Personal Device Initiative
Purpose
- Positive impact on learning and teaching.
- Ability to be remote when needed without additional preparation
Focus
- Abraham Lincoln Elementary - Chromebooks K-5
- Columbia Elementary - Chromebooks K-5
- Lewis and Clark Elementary- iPads Kindergarten and Chromebooks 1-5
- Mission View Elementary - Chromebooks K-3 and iPads 4-5
- John Newbery Elementary - Chromebooks K-5, One classroom in 5th grade with iPads
- Sunnyslope Elementary - iPads Kindergarten and Chromebooks 1-5
- Washington Elementary - Chromebooks K-5
- Foothills Middle - iPads
- Orchard Middle School - iPads
- Pioneer Middle School - iPads
- Wenatchee High School - Chromebooks
- Westside High School - Chromebooks
Measures
- Annual staff perception survey
- Annual student perception survey
- Annual parent perception survey
Why?
"To prepare students to learn throughout their lives and in settings far beyond classrooms, we must change what and how we teach to match what people need to know, how they learn, and where and when they learn and change our perception of who needs to learn. We must bring 21st-century technology into learning in meaningful ways to engage, motivate, and inspire learners of all ages to achieve." - US Department of Education 2011
Who?
"Just as leveraging technology can help us improve learning and assessment, technology can help us better prepare effective educators and increase their competencies throughout their careers while building the capacity of our education system to deliver effective teaching. Technology can do this by enabling a shift to a new model of connected teaching." - US Department of Education 2011
What?
"An infrastructure for learning unleashes new ways of capturing and sharing knowledge based on multimedia that integrate text, still and moving images, audio, and applications that run on a variety of devices. It enables seamless integration of in-school and out-of-school learning. It frees learning from a rigid information-transfer model (from book or educator to students) and enables a much more motivating intertwine of learning about, learning to do, and learning to be." - US Department of Education 2011