This from KSBA:
Kentucky’s new master plan for Education Technology aims to create "the smart classroom" by providing tools that students both want and need.
David Couch, the Kentucky Department of Education’s technology director, said the new six-year master plan takes a different approach to the smart classroom.
"We spent a lot of time going out to districts, talking with teachers, parents, students, universities, superintendents, curriculum supervisors, and a lot of groups and asked for their input on the master plan," he said. "It’s really not so much a technology plan; it’s really an educational plan where the parts that use technology have been identified. There is a difference."
Couch said the research found that students, especially as they get into middle and high school, want ease of access to technology during – and after – the school day. That means a larger number of computer devices and more portable technology.
"Part of the modern environment of anytime, anywhere learning is that students are telling us that they don’t want to be limited in getting access to these computers during the school day," he said. "So that means more mobile devices."
Couch, who talked abut the master technology plan at KSBA’s Summer Leadership Institute, said schools need to move away from the model where computers are in separate labs rather than in the classroom.
"This was students’ number one complaint," he said. "A national survey that was recently released said that the one thing public schools can do to prepare students for life is give them access to technology in their schools. In an area like ours where we have high poverty, the likelihood of them having access at home is lower than all the states around us. Kentucky is a bottom five state in that category." ...
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