Top current trends in educational technology 6 11-15

Top Ten Current Trends in Educational

Technology

Andrew W. Berning Ph.D.

The Renaissance Institute

www.teacherinfo.com

Current Versus Future Trends

Dr Andy Berning

The Renaissance Institute

• Fee-Only Technology Advisors

• Product-Neutral

• Practicing Educators and Technologists

The Renaissance Model

• Technology Infrastructure

• Classroom Technology

• Data Systems

• Universal Access

• Integration• Connecting the Learner

• Promoting Literacy

• Ensuring Access

• Evaluation and Accountability

The Perfect Technology Storm

• Cheap mobile devices: smartphones, tablets

• Ubiquitous telecommunications: Wi-Fi, 3 G, 4G, LTE

• Increased acceptance of social media

• Cloud computing, The Internet of Things

• “Free” content and applications

• Big Data and analytics

• Funding changes for instructional materials in Texas

K12 Technology Hot Buttons

Top Ten Educational Technology Trends

1. Understanding and Educating the Mobile Learner

2. Providing Personalized Access to Hardware and Content

3. Building the Mobile Telecommunications Infrastructure

4. Managing Digital Content

5. Understanding The Role of Technology

6. Integrating Technology

7. Leveraging the Cloud

8. Leveraging Social Media

9. Ensuring Privacy, Safety, and Information Security

10. Optimizing Technology Funding

# 1 Understanding and Educating the Mobile Learner

“Phono Sapiens”

• Half the world adult population currently have Internet-enabled phones.

• By 2020, 80% will have these devices.

Economist Feb 28, 2015

Mobile Learning (M-learning) in its Infancy

Activity

• Are mobile learners different than traditional learners?

#2 The Personal Learning Revolution

• Consumer (Not Education Specific) Mobile Technology

• Wi-Fi and/or cellular enabled

Providing Access

• Access to content outside of classrooms is important

• Equity of access is important

Adaptive/Assistive Technology

• Leveling the playing field

Personalized Access

The Promise: A Personal Learning Device and Personalized Content.

Wikimedia.com

The Original Personal Device

Nobody Washes a Rental CarAdvantages of Personal Technology

• The Cornerstone of online, flipped, and blended learning

• Bridging the gap by empowering all learners

• Encouraging lifelong, self-directed learning

• Increased motivation and commitment to learning

• Increased engagement

• Accommodate just-in-time learning

• Accommodate collaboration with peers and teachers

• Accommodates better assistive technologies

• Improves task and time management

• Potential for huge savings for school districts• Student-provided

• Fewer textbooks

Devices in a Blended Classroom

Mobile Options: Laptops and Ultrabooks

• Traditional laptops

• Ultrabooks (Subnotebooks)

Mobile Options: Smartphones

Mobile Options: Tablets

Mobile Options: Chromebooks

Mobile Options: E ReadersFor Example: Amazon Kindle, B&N

Nook..

Issues to Consider in Personal Technology

• Access outside of classroom is important

• FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) An intruder in the classroom

• Policy: Legal implications for student and staff

• Universal Access: A device and Internet for all

• Training: Administration and teachers

• Infrastructure Issues: Wi-Fi and Internet service

• Who supplies the technology, schools or families?

Who Supplies The Personal Device?

• The school district provides a device to each student (1:1)

• Students bring their own device (BYOD or BYOT)

1:1: District Provided Device

• Good for consistency, organization, training and content management

• Removes excuses for not integrating technology

• Families do not have to purchase a device

• Long term sustainability can be a problem

• Long term funding for short term technology

Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT)

• Both students and staff will bring their own technology

• Must have good network infrastructure (Wi-Fi)

• Need policies in place

• Lack of consistency

• Teachers concern over support and access issues

• Must backfill with a Technology Lending Library

Activity

Which device do you think is best?

• Elementary?

• Middle School?

• High School?

#3: Telecommunications Infrastructure

• Too often overlooked

• Too many bottlenecks

Telecommunications Infrastructure

• Wireless (Wi-Fi)• Number of Access Points

• Bandwidth

• Throughput

• Concurrent Users/Simultaneous Access

• Internet Service

Issues to Consider: Telecommunications

• Wireless requires a lot of wiring

• Capacity planning• Bandwidth

• Throughput

• Concurrent Users/Simultaneous Connections

• Lack of filtering for cellular

• Private fiber versus leased circuits

• Security, Encryption, Authentication

• Leveraging E-rate funding

Activity

What telecommunications infrastructure concerns do you have?

#4: Digital Instructional MaterialsShould we be buying textbooks?

Open Educational Resources (OER)

• Free Textbooks

• The MOOC

• Blended Learning

• Online Learning

The Interface

Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world’s most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory. And Airbnb, the world’s largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate. Something interesting is happening.”

