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Planning Implementing Evaluating
Planning and sustaining 1-to-1 access to technology Preparing
Establish the rationale Engage School Council
It is important that your school’s 1-to-1 program is guided Implementing a 1-to-1 program in your school may
by a clear rationale of the positive impact that technology challenge the community’s perception of how their children
will have on learning and teaching. The rationale should are learning. Support from your School Council should be
provide guidance, serve as the foundation of your decisions established early in the process and used to leverage school
and inform the direction of your program. Learning must community support.
drive the goals; digital technologies merely provide a The more support you have, the easier it will be to implement
means of achieving those goals.
your plan. You can boost your chances for success by
communicating early, and often, with all the people involved.
Have you considered? ? Consider how to be transparent and concise.
• What will contemporary learning look like
in your school? Have you considered? ?
• How will your curriculum leverage using digital • Have you provided your School Council with
technologies for improved learning? information on 1-to-1 programs in other schools?
• What do you want 1-to-1 access to achieve?
“The decision to implement
a BYOD program should be
SAMPLE RATIONALE: made in consultation with
Each student at our school learns to develop and
demonstrate the knowledge, skills, practices and attitudes your school community,
necessary to be an engaged, robust digital citizen capable following detailed planning”
of shaping our future.
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Planning and sustaining 1-to-1 access to technology Preparing
Establish the rationale Engage School Council
It is important that your school’s 1-to-1 program is guided Implementing a 1-to-1 program in your school may
by a clear rationale of the positive impact that technology challenge the community’s perception of how their children
will have on learning and teaching. The rationale should are learning. Support from your School Council should be
provide guidance, serve as the foundation of your decisions established early in the process and used to leverage school
and inform the direction of your program. Learning must community support.
drive the goals; digital technologies merely provide a The more support you have, the easier it will be to implement
means of achieving those goals.
your plan. You can boost your chances for success by
communicating early, and often, with all the people involved.
Have you considered? ? Consider how to be transparent and concise.
• What will contemporary learning look like
in your school? Have you considered? ?
• How will your curriculum leverage using digital • Have you provided your School Council with
technologies for improved learning? information on 1-to-1 programs in other schools?
• What do you want 1-to-1 access to achieve?
“The decision to implement
a BYOD program should be
SAMPLE RATIONALE: made in consultation with
Each student at our school learns to develop and
demonstrate the knowledge, skills, practices and attitudes your school community,
necessary to be an engaged, robust digital citizen capable following detailed planning”
of shaping our future.
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