Budget and Policy: How will this work into my tech integration plan?
Broadband internet access would slightly impact the Greenwich community, however, it would not cause significant change. If we had broadband it would increase the speed of our wifi, and allow for the building to have quick, reliable service. This would cause less internet crashes during our school year, not deter lessons, and allow kids to complete work more efficiently. However, the district has private, building wifi, which works at an acceptable speed. With that being said, not having broadband access does not cause any current issue. The school addresses this issue with free, accessible wifi for the whole building. This is not considered an equity issue because all students are able to connect as long as they are on their school provided chromebooks. No outside laptops are allowed to connect to the server. Teachers as well as students' chromebooks can be monitored when they are connected to the district wifi. In ISTE (2020), they talk a lot about professional learning, and h...