May22Update_DPS Tech Plan 2021 - 2024

S P A C E A N D T I M E

Teaching and learning during a pandemic guided the District in exploring and adopting tools to ensure the flexibility and agility needed in hybrid, remote, and in person learning environments. While Zoom became an essential platform throughout this flexible environment, the District added an array of instructional tools to support the development of a more tech-skilled community. There are many effective practices that emerged during the pandemic that will be preserved. Many of these practices featured innovative technological advances such as Adobe Spark, GoFormative, Jamboard, Nearpod, Padlet, Seesaw, and WeVideo, all which provide opportunities for students to demonstrate their learning. Moving forward, these tools will continue to provide opportunities for creating additional space and time to our learning environments. Using space creatively to serve multiple functions will best be realized through the District's Libraries Reimagined Project. The District is transitioning from more traditional school library spaces to library learning commons. This transformation is as much philosophical as it is physical. The Reimagined Library Committee vision is: “The Reimagined Library or Library Learning Commons, serves as the physical and digital destination for an engaged learner, empowered to both independently and collaboratively inquire, create, and reflect under the guidance of a knowledgeable staff and within an inspiration, dynamic and well-resourced space.” These spaces will have multiple zones including: instructional, collaboration, creation and exploration, large group presentation, makerspace, print collection and media creation. The importance of developing both virtual and physical spaces as learning environments that spark creativity became more evident this past year as the District experienced school and learning in different ways. Both environments need to be rich, authentic, flexible spaces where students can construct, collaborate and share their learning in multiple ways. Time and space can offer endless opportunities for learners.

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