Integrating the Ohio Academic Content Standards for Technology into the Delaware City Schools

1. Integrating the Ohio Academic Content Standards for Technology into the Delaware City Schools Bob Claymier District Technology Center Delaware, Ohio

2. Purpose of Standards • Provide a set of clear and rigorous expectations. • Provide clarity to Ohio teachers of what content and skills should be taught at each grade-level. • However, how the material will be taught is a local school district decision.

3. View of the Standards • A minimum level; e.g., least amount necessary to survive. ~vs~ • What students deserve; e.g., needed for full, successful daily and work life and options open.

4. Ohio Senate Bill 1 Mandates that the State Board of Education adopt content standards that “specify the academic content and skills that students are expected to know and be able to do at each grade level.” • link to Senate Bill 1 and Bill Analysis • http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=124_SB_1 • Sec. 3301.079 • June 12, 2001

5. Process for Developing Academic Content Standards • Assemble an Advisory Committee • Identify Writing Team • Compile Resources to Draft Standards, Benchmarks and Indicators • Convene Writing Team • Seek Focused Input • Engage the Public • Revise Draft Standards & Benchmarks • Adoption of Academic Content Standards by the State Board of Education

6. No Child Left Behind ESEA/NCLB • All students will become technology literate by the end of 8th grade. Ohio • Basic skills, introductory and foundation level courses taught by the end of 8th grade. • No Statewide Tech Achievement Test

7. Overarching Themes COMPUTER LITERACY INFORMATION LITERACY TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY Technology ACSCross-Standard Connections

8. Technology ACSCross-Standard Connections

9. Standards Framework Standard Benchmark Grade-Level Indicators

10. Ohio K-12 Technology Standards • Nature of Technology • Technology and Society Interaction • Technology for Productivity Applications • Technology and Communication Applications • Technology and Information Literacy • Design • Designed World

11. # 1: Nature of Technology Technology extends human potential by allowing people to do things more efficiently than they would otherwise be able to do. • Characteristics • Systems • Processes • Devices • Connections to other fields

12. #2: Technology & Society Interactions among technology, society, and the environment to form foundation for responsible and ethical use • Citizenship • Environment • History • Intellectual Property • Acceptable Use

13. # 3: Technology & Productivity Use appropriate tools and technology resources to complete tasks and solve problems. • Basic Concepts & Operations • Problem-solving Tools • Productivity Tools • Selecting the Appropriate Tool for the Need • Curricular Connections

14. #4: Technology & Communication Communicate with multiple audiences, acquire and disseminate information • Media Formats • Design Elements • Multimedia Applications • Publication • Evaluationof Media • Electronic Communications

15. # 5: Technology & Info Literacy Information literacy, Internet use, and technology tools to answer questions and expand knowledge. • Understanding Information • Primary/Secondary Sources • Internet Concepts • Searching • Web Site Evaluation • Research Model

16. #6: Design Nature of engineered design, role of engineering and design assessment. • Technical Problem-solving • Technical Communication • Innovation and Invention • Design Process • Research and Development • Testing the Solution • Technology Transfer

17. # 7: Designed World Physical, informational and bio-related technological systems • Energy and Power • Transportation • Manufacturing • Construction • Information and Communication • Medical • Agriculture and Related Biotechnologies

18. Next Steps:Technology Curriculum Model • 6/2005 Anticipated Adoption (Set 1) • CM Advisory and Writing Teams • Exemplary Technology Model Lessons • Web-based • Field-tested/Pilot Sites • Interdisciplinary Lessons & Best Practices • Technology connections to other academic content standards

19. Ohio’s Technology Academic Content Standards online: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/academic_content_standards/

20. The value of technology education in the elementary schools • Fosters investigating, creating, planning, making, testing, improving, evaluating • Encourages group interaction and cooperation, perseverance, resourcefulness, divergence, self esteem • Involves reflective thinking and purposeful doing - Children Designing & Engineering

