Technology+Team+Discussion+Points

Discussion Points - Please note the current numbering has no association to any percieved importance of this list of items


 * 1) Access information with mobile technology
 * 2) Reduce costs by leveraging e-docs rather than paper/print/copies
 * 3) Access resources for learning 24/7
 * 4) Access resources online
 * 5) Reduce costs by leveraging e-docs rather than paper/print/copies
 * 6) Updated dynamically, easier to maintain up-to-date rather than aged information
 * 7) All students who score below average on standardized test receive individualized study curriculum
 * 8) Allow flexibility to cross building boundaries to optimize learning and resources
 * 9) Leveraging expertise, specialized equipment, or unique opportunities via distance learning rather than duplicating to all facilities or bussing from building to building to gain benefits from these resource
 * 10) Allow students to use smart phones in classroom


 * 1) Reduce costs by leveraging e-docs rather than paper/print/copies
 * 2) Ask parents, public, businesses to complete an inventory of skills, knowledge, materials, facilities, etc that could in some way benefit education within KUSD
 * 3) Brain-stimulating technology
 * 4) Build a deep pool to draw from - a shallow pool runs dry
 * 5) Capture talents of all students/parents/community to leverage as appropriate
 * 6) Challenge students to create "businesses" as an exercise in learning whose products would be shipped overseas to aid impoverished nations. e.g. Carnegie Mellon/UCLA and other major institutions have websites that promote ideas for aid to impoverished and undeveloped areas. Once example from those sites is to produce clean water using readily available inexpensive parts assembled into filters (with replaceable elements) that can be easily used by natives in these areas to produce clean water that is so critical as a basic human necessity. Students could engage in planning the acquisition of parts from various suppliers, the timing of the arrival of parts so they are available when required and not too soon so they need to be stored or too late so production is held up. They could plan "wages" for assembly workers [perhaps fellow students that need community service hours to meet goals they've set for themselves at the start of the year school], managing hours, receiving, packaging, warehousing, and ultimately shipping. All this in an integrated curriculum covering science, math, social studies.
 * 7) Change homebound services to interactive for some students (webcam)
 * 8) Connect schools to each other (students to students, staff to staff)
 * 9) Leveraging expertise, specialized equipment, or unique opportunities via distance learning rather than duplicating to all facilities or bussing from building to building to gain benefits from these resource
 * 10) Connect to students and teachers globally
 * 11) Leveraging expertise, specialized equipment, or unique opportunities via distance learning rather than duplicating to all facilities or bussing from building to building to gain benefits from these resource
 * 12) Contribute to various social networks with other learners
 * 13) Create a reward system for students to maintain enthusiasm, generate regular staff meetings for input
 * 14) Create student/teacher interaction through technology
 * 15) Develop a method to integrate all students to feel a part of the class - self esteem and confidence
 * 16) Develop video game study guide
 * 17) Document cameras in every class
 * 18) Embrace new ideas
 * 19) Embracing people's strengths and weaknesses
 * 20) Enable distance learning for all that is flexible and affordable, not institutionalized
 * 21) Leveraging expertise, specialized equipment, or unique opportunities via distance learning rather than duplicating to all facilities or bussing from building to building to gain benefits from these resource
 * 22) Encourage children to achieve higher levels of success
 * 23) Encourage children to completely use their resources to learn about their futures
 * 24) Enforce teachers to utilize technology
 * 25) Reduce costs by leveraging e-docs rather than paper/print/copies
 * 26) Leveraging expertise, specialized equipment, or unique opportunities via distance learning rather than duplicating to all facilities or bussing from building to building to gain benefits from these resource
 * 27) Engage students with new ways to read/highlight textbooks, i.e. ebooks highlight and search ability
 * 28) Reduce costs by leveraging e-docs rather than paper/print/copies
 * 29) Personalized Learning - By leveraging hilights that others have idnetified leverage this knowledge to bring the focus to topics that are important or need additional focus to grasp concepts
 * 30) Establish learning targets
 * 31) Explore ways to provide WiFi access to those that have students enrolled in KUSD [perhaps by leveraging Time Warner's cable contract with the city?]
 * 32) Explore Court Ordered settlements of hardware and software distributed through agents to non-profit entities as a means of providing equipment to local schools.
 * 33) Acquire reduced cost equipment/software/materials for use within the District
 * 34) Extend college/tech school partnerships not limited to local area
 * 35) Identify distance learning that is being leveraged by other institutions of higher education and explore opportunities for partnerships/sharing/collaboration
 * 36) Funding from Corporations or Businesses that utilize their products or technologies in unique ways of teaching/learning/knowledge sharing
