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How can technology improve student achievement? Comments: What technologies can help a student thrive in school today? Tomorrow? Two years? What technologies can help a student achieve more in school today? What do teachers/students want to do that they currently cannot?

• to create an active technology integration committee consisting of a group in each building (generally consisting of the District Technology Director, principal, and key members from each grade or department) • utilize staff development days to support staff development that enables all staff(including support staff) to become facilitators of learning and ensure professional staff literacy in the application and integration of technology • to integrate technology effectively into the District curriculum• to utilize emerging technologies to enhance the teaching and learning process to integrate technology effectively into the District curriculum, providing instruction enhancing information literacies that includes critical and creative thinking, problem solving, collaboration and cooperation, and self-directed learning through an active learning environment • utilize distance learning (video conferencing, epals, online classes etc.) as an educational tool •technology integrator for the middle school/ high school • to provide high speed internet access to enhance distance learning and take advantage of resources otherwise unavailable in the classroom • to ensure student mastery of emerging technologies • to support appropriate funding for technology in the District • to provide district facilities that support the availability of technology for the schools and the community • to ensure student mastery (mastery of skill rather than technology)of emerging technologies by offering technology courses across grade levels (4-12) To be able to adapt successfully to emerging technologies process. This can/should be embedded into the curriculum to keep the content area "alive" for students