grants (1 dot)=

- Initiate grant writing team

=Students (6 dots)=

- Build student tech team - Engage students as global learners - Putting student interests first - Stream line student exposure to 2.0 class tools - Partner students without a lot of tech experience with those that do - Increase student efficiency

=Infrastructure (12 dots)=

- Firewall more open/ teaching responsible use to students - Ensuring the technology works 90% of the time - Working servers - More bandwidth

Policy (3 dots)
- Collaborative duty period instead of a regular duty period once a week - Make eportfolios a requirement for student promotion or graduation - Teachers should have greater input in terms of accessibility~ tools, subscriptions, sites

=Community (2 dots)=

- Educate the parents on how we use technology - Parents required to sit in on classes.. maybe sit in on 7th grade when their child is in 6th - Push the limits, demand more from our students and community - Have peer coaches/mentors work with individuals/small groups - Sharing of technologies that work in the class - Educate community on technology plan - Educate the parents to the need for change. Hire inspirational speaker for open house to talk to parents about what 21st century learning needs - Find ways to educate the parents to be more involved. And community at large

=Leadership (7 dots)=

- Support change (from administration) - Hire administrators who are supportive of technology - Working now! Swasey! We have an administrator that listens to what we need and provides it. She is supportive and leading the change. Classroom teachers are sharing and working together to learn and grow - Give people permission to make mistakes! Thats how we truly learn! - Allow teachers and students to celebrate success often

=Advocacy/Agency (5 dots)=

- Parental involvement - Present projects to school boards - Community concerns help to educate them. Show them how it can engage children in learning - Students` enthusiasm - Hold discussion groups

=Motivation (6 dots)=

- Fear. Low and slow! - Some kind of incentives for teachers (time, financial) to learn technology - Need more input from teachers on what and how they think technology integration should look like - Early adapters who can train other teachers - Team teach - Provide tech coach - Fear educating parent, school board, admin, teachers of value more open networks - Individuals can start sharing, empowering, motivating, and questioning. Individuals need to take risks without fear of repercussions - Individual learning responsibility to open one`s mind and alleviate fear - Share success stories to motivate reluctant teachers - Fear ( of admin and IT of opening up networks) the development of RUP`s and communication of that information - Collaboration- grade level groups, What are others dong?, What problems have others had and survived? - To overcome barriers we need to start at our own schools. Start small and share with the others. We are too big, to start at the top! - Individuals can take more personal responsibility in learning technologies and tools - Seeing more and more investment in technology from teaches

=Vision (2 dots)=

- A more clearly defined vision at the district and school level - Revise and improve assessment - Embracing change for a good purpose - Technology investment of all educators

=Tech Support (6 dots)=

- Individual technical support - Hire tech support people to fix tech problems - Additional technical support - Get more tech support - Easy process to fix broken technology - We need to change the position of what the tech coordinate model does - Someone solely in charge of maintenance of equipment