The document discusses Burlington High School's mission to provide every student with a digital learning device like an iPad. It argues that to truly fulfill mission statements of preparing students for today's world, schools must teach digital citizenship and provide robust technology instead of blocking websites. It provides contact information for the school administrators leading the iPad initiative to learn more. The document is advocating for the school's iPad distribution program by connecting it to the goals of modern education.

1. The School That
Launched 1,000 iPads
NEASC Annual Meeting
December 9, 2011
For handout go here http://bit.ly/neascipads

2. What is our mission?

3. Burlington High School Mission Statement

4. Massachusetts Board of
Elementary and Secondary Education
Mission Statement
If we continue to block sites like Facebook, YouTube, and
Twitter what parts of this need to be modified?
The mission of the Massachusetts Board
of Elementary and Secondary Education
is to strengthen the Commonwealth's
public education system so that every
student is prepared to succeed in
postsecondary education, compete in the
global economy, and understand the
rights and responsibilities of American
citizens, and in so doing, to close all
proficiency gaps.

5. If we truly believed these mission
statements we would...
• show students how to edit their privacy settings and use groups
in Facebook instead of banning online social networks because
they’re ‘dangerous’ and/or ‘frivolous’
• teach students to understand and contribute to the online
information commons rather than ‘just saying no’ to Wikipedia
• put a robust digital learning device into every student’s hands
(or let them bring and use their own) instead of pretending that
we live in a pencil notebook paper and ring binder world
Click here for the complete list from Scott McLeod’s Big Think Blog

6. What do our Expectations for Student Learning say?

7. Prerequisites

8. Questions????

9. Contact Information:
Eric Conti - Superintendent of Schools, Burlington Public Schools
email - conti@bpsk12.org
blog - ericconti.wordpress.com
twitter - @ericconti
cell - 339 234-2976
Patrick Larkin - Principal, Burlington High School
e-mail - larkin@bpsk12.org
blog - Burlinton High School Principal’s Blog
twitter - @bhsprincipal
cell - 339 234-1673
Andrew Marcinek - BHS Instructional Technology
e-mail - amarcinek@bpsk12.org
blog - andrewmarcinek.com
twitter - @andycinek
cell - 570 259-1114