The current minimum classroom standard in LCISD calls for two desktop computers per classroom…typically called the “Teacher Workstation” and “Student Workstation”. However, in a modern, flexible classroom, every available computer is used by teachers and students alike. The old vocabulary terms no longer apply. This summer the minimum standard for classrooms in LCISD changed to reflect the growing need for flexibility, mobility, and collaboration. Each classroom now features an “Instructional Desktop” and an “Instructional Laptop” reflecting the needs of a modern classroom. This means that the older “Student Computer” has been replaced with a new laptop and docking station. The HD monitor from 2014 will remain as a larger display option for use with the laptop.
This laptop is not a student laptop or teacher laptop. It’s simply an instructional laptop to be used as needed by the people in that room. If a teacher needs to bring it home every evening to create lessons, enter grades, reply to emails, or any one of the hundreds of other tasks that teachers routinely bring home, then we are excited to provide this resource to LCISD teachers. If a teacher wants to use this laptop as part of a center with their students, then they are free to move it anywhere in the classroom that makes sense (unlike the old desktop)! If students need to do research or type a paper and this laptop is available, then teachers should be comfortable letting them log in and get to work!
Instructional Laptops
One of the biggest changes in technology over the summer is the fact that every person working for LCISD in an instructional position was or will be issued an instructinal laptop. There have been many questions that have come up about these computers as well as the new set up in all classrooms. The information on these pages will, hopefully, answer any questions you might have.
From Chris Nilsson -
LCISD Director of Technology Integration