 * 37) Not a cost reduction but rather a cost shifting to partners
 * 38) Garner multiple intelligences
 * 39) Give children different ways to learn/expand (magazines, websites, books)
 * 40) Give credit for testing out
 * 41) Don't waste time/resoruces teaching what is already known
 * 42) Have 24 hour computer labs in each school
 * 43) Have a computer for each student
 * 44) Help children discover their futures/dreams
 * 45) Help teachers create more engaging lesson plans
 * 46) Help teachers realize their strengths and flaws in their ways of teaching
 * 47) Reduces wasted time/resoruces by improving results
 * 48) Identify assets
 * 49) If netpads/tablets for everyone is not possible in the short term leverage contracts/contacts to provide cheap or free software to students/staff for use at home until the cloud provides all functions that are required
 * 50) Leverage community resources in the classroom
 * 51) Reduce costs - Don't pay for what you can get for free
 * 52) Leverage technology for what it is good at; one example for a reading assignment using an e-reader follow the completion of sections immediately with a quiz of the content or meaning and based upon the results suggest re-read of parts of the assignment. For a large reading assignments periodically report progress made to the teacher so they can provide encouragement or additional assistance where required. Compare results immediately after reading with those later to gauge retention and identify other opportunities for assistance or other means of learning, perhaps audio books rather than e-books.
 * 53) Reduce costs by teaching what is not already known - Teach, access, re-teach what was not learned in support of learnign targets and standards based assesments
 * 54) More collaboration time within school and with other schools
 * 55) Provides better use of time with students leveraging an integrated curriculim that reinforces the four core skills
 * 56) Offer a build your own PC program for those who need an extremely inexpensive PC for home use and are willing to commit time to assembly and loading using donated parts and materials for whatever they can afford to pay or possibly noting at all.
 * 57) Open research opportunities to all who want them
 * 58) Reduce costs by leveraging learning opportunities paid for by others
 * 59) Participate actively in learning
 * 60) Promote participation in securing grant $$
 * 61)  Reduce costs by increasing grant based funding by s treamline and optimizing reviews and approvals for grant based funding - current process is such that it takes way too long to get approval so it discourages all but the most committed individuals from applying for these funds
 * 62) Record podcast (audio) class sessions for review or study
 * 63) Reflect on learning goals for self
 * 64) Replace negative news with positive news reporting in the education section
 * 65) Replace regular pen and paper note-taking with more active or mental note-taking
 * 66) Replace textbooks with e-readers
 * 67) Reduce costs? Need to research this and compile costs and benefits e.g. currency of information
 * 68) Replacing white boards with promethean
 * 69) Review access to Internet from individual facilities [especially in light of smart phones being allowed in the classroom, most of which parents have failed to implement controls or filters on content or sites
 * 70) Save money and trees by switching to an ipad/computer based assignment system
 * 71) Testing could encorporate student identification via biometrics, questions could be randomized from student to student within a classroom to discorage copying answers from others, accessments could be dynamic in terms of asking addiitonal questions to guage the depth and bredth of knowledge of an individual. Possibly guaging Honors vs standard knowledge of a topic.
 * 72) Seek corporate sponsors for individual and small group learning
 * 73) Sell rights to hi-tech facilities across the district allowing businesses to highlight their support for learning and developing future leaders
 * 74) Seek out netpads or tablets that connect via WiFi and leverage cloud based computing to provide one device per child in every school district wide [personal note here this could be at a savings of eight or even ten to one when compared to a laptop regardless of whether it is a PC or MAC] Which device manufacturers do you think would like to boast that they worked with a district this size to accomplish such a feat?
 * 75) Set learning goals for self
 * 76) Share skills, talents, materials between schools
 * 77) Reduce costs by sharing rather than duplicating
 * 78) Student research/community service/apprenticeships for 12th grade students including a presentation of their experiences and learning to a combination of staff/parents/community members as a graduation requirement
 * 79) Teach use of resources: searching vs. remembering
 * 80) Use learning response devices to collect data and generate ideas
 * 81) Use standards-based assessment
 * 82) Use the cloud - don't attempt to replicate it
 * 83) Visually enhancing graphics, clips
 * 84) Develop means to leverage technology in time of tight budgets that enhance the learning
 * 85) Learning at your own pace
 * 86) Replace paper with e-paper with one pc per child, reduce hardcopy texts with ebooks,
 * 1) Learning at your own pace
 * 2) Replace paper with e-paper with one pc per child, reduce hardcopy texts with ebooks,