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With a passion for education, Asif has been consulting with K-12 Schools to ensure maximum utility of technology in the classroom. He has been helping schools with technology planning, teacher and administrator professional development, hardware and software selection, financing, and overall technology integration from networks to wireless carts.
In order to provide you with the best products & services possible, we have partnered with Lenovo for hardware and software and Educational Collaborators for professional development services.
As you start to think about your technology plan, here are certain considerations:
Goals & Objectives
Identifying critical success factors and assessment
tools are most vital at this stage of the process
Financing
The two base choices institutions must make are: “school vs. parent purchase” and “purchase vs. lease”
Infrastructure
Gathering wired and wireless network, power, printing and data storage capacity requirements is very crucial
Hardware & Software
Specifying the hardware is the easiest step of the process; selecting the right software should be given great consideration
Technology Support
A three-year on-site warranty should be a requirement for every student or teacher-owned laptop
Marketing & Communications
“Selling” the program to teachers, administrators, as well as parents and earning their buy-in is critical
Faculty Development
The teachers’ comfort-level with the technology will have a major impact on the success of the school’s investment
Campus Integration
Enhance parent, teacher, and student communication and accountability through the school’s web-portal
For a printable copy of the considerations, click here.
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