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January 2013 New Ulm Tech: Our TAR Score

Doug Johnson , Mankato Public School's Technology Director, recently wrote a post on teacher's access to both use and fit technology to their needs. Checkout Doug's post here . In his post, he spells out an assessment to grade what he calls a TAR Score is, or, your district's Technologically Anal Retentive score. While I can fully agree with every demerit a school technology department can receive, I wanted to see where New Ulm's TAR score was at, at the present moment. While I am constantly trying to support classroom teachers willing to take steps toward the future and utilize My district does not allow staff to use their own devices on the network. My district does not allow students to use their own devices on the network. My district only supports one operating system. My district does not give teachers the choice of a laptop computer they can use outside of school. In planning stages for 2013-14 My district does not give teachers admini...

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