The Green Brook Township Public School district believes that 21st century instruction is necessary for 21st century learning. Blending learning environments where the best pedagogical practices and most relevant and useful technological advancements in hardware and software is what GBTPS strives for. Providing students with an environment that fosters and encourages this belief is part of our core values. All members of our learning community hold the responsibility to value technology and achieve technological proficiency to prepare students for future jobs and careers, which currently may not exist.

Schools must challenge students with rigorous, personalized academic experiences. They should also foster innovation and creativity, as well as embrace emerging technologies. In a 21st Century learning environment, students actively engage in a cohesively integrated curriculum, access information, and apply it in solving authentic problems. Students would become active digital leaders and citizens within the BYOD model and framework for appropriate digital consumption and production.

As GBTPS move towards 21st century goals, online state Core Curriculum testing and flipped learning models, best educational practices dictate that real world learning should mimic real world experiences. Online communication is critical to the student’s learning of 21st Century skills and tools and offers authentic, empowering experience that will help students take control of their learning and education.

Our students are living in a world where they have immediate access to information anytime and anywhere. Many students have personal education device's (PED’s) in their pockets that can be used to allow them to learn in their own style and at their own pace. Learning does not, and will never, start and end with the sound of a bell. Learning and engagement can happen, should happen 24/7, 365. With digital learning, every student can access high quality and rigorous instruction in every subject, thereby, maximizing their opportunity for success in school and beyond. A decade ago, this was just a dream. Today, it is reality.

7:00 - 7:10 - Welcome

7:10 - 7:20 - Presentation and Pilot Proposal

7:20 - 7:35 - Expert Panel

7:35 - 7:55 - Audience Q&A

7:55 - 8:00 - Future Events and Timeline

The BYOD pilot initiative was Board of Education Approved in Spring 2013.

Staff, Parent, and Student surveys and were distributed in Fall of 2013.

The Green Brook Technology Committee choose the 8th grade class to pilot with, starting in March. The pilot is slated to run from that point until the end of June.

Ongoing results, feedback, and testimonials, as well as surveys, before, during, and after the pilot will occur and a presentation will be made to the Board of Education in June 2014. The Board of Education will make a decision to continue, expand, or remove the pilot.

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