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Weekly Reflection January 22nd-26th

This week has proved interesting for many reasons.  A week full of meetings, conference calls and troubleshooting not unlike most weeks.  But what set this week apart may seem unimportant to many, but it denotes a significant change for our district. First, our new Wireless Access Points are on the way to us.  What this means is that we can outfit an entire campus with new access points increasing it to one access point in every room and rotate the current equipment from that site to another campus to bring them up to one access point per room. This week I also had my first face to face meeting with the crew that will be building our WAN and bringing it from 1Gb/s up to 10Gb/s for roughly the same price as our current 1GB/s connection. In addition to that our plan to increase from 500Mb/s internet connection to 5Gb/s connection is moving forward, but the best part is that it is going to be much cheaper than initially thought.  In fact, it is dropping to nearly half of what our original...

Links to check out 1/26/18

I have been on hiatus from my blog for quite a while now.  I want to start back up with some of the links I have found this week that some of you may find interesting.  I will try to give a brief description of each to help you determine if it is worth looking into. This first article was interesting.  While I don't know that I totally agree with the author, I do think there are some valid points in this article.  In reality, if a teacher is doing their job well, you won't see the extremes mentioned in this article. When Silicon Valley bosses send their children to screen-free schools, why do we believe the claims of the ‘ed tech’ industry, asks lecturer and author Eliane Glaser Source: Children are tech addicts – and schools are the pushers | Eliane Glaser After reading the previous article, I thought this might be an interesting followup. In K-12 and college classrooms across the country, some educators are enacting at least partial device bans, some are advoc...