What Can Students Do?
- Provide level 1 hardware support
- Be peer mentors in classrooms
- Be on call as technology Teacher Assistants
- Serve as a Help Desk for students and staff
- Teach teachers about technology
- Create help guides, answers to frequently-asked questions (FAQs), and/or video tours of your school technology
- Provide simple preventative maintenance and software configuration
- Help spread the word about new technology (licensed products such as Atomic Learning, discovery streaming, or any new software or hardware)
- Provide a direct line of communication about technology benefits to parents
Benefits of Including Students
- Trust builds responsibility
- 21st century skills
- Authentic problem solving
- More tech support at classroom level
- Building a learning community that includes all stakeholders
- Decreases hacking
- Provides highly relevant career and technology education
Resources
Contact:
Sylvia Martinez
President, Generation YES
E-mail:
sylvia@genyes.com
Phone: (888) 941-4369 x107
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Students Providing Tech Support
