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FCPS is embarking on a new journey to enhance learning through FCPSOn, a 1-to-1 digital transformation. FCPSOn is intended to extend student learning and ensure that students have equal opportunity to develop Portrait of a Graduate attributes by providing them with opportunities to control the time, place, path, and pace of their learning through meaningful learning experiences.As part of this program, all AHS students will receive a laptop for use at school and at home. Computers are now a required school supply for all Annandale HS students. If your student prefers to bring their own computer, it must be compatible with our systems, and be carried to and from school every day, fully charged. To opt out of the 1-to-1 laptop program (and bring your own laptop to school) please sign this form and turn it in to Student Services.

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Stone Bridge Families,

Stone Bridge High School is joining in an exciting new initiative in Loudoun County Public Schools: Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT).

Through this initiative, we seek to support effective teaching and learning strategies, as our staff and students utilize their own devices to foster collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and creativity. Staff will receive ongoing professional development before and during the implementation process. Students will continue to receive education from the Common Sense Digital Citizenship curriculum, a guide that helps students navigate successfully though a connected world. Additionally, our staff will present and remind students about the guidelines for student use of technology in BYOT environments.

We are also partnering with BrightBytes, an educational research organization, in order to learn more about our students’ school and home technology use for learning. For that reason, we are reaching out to ask you to take part in the CASE questionnaire. Your participation is essential in helping us form a more complete picture of technology use for learning in your students’ lives. Please know that all of your responses will remain anonymous to protect your privacy. Below are links you can use to complete the surveys (one for parents and one for students).

Families who choose to participate in the BYOT program are responsible for providing devices that will connect and access the school’s wireless network. Technical guidelines are available on the LCPS BYOT webpage at www.lcps.org/Domain/17639. If your student does not have a device to bring to school or the device they own is not meant for travel, they will not be excluded from instruction in the BYOT setting. In that case, students will have the opportunity to use a school-issued device.

Students will be responsible for the security of their personal devices. LCPS and/or Stone Bridge High School will not be responsible for loss, damage, or theft of any personal electronic device. Teachers will determine when the use of technology is appropriate for instruction in their classrooms.

We intend to begin the implementation of BYOT the first week of school. Our school invites all students and families to agree and sign the new Acceptable Use Policy form that will be coming home the first week of school. This form will be necessary for students to have access on any device while on school grounds.

Our school is ready for this new path of instruction. This year, BYOT will become the norm in LCPS. We believe the impact in our classrooms will be positive immediately, and we do not want to miss the instructional opportunities BYOT will provide for our students.

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Have an old working tablet, Chromebook or laptop sitting around at home? Help us out! Many students do not have a laptop or anything they could use in class to complete assignments and there aren’t enough school laptops to go around.

Donate your old laptops or tablets to PFHS Tech so students can check them out!

Please drop off any working devices with at least a 6” screen in the library or email molly.rippa@lcps.org

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Beginning in the spring of 2015, Loudoun County Public Schools will implement BYOT, Bring Your Own Technology, which encourages students to bring their personal technology tools to school for learning.   As students utilize their personal technology devices in school, they can learn new ways to use them for collaborating and interacting with their teachers and each other to research information, solve complex problems, create original products, and publish their work.

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In addition to being part of the BYOT program, our school is proud to host a system of almost 600 computers, consisting primarily of mobile labs (laptops), 100 printers and other peripherals. They are all connected to a high-speed network, and wireless network. Students are able to log into an open wireless network.   Promethean (Interactive) White Boards are in all of the classrooms.

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Beginning in 2015, Loudoun County Public Schools will implement BYOT, Bring Your Own Technology, which encourages students to bring their personal technology tools to school for learning.  As students utilize their personal technology devices in school, they can learn new ways to use them for collaborating and interacting with their teachers and each other to research information, solve complex problems, create original products, and publish their work.  BYOT supports One to the World.

BYOT will be introduced to LCPS students in phases. Brambleton Middle School will start as a BYOT school.

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Farmwell Station Middle School
participates in BYOT (Bring Your
Own Technology). Students are
encouraged to bring a privately
owned “Internet-ready” device to
school. Devices may include but
are not limited to laptops,
netbooks, tablets, and e-readers.
Although cell phones are
permitted, students are more
productive with devices that have
a keyboard and larger screen.
Families looking to purchase a
device may want to consider
laptops, windows tablets or
Chromebooks.
https://www.lcps.org/cms/lib/VA01000195/Centricity/Domain/1767/School-Supplies-Grade-6-2017-18.pdf

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(LCPS BYOT Accessories ) Headset/earbudsProtective case or cover Anti-virus software (highly recommended) Students will not be required to add any apps or software applications to his/her device to accommodate classroom use of the device. Students will have access to division-provided web services; e.g. VISION, and a cloud-based productivity platform via the internet.

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Parents or legal guardians are required to sign a Digital Learning Agreement annually before a student is provided access to a one-to one electronic device. Agreement forms are available on the school and district websites.

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Parents or legal guardians are required to sign a Digital Learning Agreement annually before a student is provided access to a one-to one electronic device. Agreement forms are available on the school and district websites.

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1. The district realizes that not every student may have a personally-owned device to bring to school. In these cases, the schools must make provisions to provide students with devices for educational purposes. Schools participating in the BYOD Program shall use established digital learning procedures, with the provision that elementary school students will not be permitted to take district-owned devices home.

2. (10)  Any purchase or donation of technology, including electronic or digital devices, must adhere to currently posted technology specifications and purchasing guidelines.