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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...

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...

The next thing we need to do is we dont really have a very clear picture of all the devices that are out there, which schools have which devices, which software is on there. So its critical we implement a comprehensive Management System. Our finance department has already started that work to roll out the system for next year and his teams already going to auditing to see whats out there. The other thing i want to do is that pretty much every School District has this history of they get one time funds, go out and biotech knowledge, and the Technology Gets really old and people dont know what t...

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...

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 and others that require a fully powered desktop machine to do specific work. So the second component...