Technology in Your School

How does your school use technology?  

Do you use iPads? 

How do you plan for the future?

If your school is one that is starting to integrate iPads into the classroom, you have seen how valuable a tool it is. When Apple announced the new iPad Air, it started me thinking. The iPad has been around for three years.  Three years isn't a very long time. Think about how it has been entangled into our everyday life. Think about all the other tablets that are now being sold.

Five years ago when we were looking at schools for our children we knew we wanted technology at the school.  We never dreamed there would be a device that would be handheld and have a touchscreen our child would use to take tests or do homework.  Now here it is.

What is my point?  If we didn’t know about the iPad; five years ago, what do you think the next five years will bring?

How do we prepare our schools, our teachers and our students for technology that we don’t even know about yet?  In five years will the iPad be obsolete?  Will Apple or Google or a couple of Harvard students come up with something totally new and different?

What Does Your School Website Say About You?

What does your website communicate about your school?  I have spent time on your websites, and they are amazing.  When you think about your website, it doesn’t have to be super fancy, or cost a lot of money. 

Do your parents use your website?  How many times are people going to your site.  If you have a prospective family, would they use your website to find out information about your school.  If families do not use your website, do you want them to?  Do you use social media, Facebook, Twitter or any other social media or form of digital communication?  Do you want to use those sites, but don’t know how.

Looking around at our school websites; I would say we are all doing things our own way.  The other great thing about this is if you want to do something different, look at another school in the diocese and see what they are doing.  Meet with another school to see if what they are doing could help your school.  We can all get together and help each other. 

Social media is not going away, the question is how much do we want to share and  embrace it?  Not every school will do this the same way, but we can all help each other achieve our individual goals.

What does your school do?  

What would you like to do? 

 Are you happy with your website? 

Are your parents happy with the your website? What could they improve?