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Ready.... or Not? Creating, Testing and Deploying New Technology in K-12 Schools. Panelists. Susan Adelmann VP Strategic Partnerships, Follett Laurel Krsek Technology Director, San Ramon Valley Unified School District Thomas Squeo Chief Product Officer, Pierson Labs Diana Gowan
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Ready.... or Not? Creating, Testing and Deploying New Technology in K-12 Schools
Panelists • Susan Adelmann VP Strategic Partnerships, Follett • Laurel Krsek Technology Director, San Ramon Valley Unified School District • Thomas Squeo Chief Product Officer, Pierson Labs • Diana Gowan Alliance Manager, Education Programs, Intel Corporation Education Group • Matt Pasternack VP Business Development, Clever
PARCC and SBAC issued technology recommendations– April 2012 • PARCC revised – minimum & recommendation – February 2013 • Bandwidth recommendation Internal 100 kbps/student External 1000 kbps/student • Browser and Bandwidth minimums – pending / October 2013
Applause for Openness! • CA http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sa/sbac-itr-spr2012sum.asp • CT http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/cwp/view.asp?a=2748&q=334492 • MOhttp://www.dese.mo.gov/divimprove/assess/documents/asmt-sbac-mo-device-summary-1012.pdf
How are you adapting to the social, political, and technical environment states of readiness we are in relative to Common Core?
K-12 Browser Use Statistics • January – March 2013 activity • Source: Follett automated product access data • User access only – no pre-fetch, or services calls
How are the consortia minimum requirements for assessment versus recommended for learning impacting you?
How have mobile & BYOD impacted your software and data quality assurance and roll-out processes? What does a new software release or technology upgrade entail for you?
Given increasing dependencies between hardware, software, add-ons, open standards, HTML5 versus apps, business channels locked with technology… Considering these technology challenges what are your biggest challenges and how does this impact what you buy or build?
If you had a magic wand…. What would you like to ask the other people on this panel and in this room to do?
Thank You! • Final thoughts or questions? • Slides to be posted in the next week. • Session summaries to be posted in several weeks. • 3:35 - Roundtable: Tech Readiness for Learning & Assessment for more • Join the Technology & Development Workgroup for more frequent coverage of topics like this