Curriculum, Instruction and Technology Director: Lauren Marquis
Network Specialist: Kenneth Marsh
Technology Mission:“Our mission is to educate students to look beyond today. The school community will utilize technology resources to enhance instruction, promote lifelong thinking, learning and communication skills necessary for success in a 21st century global community. Educators will facilitate each student’s individual learning path by matching technology tools with a variety of learning styles and academic levels. Our students will leave Webutuck equipped with life skills they need to make a significant contribution to society.”
Technology Goals:
Goal #1 – Provide a safe, flexible, and effective learning environment for all students.
Goal #2 – Foster collaborative opportunities among administrators, teachers and students to develop curriculum that integrates technology and makes use of all available resources.
Goal #3 – Engage students in authentic learning opportunities and appropriate tools to gain knowledge, develop skills, extend capabilities, and create and disseminate artifacts that demonstrate their understandings.
Goal #4 – Provide an individualized learning path through the use of data-driven instruction and feedback provided by a variety of data collection tools to improve student performance.
Please see the video from Understood.org with Kristin Carothers Clinical Child Psychologist. This video has some great tips for managing screen time at any age.
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) – The foundational federal law on the privacy of students’ educational records, FERPA safeguards student privacy by limiting who may access student records, specifying for what purpose they may access those records, and detailing what rules they have to follow when accessing the data.
Protection of Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA) – PPRA defines the rules states and school districts must follow when administering tools like surveys, analysis, and evaluations funded by the US Department of Education to students. It requires parental approval to administer many such tools and ensures that school districts have policies in place regarding how the data collected through these tools can be used.
Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA) – COPPA imposes certain requirements on operators of websites, games, mobile apps or online services directed to children under 13 years of age, and on operators of other websites or online services that have actual knowledge that they are collecting personal information online from a child under 13 years of age.
Pertains to the unauthorized release of personally identifiable information.
The Board of Regents adopted Part 121 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education on January 13, 2020. These rules will implement Education Law Section 2-d and provide guidance to educational agencies and their third-party contractors on ways to strengthen data privacy and security to protect student data and annual professional performance review data. The regulation went through multiple sets of revisions and three rounds of public comments and will go into effect January 29, 2020. It will apply to both charter and traditional public schools. We thank the members of the Data Privacy Advisory Council for implementation planning and drafting workgroups that supported the Department’s Chief Privacy Officer, Temitope Akinyemi, through this process
If you are a student who has a problem with their iPad or Chromebook, please fill out the form below and report it to one of your teachers. We will call you down to help you during one of your free periods.
The Webutuck Central School District is dedicated to providing as much support as we can to families/students using technology at home to continue their studies. If you are having an issue with technology, our IT department will try our best to help you find a solution to the problem. Please fill out the form below, and then allow for 24 to 72 hours of response time. We will respond during normal school hours.
