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It's an amazing touch screen
education right now.

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It's totally different than
the classroom that we grew up in.

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It's the future.

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I love being the superintendent
of this district.

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We work with 7400 wonderful kids.

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These children do absolutely
remarkable things.

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(Music continues.)

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Every student in Hillsborough
from K to 4 has their own personal tablet.

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We decided to pull them out in the middle
of the year which something you never do.

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And it was unbelievable how smooth
and easy the roll out went.

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" Am I tech savvy!???"

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No....

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(Nancy giggles...)

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I was personally ecstatic
because I love technology.

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We all got the tablets.
And they took off with that.

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It kind of spread like wildfire.
They were taking it out and

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trying to figure how to use it and while
the kids were showing them how to use it.

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You just press it and then it opens. See?

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( School bell rings..)
When they have a tablet in their hands...

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...they become so much more engaged.

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Things have completely changed
in the way I teach.

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You're going to be choosing a math app
that you would like to practice.. ok?

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Using the Google Play for Education store
is very very easy. It will ask me to send

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It will ask me to send out whatever
app I have chosen to the entire group.

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We have all our math app here...
or move screen here.

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Apps for Social studies,
I found them for science.

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- I learnt how to count money...
- ...how to spell stuff.

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It will help me read books...

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We do have some kids over here working on
math, some kids here working on reading

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and the teacher can get
all this data instantly.

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What's the answer, boys and girls?

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(Kids) Seventy!
(Teacher) Seventy. Beautiful.

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Give yourself a big pat on the back.
Very very good job.

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(Kids murmuring)

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One of the most wonderful things
is individual instruction.

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... you are really doing a good job.

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On an app that we used today,

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no one in the room knew that they were
all reading at different reading level.

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(Kids reading on the tablets.)

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So I can be very specific
to that one child.

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- And that is absolutely amazing to me.
- See if you can problem solve before me.

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They loved to show me things and

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they helped the others that
were struggling with it.

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They became partners in the classroom.

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Ok. Open up the tablets...

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It's no longer the special lesson.

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It's the new pencil,
it's the new paper, it's the new book.

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Students will be learning
whenever they want,

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whereever they want,
whenever it's convenient for them.

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- It's education everywhere at all times...
- ...which is what a teacher's dream is. So...

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Some spectacular things are going
to happen in the classrooms.

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( Google Play for Education)