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4A I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I dawsonnews.com
Wednesday, August 1,2018
Photos by Jessica Brown Dawson County News
Above, those visiting any Dawson County school
will now use the buzz-in system placed outside
the main entrances. Visitors will press the inter
com button to speak with the front office staff
who will be able to see via the high definition
camera, right, located above the intercom button.
FROM 1A
School
iPads in the school.
Rolling out the 1:1 initia
tive has been a long process
spanning several years, but
the final phase is now a
reality. Last year, grades
K-5 received access to
iPads and the previous year
the middle grades received
access to the technological
tools.
“In the past and tradition
ally in K-12 schools across
our state, students have to
be taken from a classroom
to a computer lab one
group at a time to get the
type of experiences that our
kids will be able to get
every day, all day,” said
Superintendent Damon
Gibbs.
Giving students access to
iPads has opened a world
of opportunity for students,
allowing for personalized
learning and blended learn
ing, both of which Gibbs
said were driving forces
into making the 1:1 a reali
ty for Dawson County.
Gone are the days of
choosing between teacher-
focused instruction or stu
dent-driven instruction as
now each classroom can
blend the two for their own
unique needs, focusing now
on the “Four C’s:” collabo
ration, communication, cre
ativity and critical thinking.
“What we’re seeing (stu
dents) do in classrooms is
different than traditional
students have done,” Gibbs
said. “We’re seeing them
produce material and share
it with others and it’s not
just about completing
assignments, taking tests,
getting test results in a tra
ditional method, we’re
actually seeing our students
create.”
Since the initiative began
two years ago, the students
have been highly engaged
with the iPads and have
adapted quickly to the new
technology.
With the availability of
free or low cost education
applications on the Apple
platform, the uses of the
iPads in the high school are
limitless, and Gibbs is
especially excited to see
how the fine arts and the
career, technical and agri
cultural education pro
grams will implement the
technology. Music pro
grams are already using
applications to teach stu
dents to play instruments
via the tablets.
“It’s going to open a
realm of opportunities for
our students that I think is
beyond even what we know
right now,” Gibbs said. “By
the end of the year I think
we’ll be able to tell some
cool stories.”
Safety upgrades com
pleted
A number of safety
upgrades have been put in
place this summer to make
each Dawson County
school campus a safer envi
ronment after a construc
tive school safety workshop
March 8 initiated discus
sion on improved school
safety measures.
The board of education
approved several safety
upgrades during an April
board meeting that were
funded in part by a $47,940
state grant for safety
upgrades and an additional
$400,000 from ESPLOST
funds.
Two additional school
resource officers were hired
earlier this year so that each
campus now has a full time
SRO in place. Also a new
addition, Dawson County
resident and former
Dawson County Sheriff’s
Office officer Tony Wooten
was hired in the newly cre
ated position of Safe
Schools Coordinator during
the June 11 board meeting.
Wooten’s role as Safe
Schools Coordinator is to
analyze the procedures the
school system puts in place
from a safety standpoint,
such as continuing to
upgrade and improve the
emergency plans, monitor
ing traffic flow and initiat
ing the new buzz-in system
in place on all campuses.
Upon entering a school
campus, visitors will now
notice that the windows on
the doors are now mirror-
tinted to allow for more pri
vacy inside the school as
visitors speak with the front
office staff through the new
buzz-in system.
“More than anything
that’s to give the folks in
the front office an opportu
nity to deal with that verbal
and video piece of that
buzz-in without somebody
standing there staring at
them, so that’s just a little
privacy for the front office
staff,” Gibbs said.
Visitors will press an
intercom button located
next to the main entrance of
each campus which will
call up a live video feed
and microphone so that the
front office staff will be
able to see and talk with the
person wanting to enter the
school. Once inside, visi
tors are directed to the front
office and then are able to
be buzzed in to the main
area of the school for the
purpose of their visit.
“The system is not meant
for the responsibility to be
put on the front office staff
to vet 100 percent every
body that comes up and
hits that button,” Gibbs
said. “That’s not it. It does
give them a visual to quick
ly assess that they are who
they say they are and just
kind of slows that process
down enough to where if
they felt uncomfortable
with the person buzzing in
they could call the resource
officer.”
Current safety measures
that are already in place
such as the visitor’s check
point at the high school, the
sign in kiosks and limiting
campus access points to
one entrance remain in
place.
“We want to maintain the
feel of local schools, local
community schools. We’re
just trying to provide the
safest environment that we
can provide,” Gibbs said.
“Our kids should not feel
any difference in their
school day based on what
we’ve done.”
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