What's+the+Big+Idea?

** ** **  **Download this Excel file, (or maybe we give you a hard copy) then Rank Order and Sort the ideas on the basis of most important to least important to your school and your vision.**
 * BIG IDEAS

 ·  Create online learning opportunities for teachers and students that allow them to learn anytime, anywhere; and give them access to resources (materials and people) that might not be available in traditional settings,  ·  Empower students to create, share, and learn as a community through the use of Read/Write Web tools  ·  Provide every student with access to school resources from home  ·  Empower teachers with easy and seamless access to data with connections to instructional resources  ·  Develop a culture of sharing and collaboration through the use of various communication technologies <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Extend the outreach to parents and community through web-based administrative systems, student portfolios, and e-report cards <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Implement a leadership development program for all administrators, teachers, and staff to insure that there are models of learning and transformation at all levels. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; BACKGROUND: yellow; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-highlight: yellow">Explore new technologies <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"> through innovative action research projects <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Transform the learning environment by providing every student and teacher with a computer <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">Integrating ICT into the curriculum will do little, if anything, to make an irrelevant curriculum relevant, antiquated information fresh, or useless skills valuable <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU">If the only goal of the School is to raise achiev ement test scores, more economical ways can be found to do this than installing ICT <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">Before we look to add new bits of technology to our budgets, we should look to discard, previously treasured, items we won’t need. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">We need to recognize that the monopoly of schools as the sole educational force for our children has ended