You+Get+To+Spend+Some+Money!



**You Get To Spend Some Money!**


 Every year, schools grapple with the issue of what technology to purchase. Interactive white boards? Projectors? How about laptops? Who knows where to get the information, who knows enough about it all to make a decision on what to buy?
 * Introduction**

You have been selected to __SERVE ON__ join the technology committee to decide what purchases to recommend to the Collaborative School Committee (CSC). Your school has $5,000.00 in the technology budget. The tech committee will have three members: a hardware expert, a tech standards expert, and a curriculum expert.
 * Task**

Working in groups of three experts, start with a curriculum focus and target standards to select hardware to recommend to the CSC for purchase by the school.
 * Process**

//Group Roles://
 * Curriculum Expert
 * Standards Expert
 * Hardware Expert

Assignment Steps:
 * 1) Decide who will take the role of the experts listed below.
 * 2) Take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the resources for your assigned area of expertise.
 * 3) The curriculum expert provides options of the curricula that seem amenable to the use of technology to the group. The groups needs to come to a consensus agreement on the curricular area on which to focus.
 * 4) The standards expert provides a brief overview of tech standards. The group comes to a consensus decision about which standards to target.
 * 5) The hardware expert provides a list of recommended and supported options to the group. The group comes to a consensus decision to select which hardware will support the target standards in the agreed upon curricular area of focus.

**Resources** Curriculum - [|DPS curriculum] Standards - [|ISTE Nets for Students] Hardware - [|Calculator]

Each group presents their recommendation to the rest of the whole group who will act as the CSC. __MEMBERS__ Students can be evaluated on their presentation skills, their ability to work in small groups, and how well their hardware selections were justified to support standards in the focus curriculum area.
 * Evaluation**

This process can be helpful to avoid the problem of spending technology budgets on more stuff and instead bring the focus back to the student learning.
 * Conclusion**


 * Teacher Section**