Maximizing the Impact : What School Leaders Need to Know About Technology and 21st-Century Skills

1. Maximizing the Impact:What School Leaders Need to Know About Technology and21st-Century Skills Presented by Dr. Julie Mathiesen TIE Director

2. My Millennials

3. Outcomes • Gain familiarity with recommendations in the Maximizing The Impact report. • Discover technology solutions for student, teacher & administrators for learning and productivity. • Engage in discussion about common challenges related to technology usage in schools.

4. What is our business?

5. The Mission of Schools The mission of the ______ School District is to develop a desire and respect for lifelong learning by encouraging the academic, social, emotional, and physical development of each student. or TO BUILD KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS FOR SUCCESS TODAY AND TOMORROW

6. What is our Business? “..the invention of tasks, activities, and assignments that the students find to be engaging and that bring them into profound interactions with the content and processesthey will need to have mastered to be judged to be well educated”. - Schlechty(2001)

7. What is our Business? To design engaging knowledge work that students believe isworth doing. - Me (2010)

8. Our “Customers” • Our primary “customers” have been those students who come to school with a background that prepares them to learn. • Our more challenging “customers” are not willing to jump through hoops for the sake of learning alone.

11. Most students in the U.S. are taught there are seven continents. • In Europe, many students are taught about six continents, where North and South America combine to form a single America. • Many geographers and scientists now refer to six continents, where Europe and Asia are combined (since they're one solid landmass).

12. 20th Century Model Core Subjects Assessment Answers to mediocre questions.

13. 20th vs. 21st Century Skills • In a 20th Century learning environment we taught kids the answers to mediocre questions. • In a 21st Century learning environment we encourage students to ask questions and we empower them to find their own answers.

14. Learning and Innovation Skills Information & Technology Skills Life and Career Skills Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes These are the new “design specs” for a21st Century education. 21st Century Model

15. Learning and Innovation Skills Create your own meaningful data in relation to the continents. Life and Career Skills Information & Technology Skills Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes Health/career implications related to your geography. Learn Google Earth & Real-time Data tools Geography: Learning the names and locations of continents 21C Themes: Global Awareness Financial Literacy Health Literacy 21st Century Model

16. A Mediocre Question • What is the longest riverin South America?

17. How do we break they cycle of “longest river” questions?

18. The Report

19. The Gist In a digital world, no organization can achieve results without incorporating technology into every aspect of its everyday practices. It’s time for schools to maximize the impact of technology as well.

20. Three Recommendations: #1 #2 #3

21. Front #1 • Use technology comprehensively to develop proficiency in 21st century skills. • Knowledge of core content is necessary, but no longer sufficient, for success in a competitive world. Even if all students mastered core academic subjects, they still would be woefully underprepared to succeed in postsecondary institutions and workplaces, which increasingly value people who can use their knowledge to communicate, collaborate, analyze, create, innovate, and solve problems. Used comprehensively, technology helps students develop 21st century skills.

22. Efficiency is a great first step .

23. Wikis: Communication & Collaboration

25. Classic High School Literature • What book did you fake your way through in high school? • Great Expectations • The Scarlet Letter • Silas Marner • The Grapes of Wrath • Heart of Darkness

28. A Midsummer Night's Dreamis magical.... Until you have to read it.

29. Modern Text: Our wedding day is almost here, my beautiful Hipployta. We’ll be getting married in four days, on the day of the new moon. But is seems to me that the days are passing too slowly. Original Text: Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour draws on apace. Four happy days bring in another moon. But oh, methinks how slow this old moon wanes! Hippolyta pronunciation

32. This is a “Wordle”

33. Create & Innovate

35. Video & Audio Recording

36. Students in my school are fully engaged in relevant, deep learning that is preparing them for high-tech living, learning, and working in today's global society?

37. Discussion – Front #1 • How does your school support teachers in using these types of technologies to develop 21st Century Skills? • What barriers prevent full use of these technologies? http://xrl.us/discuss

38. Front #2 • Use technology comprehensively to support innovative teaching and learning. • To keep pace with a changing world, schools need to offer more rigorous, relevant and engaging opportunities for students to learn—and to apply their knowledge and skills in meaningful ways. Used comprehensively, technology supports new, research-based approaches and promising practices in teaching and learning.

39. Nonlinguistic Representations Cooperative Learning Create a Wiki text book Summarizing and Notetaking Compare & Contrast Ex. Cell size

41. Identifying Similarities and Differences With Google Earth

42. Avatar3-D Graphic Representation of Yourself Managing your Avatar

43. Everything in Second Life is created by its residents

44. Van Gogh Island

45. Virtual Professional Development

46. Science Science in Sl overview Education in SL NOAA Virtual Island 2

47. Genome Island Second Life: A Virtual Learning Environment

48. Genome Island Second Life: A Virtual Learning Environment

49. Spatial Linguistic Logical Kinesthetic Musical Interpersonal Intrapersonal Naturalist (with accommodations built in)