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My To Do list from CUE Rockstar Admin Camp: Coalesce leadership around a common vision for Instructional Practice Re-imagine our PD plan around integrating tech and core (ELA/Math) Help administrators use tech to setup simple time saving workflows Develop story tellers throughout the district to help get the message out about all the great things happening in our schools…
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I think we say Technology is just a tool so as not to scare people away from it but the truth is, technology is a powerful disrupter of the status quo and the idea of disturbing the status quo is very scary to a lot of people. As Jon Corippo said to me recently, if we as educators are merely…
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Technology is more than just a tool, it is a total game changer. To paraphrase an old Jedi Master, we must unlearn how we learned. To my mind, there are several transformative opportunities for teaching made possible by technology that go way beyond trading paper and pen for a Chromebook or iPad. Ubiquitous Access To Information In a…
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My first job in education was at a small rural high school district. I was their first full time “IT Guy”. And when I say full time, I’m stretching a bit, as I was actually farmed out to one of the feeder elementary schools for 2 days a week. Prior to my arrival, they had been contracting with…
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https://twitter.com/pronovost/status/642125222662021120 I wish there was a simple answer to Robert’s questions, but unfortunately, estimating the proper level of IT staff in K-12 education is more dark arts than solid science. I will try to share my thinking on the matter, having experience with evaluating and building out IT support organizations in both private sector and California…
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https://twitter.com/pronovost/status/642127976834797570 My thoughts on GAFE vs. MS for a small(ish) K-8 district… We are a 5600 student K-8 district. We are Microsoft (MS) Windows and MS Office for the Business and school office folks but we are GAFE district wide for email/calendaring and online Docs. We did not go the O365 route. If staff want…
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Our upgrade to 10Gb on the LAN is nearly complete. With the exception of one fiber run that refuses to support 10Gb (I suspect it has something to do with the 50′ fiber patch cable being used to get from the IDF to the fiber panel), we are up and running. A major relief given all of…
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This is in response to a question that Robert Pronovost recently asked me about how much technology should be used in the classroom. My initial answer was that technology should be used when it’s needed and that we shouldn’t expect to see technology being used all the time in classrooms. After pondering on this a bit more,…
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I’ve decided to apply for Microsoft Innovative Educator. If you’ve followed me for a while, you might think that strange however, long ago and far away, I started out life as a Microsoft guy. I had more Microsoft certifications than would fit on a business card and I ran Windows servers at home for fun.…
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Last year, I walked into the tail end of a network infrastructure upgrade. It was the standard fair for school districts in my part of the country. Cisco 3750X switch stacks everywhere. I always felt going with a full layer 3 enterprise class switch in building IDFs was a bit of overkill for schools. Really,…
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