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Goals Existing buildings will be retrofitted and future facilities will be designed for fl~e effective integration and utilization of all relevant technologies. The infrastructure needed to accommodate technology assisted learning, technology managed instruction, administrative management operations, and staffing and staff development activities will be provided to prepare students to be productive citizens in the 21st century. Outcomes All buildings will be equipped to facilitate optimum utilization of current and developing technology. Computer labs will be placed at each school site based on a ratio of one lab per 350 students bousin 30 student workstations and one te~acher workstation per lab. The teacher workstation will be equipped for large group instruction. Each classroom will be equipped with 8 or more computers and a muhimedia workstation. Each classroom will have a phone line or access to a modem pool for telecommunications. Each media center will be fully automated with on- line cataloguing stations and electronic retrieval stations for research and a dedicated phone line for telccommuaications. Computers will be available to students through a check-out system and extended bouts at fl~e school. Rationale No building will be technologically handicapped, and no staff ~ill be prevented from effective utilization of current, relevant technologies. Technology is thc vehicle to move education into thc 21st century. As a tool, it will supplement or replace the chalkboard, paper/pencil, and the textbook. It allows schools to become living, changing, growing entities rather than thc outmoded institutions of the early 1900's. Further, it allows teachers to access and accommodate the individuaVlemming styles of students through whole-group and individual instruction. It also allows teachers to move into their new role as facilitators of learning and allows for more efficient and more effective utilization of instructional time. DRAFT