Why Make the Technology Shift Happen?

• Standard: Teachers implement curriculum plans that include methods and strategies for applying technology to maximize student learning.

• The purpose is to explore why we need to make the technology shift and how will we make the shift….

• Essential Question:– Why is it important to implement curriculum

plans that include methods and strategies for applying technology to maximize student learning?

– Why is change difficult for me?

Did You Know, Shift Happens?

Some 93% of teens use the Internet, and more of them than ever are treating it as a venue for social interaction- a

place where they can share creations, tell stories, and interact with others.

39% percent of online teens share their artistic creations online, such as artwork, photos, stories, or videos.

Nearly two thirds of online teens are content creators.

93% of teenagers are online, and their use of the Internet is intensifying

28% have created their own online journal or blog.

Are you a digital native or a digital immigrant?

New Order Actions

• Blog• Wiki• Post photos,

videos, podcast,….• Podcast• Socialize• Create web page• Get feedback• Create and post

• Participatory• Interactive• Create

collaboratively

Tools

• Edublogs, blogspot, word press

• Google documents• Google notes• Google calendar• Audacity• VoiceThreads• Photo Story 3• Animito

• Social Nings• Wikipedia• Delicious, TrailFire• Diigo• Face Book• Cell Phones• And Much More

Powerful Consequences

• Differentiated Instruction• Learning Modalities• Multiple Intelligences• Blooms Taxonomy- Creation of

Knowledge

how will we make the shift…

• Commitment: flexible enough to learn it…

• Professional Learning Communities

• Reflection• Talk about our

practices• Conferences• One Step at a Time

Three Examples

• Earth and Sky: Mr. Ardito’s Class

• http://adamsnews.wikispaces.com/

• http://ed.voicethread.com/#q.b62276.i322464

US to back 21st century learning

• “People assumed that the explosion of innovation in information tools in business and service industries would automatically move into classrooms.“

• Centre will concentrate on understanding how to use technology to help everyone learn in a more effective and interesting way that makes that knowledge stick.

August 19, 2008http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7569484.stm

Access, Adequacy and Equity in Educational Technology

• Only one-third (32.0%) of the surveyed instructional staff required students to use technology to research or solve problems in class at least a few times a week, and substantially fewer (18.0%) required students to use computers to complete projects together at least a few times a week."

Access, Adequacy and Equity in Educational Technology

• "Fewer than half used technology daily to monitor student progress, for research and information, to instruct students, and to plan and prepare instruction (40.7%, 36.8%, 32.0%, and 29.2%, respectively)."

Access, Adequacy and Equity in Educational Technology

• "About two-thirds of the educators surveyed reported that they had been adequately trained by their schools to use the Internet for research and information; to use technology equipment; to use administrative-type software (e.g., word processing, PowerPoint, graphics, and spreadsheets); and to use instructional software packages

Common ThreadsTeacher

Advancement Program

Making Middle Grades Work

• Essential Question:– Why is it important to implement curriculum

plans that include methods and strategies for applying technology to maximize student learning?

– Why is change difficult for me?