Technology in Suffolk Public Schools

Technology has become an integral part of our everyday lives. Suffolk Public Schools embraces the philosophy that students must understand how to use today's technology to prepare them for the challenges of tomorrow's society. We have developed and are continuing to adjust our plan for integrating technology into each child's curriculum.

Why is technology important?

  • Technology provides students with real world skills and knowledge to become productive citizens in our technology driven society.

  • Technology allows for students of different learning styles to take abstract ideas and turn them into tangible applications.

  • Technology provides a means for exploring the sophisticated concepts that have been cost prohibitive in the past.

  • Technology provides research capabilities that greatly expand the limits of the resources of a school's library.

  • Technology provides a vehicle to allow physically and academically challenged students to achieve far beyond the limits of their disadvantage.

Highlights of available technologies:

  • Online testing and reporting of district-developed SOL assessments

  • Automated library circulation and catalog systems

  • Cable television and VCR capabilities

  • Elementary school computer labs

  • Middle school computer labs for keyboarding, computer applications and technology education

  • High school computer labs for business education, computer applications and technology education

  • Satellite television at some sites

  • Video retrieval systems at some sites

  • Video conference systems offered as needed

  • All classrooms have a network connection

  • Filtered internet and intranet access via T1 or ISDN

  • Internet based reference material via E-Library

  • Suffolk Public Schools web site

  • Network color laser printers at most sites

Page updated Tuesday March 11 2008