Are all touched so no family and choild who registers and i encourage them to get on line or call 311 and register themselves and fmlies to these wonderful high quality Summer Programs that are great for kids, great for skill setting and additional learning, great to prevent summer loss, but also more as a wonderful tune to engage ort kids throughout the summer in very good programs that reck and park and our School District working together it with the knhunty placed agency that had years of experience in this. I think that they cant wait to join our library and all our other programs to not only have the good programs that we had, but to say there is no waiting list. That is a incredible announcement. It is all most as exciting as telling a department that you wont be cut this year. People smile at that because they know they can get their kids into these wundserful programs whether it is swimming or learning a new skill or additional language classes or skill sets, they will all hap
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 progress and growth in status is available and viewable to that parent and that family at all times, so that its no longer a a school is no longer a black box, but it is a partnership between the family and school. What does that mean for an educator . What that means for an educator is if we are thinking that they have the students have access just in time and its [inaudible] so does the teacher and
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 confused because they didnt have wireless access the previous year. That shows how quickly this become an expectation this works so the resilience in infrastructure is not going to be cheap, but it will be critical in terms of ensuring the resources are there when they need them. So 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 schoo
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 2025. In the spirit of vision 2025 whats emerged is theres ten big shifts that need to occur to get us to 2025. Part of what we dont know is what will the economy look like. What will learning look like . What will the Global Economy look like . What will San Francisco look like in terms of opportunities. What we do know is that part of that future will be enabled by technology. We know that the c
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 those devices are simply transparent or seemless to what we see in the classroom and to what we see learning. Part of that is we need to develop internal tools. District wide tools like learning Management Systems and professional Development Systems that allow teachers and students to have access to what they need immediately, but also teachers to get that just in time help. I have students showing