• Forsyth County Responsible Use Guidelines

    Forsyth County BYOT Guidelines

    Our instructional technology vision is to use classroom technology to engage students in asking questions and choosing tools to facilitate real-world problem-solving.

    Forsyth County School System has made a considerable investment in technology to help us accomplish our mission. Students are at work with technology every day throughout our building.

    • KME is a 1:1 Chromebook school.
    • Every classroom has a ClearTouch Interactive board that allows teachers to make presentations to engage learners. Students can then manipulate the information on the board or create their own work in order to internalize concepts.
    • Every classroom is equipped with microphones and built-in sound systems to enhance the speaking in each room.
    • Student communication devices will be required to remain off while at Kelly Mill.  This includes laptops, iPads, communication smartwatches, etc..  All communication between school and home is handled by staff and not students via their personal devices.  
    • Each grade-level hallway has access to Chromebook carts.
    • Teachers have access to document cameras, web cameras, and iPads for students to capture their learning experiences throughout the day and to connect with other classrooms around the world through Skype sessions.
    • KME has the available for all classrooms to use.   has Osmo programs, Sphero Indi and Spark coding bots, and Wonderly Dash coding Robots and DJI Tello Drones.    
    • KME also has three Maker Space carts in use throughout the building. 

    At any given time in our building, students might be researching a topic on the Internet, creating a digital movie or digital presentation in lieu of a written report, making a chart in a spreadsheet or a graphing program, sending a story or movie from a hand-held device to a desktop, using an app to practice skills learned in their content are, or collaborating with a classroom or career professional through Microsoft Team sessions.