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JOSTI 2006

JOSTI 2006. The Role of Educational Technology. What exactly do we do?. Sometimes. we forget…. Higher Order Thinking Skills. Skills and Applications. Courses and Content. Business Ed. Trade & Industrial Ed. Technology Ed. Consumer & Homemaking Marketing Technical Communications

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JOSTI 2006

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  1. JOSTI 2006 The Role of Educational Technology

  2. What exactly do we do?

  3. Sometimes we forget…

  4. Higher Order Thinking Skills Skills and Applications Courses and Content Business Ed. Trade & Industrial Ed. Technology Ed. Consumer & Homemaking Marketing Technical Communications Health Occupations Agriculture Computer Applications English Math Social Studies Science Foreign Language P.E. Fine Arts Electives LearningCommunities Science and Technology History Government Fine Arts Team Work Job Skills Internship Pre-collegiate Pre-vocational The Affective Self Esteem Cooperation Responsibility Citizenship Internalizaton Independence Leadership Are we preparing students for college, or beyond? A commitment to preparing life-long learners.

  5. Thinking of schools as dynamic learning communities Build a large idea pool. Engage everyone in exchange and development of ideas. Practice critical and creative thinking and action. Provide opportunities for exploration, growth and success. Help everyone learn to validate what they know and how they know. Help everyone to build learning strategies for coming to know what they do not know.

  6. Focus on six interrelated curricular goals Communication Learning to communicate powerfully in writing, in conversation, in presentation, electronically, visually, and graphically.

  7. Focus on six interrelated curricular goals Collaboration Working collaboratively and cooperatively as a member and/or leader of teams of people who bring diverse strengths and skills.

  8. Focus on six interrelated curricular goals Systemic Thinking Developing an understanding of systems and learning to think and act strategically in ways that recognize the importance of relationships between various units and tasks.

  9. Focus on six interrelated curricular goals Experience • Gaining experience in enterprise management that builds understanding of design and application.

  10. Focus on six interrelated curricular goals Managing Change and Growth • Learning to effect and manage change.

  11. Focus on six interrelated curricular goals Ethics • Developing social and ethical responsibility

  12. Role of Technology as an Integrated Piece of the Curriculum IBET

  13. Staff Development • The underlying premise is that people learn from other people. • Ideas come from people and are generated through collaboration and cooperation. • Teachers must have opportunities to work with new ideas with their students. • Teachers need the flexibility and control to be able to experiment in their classroom. • Planning time, during the school day and in the summer provides support for teachers to reflect, analyze, consult, and create.

  14. Program Features • Staff Development • Interdisciplinary curriculum • Diversified leadership • Flexible scheduling • Mentorship opportunities • Advanced networking capabilities

  15. Food for Thought How can educational technology be harnessed to support systemic learning? How can educational technology support cross- or multi-disciplinary ideas? Communications: people learn from others. People are still the best processors. Networking people leads to a richness of diversity which has extraordinary power, while machines are going to be predictable. How can technology enhance this? It is critical that we start thinking globally. We will all be better off if we connect to each other.

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  17. 1985 Nation at Risk Report Business & Technology explosion in Maryland Population Growth and political pressure to support growing populations base Northern Virginia as a bedroom community Business interest in better preparing work force Education challenged to develop private and public sector partnerships

  18. The Mission http://information.tjhsst.edu/mission.html Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology provides a dynamic, specialized learning community for selected students with high ability, aptitude, and interest in mathematics, science and technology who seek a comprehensive, challenging curriculum with emphasis in these disciplines. In support of this commitment the TJHSST community of learners, explorers, and mentors focuses on the academic and ethical development of the whole student, preparing graduates to become responsible citizens and leaders in the 21st century.

  19. Educating the Whole Child to acquire Communication Skills

  20. Educating the Whole Child to develop collaborative skills

  21. Educating the Whole Child to understand dynamic and complex systems in order to ask larger questions and define problems

  22. Educating the Whole Child To work with real projects and real problems Experience-based learning

  23. Educating the Whole Child to learn how to manage change

  24. Educating the Whole Child Ethics

  25. Educating the Whole Child Leadership

  26. IBET Geo Science Senior Research Projects Mentorship Program Eighth Period Success Stories

  27. Integrated Biology, English and Technology

  28. IBET IS HOW WE INDUCT FRESHMEN INTO THE JEFFERSON WAY OF THINKING • Knowledge is and should be integrated • There are exciting real-life problems to solve • Problem solving is often better as a team effort • Even teachers do better in teams and model teaming regularly for their students • Teams require flexibility, listening, sharing, support and humor

  29. IBET IS HOW WE INDUCT FRESHMEN INTO A LARGE, COMPLEX HIGH SCHOOL • It provides a safe-haven—a school “home for half of each day • It gives every student a group of 72 classmates and four adults to really get to know • It allows the counselor to learn about their new counselees as they work and interact with each other “in the field” • It allows teams to utilize time in a dramatically different way from the normal period-by-period pattern

  30. IBET: Community partnership • Students learn about local issues through community work • Students are active partners with community agencies and teachers in authentic research

  31. IBET: Integrated Learning • Communication, collaboration, and problem-solving are key components to work success in and out of school • The world of work • shows students what skills and behaviors are required to be successful • provides role models

  32. Geo Science

  33. Senior Research

  34. Mentorship

  35. Eighth Period

  36. Outreach

  37. Virtual School 9/11—ISOI—MCW—Blackboard—TJHSST

  38. The NVS consortium is made up of the following NESA regular member schools: International School of Islamabad, Pakistan The American Embassy School, New Delhi, India American International School/Dhaka, Bangladesh American Community School, Amman, Jordan Walworth Barbour American International School, Tel Aviv, Israel American Community School of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates International Schools Group, Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia American International School-Riyadh, Saudi Arabia American School of Doha, Qatar The American International School of Muscat, Sultanate of Oman Cairo American College, Egypt Lincoln School, Kathmandu, Nepal Saudia-Saudi Arabian International School, Jeddah Virtual School Today

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