update for VSB Board education committee on the direction for technology

1. Brian Kuhn My Coordinates…
Director of Technology / CIO
Vancouver School Board http://www.shift2future.com
www.vsb.bc.ca http://www.slideshare.net/bkuhn
bkuhn@vsb.bc.ca / @bkuhn http://prezi.com/user/bkuhn
Education, Work, and Technology – A Strategy…

2. What does the future hold?
“technology is not just
advancing gradually: it is
accelerating” Lights in the Tunnel (kindle
227)
“If you make some very logical, and
even conservative, assumptions
about where technology is likely to
lead in the coming years, much of
the conventional wisdom about
what the future will look like
becomes unsupportable” Lights in the Tunnel
(kindle 222)
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Exponential Change is Happening

3. Strategies
S
Infrastructure
t Equity
Learning and Work Systems
r
a
Critical Success Factors
t
Governance
e Core Purpose
Communication
g Professional Conversation
and
y Learning

4. S
u Professional
c Core Purpose – Conversation
c vision, direction, and Learning –
e teacher / staff work & practice
s buy-in change,
s collaboration
F Communication
a – timely,
c concise,
t relevant,
o transparent
r
s

5. Enabling always on,
always enough,
S sustainably funded,
t utility-like services Infrastructure
r
a Fair, transparent
t funding of diverse
Equity options for student
e
and staff access to
g technology
i Leadership with a
e roadmap to develop Learning and
web systems that Work Systems
s transform learning
and work

6. Engage… …teachers… …staff
Work Practices
Pilot
Processes Teams Learning
Learning Teams
Design and Implementation Teams
Focus Groups
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Professional Conversation and Learning

7. 1. Inventory all network and
systems components
2. Establish replacement
lifecycle
3. Develop replacement
roadmap and budget
requirements
4. Establish sustainable annual
lease budget to begin 2013-
2014 and increase to full
replacement over multiple
years
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Infrastructure: Asset Management

8. The District Network
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Infrastructure: Bandwidth

10. Work is underway to
secure funding for this
effort, at a minimum we
must upgrade secondary
schools!
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Infrastructure: Bandwidth – PLN Upgrade

12. Devices are small, powerful, and everywhere
Internet… everywhere…
just like oxygen
being connected is not optional
just like breathing…
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13. Dense
Robust
Challenging…
• Construction materials
• Preparation for VoIP
• Seismic delays
Monthly packages
of 10 Elementary
with a completion Secondary ~ Mar 2013
goal is ~ Sep 2013
Infrastructure: Wireless Project

14. 2012-2013
• Analyzing current school data
• # students, # staff
• Age of technology
• Learning and teaching with
technology
• Demographics
• Office needs
• Future – need $$
• Use a formula that
recognizes inequities
• Level of support depends
on District budget
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Equity: Technology Provisioning

15. Establish / publish
technology purchasing
standards
• Create a menu to guide
purchasing decisions
• Maintain a list of
supported software
• Include supported
software in images
• Provide preferred
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technical and educational
Design and publish recommended support for supported
school technology configurations for technology
• Classroom embedded • Design an exception /
• Subject and program areas evaluation process
Equity: Options and Standards

16. “more flexible policy
around use of
personal technology
tools”, Lord Byng
student
Develop a purpose and plan for effectively enabling our
students to use their personal technology for learning
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Personal Technology

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Learning & Work Systems: Platforms

18. Preparing (literacy)…
is primarily lab based and time limited. are
assigned to use specific tools for specific “computer” tasks.
The computer is just an (optional) tool.
Exploring (adaptive)…
is also in classrooms and is regular. tools,
some chosen by students, are becoming integrated into
curricular learning for research, planning, writing,
presenting. are becoming necessary for learning.
Transforming…
is expected wherever, whenever. tools
available and support student choices for how to learn and
demonstrate learning. is through projects and
inquiry and is designed to leverage numerous tools.
not bounded to the classroom or school day.