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Thank you, senator. I do want to respond to some of the comments made earlier. The chairman started out by talking about the cuba issue and said i will just bear freeze, it is down, down, and even dumber to essentially shield cuba from the influences that we have on other dictatorial regimes and authoritarian regimes. I could not agree more. I could not agree more. This why i oppose our policy on cuba for so long. Mentioned another senator mentioned that iran is the only country less free cuba. ...

Varney and company is about to begin. Top of the news today the irs claims lois lerners hard drive was recycled so not only did these two years of emails he sent to the white house among other places but they have gone rid of her hard drive, got rid of it, recycle that. The wall street journals Dan Henninger is here, whose column is a blistering attack on the administration, is it not . Yes indeed. Stuart use a in your peace this irs scandal, the losing of these emails is worse than watergate. T...

Slobin technology has become quite decisive for world musicmaking since the advent of the Industrial Age in a few key ways. One is the creation of new instrument types that simply couldnt be built before. The modern piano depends on high steel techniques that just simply werent available until a certain point in the 19th century. Instruments like the modern saxophone, the modern flute these are all hightech in a 19th century way. [screeching, reverberating cymbal crash] another way in which tech...

Is how do we teach students to determine what is useful and what is useless. And that changes our classroom dramatically. We have to teach those skills and information that they have is not all that is just we need to teach them how to access it, but how do we interpret it, how to use the tools in our classroom to make arguments, to be persuasive, to evaluate. The other piece of the Student Experience is that what technology can do as an enabler or an accelerator of schooling is it can add trans...

Have in your presentation, figure it out. Whatd they do . They engaged with other students and they filmed movies where they demonstrated the difference between speed and velocity, developed rubrics, they filmed each other, wrote a narrative and were able to give feedback using software that allowed them to give realtime feed back on the presentation, what was powerful, what was not. Thats 21st, 22nd learning. Thats san francisco. So were very excited about how we go forward and we look forward ...

Would have this kind of technology. Now, i wont say this is going to be an easy lift. Itll be a big lift for us. Itll require us all to row in the same direction, require us to make a compelling case to the community and Business Community in san francisco, but i know we can do it, because as i read through our vision 2025, this is what were talking about, vision 2025. The graduate of 2025. And i had the opportunity this afternoon to attend an event with auto desk with several of the commissione...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 funded option that will be equivalent to what the teacher gets as their device. All schools will have high end mobile labs available to them to address the more specific requirements of some of the higher end, particularly our english language lerner software ...