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Local schools demonstrate tech implementation

By DAVID DISHMAN
STAFF WRITER

Representatives from the

Oklahoma Educational Technology Trust and K20 Center
at the University of Oklahoma
visited Edmond Doyle and
Will Rogers Elementary
Schools on Monday to see
how grants were used for
technology implementation in
school curriculum.
The two $65,000 grants provide technology and professional development to Edmond Doyle and Will Rogers
Elementary Schools students
and teachers. The OETT grant
provided 230 Apple iPad Minis to the schools as well as
charging docks and kid-proof
cases.
Technology is a tool to get
you where you are going, Edmond Doyle Principal Kathy
Hunt said.
Hunt said her school was
able to purchase 130 iPad
minis for the students with
the grant from the OETT
trust. The school had six prior
to the grant.
Professional development is
paid for as part of the grant in
addition to the technology.
The K20 Center helps provide
the professional development
in order to teach teachers how
to best implement new tools
in classrooms.
The kids love them (iPads), Hunt said. My teachers
werent sure how they would
find (iPad) apps that would fit
what they are doing in classrooms.
With the development and
training though, the teachers

Local man in
Tulsa fatality
accident
By JAMES BEATY
SENIOR EDITOR

A McAlester man has been

involved in a Tulsa fatality accident that resulted in the
death of a passenger.
The single-vehicle accident
occurred around 4:35 a.m. on
Saturday on the Creek Turnpike SH-364 one-tenth of a
mile west of South Harvard
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EDMOND DOYLE ELEMENTARY TEACHER Hollie Quintana, far left, explains to Ally Audas, second from left, Dr. Linda
Atkinson, middle, and Susie Graves, second from right, how Quintanas student Riley Meeks, far right, is working with
an iPad to study in the classroom.

successfully implemented the

tablets into their curriculum,
Hunt added.
One reason we are so successful is our teachers. They
work very well together,
Hunt said.
The McAlester elementary
schools join 227 other schools
in Oklahoma and their combined 92,000 students that
have received the OETT

grants since 2003. In addition,

more than 7,000 teachers, superintendents, and principals
have received professional development training to assist
their teachers with the new
technology.
Edmond Doyle and Will
Rogers are the third and
fourth schools to receive
grants from OETT in the district. Last year, William Gay

and Jefferson Early Childhood

Centers received grants for
technology and professional
development.
OETT was established 14
years ago as a result of an
agreement between then-Attorney General, Drew Edmondson, and AT&T Oklahoma during the companys
transition to a modern form
of regulation. As part of the

agreement, AT&T contributed

$30 million to establish the
trust.OETT is administered
by Communities Foundation
of Oklahoma and Foundation
Management Inc. For additional information on OETT,
visit www.oett.org.
Contact David Dishman at
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KTC put on lockdown Monday mo

By PARKER PERRY
STAFF WRITER

Kiamichi Technology Center in McAlester was placed on

lockdown Monday morning due to a report of a suspicious
person.
McAlester Police Detective Sgt. Chris Morris said police
were called to the school after a man reportedly went into the
building and asked for information about a student.
He entered a classroom and asked what time class started
and asked if a certain student was there, Morris said.
Morris said the unusual behavior was parlayed when no one
saw the man leave the school building. KTC Director Angela
Evans said the school was put on lockdown shortly after 8 a.m.
We work on these procedures all the time and the lock-

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