Tom Goodwin, The Battle Is For The Customer Interface

TechCrunch, March 3, 2015

The Interface of Content Distribution

• Information as a utility

• Learning as a Service

Issues to Consider: Digital Content

• Content Management Systems (CMS)

• License Management Systems

• Open Education Resources (OER) Content

• Intellectual property rights

• Universal Access Required (Device and Internet)

• Robust technical infrastructure required

Activity

How can we leverage Open Educational Resources (OER) content?

#5 The Role of Technology

• Computerizing the Status Quo

Versus

• Leveraging the Unique Powers of Technology While Maintaining Time-Honored Teaching

Waiting for “Ironman”

• A Case Study on expectations

Now What: A Framework for Integration

1. Connect the Learner

2. Promote Literacy

3. Provide Universal Access: Level the playing field for all learners

Future Ready Schools

http://www.futurereadyschools.org

An EdX MOOC

Emerging Technologies and their Practical Application in K12 Teaching and Learning.

Free--On edx.org

Registration Opens November, 2015

Class Opens Summer, 2016

#6 Integrating Technology

• A Separate CurriculumVersus

• An Integrated Tool

You can’t get there from hereThe Gap is too large

Transition “Stepping-Stones” Needed

Stepping-Stones

• Instructional Models• Flipped versus Blended versus Online

• Universal Access• Assistive Tech

• Lending Libraries

• Modern Learning Management System

• Learning Analytics

#7: Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing

• Cloud is a metaphor for The Internet

• Computing power is distributed over the Internet

• Cloud Computing enhances the mobile learning experience

• Leads to “as a service” options• Software-as-a-service (software hosted in the Cloud)

• Storage-as-a-Service

• Learning-as-a-Service???

• Cloud vendors include Amazon, Google, Microsoft

• Typically less expensive and very reliable

• Loss of control and data security a concern

# 8 Social Media: Here to Stay

Facebook

Twitter

Number of people on Social media

• Estimated 2 billion social network users worldwide in 2014

• 71% of U.S. Internet Users are on Facebook

• 23% use Twitter

Pew Research Center 2014

Social Media by Age Group 2005-2013

Why Use Social Media

Social Listening

• Monitoring social sites to understand learners

• Sentiment listening

• Informal learning

A Social Learning Platform

A social learning platform is a (social) extension of existing LMS or an interface with existing social platforms.

Social learning platforms promise true collaboration, informal learning opportunities, trusted social networks and peers--and access to social memes.

Social learning platforms lower the barriers and have the potential to increase cultural awareness and decrease misunderstanding and prejudice.

Big Data: Learning Analytics

Deep Learning in the Entertainment IndustryNetflix, Google, Amazon

If you liked that, you’ll like …..

Issues to Consider: Big Data and Analytics

Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts

• Positive potential for personalized learning

• Negative potential for privacy• Collecting student data

• Selling student data

• Targeted advertising

• Identity theft

• Loss of student data

Case Studies: InBloom, ConnectEDU (Project Share)

Issues to Consider: Social Media

• Filtering• Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA)

• Children’s Online Protection Act (COPPA)

• Policy

• Privacy

• Security

• Access

Activity

How can we leverage social media to meet our instructional needs?

9: Privacy and SecurityThe Human Side of Technology

• The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)

• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

• The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

• The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA)

• The Right to be Forgotten

Teens and Social Media (Pew Research Center) 2014

• 39% of online teens share their own artistic creations online, such as artwork, photos, stories, or videos, up from 33% in 2004.

• 33% create or work on webpages or blogs for others, including those for groups they belong to, friends, or school assignments, basically unchanged from 2004 (32%).

• 28% have created their own online journal or blog, up from 19% in 2004.

• 27% maintain their own personal webpage, up from 22% in 2004.

• 26% remix content they find online into their own creations, up from 19% in 2004.

Issues to Consider: Privacy

• Digital Literacy Training

• Internet Safety Training

• Collection and aggregation of personally identifiable data

• Protection, and sharing of student data on contracted and consumer cloud computing

• Student safety

• Security of data in house or in the cloud

• Identify theft

• Acceptable Use Policies

• Media Literacy and Internet Safety Training

Levels of Readiness

• Data and Data Systems

• Data Policies, Procedures, and Practices

#10: Technology Funding

• Texas Instructional Materials Allotment (IMA)• Textbook handout versus Texas IMA

• Funding for content and devices

• Leasing versus Buying

Leveraging E-rate

The Digital Review Process

• Aligning technology to district goals.

Issues to Consider: Funding

• Operating Expense (OPEX) replacing Capital Expense (CAPEX)

• Sustainability and longevity of the hardware

• Licensing of content (License Management)

• Licensing of productivity software e.g., EES

• Evaluation and accountability: Is the technology bringing value?

Activity

• Which of the ten hot-buttons are impacting your district?

• Are there other hot buttons you are experiencing?

Thank you

• Andrew W. Berning Ph.D.

• www.teacherinfo.com

• andy@teacherinfo.com

• 972 937-5532

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