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It's an amazing touch screen education right now.
It's totally different than the classroom that we grew up in.
It's the future.
I love being the superintendent of this district.
We work with 7400 wonderful kids.
These children do absolutely remarkable things.
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Every student in Hillsborough from K to 4 has their own personal tablet.
We decided to pull them out in the middle of the year which something you never do.
And it was unbelievable how smooth and easy the roll out went.
" Am I tech savvy!???"
No....
(Nancy giggles...)
I was personally ecstatic because I love technology.
We all got the tablets. And they took off with that.
It kind of spread like wildfire. They were taking it out and
trying to figure how to use it and while the kids were showing them how to use it.
You just press it and then it opens. See?
( School bell rings..) When they have a tablet in their hands...
...they become so much more engaged.
Things have completely changed in the way I teach.
You're going to be choosing a math app that you would like to practice.. ok?
Using the Google Play for Education store is very very easy. It will ask me to send
It will ask me to send out whatever app I have chosen to the entire group.
We have all our math app here... or move screen here.
Apps for Social studies, I found them for science.
- I learnt how to count money... - ...how to spell stuff.
It will help me read books...
We do have some kids over here working on math, some kids here working on reading
and the teacher can get all this data instantly.
What's the answer, boys and girls?
(Kids) Seventy! (Teacher) Seventy. Beautiful.
Give yourself a big pat on the back. Very very good job.
(Kids murmuring)
One of the most wonderful things is individual instruction.
... you are really doing a good job.
On an app that we used today,
no one in the room knew that they were all reading at different reading level.
(Kids reading on the tablets.)
So I can be very specific to that one child.
- And that is absolutely amazing to me. - See if you can problem solve before me.
They loved to show me things and
they helped the others that were struggling with it.
They became partners in the classroom.
Ok. Open up the tablets...
It's no longer the special lesson.
It's the new pencil, it's the new paper, it's the new book.
Students will be learning whenever they want,
whereever they want, whenever it's convenient for them.
- It's education everywhere at all times... - ...which is what a teacher's dream is. So...
Some spectacular things are going to happen in the classrooms.
( Google Play for Education)