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WPS Digital Learning/Library & CS (DLLCS) Mission Statement:
WPS Digital Learning/Library & CS (DLLCS) Mission Statement:
The Digital Learning/Library Media and Computer Science Department's mission is to promote critical thinking, creativity, communication, computational thinking, collaboration, & information literacy through the purposeful usage of analog & digital texts, online databases, Ed-Tech tools, digital literacy, & creative computing curriculum used by students & teachers in personalized, blended & virtual environments.
The WPS DLLCS Team
The WPS DLLCS Team
K-12 Digital Learning and Library Coordinator
Hosmer School Interim Library Media Specialist: Library Website
Lowell School Library Media Specialist: Library Website
Cunniff School Library Media Specialist: Library Website
Secondary 6 -12 Digital Learning Support Specialist
WMS Middle School Library Media Specialist (Library Website)
WHS High School Library Media Specialist (Library Website)
Online Learning at WPS
Online Learning at WPS
Digital Learning is "learning facilitated by technology that gives students some element of control over time, place, path and/or pace."[1]
Digital Learning is "learning facilitated by technology that gives students some element of control over time, place, path and/or pace."[1]
Time: Learning is no longer restricted to the school day or the school year. The Internet and a proliferation of Internet access devices have given students the ability to learn anytime.
Place: Learning is no longer restricted within the walls of a classroom. The Internet and a proliferation of Internet access devices have given students the ability to learn anywhere and everywhere.
Path: Learning is no longer restricted to the pedagogy used by the teacher. Interactive and adaptive software allows students to learn in their own style, making learning personal and engaging. New learning technologies provide realtime data that gives teachers the information they need to adjust instruction to meet the unique needs of each student.
Pace: Learning is no longer restricted to the pace of an entire classroom of students. Interactive and adaptive software allows students to learn at their own pace, spending more or less time on lessons or subjects to achieve the same level of learning.
Digital learning is more than just providing students with a laptop. Digital learning requires a combination of technology, digital content and instruction.
Digital learning is more than just providing students with a laptop. Digital learning requires a combination of technology, digital content and instruction.
Technology: Technology is the mechanism that delivers content. It facilitates how students receive content. It includes Internet access and hardware, which can be any Internet access device – from a desktop to a laptop to an iPad to a smartphone. Technology is the tool, not the instruction.
Digital Content: Digital content is the high quality academic material which is delivered through technology. It is what students learn. It ranges from new engaging, interactive and adaptive software to classic literature to video lectures to games. It isn’t simply a PDF of text or a PowerPoint presentation.
Instruction: Educators are essential to digital learning. Technology may change the role of the teacher but it will never eliminate the need for a teacher. With digital learning, teachers will be able to provide the personalized guidance and assistance to ensure students learn and stay on track – throughout the year and year after year – to graduate from high school. Teachers may be the guide on the side, not the sage on the stage.
[1] Definition from Digital Learning Now!
Watertown Public Schools utilizes a variety of online Ed Tech tools, including Google Apps for Education, automated grading programs and online testing applications in our classrooms. These resources allow our students to employ advanced online tools in their daily work.
WPS has created limited online accounts for students. Students are granted specific email functionality based on their grade level. When each year begins, grades eight and under are limited to exchanging messages with others in the District while those in the High School are less restricted. Grade eight students participate in an important Humanities project titled 'Choosing to Participate'. This project includes students contacting local and national government agencies and politicians. Thus, halfway through their eighth grade year, students' email restrictions are lifted in order to ensure that they can use school email to complete this global citizenship project.
Our students will use online educational tools including those listed above. The District complies with Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA) regulations and uses a combination of filtering, monitoring and education to limit student access to inappropriate online content and ensure student privacy. Filtering is limited to devices connected to the school network, however students are bound by the District’s acceptable use policy (AUP) whenever they use school-provided devices or services, regardless of their location.
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