Explore the Challenges

Explore the Challenges

1. Challenge: It will be difficult to keep track of iPads and train parents/students to use them at home

   • Solution: Provide a training course/seminar before the school year starts for parents and students to learn iPad basics
   • Solution: Instill habits during the school day to practice safe and correct usage of iPads so students carry that information home with them

2. Challenge: Security and Privacy issues

   • Solution: PTAC as a one-stop resource for education stakeholders to learn about data privacy, confidentiality, and security practices related to student-level longitudinal data systems and other uses of data. PTAC provides timely information and updated guidance on privacy, confidentiality, and security practices
   • Solution:requires parental consent for any web service collecting “personally identifiable information” of children under 13, including photographs and voice recordings. Finally, they should train teachers to clearly inform parents about what student information their classroom technology will use and why.

3. Challenge: Wifi Signal for everyone

   • Solution: The school system could loan out mobile hotspots to students on a needs-based priority. Hotspots are small devices that use cellular technology to provide a wifi signal you can use from almost any location. The public library has nine of these, in extremely high demand, and loans them out for three weeks at a time.
   • Solution: CDE Lightband has a high-speed fiber optic internet line connected to every household in Clarksville. The only barrier to activation is cost to the household. CDE and the school system could work together to provide a means-based discount to families with high school students in need of digital access.