Technology Planning Questions
Rate the importance of each of the following as H (high) M (medium) or L (low).
( ) 1. What kinds of equipment should we purchase for next year?
( ) 2. What kinds of security systems do we need for next year?
( ) 3. What kinds of maintenance systems will we need for next year?
( ) 4. Who (which departments, schools, levels) should receive the new equipment?
( ) 5. What kinds of training and adult learning should we provide next year?
( ) 6. What are the most successful technology programs in the U.S. at the present? What are they doing? How do these models match our goals?
( ) 7. How much money can we count upon for next year?
( ) 8. What kinds of brand new technologies will emerge next year?
( ) 9. What kinds of new technologies will arrive in 1998?
( ) 10. What does current research say about staff development to support successful technology integration?
( ) 11. What kinds of skills and outcomes do we wish to see emerge as a result of the technologies we select?
( ) 12. How much time do we need to meet our goals?
( ) 13. How we dovetail the uses of technology with the rest of our educational program?
( ) 14. What is our educational mission?
( ) 15. What kinds of equipment should we purchase for the next 5 years?
( ) 16. What kinds of security systems do we need for the next 5 years?
( ) 17. What kinds of maintenance systems will we need for the next 5 years?
( ) 18. Who (which departments, schools, levels) should receive the new equipment?
( ) 19. What kinds of training and adult learning should we provide prior to and during the next 5 years?
( ) 20. What do we mean by "information literacy" and "technology literacy?"
( ) 21. How will we connect the various components of our new information systems
( ) 22. Where have other districts gone wrong?
( ) 23. How do we protect the quality of human contact and avoid isolation through technology?
( ) 24. How will the various aspects of our technology program support each other
( ) 25. What resources can we count on in the future?
( ) 26. What unexpected resources might be possible?
( ) 27. How do we bring along the community?
( ) 28. Which staff members need to be information and technology literate?