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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 ...

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 commissioners, president fewer was there, commissioner mendozamcdonnell was there, and probably 50 of our teach...

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...

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...

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 funded option that will be equivalent to what the teacher gets as their device. All schools will have h...