Project Tomorrow: Speak Up!Data to Move Your School

Forward

Robert Hindman, PrincipalTaylor Elementary SchoolArlington Public Schools

July 2012

ISTE Student Presenters…Now What?

2009

2011

• http://www.tomorrow.org/ • National K-12 Survey, funded

since 2003• Formerly NET Day• This year: 416,758 online

surveys submitted from K-12 students, parents, teachers and administrators

• This year – provided survey to Canada, Australia and to US Higher Education

• Join and get involved!

Project Tomorrow – Speak Up!

Taylor Involvement

• Participated 2009, 2011

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Questions Asked 2009 and 2011

• K-2 and 3-5• Grade• Gender• Do you know more /

less / about the same as other classmates about technology?

• What tech do you have to use?

Findings – Tools for own use at home

2011 K-2 3-5 National

Cell phone 3% 16% 25%

Smartphone 1% 15% 21%

Computer at home

26% 32% 40%

Tablet / iPad 13% 25% 18%

MP3 / iPod 30% 55% 37%

Video game 64% 75% 67%

2009 3-5 National

Cell phone 15% 28%

Smartphone 12% 16%

Computer at home (desktop)

59% 41%

Tablet / iPad/ Laptop

41% 31%

MP3 / iPod 71% 54%

Video game 74% 63%

Home Computer Use – Then and Now

2009 K-2 3-5 National

- 97% 53%

2011 K-2 3-5 National

81%(71% High Speed

Internet)

96%(67% High

Speed Internet)

90%

How do you use Technology for Schoolwork?

2011 K-2 (%)

National

(%)

3-5

(%)

National

(%)

2009 3-5

(%)

National

(%)

Writing Assignments

51 14 57 37 59 41

PPT 31 12 58 35 53 27

e-mail/ IM/ text friends

23 6 20 12 21 12

Listen to podcasts / books

72 47 18 6 9 7

Learning / educational games

95 74 66 58 62 51

Online tests 63 38 44 37 21 31

Internet Use 68 49 66 51 41 27

Video Use 94 60 33 19 41 27

Online Textbooks - - 62 12 15 10

Barriers from Technology Use at School

2009 20113-5 (%)

National(%)

3-5(%)

National (%)

Computers are not always available

32 38 61 40

Cannot e-mail / IM / text classmates

21 14 16 25

Cannot always use my own cell / smartphone or MP3 player

21 20 18 38

Internet not fast enough

18 10 4 11

Blocked websites 9 13 9 16

Teachers don’t know how to use sites, none of the above or other

32 40 39 39

Emerging Trends

• Online learning

• Social Media

• Bring your Own Devices

• Diminished school funding

• Digital textbooks

K-2 Emerging Trend: Social Media

K-2 (%) National (%)

Do art projects 50 23

Download / listen to music

57 34

Websites for TV 48 27

Virtual worlds / Webkins, Club Penguin

61 32

Play online games 69 52

Share photos 43 10

Update Profiles 59 13

Watch Videos 80 40

Blog / Journal Online 15 3

3-5 Emerging Trend: BYODIf you could use your own device, how would you use it?

3-5 (%) National (%)

Check grades 29 48

Create video / podcasts 38 22

e-mail / text classmates / teachers 47 42

Go to websites or portal (Blackboard)

24 23

Use internet for research 57 53

Get online textbook 61 27

Receive reminders / alerts 43 29

Record a lesson 42 34

Take notes 61 52

Use the calendar feature 49 33

Work on projects collaboratively 62 45

Key Findings – Personalized Learning

• Students are adopting technologies and then adapting them to support their own self-directed learning. For example, 1 in 10 high school students have Tweeted about an academic topic. 46% of students have used Facebook as a collaboration tool for schoolwork.

• Parents are supporting their children’s personalized learning journeys. 64% of parents report that they would purchase a mobile device for their child’s academic use at school.

Key Findings – Personalized Learning• There is a gap in offerings between what

schools offer and what students want to learn. As a result, students are looking outside of the classroom to meet their personalized learning goals. For example, 12% of high school students have taken an online class on their own, outside of the classroom, to learn about a topic that interested them. Beginning with the 9th grade class of 2012-2013, VA is requiring one online class for graduation.

• In math and science classrooms where students and teachers direct learning supported by technology, students’ interest in a STEM career is 27%, compared with 20% for students in traditional math and science classrooms.

Key Findings – Personalized Learning

• Parents’ definition of academic success for their children places a strong emphasis on learning the right skills to be successful (73%)- more than any other metric for success, including monetary success or getting into a good college.

How Are We Using Technology at School?

What should we be preparing for according to this graph?

Do It Yourself Learning…

Are your students using e-mail and social media? If so, how is the school teaching internet safety? Taylor has a Ning we are using with 4th graders to teach social learning skills and instructional behavior – a collaborative project.

Value of Digital Learning

Is your school using digital textbooks and Blackboard as your learning management access?

Going Mobile?

How can we harness personal tools for students at school?

MD Assisted Learning

How can we move from the paper agenda? How can we build access inside and outside of school?

Major Obstacles to Learning?

What shift has to happen with these issues / tools to allow learning to occur?

Imagine a New School…

2009 2011

3-5 (%) National (%) K-2 National 3-5 National

Projectors 53 51 - - - -

Document Cameras 32 33 - - - -

Online Games 41 48 73 54 53 45

Handheld devices (clickers) 44 43 - - 68 47

Interactive Whiteboards 50 45 78 47 87 50

Mobile computer for every student

47 44 69 58 74 60

Birng own Mobile Devices (cell, smartphone, iPad) *combined / provide

44 31 61 / 66(use own)

40 / 48(use own)

*108(use own)

*79(use own)

Online classes 38 36 46 17 50 39

Online Texts 44 40 50 23 70 40

Online Tutors - - 53 18 39 34

Communication tools /portals (customized software)

47 30 109 52 115 71

Organizational tools 50 43 56 23 66 49

Video / sound editing tools 41 32 57 25 55 31

Collaborative tools (Google Docs)

44 34 53 16 61 40

Internet Use Anywhere 44 36 56 46 67 58

Video Conferencing 35 22 - - 44 27

Taylor Students are Ready!

• For continued Internet Safety Instruction

• For instructional social media

• For communication tools (Blackboard / Google…age constraint? Use Gaggle or e-Pals)

• Mobile Devices• 1:1 mobile device initiative• STEM use of all tools

Is Your School Ready?• Participate and Follow your

data on your school’s technology needs

• Use data to inform teachers, parents and community

• Use data to inform budget decisions

• Use data to inform interview questions for specialists and teachers

• Use for comparative information after completing online observation tool to inform teacher

Questions? Registration for Speak Up?

• Contact Rob Hindman, Taylor Principal at robert.hindman@apsva.us

• Ena Wood, Taylor ITC at ena.wood@apsva.us