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>>> Most feel technology is vital to American students.
Toward that end San Diego schools are incorporating iPads, netbooks and interactive white boards
into their lesson plans. I'm joined by Cindy Martin and Bruce Bishefsky.
Superintendent Martin you're about to receive the impact award for incorporating technology.
How is it being used at San Diego unified? >> We have a program we call the I21 program
that has made sure we put technology in every classroom across the district.
San Diego unified is the second largest district in the state so we're talking about over 4,000
classrooms making sure that in five year initiatives the students have access to white boards,
netbooks and the iPads. But what is unique is the impact we're make
issing across the entire system. A district as large as ours making sure that
we're not just putting technology into students' hands we have training ongoing training for
our teachers to make sure they know how to use this technology to transform learning
in the classroom. The technology program is a learning access
and equity program that's making a tremendous difference closing the digital divide in the
large urban district. >>> Bruise, what technology skills do students
need to compete in the marketplace? >> Well, it's parent when you watch teenagers,
for example, using all the devices that they have.
Most of the skills that will help students compete are related to technology.
Whether they're cell phonetype devices, gamefication, the skills set relates to digital learning,
skills that students are going to need in the workplace to compete as you allowed to
in a global marketplace. >>> Students need these skills but how has
technology transformed how teachers teach? >> That's what happens with our program with
professional development we're teaching teachers how to create lessons using smart board technology
and interactive technology. You can put something out to the students
and see who learned it, who didn't because you're getting answers in the context of the
lesson you're not waiting to grade the paper until the next day you're getting feedback
on an ongoing basis. The other transformation is the way students
use the technology to demonstrate their knowledge. They're creating power points, making videos
and audio presentations and getting up on the interactive white board and drawing what
they're using and using things like thinking maps in an interactive way and the classrooms
are flipped, students are taking the lessons home, watching the lesson, coming to the classroom
and working collaboratively. >>> Is technology closing the gap between
students from low income families and middle class kids?
>> Absolutely, I have a school with 100% poverty and 85% English learners.
These students are able to actively engage in their lessons because of the use of technology,
everybody has something to show what they know using this technology.
>>> Bruce, tomorrow you will handout awards to schools across the county for using technology
in the classroom. What are other schools outside of San Diego
unified doing? >> There are several, one is a program called
the pride academy in Santee which is focused on projectbased learning where students were
using technology to do research, create multi media presentations, mostly focused on projects,
different learning and teaching experience than a traditional classroom.
We're also recognizing a program around professional development where the teachers use video conference
to go interact with experts in a particular field around common core standards and that
district is being recognized for the fact that they did this on a regular basis throughout
the entire year with every single teacher that they could stay in their local school
and have this professional development experience via video conference.
>>> Are there schools still in the dark ages? >> Well there are fewer and fewer all the
time. It seems that the students are keeping everyone
abreast of the technology so it's growing rapidly, actually.
>>> Thank you, bruise and Cindy.