Why is Mitchell Community Schools going one to one (One device for each student)?

• Develops College and Career Ready Students with 21st Century Skill Set

• Increases student engagement and student achievement

• Develops independent/teamwork skills

• Provides opportunity for more high school/junior high school course work than currently offered 

• Fits into our strategic plan under:

  • We must  provide  programming that meets all students’ needs

  • Continuous improvement of schools is vital

  • Improve the student experience

  • Improve access to technology for all stakeholders

  • Increase learning opportunities using technology for all stakeholders

  • Support online learning efforts

  • Market our schools to prospective students and their families

  • Promote motivational techniques

  • Great schools ensure the survival and prosperity of  the community of Mitchell

Big Goal #1:

Personalizing Student Learning

• Teachers grow into roles of adviser, content expert, and coach. Technology helps make teaching and learning more meaningful and fun. 

• Allows for more interesting, diverse, and current learning materials and provides opportunities for expressing understanding through images, sound, and text.

• Offers students ways to experiment and observe phenomenon and to view results in graphic ways that aid in understanding

• Increases student engagement, motivation and accelerates learning

• Links teachers to their students and to content and resources that will improve and personalize learning

• Expands course offerings, experiences, and learning materials

• Supports learning 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

• Improves the student experience

Big Goal #2:

Use technology to help our students become college and career ready

• Intellectually challenged while providing  a realistic view of what the workplace looks like

• Helps students acquire the skills they need to survive in a complex, highly technological knowledge-based economy

• Technology infuses classrooms with digital learning tools: IPads – Chromebooks

Big Goal #3:

Deepen learning by using 21st Century Skills in the classroom

• Changes the way teachers teach, offering educators effective ways to reach different types of learners and assess student understanding through multiple means

• Students acquire and refine their analysis and problem-solving skills as they work individually and in teams to find, process, and synthesize information they've found online.

• Routinely deepens and enhances the learning process. active engagement, participation in groups, frequent interaction and feedback, and connection to real-world experts.

• Develops independent/teamwork skills