Vermont’s vision for K-12 educational technology is that all our students, teachers, and school leaders — our entire school communities — are engaged with technologies that enhance student learning in a rich array of powerful ways. Educational technology is not about automating what has been done before. It centers, instead, on supporting new means of learning in our schools, and on opening up for our students the world of learning beyond school walls. The right technologies can enable teachers to reexamine and newly imagine the ways they can teach and their students can learn. Powerful, flexible technologies can enable students at all grade levels to inquire, explore, and stretch themselves in new ways. Technology also enables each school, and the state’s whole educational community, to share and employ the most up-to-date research and practical experience in how students learn best. With the tools of educational technology, our students can engage experts, educators, fellow students and others, across Vermont and around the world. They can gather and assess information, build new, 21st century skills, join in meaningful work, and open fresh realms of discovery. They can find out for themselves that young people empowered by technology can explore the world and human knowledge in ever-expanding ways. They also have potent new means to communicate, to make a difference, to make themselves heard. Technology offers new tools — not just for work, leisure, and learning, but for citizenship.

The RSSU technology team, consisting of teachers, parents, library media specialist, technicians, our technology coordinator and our technology integration specialists, have been working for months to develop our District plan. We encourage all interested parties to examine our draft and to make comments and suggestions. The draft can be found HERE.

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