The Carroll County Public Schools Board of Education will hold a work session on student technology use in November, after the school board asked for a report on students’ use of laptops. The work session will be held Nov. 12 at 11:30 a.m. at the Board of Education offices in Westminster.
The school system provides students in grades 3-12 with their own 1:1 laptops, while pre-K through second grade students share laptops.
Nick Shockney, the assistant superintendent of instruction at CCPS, will offer a presentation to the board on “how students are using devices” in Carroll County. Specifically, the presentation will home in on data related to student use of school-provided laptops. The presentation will not focus on cellphone policy.
Shockney said that because the presentation will be longer than a regular Board of Education agenda item, the work session was created to allow ample time to discuss the topic of student technology use.
The CCPS website says that instructional technology in Carroll County schools is to empower students “to be active participants in their learning through authentic digital learning opportunities.”
The work session will be streamed live on the CCPS website at carrollk12.org/board-of-education/meeting-information and broadcast live on CETV Channel 21.
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