Transcript Classroom Technology Integration

The Classroom Technology
~ Integration Challenge~
How can school
administrators turn
their school’s
investment in
hardware and
connectivity into
measurable
learning results?
Technology made a lot of
promises
About changing the
way we teach, and
the way we learn.
Can it deliver on
those promises ?
With BILLONS invested
in hardware and
connectivity nationwide,
what is the next step to
see this investment
really turn into daily
learning results?
How can we ensure
Technology
reallydd
‘Turns into Learning’?
This workshop is designed
to help you define a plan
that will help your teachers,
students, and parents really
see a measurable return on
your school’s technology investment.
Making technology deliver on its promise is up to US, each and
everyone of us, not on cabling, CPUs, or bandwidth.
This is going to be accomplished by our HUMAN intention.
You can make this happen!
Let’s start, right
now, making it
happen…
For the next 2-1/2 days, we are going to work together
to set new attainable goals, and we will then follow-up with
implementation projects you will be proud to
lead at your school site.
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Joining us for this workshop
has set you on the path to
discovering solutions to your
technology integration
challenges. You will leave
the workshop with at least
five concrete and attainable
goals that you may begin to
implement in the next 14
days.
We guarantee it.
STEP ONE : Look at educational
technology’s potential benefits
AND the potential pitfalls.
 Which of the following fit your
school’s current situation?
 Are there others factors you
realize need to be included in
your analysis?
Technology’s Potential Benefits
Are any of these happening at your school ?
Expands
teaching
resources
Motivates
student
learning
Builds
employable
skill sets
Improves
reading
scores
Brings the real
Provides
Prepares for
world into the multiple levels the real world
classroom
of challenges
workplace
Breaks down
isolation and
links in the
community
Offers a world
wide library
not available
locally
Establishes a
positive
pattern of life
long learning
Stimulates
crosscurricular
interests
Encourages
pursuit of
higher
education
Technology’s Potential Pitfalls
Are you seeing any of these problems?
All connected –
but teachers lack
training to use
technology
All connected –
but teachers with
interest have no
time
All connected –
but students lack
focused
productive use
All connected –
but how is it
different than 2-D
books?
All connected –
but where is the
meaningful
content ?
All connected –
but where are the
learning results?
To help your school reach the
benefits ~ and avoid the pitfalls
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We will first go through a series of questions for
you to begin considering
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Then we will open our workbooks and begin
identifying the real benefits and pitfalls you face
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And by the end of the workshop we will have
developed an administrator’s planning tool to
help you reach the benefits of technology and
avoid the pitfalls
Now let’s ask the hard questions:
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Do your teachers see
any real benefit from
going to the effort to
integrate technology
in their classroom ?
Do they believe that
computers can really
help make teaching
more rewarding?
Do they have what
they need to really
succeed?
Where does your school stand?
Basic Hardware
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Do you have a computer
lab? If so, does it have
enough stations for a full
class or do classes break
into teams to use it?
Does the ratio of students
to computers in your
classrooms provide
enough technology
access to yield results?
Do teachers allow
students to really USE the
technology every week ?
Basic Connectivity
 Do your students have
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web access ? Email
access? Can they view
educational video
streaming? Is there a
means to do teleconferencing with guest
lecturers?
Do you host parent
events to promote family
access?
Are your teachers resistant
to technology integration in their
own classroom?
Or are they eager
to embrace ways
technology can
make teaching
more enjoyable
and their students
happier learners?
If they ARE ready to integrate
technology,
Do they have a
focused use for the
technology that is
standards-based
and that will yield
year-round learning
results by building
dynamic, new
student knowledge
banks?
If some are still resistant …
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Do you have a
way for fellow
teachers to
showcase their
own success
stories so “seeing
can become
believing” with a
trusted source?
Here is a tough one - Are there barriers to
technology integration that you can be the leader
in overcoming?
Teachers at-large have two
main complaints about the
use of technology:
1. They are too often expected
to face the learning curve
all on their own.
2. Once they are trained and
ready to deliver, they can’t
find enough time in the day
given the other demands
placed on them by school
administration.
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Need
professional
develop
ment
Have
begun
technology
training
Need
approved
time to
implement
Do the Parents in your School Community
SUPPORT Technology Integration?
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Even if there may be a
low level of technology in
the home, are parents
supportive of student
technology access at
school or the library?
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Do they understand – or
have they experienced –
technology’s benefits?
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Are they fellow
technology champions?
These have been some of the hardest and most
important questions to begin to ask ourselves ~
and the inquiry can be a challenge… but the
results it leads to are well worth the effort.
Facing your technology integration challenges and
finding solutions is a great step forwards in finding
campus-wide rewards from the school’s investment
in technology.
There ARE solutions, sometimes internal, other times
supported by external facilitators. And the reward
of seeing Technology Turn into Learning – Everyday
is an outcome you can enjoy each school day.
What You Can Do TODAY
here at the workshop
 Listen to teachers who are managing successful
technology integration programs. Learn about what IS
working in real classrooms from real front-line teachers and
fellow administrators.
 Start an objective analysis of the technology benefits you
want your school to achieve this coming year – not just a
repeat of the school’s technology plan – but fresh ideas!
 Note the pitfalls you want to avoid or recover from. Start
matching solutions to problems.
What you will do here tomorrow
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Draft a plan for teacher training
by identifying professional
development partners on
campus, in your district, and
from the community.
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Design a mix of teacher,
student, and parent activities
and outcomes that will improve
student learning - and share
your ideas in a small group of
fellow technology leaders.
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Try out some hands-on
technology projects that you
can easily bring to your school.
