Garganito just mentioned is that if we were to sit here and I was to say hey choose a device that would be right for kids we would all have some preconceived ideas that maybe this would be it this would be it but we really didn't want to start there so we spent all that time getting to this point thinking point where we need to develop some of those skills and we started there and then when we kind of developed that skill list we then moved into the area of okay let's talk about the attributes of a device that could support that before we were even talking about a device itself and then we moved into that last really rung of being able to choose a device based upon you know what those attributes really were so when we were talking about how we benefit you know really what we were really learning is that the creation tools that were going to be available to the iPad and the iPad Air were going to be significantly greater than we saw in any other device and I think we experienced that when Apple was here we experienced it across the board with the committee and so it was really positive with that front facing camera and the mobility and all of the things augmented reality and it's much more available to our students for those aspects. Consistency as I spoke to earlier was we really do benefit here. It allows us really to make uniform not only the experience across students as they go from grade to grade to grade but even from a standpoint of it allows us to be consistent in professional learning.

Again recording our Globe students have talked a lot about the sort of lack of a like their Chromebooks are not great for being able to record their interviews and then thinking about this larger screen so a standard iPad having a smaller screen that the high school students really do need something that's larger and the high school students they were in the process of writing a pretty big paper and a lot of the feedback that was on their mind of make sure the tool is something that allows us to be able to do that piece. Yeah so I think it would be important and I think Milena hit on it a little bit here but I'm going to speak to it again what the process really looked like when we got together with the committee is that we really did we started with this idea of okay what do we just want kids to be able to do and let's focus on that because I think everybody around this room like Dr. Garganito just mentioned is that if we were to sit here and I was to say hey choose a device that would be right for kids we would all have some preconceived ideas that maybe this would be it this would be it but we really didn't want to start there so we spent all that time getting to this point thinking point where we need to develop some of those skills and we started there and then when we kind of developed that skill list we then moved into the area of okay let's talk about the attributes of a device that could support that before we were even talking about a device itself and then we moved into that last really rung of being able to choose a device based upon you know what those attributes really were so when we were talking about how we benefit you know really what we were really learning is that the creation tools that were going to be available to the iPad and the iPad Air were going to be significantly greater than we saw in any other device and I think we experienced that when Apple was here we experienced it across the board with the committee and so it was really positive with that front facing camera and the mobility and all of the things augmented reality and it's much more available to our students for those aspects.

Yeah so I think it would be important and I think Milena hit on it a little bit here but I'm going to speak to it again what the process really looked like when we got together with the committee is that we really did we started with this idea of okay what do we just want kids to be able to do and let's focus on that because I think everybody around this room like Dr. Garganito just mentioned is that if we were to sit here and I was to say hey choose a device that would be right for kids we would all have some preconceived ideas that maybe this would be it this would be it but we really didn't want to start there so we spent all that time getting to this point thinking point where we need to develop some of those skills and we started there and then when we kind of developed that skill list we then moved into the area of okay let's talk about the attributes of a device that could support that before we were even talking about a device itself and then we moved into that last really rung of being able to choose a device based upon you know what those attributes really were so when we were talking about how we benefit you know really what we were really learning is that the creation tools that were going to be available to the iPad and the iPad Air were going to be significantly greater than we saw in any other device and I think we experienced that when Apple was here we experienced it across the board with the committee and so it was really positive with that front facing camera and the mobility and all of the things augmented reality and it's much more available to our students for those aspects. Consistency as I spoke to earlier was we really do benefit here.

Consistency as I spoke to earlier was we really do benefit here. It allows us really to make uniform not only the experience across students as they go from grade to grade to grade but even from a standpoint of it allows us to be consistent in professional learning. It allows us to be consistent in the management of the devices that if I'm switching grades or something like that that experience and we've had a lot of that. That really was producing when we got feedback some frustration across the board. Built-in accessibility for all learners this is huge. One of the things that Apple does really well and if you use Apple products you may or may not be aware but some of the accessibility options are unmatched by any other device that's out there right now. They are really putting a lot of effort into it. There is so much available that we'll be able to utilize for our students across the board and then the fun one management and safety. I love it as the technology person. Being able to do some of this work better on behalf of our students and parents across the district is important to me and important to our team and so being able to provide windows in to how devices are being in or being used and being able to provide a safe experience across the board and manage devices well is going to provide us that opportunity.

I love it as the technology person. Being able to do some of this work better on behalf of our students and parents across the district is important to me and important to our team and so being able to provide windows in to how devices are being in or being used and being able to provide a safe experience across the board and manage devices well is going to provide us that opportunity. This transition gives us some opportunity to move some other things across the board as far as technology is concerned to really meet this need in a way that we would feel is appropriate across the board so talking about the budget component of this and I'm going to go through and give you a little bit of background about this and then also how this looks across the districts and talking about the budget implications as a whole so currently as of last year we moved into touch screen chrome books and started in an early cycle of that to bring those devices into the district. That is the cost of last year's devices. We anticipate that this device cost was going to raise probably quite a bit because everything has been going up. So we would expect that would be much higher but a higher price going into this upcoming year. You know typically what we've learned about chrome books across the board is that after a full cycle of a device they really aren't worth very much at the end.