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Program Mission, Vision, and Goals

Mission:

Saigon South International School provides a learning environment that embraces the use of today’s dynamic technology. The laptop initiative ensures that students and teachers have access to technology that will promote and enhance education, communication, and collaboration skills by providing laptop computers and wireless access to the campus network.

Vision:

The vision for the wireless laptop program is to create a dynamic and collaborative educational environment that enhances teaching and learning, creativity, communication, and global connectivity.

Goal 1:

Enhance and extend teaching and learning by providing each student with full-time access to local and global resources.

Rationale:

Laptops personalize technology integration. The appropriate use of this technology tool extends learning to create “real” opportunities to gather, analyze, and interpret information from local and global resources, and provides the opportunity to share this new learning with global audiences in a timely and efficient manner.

Goal 2:

To effectively merge the learning environments of home and school, creating a stable and reliable work environment.

Rationale:

A major obstacle for effective technology integration is the incompatibility of files created at home and at school. Laptops allow students to work in the same environment at school and at home providing a learning environment that supports productive work habits as well as enabling additional time to be spent on learning tasks.

Goal 3:

To enhance teaching and learning by enabling the integration of technology into every course maximizing student engagement and skill development and facilitating additional learning experiences.

Rationale:

Laptops allow teachers to expand the range of learning experiences for students. By making available additional interactive learning activities, self-paced resources and global and local resources teachers are better able to differentiate the learning experiences for students. In general terms, these experiences increase student’s technology and information literacy skills and assist in producing students who possess 21st century skills.

Goal 4:

To provide an atmosphere that fosters teacher experimentation and innovation in exploring the integration of technology applications to enhance and extend their curriculum.

Rationale:

A supportive environment is important for teachers as well as students. Teachers who effectively accommodate new resources, ideas or practices create superior learning opportunities for their students.