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Year in education. I remember with fondness with my master teacher, taking the mimio and going to the staff office and putting in the mimio graph and smelling the chemicals and running my mimios for my class that day and thinking wow, i hit the big time. Then we got a xerox machine and before you knew it we had a desktop that we could keep grades on and i didnt have to use the slide ruler. Technology is contextual. The technology of that time was appropriate to that time. What i dont want us to ...

Zinga has worked with us to create game academies and were rethinking the career tech approach to more of a link learning approach. Those are areas where we have fundsers interested in and well be doing Proactive Fund raising versus waiting for people to come to us. Really getting the message out that this is not about funding, but about addressing Public Education and moving to this 21st century vision. I think when tony smith was within the School District before he went to oakland he used the...

Officer at the School District. We will be planning a Powerpoint Presentation up here as we get this set up i will be asking superintendent carranza to kick off the the purpose of the Digital District plan is if i can get my password in here. Superintendent carranza, if you could explain the need for Digital District man. Thank you. Commissioners, in our public weve been talking about our vision 2025, which has been our yearlong process for identifying what is the vegs for educating our children...

The productivity tools that we shouldnt delineate between what the adults and students use. All students should be using office suites, all students should be using google apps. Those are things we should make traction on quickly. The next piece, the deep and expand, thats the idea that where we need to go, where students have not only the curricula available to them, but they have a box of tool, Digital Tools and they make the decisions on how they use the tools to solve the problems that are p...

Our current state. Mr. Ryans commented that teachers dont have a common place they can go for the curriculum. They dont have a place of materials embedded by the district that aligns to our curricula goals to access videos and documents and other artifacts that are used. Our employee system is over ten years old and it barely supports really the basic transactions of managing an employee. When i was a new hire i had 12 different forms and filled out the exact same information on moegs of those f...

Happen. [applause] next speaker please good evening commissioners and superintendents. Im the president of the social Justice Community at rooftop k 8. We plan campaigns and events we feel will help our school community. This year we got the opportunity to apply for a grant and we took it. We designed a campaign, submitted an application and got the grant. The problem we identified for our grant was the lack of womens programs. For the past few months weve done lots of research and planning arou...

The next thing we need to do is we dont really have a very clear picture of all the devices that are out there, which schools have which devices, which software is on there. So its critical we implement a comprehensive Management System. Our finance department has already started that work to roll out the system for next year and his teams already going to auditing to see whats out there. The other thing i want to do is that pretty much every School District has this history of they get one time...

Were only at 7 percent right now. Devices need to be current and reliable. If theyre more than 4 years old, that the time devices start having issues and become unusable. We need to get one to one device ratio, right now were 1 to [inaudible] device ratio. At the early years prek through 5, we need a mix of tablets and laptops. Then sixth through eighth thats where the shift starts going. Then grades nine through 12 we allow students o bring their own device, however there will be a district fun...

Mark their application, but i do have that information. I was just curious as appointments come up if you could provide that information, it would be very informative for us. It is on the application as well, so if its not marked i can follow up. Not about the individual candidates, but the make up of the counsel. Commissioner wynns. Thank you. I want to really thank you for this. This is weve come a long way. I have to confess, i havent read every page, but i went through the assessment, its re...

So were actually looking at identifying funding that would address the laptop issue for educator as part of our general fund, but also is going to be an ask that were asking from private funders as well to help us move forward. I think it makes sense for us to have a three year refresh cycle so were always getting the latest equipment in place, but its been a fascinating journey because it also requires you have a really robust acid Management System where you can track and account for that kind...