Technology Engaged Classroom & Higher Order Thinking for the 21st Century = TECH 21

TRAINING FOR TRAINERS

WELCOME TO THE

Technology Services Dept.Brownsville ISD

Agenda – Day 1

Morning Session (8:30 AM – 11:30 AM)Intro and TECH 21 Program OverviewShow Program Wiki and Create AccountsPost Reflection on Wiki

Lunch Break (11:30 AM – 1:00 PM)

Afternoon Session (1:00 PM – 4:00 PM)Podcasting BasicsUpload Podcast to WikiPost Reflection and Q&A

Agenda – Day 2

Morning Session (8:30 AM – 11:30 AM)Digital Storytelling Showcase Digital StoriesPost Reflection on Wiki

Lunch Break (11:30 AM – 1:00 PM)

Afternoon Session (1:00 PM – 4:00 PM)Upload Digital Stories to TECH 21 WikiCreate TECH 21 Campus WikiPost Reflection and Q&A

Concerns & Guidelines

• How many people will I have to train?• Will I have enough time?• Will I have the equipment necessary to train?• Will I get the support from my administration?• Can I do this?• Will I get paid?• How much?

Relax and have fun! We are all learners!

Who are you?

Vision for Technology in Education

Where are we going?

Why are we doing this?

Is this really a good investment?

Goals for TECH 21•To learn how to understand students and their style of learning in the 21st Century and implement new teaching strategies that will enhance and support learning. •To build capacity and support student learning in the area of educational technology.•To build learning communities that will provide support to all learners – i.e. students, teachers, administrators. •To advance technology skills to Target Tech level in the Star Chart. •To meet the objectives included in the DEIC and BISD Technology Plan 2009-2012.

Research

What we know:

• 16% of students graduate from The University of Texas at Brownsville within 6 years or less compared to 77% from Texas A&M or UT Austin

• U.S. students must compete in a new global economy.• The nature of work is changing.• The requirements of the 21st Century work force are

changing.• We need to prepare our students to be effective 21st

Century citizens.

Teens and the Internet: The Future of Digital Diversity

Project TomorrowNational FindingsK-12 Students & ParentsMarch 2010

Speak Up 2009Creating Our Future: Students Speak Up about their Vision for 21st Century Learning

FindingsTechnology-based learning experiences that

students are having outside of school – not directed by a teacher or part of a class assignment or homework:

• seeking out other students for collaborations• information sharing and tutoring via Facebook• taking online assessments and tests to evaluate

their own status in the knowledge acquisition process on a particular topic

Findings continued

• using cell phone applications for self-organization and increased productivity

• taking online classes not for a grade but to learn more about subject that interests them

• accessing podcasts and videos to help in classes they are struggling in

• finding experts (including other students) to connect with online to exchange new ideas and explore content in a myriad of new ways

Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are

no longer the people our educational system was

designed to teach.

Mark Prensky, Digital NativesDigital Immigrants

Essential Elements Identified through Speak Up 2009 as Student Vision for American Education

• Social-based learning

• Un-tethered learning

• Digitally-rich learning

Online Use and Concerns

Read the description of the ISTE Standard on Digital Citizenship in

the next slide, visit the Cyber Safety Links, and discuss with your neighbor what defines a

cyber-citizen, what are the responsibilities and skills

necessary to exhibit “Digital Citizenship”.

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) NETS for Students5. Digital Citizenship: Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues

related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.

Students:• a. advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of

information and technology.• b. exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that

supports collaboration, learning, and productivity.• c. demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning.• d. exhibit leadership for digital citizenship.

Cyber Safety Resources

• Learning.com – K-5 District Online Textbook• Wired Safety.org – http://www.wiredsafety.org

• NetSmartz Workshop – http://www.netsmartz.org

• Webwisekids.org – http://www.webwisekids.org

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If students have access to technology, why are they still struggling? Students are lacking skills that are needed to

be successful in a professional environment - they are very familiar with the tools when it comes to entertainment, however when skills are transferred to the real world and to a professional environment, they are not able to use all of the tools.

BISD Technology Plan:• Goal 1: Provide all students with instruction in the

use of technology that empowers them to become more knowledgeable of their world and develop their academic skills.

• Goal 2: Provide the knowledge skills and resources necessary for all educators to fully integrate technology into the curriculum.

• Goal 3: Develop a partnership with parents and the Community to assist in developing all students to their potential.

BISD Tech Plan (cont’d)

• Goal 4: To provide the knowledge and skills necessary to fully integrate technology into administrative functions and to allow all administrators to make informed decisions on technology acquisitions and usage.

