They're Here!!

13 Days flew by and we have arrived at roll out time!  This week we have rolled out 600 laptops to the 6th grade students at ACS and LCMS!  The excitement can be felt all over campus.  As you stroll through campus you will come across groups of students sharing and learning from each other!

Student Tech Teams are already helping students during "hospital hours" or in class. They are creating schedules and committing their free time to be available for their classmates.

Classrooms are also starting to look a little different as students start exploring their new tool and teacher's add a new dimension to lessons.

On Monday the excitement spreads to AEW!  What a great way to start the new semester!

13 Days until Roll Out!!

We are 13 days away from rolling out our 1:1 laptops to 6th grade across the district!  This week the 6th grade teachers attended trainings on how to be an educated educator and stay safe when teaching with technology.  Some of the topics discussed were district owned vs. personal devices, cell phone use, copyright infringement, social media and digital citizenship. All topics were looked out from all sides; from teacher use to students use at school.  The teachers had a chance to look at the online Digital Citizenship course that all 6th graders will be required to complete.  They were then given time to create their own technology guidelines for their classroom and design a lesson for the first day the laptops come to school.

We have also started training our Student Tech Teams at all the middle schools.  Students have been taught basic troubleshooting, how to reboot the system and how to replace laptop batteries!  The teams will be ready to go when the laptops are deployed!