The Merkel ISD Technology Plan outlines several goals:
1. Integrate technology into all learning areas and make it accessible to all students and faculty. Teachers will serve as facilitators, mentors, and co-learners with students, and will be supported as they integrate technology in all aspects of teaching and communicating on a weekly basis.
2. Provide on-going, long term support, both in financing and through training. On-line resources will be available in addition to on-site help and support. District and campus administrators will recognize and identify exemplary use of technology for maximum learning and teaching.
3. Provide the necessary infrastructure and technological resource. District personnel will work collaboratively to develop a superintendent supported and board-approved technology plan. Resources, including budget money will be available for on-going costs. District and campus support personnel will be in place, and new technology is on a schedule to be installed, with a district technology member that will assist in locating new resources for funding, such as technology grants.
4. Incorporate new and innovative technologies on an on-going basis. The district will begin with internet access to all learning areas, and new and innovative technologies will be installed and maintained on an on-going basis. Obsolete technology will be replaced on a scheduled basis.
While these goals are lofty for a small district (5 campuses; 1200 students), they are ambitious and are willing to appropriate needed funds to assure that technology is used for student achievement. They have included strategies that will be the vehicle for integrating technology into effective teaching and administrative duties.
Merkel ISD conducted a comprehensive inventory of their existing telecommunications, computer, and networking facilities prior to creating their technology plan.
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