StudentLearning4

Student Learning: Communication
//Current Reality//: a number of e-mail programs are in use for both students and staff. Several school web sites are out of date.
 * Suggested actions:**
 * Expect all staff to use their division e-mail account to communicate with other school division personnel, parents and students
 * Expect students to use their division e-mail to send assignments to their teachers and to complete school-related activities
 * Provide all schools with access to a CMS to manage their school’s website and to share information and student work with parents and the local, national and global community (Examples: [|Herchmer School] in Regina - built on Drupal; [|NBCHS] - built with Drupal). Once the basic configuration is created it is very easy for school clerical staff to update the web site... all one needs to know is how to use a word processor and add an attachment.)
 * Provide students with a variety of tools to collaborate and communicate with learning partners around the world: email, VoIP, wikis, blogs, podcasting, video, Elluminate, Breeze
 * or around the school division. We've got a diverse group of schools that are starting to come together as an entity - these might be good ways of creating a sense of community within the division. - rjw
 * Facilitate students ability to share their work globally in a variety of formats on both internal and external servers
 * Expect each school to hold an annual Internet Safety meeting for its parents.
 * Vision Questions:**
 * Should all students have a school division e-mail account?
 * NO - accounts should only be issued to students upon parental permission (obtained through the use of an acceptable use policy form), and should start being issued at Grade 3, when students are able to spell and keyboard with some degree of speed and accuracy, as well as being a developmentally appropriate age for students to understand the implications of "online living in the wired world". - Brian.Brian does this mean that k - 2 students cannot use blogs, wikis, photosharing, podcasting or skyping or other tools that require them to be online? You might want to see the Kathy Cassidy's g 1-2 (Moose Jaw) classroom [|blog] and this great video in which she talks about her students' experiences with Web 2.0 tools http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ8VAef8QM4. -- Donna
 * Should we have a standard e-mail program for all students?
 * //I think this would be a good idea. - - Just a side issue, as far as submitting assignments, we have made the student folders accessible from the teacher desktop in our school so that a teacher can access directly for marking, etc. This saves the trouble of emailing. - - Ruth//

**Student Learning: Libraries**
//Current Reality:// There are three different library systems used within the school division.
 * Suggested Actions:**
 * Research and make recommendations as to how the new Saskatchewan Learning guidelines can be implemented with regards to a Union Catalog and centralized technical services.

Student Learning: Policies
//Current Reality:// Each former school division is following its own AUP and Selection and Challenged Resources policies
 * Suggested Actions:**
 * Review the two policies and write a School Division’s AUP Policy.
 * Schools should examine their own policies and revise in accordance with the division policy.
 * Create a selection/challenged resources policy to handle request to add or delete items from banned/blocked/filtered list

Current Reality: Provincial and School Division Expectations mandate that data be collected regarding student learning outcomes.
 * Student Learning: Accountability**
 * Suggested Actions**
 * Collect data in the instructional use of technology
 * Assess student learning from a variety of data (suggestions)
 * Gates reading scores
 * Provincial testing in math and reading
 * CAT 4 scores from 2007
 * Other

This area is new to me and I have not yet had a meeting with Students Services so research is still needed – suggestions welcome!
 * Student Learning: Special Education**

//Current Reality:// Living Sky does not deliver distant education classes
 * Student Learning: Distance Education**
 * Suggested Actions**
 * Collect data regarding the current number of students in the division taking classes through technology-supported learning. (number of students, classes taken, classes finished)
 * Based on data collected, determine which courses should be developed for online delivery
 * Establish budget for preparation of courses
 * Establish budget and procedures for registration, administration and teaching
 * Research online delivery models and make a recommendation for implementation.
 * also look at models within the division for courses that are signicantly delivered online - rjw
 * Big Thinking Question:** What model for online delivery would you suggest the school division pursue?


 * Student Learning: Pilot Projects**
 * Suggested Actions:**
 * Facilitate Action Research Projects to explore the use of emerging technologies and learning: gaming, mobile phones, virtual networks and 3D Worlds.

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