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Darcy Road Public School Technology Plan
DARCY ROAD PUBLIC SCHOOL
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Ultimate Goal
To increase the intelligence and brain development of students
using ICT
To enable students to be familiar with the flexible use of various
devices, software and systems to increase their capacity to learn
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What We Want
1. A variety of technologies available to students
2. Teachers as skilled as possible in using hardware and software to develop students’ thinking
3. Teachers who can identify high level use of ICT using Blooms Taxonomy. This use involves using skills in analysis, evaluation and creativity
4. Students skilled at using ICT to solve problems and to think
5. Students who can swap from PC to Apple, from desktop to laptop, from iPad to notebook and to phone
6. Students who can safely swap from word, excel, work place applications, design applications, podcasts, vodcasts, communication tools etc.
7. An efficient, smooth running network
8. A Leader to lead all of the above
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What We Don’t Want
1. Students using Apps and programs that fall into the
lowest levels of Blooms Taxonomy. These levels involve students only using the simple skills of memory and understanding
2. Students using the lowest forms of thinking when participating in ICT
3. Lesson/learning time being lost due to poor infrastructure, poor equipment and poor teacher knowledge
4. Students having limited access to a variety of ICT
5. Students not being aware of how to safely participate online
6. Teachers facing difficulties they don’t know how to solve and with no one to help them
7. Teachers being left to solve their own learning
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Three Pronged Approach
1
School network upgrade
2 Infinity device project
3
Technology leader and mentor
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1
School Network Upgrade
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School Network Upgrade November 2016
Location Action Cost Estimate
Priority 1 D Block
Main Server New core Switch
Priority 2 B Block New Switch
All systems from B block removed from A block and cabled to the new
switch in B block
Switch $1,700 Cabinet $1,000
Re-cabling $2,000 Fibre $600
Trenching $2,500 Total $7,800
Priority 3 F Block Office
New 6 core composite fibre to D Block School responsibility
A Block 3 New Switches ?
Priority 4 H Block Remove 2626 switch
Two new switches
Priority 5 Demountables Senior Learning
Unit
Two bundles, each assigned their own switch in A block
Priority 6
Demountable Kinder
Bundle into two groups of 4, and cable to G block
Demountables beside hall
Bundle and cable to D block
Priority 7 Across the whole
school 20 new WAPS in classrooms
Priority 8 Second Computer
Lab Create another classroom for a
computer lab to support the teaching of a variety of devices
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2 Infinity Device
Project
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Infinity Device Project
1. Every student in the school from Year 3 to Year 6 have their own
Infinity device 2. Families to purchase and provide for their child 3. The school will have a set of devices for students in K-2
Benefits of the above include:
• Teachers able to support students because there isn’t a variety of devices in the classroom and each lesson
• Students having their own device which then has their work plus access to the school server
• Ease of homework coming between home and school • The school providing opportunities for students for different
devices – iPads, desktops, laptops • The same device at each lesson means ease for teachers and
families to load Apps and programs onto student devices • Parents can see their child’s work
Other things to consider:
• Cost in the short term • Waiting for the next couple of years for all students to have the
same device • A system to be devised for students who qualify as low SES to be
supported with a device
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3
Technology Leader Mentor
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Technology Leader Mentor 1. A Technology Leader position will be created through the Aspiring
Leadership program. This teacher will: • Provide teaching to students • Provide mentoring to teachers and students • Lead the school’s technology plan and, • Support the operation of the school’s network and technology
programs 2. Relieve a teacher from class teaching to provide teachers and students
with one lesson each week for mentoring teachers and students 3. Teachers will nominate what they need to learn. The
technology/mentoring teacher will teach each class teacher what they need while with students. The students will learn as well. We anticipate a new topic every 5 weeks. Teachers and students will be taught by modelled teaching
4. Teachers will receive lesson observation and feedback 5. The technology leader/mentor will train all staff through professional
learning of particular topics teachers need 6. The technology teacher/mentor will maintain the network and school
system
Benefits of the above: • Teachers learning appropriate skills for their students • Teachers’ skills being transformed • Students receiving a weekly technology lesson with the 2 teachers • Teachers being trained to identify ICT use on Blooms Taxonomy. This will
result in: o Teachers and students not using low level Apps that don’t promote
thinking o Teachers and students being taught to understand high level
thinking • Students will have greater ease of access to the system
Other things to consider: • The school will use the Computer Coordinator grant of $17,000 we receive
each year from the Department of Education to support this project and reduce the cost to families.
• Families will need to pay a fee for the program • The fee will include the annual Mathletics, Reading Eggs/Express, plus
other licences and software plus their weekly technology lesson
DARCY ROAD PUBLIC SCHOOL
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term
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