Getting to know one another
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We are now going to
go around the room
and learn who is
attending the
workshop
Please tell us a little
about your school, its
technology goals
and its current
challenges
Now, lets start the technology
integrations analysis process in
your workbooks
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In the section after
the power point
slides you have just
seen, fill in the first
profile page using
the survey data we
suggested you
prepare in advance.
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Now move to the first
level of analysis
pages. Here you will
begin to review the
possible technology
challenges faced at
your school site/s –
and see solutions.
~ MORNING BREAK ~
We will reconvene
at 10:30AM
Front Line Technology in Action
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Now we are
going to watch
and listen to
footage from
actual classrooms
implementing
technology on a
daily basis.
Write down observations
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What did you see
that was a working
idea in use by these
classrooms?
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Did you see any
projects that you
would like to
introduce to your
teachers and
students?
Listen to Teacher’s Concerns
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We asked six
teachers who use
technology as often
as possible to tell us
what would allow
them to make BETTER
use of technology as
an integrated
teaching and
learning tool.
Does your school also
face these issues?
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Use your workbook video review page to
mark which of these teacher’s concerns
your teachers also face.
Add any others you face and want to solve.
Prioritize all of these concerns in terms of
their importance at your school. (Solutions col 2)
Then prioritize in terms of concerns you
think you can chronologically address (col 4-5)
This is your first analysis draft
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As the workshop unfolds,
it is very likely you will
want to go back and
change some of your
entries, so keep your
mind open to new things
as we proceed …
Nothing is set in stone –
you are just beginning the
discovery process.
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Next up, we break for
lunch and encourage you
to get to know one
another by lunching in
the groups set out by
name cards at the dining
tables.
You will then work in
these small groups after
lunch.
Lunch and Afternoon Breakouts
Josef Edwards (elem)
Maria Hernandez (elem)
Judy Tait (elem)
Edgar Fitzgerald (elem)
Randy Paige (middle)
Sarah Cummings (middle)
Carl Mendez (middle)
Elaine Richards (middle)
AFTER LUNCH: Meet in Library
AFTER LUNCH: Meet in Oaks Room
Sylvia Pace (elem)
Victoria Ramone (elem)
Ray McDonald (elem)
Steve Wilson (elem)
Javier Gonzalez (high)
Tom Peterson (high)
Loren Guliano (high)
Imelda Garcia (high)
AFTER LUNCH: Meet in Sycamore Rm
AFTER LUNCH: Meet in Laurel Room
Breakout Group Activity #1
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Share your school’s best
technology integration
accomplishment to date.
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Outline the difficulties
you see your school/s
currently facing right
now, today, that prohibit
more thorough
technology integration.
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Narrow your discussion
to the top three common
problems.
Brainstorm on possible
solutions, as a group, to
the top three issues.
Write down the top three
common problems, and
possible solutions, on a
large work board.
Select a Breakout Group Spokesperson
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Bring your work boards
back to the main
conference room and
mount them on easels
around the perimeter.
Enjoy a coffee break and
take time to view one
another’s boards.
Each spokesperson will
then describe the
group’s top three
challenges, and the
possible solutions they
have envisioned so far.
~ Day ONE Review ~
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Beginning the
visioning process
Listening to what
teachers have to say
Creating a baseline
to analyze individual
school issues
Keeping our minds
open to possible
solutions
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Listening to fellow
administrators share
their challenges
Brainstorming
together to envision
possible solutions
Benefiting by the
combined problem
solving skills of the
entire group
Day TWO Workshop
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Thinking outside the
classroom walls
What a content developer
can offer to integrate
technology in your
classrooms easily and cost
effectively.
How your technology staff
and adept teachers can
build a program.
Hands-on technology
projects your students can
do right away.
Tie-ins to standards-based
objectives.
Day THREE Workshop
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Prioritizing the most
important issues.
Selecting solutions based
on your technology path.
Designing a new
technology integration
pilot project that you can
begin to implement on
your campus in the next
14 days.
Charting out a 3 mo., 6
mo, 12 mo, and 3 year
technology integration
plan.
What is YOUR Technology Integration Path?
Principal and Vice Principal
as school site
Decision Makers
~ Identify Your Partners ~
Teacher training program provider that
trains technology support staff and teachers
who will return to classroom to deliver easy-to
implement classroom programming
Online classroom content provider
offering immediate classroom applications
that continue to build teacher's skills and
catalyze student learning results
Technology Coordinator
avilable to assist with
campus integrations projects
Technology Adept Teacher
provided with time to assist fellow
teachers with campus integration
District Technology Staff
able to provide on site assistance when
there is no technology coord. or teacher
Teachers in need of training to
use turn-key content AND to
develop their own teaching units.
Teachers in need of training to
use turn-key content AND to
develop their own teaching units.
Teachers in need of training to
use turn-key content AND to
develop their own teaching units.
Receive training.
Implement classroom programming
with new activites ervery week.
Conduct periodic assessments.
Receive training.
Implement classroom programming
with new activites every week.
Conduct periodic assessments.
Receive training.
Implement classroom programming
with new activites every week.
Conduct periodic assesments.
STUDENTS BENEFIT
by gaining access to
captivating content and
motivating projects.
STUDENTS BENEFIT
by gaining access to
captivating content and
motivating projects.
STUDENTS BENEFIT
by gaining access to
captivating content and
motivating projects.
Parents get
Involved
Grandparents too!
Learning is FUN
challenging and a
source of family pride
STUDENT PERFORMANCE
IMPROVES
and test scores go up!
Parents get
Involved
Grandparents too!
Learning is FUN,
challenging, and a
source of family pride
STUDENT PERFORMANCE
IMPROVES
and test scores go up!
Parents get
Involved
Grandparents too!
Learning is FUN,
Challenging and a
source fo family pride
STUDENT PERFORMANCE
IMPROVES
and test scores go up!