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The education Nation Student town hall. Education nation is now in its fourth year, and i am thrilled that for the second year in a row, we will be focused on what matters most to the students, the problems they face, and their ideas for how to solve them. Now, joining me on stage and in the audience today are students from across the country, ranging in age from about 13 to 25. And for the next two hours, we will hear from many of them. To help with that task, two of my colleagues are in the house. Working one side of the room is cohost of msnbcs the cycle. Krystal ball. Hi, krystal hey, meli...

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 transparency between the student and the family and the classroom so that they have so that students prog...

As we make a shift to instruction and how we expect this to work, we have spent the past couple years spending a lot of time increasing the bandwidth of our infrastructure, but there are many single points of failure in the network we built. A story that i experienced this year is that we spent a physical therapy amount of money of donor funds to put wireless access to our middle schools. And the Parent Teacher conference in the fall, one of the schools wireless access went down so the school was frustrated with me and said we cant have Parent Teacher conference without access so i was confuse...

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 presented in front of them. And those and that is how we get to full integration of devices, that tho...

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 forms with a slight change here and there because there were so many Different Things on how to do th...