Also referred to as WWW, 3W, or the Web. Canfield staff believe that the curriculum should drive the district's technology plan, as opposed to technology driving the curriculum. At CLS, reading and writing are emphasized across the curriculum and computer technology engages students in hands-on learning and exploring. CLS has two K- 3 elementary schools, one elementary school serving fourth and fifth graders, one middle, and one high school that serve about 2700 students. Aside from the specialized labs listed above, Canfield's MAC labs are multipurpose, equipped for a variety of uses from word processing to multimedia and on-line research.
Teachers use labs as extensions of their own classrooms.
The district does not buy prepackaged software systems from vendors, but has chosen to buy basic software and repurpose it. Five or six years ago, when we only had one or two people in each building who knew technology, the lab approach made more sense, rather than having a computer in every room that gathered dust. The biggest challenge is evolving the use and role of computers. At CLS, school staff had the opportunity to get comfortable with computers and acquire basic skills first, and then were encouraged to move from word processing to other realms. Technology was embedded in the curriculum grade by grade, in sequenced strands.