The Paperless Movement
America has flunked with the textbook. We have walked home with those thirty pounders strapped to our backs. We have slugged through the ever so stereotypical school day, and have wasted billions on a useless classroom “tool” during one of worst recessions America has ever seen. The issue that our group is focusing on is the controversary over textbooks and tablets. Our solution to this delicate topic is to slowly have schools integrate the aspect of going paperless by implementing resources such as iPads in the classroom. During the last quarter alone, Apple CEO Tim Cook stated that it had sold over one million iPads to high schools and colleges throughout the U.S., doubling its iPad sales to schools during the same quarter one year ago. Our solution will take many steps to achieve, but will eventually be the future of our schools in Westfield.
The funding for this policy will come from the Westfield Board of Education. This policy will cost around $500,000 for Edison Interediate School. We realize that this number may be quite shocking, however, we have contacted many officials in the department of the Westfield public schools. In fact, we have contacted Brian Auker, the Chief Technology Officer for Westfield public schools. He has stated that the budget for the district varies from year to year but is always around $350,000 to $500,000. " I support any idea to reduce paper usage since it is good for the environment," says Brian Auker in his email to us.
Our policy strictly relies on the cooperation of a school district. Our policy does not limit the ability that students have to express themseelves. In fact, incorporating the iPads in the school will allow students to explore new ways of learning all the while letting creativity run wild. The policy that we would like to institute would not be taking away anyones life, liberty or property at all. There will also be no intention of invading anyones personal property at all. To incorperate ipads into our district there will be no law on this topic but it will only be incouraged by the Board of Education.
Our plan to carry out our policy is to sowly and steadily incorporate the paperless theme amongst the Westfield public schools. We will accomplish our goal with a multitude of steps. The next step for our school to take would be to buy iPads for every department. We would purchase enough iPads so that classes would be able to use the iPads at least once a week. The next step after this would be to get another iPad cart for each department in school so that all classes would have access to iPads about every other day. This would allow teachers and students to really acclumate and ajust to the iPads. About the same time that we would be addng this new wave of iPads, we would need to be showing teachers effective ways to incorporate this new techology. We could also have experts come in and give presentations to the faculty and the students about how they coould go about using their iPads during class. In addition, our ultimate plan is to get iPads for all the students attending middle school and high school. These iPads would be used at home for homework and at school during their classes. To insure the safety of the iPads there will be a safety deposit, of $500, put down when the student first gets the iPad. This safety deposit will work some what like car insurance it will decrease every year the student does not damage the iPad. Overall, because our world is fully immersed in the latest gadget and the newest technological breakthrough, it only makes sense to incorporate all that into the classroom in the form of a tablet.
The funding for this policy will come from the Westfield Board of Education. This policy will cost around $500,000 for Edison Interediate School. We realize that this number may be quite shocking, however, we have contacted many officials in the department of the Westfield public schools. In fact, we have contacted Brian Auker, the Chief Technology Officer for Westfield public schools. He has stated that the budget for the district varies from year to year but is always around $350,000 to $500,000. " I support any idea to reduce paper usage since it is good for the environment," says Brian Auker in his email to us.
Our policy strictly relies on the cooperation of a school district. Our policy does not limit the ability that students have to express themseelves. In fact, incorporating the iPads in the school will allow students to explore new ways of learning all the while letting creativity run wild. The policy that we would like to institute would not be taking away anyones life, liberty or property at all. There will also be no intention of invading anyones personal property at all. To incorperate ipads into our district there will be no law on this topic but it will only be incouraged by the Board of Education.
Our plan to carry out our policy is to sowly and steadily incorporate the paperless theme amongst the Westfield public schools. We will accomplish our goal with a multitude of steps. The next step for our school to take would be to buy iPads for every department. We would purchase enough iPads so that classes would be able to use the iPads at least once a week. The next step after this would be to get another iPad cart for each department in school so that all classes would have access to iPads about every other day. This would allow teachers and students to really acclumate and ajust to the iPads. About the same time that we would be addng this new wave of iPads, we would need to be showing teachers effective ways to incorporate this new techology. We could also have experts come in and give presentations to the faculty and the students about how they coould go about using their iPads during class. In addition, our ultimate plan is to get iPads for all the students attending middle school and high school. These iPads would be used at home for homework and at school during their classes. To insure the safety of the iPads there will be a safety deposit, of $500, put down when the student first gets the iPad. This safety deposit will work some what like car insurance it will decrease every year the student does not damage the iPad. Overall, because our world is fully immersed in the latest gadget and the newest technological breakthrough, it only makes sense to incorporate all that into the classroom in the form of a tablet.