2013 Technology for Learning Bond Election

"If we teach today's students as we did yesterday's, we are robbing them of tomorrow."
— John Dewey

“Technology is at the core of virtually every aspect of our daily lives and work, and we must leverage it to provide engaging and powerful learning experiences and content.”
—National Education Technology Plan 2010, U.S. Department of Education

Everywhere you go, children and teens are using technology. They’re searching out information, texting, collaborating, shooting photos, uploading videos, expressing their opinions, and forming and maintaining relationships. They are using technology both to learn how the world works and to shape the world in which they live. Technology is not just what children and teens do; it's who they are.

Because children and teens find technology engaging and powerful, it makes sense that it be fully utilized in schools. That's what this bond proposal does. When Putnam City voters go to the polls on Feb. 12, 2013, they’ll vote on whether to add to district classrooms a significant amount of new technology for student learning.

The bond proposal calls for about 10,000 iPads to be added to schools across the district over the next several years, eventually getting each school to a ratio of one iPad for every 1.9 students. The bond proposal calls for new  technology to aid special needs students in learning, listening, seeing and moving, and it calls for projection equipment to be added to the four large district performance, learning and gathering areas that do not have such equipment.

This bond proposal is different than what Putnam City voters usually see. It’s not about new schools, new roofs, new buses or new athletic facilities. It’s focused on just one thing: adding technology to schools to benefit students. Read through the pages of material that describes this bond proposal. Watch the videos and learn more about the value of technology in learning.