COMPUTERIZED LEARNING NETWORK

The Municipality of Haifa requires a comprehensive computer network that will serve The City's entire educational community; that can be used by individuals, groups, a class, a whole school and the full school network; and that can be accessed from any place at any time. The target group is The City's 50,000 K-12 pupils, their parents, and the school system's 1,500 educators. The project aims to decrease the digital divide among various pupils, teachers, and schools; to improve the quality of education citywide, and to ensure continuity of learning for pupils forced to stay away from school. For this purpose, the Haifa municipal school system needs standardized, upgraded computer hardware and software; a centralized databank for storing the educational materials that already appear on individual school websites and those that will be developed in future; a shared search engine that will make all materials easily accessible to everyone; a single municipal service provider that will link individual school computer networks to each other; and a capacity building program designed to bring all Haifa school principals and teachers to full computer literacy.