Technology Plan Preparation Questions
BEFORE YOU BEGIN TO WRITE A TECHNOLOGY PLAN...
Assess your current status in relation to the current approved technology plan:
- Have all the prior goals been met?
- If not, what goals were not? Why? Are the remaining goals appropriate to continue?
- Did you exceed your plan? Are you 'ahead of the game'?
Check your inventory:
- Is your inventory up-to-date?
- Have you added equipment/software/services that were not in your current plan?
Technology Committee membership and meeting schedule:
- Are all target groups of your district represented on your technology committee?
- Do you have regular meetings?
- Have you kept records of the items you've discussed in those meetings you can use the information collected to help you plan?
- Look at your policies:
- What is the status of your acceptable use policy?
- Is it adequate for new regulations?
- Is it enforceable?
- Do you need to review and update it to protect your students and your staff?
Budget and support issues:
- Does your school district commit a line item amount to technology purchases and upgrades?
- What other funding sources for technology do you have available?
- What type of technology support do you have in place? Technology coordinator or equivalent position? Vendor support?
- How do you assess technology support?
Assess your assessments:
- Were the benchmarks you had set adequate?
- Were your benchmarks based on student learning outcomes?
- Is it time to set new benchmarks and look at other data?
- Have you continuously assessed progress?
- Are the assessments ones you want to continue? Or do they need to be updated or re-written?
Equity and access:
- What is your student to computer ratio? Ratio to Internet-connected computers?
- What is your staff computer availability?
- Do all students and staff have access to appropriate technology resources and tools?
- Are students using technology efficiently and effectively?
- What kinds of learning tasks are in place that challenge students' creative and critical thinking?
- What types of professional development activities do you have in place to assure your teachers have the skills to integrate technology successfully into classroom learning experiences?
Look at resources:
- What kinds of data do you have?
- Is you data based on student learner outcomes?
- What new kinds of data would you like to have?
- What research have you looked at?