TWT2011-Building+a+Grass+Roots+Tech+Movement


 * Session: 9. Building a Grass Roots Tech Movement -- How to jump start tech integration in your school, even if you have a limited budget and few tech staff**
 * Presenters: David Egolf, Elizabeth Perry, Briar Sauro, Jennie Benipayo**
 * School: Berkeley Carroll School**

How do you jump start tech use at your school without top down mandates? And how do you manage it with limited tech staff and a small budget? By providing key hardware and creating a professional learning community around technology, the Lower School at Berkeley Carroll has gradually transformed tech-skeptics into tech-experimenters, and tech-experimenters into tech-leaders
 * Description:**

Workshop attendees will draft a plan for their school to create a culture of innovation around technology, including how teachers and administrators can work together to plan training and prioritize hardware purchases. Attendees will be guided through a series of questions and examples to determine what steps they would need to take, given their school’s mission and context, to return from this workshop with next steps and long term goals. Berkeley Carroll’s Lower School will be used as a model, but the focus will be on the steps that teachers and administrators need to take to open up their schools to technology innovation and integration that energizes student learning. Instructions for attendees: Participants should bring their schools’ mission statements, if they don’t know them by heart.

**During our presentation, we will ask you to stop and answer questions about how you might build excitement about technology in your own schools.**
**Attendee responses and examples of the projects mentioned can be seen at our session's Google site.**

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Comments? Thoughts? What will you commit to doing at your school?