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The Education Board of the Community of Madrid and ICM

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have been carrying out a plan of action on the infrastructures of information and communication technologies

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for secondary education centers,

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with the aim of advancing the improvement of the educational quality of the Madrid centers.

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Starting from the actions carried out, a new plan of action has been launched for 2007-2009,

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which aims to give a definitive boost to the technologies of information and communication in the Madrid educational system.

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The plan has a total investment of more than 27.8 million euros

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and has a three-year execution period, 2007-2009, for its total implementation,

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in which four main areas of action are established.

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New infrastructures and networks of communication for the centers.

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Personal use technologies for teachers in the classroom.

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Development and improvement of information systems for teachers.

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Information of the teacher.

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The actions on infrastructures and networks of communication have started with the creation of last-generation networks,

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personalized for each educational center and convergent in a single communication node.

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This allows greater ease of access to the resources available to teachers and students

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and facilitates the collaboration and compliance of educational projects,

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while minimizing maintenance costs.

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According to their needs, each center will participate in the configuration of its network.

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Teachers will have mobile technologies of personal use, such as PC tablets, laptops and PDAs,

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which will facilitate their daily work in the classroom and improve communication with families.

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Teachers in the community will be provided with 6,000 PDAs of personal use,

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as well as 3,000 laptops for the use of the whole classroom,

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1,800 video projectors and 4,700 personal computers for the different departments.

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Different equipment models are being implemented, PDAs for teachers and a laptop PC tablet for use in the classroom.

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New functionalities will be developed in the applications that the centers use for teacher management,

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expediting processes, integrating information and facilitating communication with families.

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The modernization of information systems and academic and administrative management

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is completed with the creation of a portal on the Internet for centers and families

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and the development of online procedures through the Internet.

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The plan includes the training of the teacher in the information systems and in the use of new tools.

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The teacher is very aware of the need to update their knowledge of technological tools

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and is one of the most in-demand training lines at the moment.

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The total budget to carry out this classroom modernization project

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is estimated at 27.8 million euros in the next three years,

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which will be used to implement the equipment and computer systems of the community centers,

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as well as the latest generation of infrastructures and communication networks.

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With the collaboration of Informática and Comunicaciones de la Comunidad de Madrid.