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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 lose track of, and mr. Ryan mentioned ive been talking about textbook adoptions. Im not advocating t...

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 terminology that hes trying to disrupt patterns of sexism. Im curious if you brought up girls and l...

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 by the year 2025, which is when a student entered our kidder gar ten this year, theyll graduate in ...

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...