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Technology Roadmap for the 21 st Century School

Technology Roadmap for the 21 st Century School. Changing the Course of Leading, Teaching, and Learning. Teresa Bader Borough Director of Instructional Technology - Manhattan NYCDOE. “ Digital Students @ Analog Schools ” Reflections of college freshman …. Student Voices…. Teacher Voices….

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Technology Roadmap for the 21 st Century School

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  1. Technology Roadmap for the 21st Century School Changing the Course ofLeading, Teaching, and Learning Teresa BaderBorough Director of Instructional Technology - Manhattan NYCDOE

  2. “Digital Students @ Analog Schools” Reflections of college freshman… Student Voices… Teacher Voices… “Teachers” - When I become a teacher… Teacher Reflections Films Courtesy of Marco Torres

  3. Consider how work and living environments and modes of communication have changed in the last 40 years!

  4. School Leaders and teachers need to change the pedagogical model to prepare students to work and live in that 21st century as individuals in an interdependent society “Flat" = “Connected" • the lowering of trade and political barriers • the exponential technical advances of the digital revolution • access to vast amounts of information It is now possible to communicate, collaborate, do business, or almost anything else, instantaneously with billions of other people across the planet

  5. Has education really changed? In MOST classrooms, teachers own the learning Learning is a teacher directed moment

  6. A New Pedagogical Instructional Model We must create a shift of control to have students manage their own learning and become Self-directed Learners

  7. Technology Standards • National Educational Technology Standards forStudents • The Next Generation “What students should know and be able to do to learn effectively and live productively in an increasingly digital world …” • National Educational Technology Standards forTeachers • National Educational Technology Standards forAdministrators Click on the Manhattan Title IID Wikiand reflect on how well your students are being prepared to meet these standards.

  8. Reframing the Focus of EducationTeachers and Students Must Become Information Literate • Students must: • Develop the ability to recognize and articulate a need for information • Locate, evaluate and use that information from various formats: • Internet Resources • Online Databases • Print or Electronic Media • Face to Face and Online Interviews • Know and understand the literacy, protocols, and marketing strategies of the Internet • Recognize the power of the Internet to influence opinions and policy • Understand that what they put on the Internet now can and probably will be subjected to review when applying to college or a job.

  9. Students who are invested in Project-Based learning develop : • Global Communication Skills • Information Literacy Skills • Critical Thinking Skills • Problem Solving Skills • The Ability to Work on a Team • Global Work Ethics • Technology Skills • Nonfiction Literacy Skills And become Knowledge Managers Content Producers instead of Content Consumers Able to Compete for jobs in a Global Economy

  10. Developing and Evaluating Technology Rich Projects • Project based learning Basics http://www.edutopia.org/teachingmodules/PBL/index.php • Information Literacy Basics http://ali.apple.com/presentation/novemberpreso.html • Teacher Tools http://www.4teachers.org/tools/

  11. Creating A Technology Action Plan One option: Teachers collaborate to develop grade level projects that: • Are curriculum-based and standards-driven, supporting content that naturally engages the teacher and student • Requires students to solve complex authentic problems • Utilizes a Project-Based/Passion-Based learning design • Scaffolds nonfiction literacy, information literacy and technology skills • Provides opportunities to develop a network of peers, face-to-face and online • Provides opportunities to extend the learning environment outside school 24/7 • Provides opportunities for global communication and collaboration

  12. Grade K- ABC Publishing Project • The student will learn ABCs • The student will learn to search for pictures on the Internet and/or scan illustrations that correspond to alphabet letters and phonetic sounds • The student will insert pictures into PowerPoint slides • The student will learn to articulate words and phonetic sounds for all letters of the alphabet • The student will record letter names, sounds, and words that are associated with pictures representing that sound

  13. Grade 1 – Electronic Word Walls • The students will learn words from phonetic families • The student will locate on the Internet / illustrate & scan drawings corresponding to words on word wall • The student inserts pictures into PowerPoint • The student records words, associated with each picture, and then uses the word in a sentence • The student publishes electronic word wall on classroom workstation and on the web.

  14. Grade 2 - Nonfiction Animal Research & Book Publishing Project • The student will learn about animals. • The student will learn about non-fiction literacy skills. • The student will learn about basic information technology skills, including those relating to research and writing.(Science) • The student will narrate and record their story and publish it in print and on the web.

  15. Grade 3 - Research and Web Publishing Project (Science/Social Studies) • Focusing Question: • How Does Weather, Climate, Geography, Topography, and Natural Resources way people live and work in world communities? • Think.com– collaboration with students in U.S. and world cities • GoogleEarth • NASA GLOBE Program, Queens College

  16. Grade 4 – Community Research and Web PublishingProject • The student will explore their school's neighborhood, including the patterns of immigration, physical changes over time, and community development from past to present • The student will deepen their understandings of the social studies curriculum and improve their nonfiction literacy skills. • The student will learn how to conduct effective face to face and online interviews. • The student will learn to use a variety of technology tools to help design and develop a website, which can be used by the community as a resource for local information. • PS 229 • Astoria Activists • PS 84 • PS 116

  17. Grade 5 WebPlay: A Global Collaborative, Research, and Playwriting Project WebPlayis an internet-based arts-education project enabling primary school children to create, produce and perform dramatic plays while working in collaboration with a professional theatre company and students from partner schools in different countries.

  18. Grade 6 – The Development of Global Communities • The students will use Template Island, a microcosm society, to study community development • The student will use Knowledge Community to support global communications, solve problems, construct knowledge, explore ideas, and build projects • The student will explore geography, topography, natural resources, climate, weather, government, agriculture, industry, and economics of countries in the Eastern Hemisphere • The student will locate and use primary source documents, blogs, interviews, online maps, and nonfiction literature to study history as a global historian. To understand the present and look into the future, an exploration of different time periods will show that trends, tendencies and movements are inclined to repeat. The purpose of this project is to create a theoretical foundation for these developments and use it to understand the history of countries of the eastern hemisphere, compare and contrast, explore similarities, and understand their historical development.

  19. Template Island

  20. Grade 7 - The American Revolution- Developing a Global Perspective of History • The student will develop the ability to examine historical events from a global perspective • The student will look at the American Revolution through the eyes of the British, Australians, and Canadians. • The student will develop sophisticated information literacy skills • Each student will create a wiki about one aspect of the American Revolution that will to deepen their understanding and serve as an online class study guide on that topic

  21. Grade 8 - Digital Documentaries Students: • Learn to use collaborative software to support global communications, solve problems, construct knowledge, explore ideas, and build projects. • Learn strategies for asking good questions in order to conduct effective interviews. • Learn how to create themed digital documentaries to present their content research. • Explore storyboarding concepts, artistic interpretation of facts and point of view. • Explore video and editing techniques using iMovie (Mac) and Windows Movie Maker (PC).

  22. High School Cyber Classes Blogs and discussion forums to promote communication and collaboration • HS ESL • HS Spanish • AP Calculus • Where Does the Water Go? HS Science/Social Studies • Global Collaborations

  23. Robotics: NYFirst Lego / Vex Robotics / FLL Competition and Robotics Pentathalon

  24. Cool Tools for Global Collaborations • Skype • GoogleEarth • MyHero Project • NASA G.L.O.B.E. • E-Pals • Blog directory • Business blogs • Mapquest.com

  25. The roadmap to success can… Changing the Course of Leading, Teaching, and Learning in Manhattan Start here Title IID – Contact tbader@schools.nyc.gov

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