Thursday, February 16, 2012

PACs and IT Survey - Feb 2012

I'd like to thank the representatives of the 7 PACs that completed our PACs and IT survey for taking the time to do so. The survey reveals a number of interesting IT related issues for PACs and schools to consider.

PACs and IT Survey Results .pdf

What is clear from the survey is that North Van Schools are well served in terms of internet access and schools generally have access to laptops and/or computer labs, but beyond that despite ample enthusiam to make use of technology there is significant variation based on the PACs, the teachers and the school leadership in both the technology available in schools and how it is used.
Schools have had successes with laptops, with tablets, with wifi, with smartboards and without all of these. It seems to come down to building school buy-in into whatever choices are made.

Issues such as ownership, teacher training, student responsibility, costs, fairness etc were raised by multiple schools and all are important concerns.

There isn't a simple way to summarize all of the feedback collected and I think it is more valuable to see the breadth of feedback collected rather than try to distill out all the interesting bits. The results provided and an anonymized version of all the gathered feedback. Hopefully this report will help PAC's consider the many parts of any IT decisions made to help our children get the most from IT resources in their schools.

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