• Goal 5: To provide a high-speed, quality infrastructure and high value hardware for all schools and district offices.

BISD - District Educational Improvement Council Technology(DEIC) Goal• Our vision for technology is to have all district

stakeholders involved in the teaching and learning process seamlessly integrate technology to make informed decisions and advance student achievement and technology literacy to encourage and support creative, innovative, lifelong learning.

What technology is not technology integration:

* Kids sent to the lab to complete a five-paragraph essay.* Cutting and pasting information found at a website to complete a school project or essay.* Using interactive whiteboards as projection screens.

One way to think about the impact of technology in teaching and

learning is called “informating”.Alan November, Technology and the School Leader

Essential questions to consider:* Are you giving people access to information they’ve never had before?* Are you giving people access to people?* Are there new relationships? e.g. teachers working together, connectivity to family – home, kids working with kids around the world

Essential Skills for the Knowledge Economy

• Enormous amounts of information; get what you need at the moment you need it

• Leads to Information Literacy• Collaborate – Teamwork – Global Citizenship

Skills• Assess your own work - accountability

Self-directedSelf-motivated

Team player

Learners are:

Ability to learn and relearn

Learn new things over time

Online learning is becoming more and more a reality.

•Access to learning anytime, anywhere•From home

Access to phenomenal amounts of information

leads to a need for:

* Information Literacy Skills* Communication Skills

“There is so much information available these days that it is

almost too much, and if people aren’t prepared to process the

information effectively, it almost freezes them in their steps.”

Mike Summers, Global Talent Management at Dell

21st Century Learning Themes

www.wordle.net

Information Literacy Standards

• Standard 1: The student who is information literate accesses information efficiently and effectively.

• Standard 2: The student who is information literate evaluates information critically and competently.

• Standard 3: The student who is information literate uses information accurately and creatively.

Information Literacy Links

• S.O.S. for Inforamtion Literacy Lesson Planhttp://www.informationliteracy.org/plans/view/760/back/0

• S.O.S for Information Literacyhttp://www.informationliteracy.org/

• National Forum On Information Literacyhttp://www.infolit.org/

Communication Skills

a. interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media

b. communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences using a variety of media and formats

c. develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures

d. contribute to project teams to produce original works or solve problems

Reading and writing will be different in 10 years. Language has always evolved to embrace new realities and it is evolving now. There will be a new fluidity in media creation. Visual representations and story telling will be important in new ways, so “screen” literacy will emerge.

Pew Internet

ISTE NETS = National Educational Technology Standards1. Creativity and Innovation2. Communication and Collaboration3. Research and Information Fluency4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and

Decision Making5. Digital Citizenship6. Technology Operations and Concepts

NETS for Studentshttp://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS

Are we helping students become:• Critical thinkers?• Problem solvers?• Good communicators?• Good collaborators?• Information and technology literate?• Flexible and adaptable?• Innovative and creative?• Globally competent?• Financially literate?

Build Teacher Collaboration =Build Learning Communities

Creating Partnerships

Partnerships provide a framework in which:• Digitally literate students specialize in content

finding, analysis, and presentation via multiple media • Teachers specialize in guiding student learning,

providing questions and context, designing instruction, and assessing quality

• Administrators support, organize, and facilitate the process schoolwide

• Technology becomes a tool that students use for learning essential skills and "getting things done"

Collaboration Activities & Tools

• Blogs• Wikis – PBWorks• Google Docs• Podcasting• Digital Storytelling• Email – Gaggle• Web 2.0 Tools• Social Networking Sites

Vision for Technology in Education

Where are we going?

Why are we doing this?

Is this really a good investment?

3 Steps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPQlu5Vxm28&feature=player_embedded

Bibliography

• ISTE – www.iste.org• Partnership for 21st Century Skills• Pew Internet and American Life Project –

www.pewinternet.org• Project Tomorrow: Speak Up 2009 -

www.tomorrow.org• Alan November, Technology and the School Leader• 16 Digital Natives – 21st Century Learning Video• www.wordle.net

Bibliography cont’d• American Library Association – www.ala.org• Teens and the Internet: The Future of Digital Diversity -

Kristen Purcell, Ph.D., Associate Director, Pew Internet Project

• Humble ISD (www.humble.k12.tx.us)• Cyberbullying 2010: What the research is telling us…-

Amanda Lenhart, Youth Online Safety Working Group, May 6, 2010

• TCEA• Polleverywhere – www.polleverywhere.com

Tech 21 Program created and developed by: Lorena Martinez & David Mitchell, 2009-2010