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Scc classrooms are scheduled to be closed and go to inclusion. Our parents dont know about them. Theres supposed to be quarterly parent meetings, which have not occurred for three years. Its gotten so bad that aptos had ada accommodations put into it by one of the principals over there, and they were pulled out. At the individual classrooms, if i remember right, that was 50,000 per classroom at the individual school sites. This apparently was done much cheaper for the entire school. Our students are there. Ive been pushing that program and telling people that would be a really good place to ha...

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...

Inclusion, as well as our english language learners. I think there are much better ways to serve those families with this technology. And then i just wanted to congratulate the Family Technology survey. This is really great to have data on hand and be able to see and to really [inaudible] some of the myths weve maintained about the level of technology up take among or families. Our families. I would urge that we think about chinese language content and we now as a city have embraced [inaudible] as a language that all of our government documents are supposed to be translated into. And now the c...

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 to hearing your comments and we will come back with the finished Digital District plan. Im going to ...

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...