21. The value of technology education in the elementary schools • Builds upon the prior knowledge and experience of all students • Exercises a student’s right/need to fail and learn from failures • Learning within meaningful activities is more productive, especially for girls • Students gain more abstract knowledge - Children Designing & Engineering

22. The value of technology education in the elementary schools • Develops cross-curricular learning in primary school • Students and teachers can learn project management skills • Teachers can reconstruct their knowledge of science and math - Children Designing & Engineering

23. The value of technology education in the elementary schools • Opportunities are present for higher order thinking and problem solving skills • Improvement in students’ technical vocabulary • Has obvious links with math • Valerie Wilson and Marlene Harris • Journal of Technology Education Vol. 15 No. 2, Spring 2004

24. Mission Statement For the Delaware City Schools To develop a technologically literate and capable student population.

25. A technologically literate student: • Can use, manage, and understand technology • Uses a systems-oriented approach to solving technological problems • Will make successful contributions to a changing workplace • Will make wise choices as consumers • Will become informed citizens in our democracy

26. A technologically literate student: • Employs problem solving skills using the design loop model • Becomes an efficient technical reader, writer, communicator • is capable of designing and producing products and systems

27. A technologically literate student: • Uses, manages, and assesses the impacts and • consequences of technology • Understands the nature and history of technology • Makes connections between technology and other fields

28. Strategies for Teachers • Integrate technology skills, processes, and knowledge into the regular curriculum. • Use the design loop model to teach problem solving • Create lessons based on real-world problems • Obtain insight into future employees needs from local businesses and industry • Increase student awareness of the impact/history of technology

29. Implementing the Technology Standards Into Grades K – 8 Technology Resources Collaborative Constituents: • Information Literacy (Library Media Specialist) • Computer/Multimedia Literacy (Ed Tech Spec) • Technological Literacy (Tech Ed Coordinator) • Purpose: • Assist in district lesson studies • Provide guidance for tech standards integration

30. Implementing the Technology Standards Into Grades K – 8 • T3’s (Technology Teacher Trainers) • Professional Development opportunities • before/after school • common planning time for teams, departments • summer workshops • Tech ed resources database, web sites (in CD)

31. Examples of Elementary Tech Ed Activities Kindergarten Paper Engineering Habitat Mobile

32. Examples of Elementary Tech Ed Activities First Grade Wind Powered Boats Magnetic Toys

33. Examples of Elementary Tech Ed Activities Second Grade One-String Guitar Sun Clock

34. Examples of Elementary Tech Ed Activities Third Grade Design an Insect Native American Technology Folktale Technology

35. Examples of Elementary Tech Ed Activities Fourth Grade Weather Instruments Balloon Cars

36. Examples of Elementary Tech Ed Activities Fifth Grade Cold Weather Shelters Electronic Food Webs

37. Examples of Elementary Tech Ed Activities Sixth Grade Wind Powered Generators Geometric Shapes

38. Examples of Elementary Tech Ed Activities Seventh Grade Environmental Impacts Solar Cookers

39. Examples of Elementary Tech Ed Activities Eighth Grade Earthquake proof structures 3D Modeling Software

40. Elementary Tech Ed Resources • ITEAwww.iteawww.org • 2. TIES Magazinehttp://www.tiesmagazine.org/ • 3. Children Designing and Engineeringhttp://www.childrendesigning.org/home.html • 4. Technology and Children Magazine

41. Elementary Tech Ed Resources 5. ICON Innovation Curriculum Online Networkhttp://icontechlit.enc.org/ 6. James Kirkwood, Ball State University http://www.cs.bsu.edu/homepages/kirkwood/ 7. Children’s Engineering Educators http://www.childrensengineering.com/ 8. Schools-Planet Publishing www.schools-planet.com

42. Bob Claymier District Technology Center Delaware City Schools 621 Pennsylvania Avenue Delaware, Ohio 43015 Ph: 740-833-1856 claymibo@dcs.k12.oh.us