SBUSD Technology Director Todd Ryckman Deploys TechEQUITY Program
Student iPad Equity Initiative Extends to Use by Household
A Franklin Elementary student using an iPad provided by the district for reading activities. | Credit: Paul Wellman
When Todd Ryckman got his hands on one of the first-ever iPads that came out in 2010, he immediately knew they would change the world.
Ryckman was an AVID teacher at Dos Pueblos High School at the time, where he secured site funds to pay for iPads in his 10th-grade class. He allowed the students to pay a small monthly sum so that they could own their iPad by the time that they went off to college. At the center of Ryckman’s vision was equity.
“It just hit me that my own kids have such an advantage over kids without devices,” Ryckman said. “I could see the digital divide.”
