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Using Technology in the Classroom

Using Technology in the Classroom. State of Education. Low test scores Funding issues Poverty Lack of support Standardized testing. Changing Education Paradigms. Abundance. Information is everywhere, learning is anytime What is the value of school?

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Using Technology in the Classroom

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  1. Using Technology in the Classroom

  2. State of Education • Low test scores • Funding issues • Poverty • Lack of support • Standardized testing

  3. Changing Education Paradigms

  4. Abundance • Information is everywhere, learning is anytime • What is the value of school? • What literacies and skills will our children need in the future?

  5. The World is Changing • News Media • Business • Retail • Education

  6. Are Our Children Ready? • 2076 • What skills will they need? • Creativity • The ability to manage the growing complexity of the world around them

  7. Are Our Children Ready? • develop proficiency with tools of technology • build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally • design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes • manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of information • create, critique, analyze and evaluate multimedia texts • attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments

  8. Our Sense of Urgency • Transforming the teaching and learning environment • Preparing our students to be successful • Critical thinking • Collaboration • Communication • Problem Solving

  9. Leading Change • Step 1: Establishing a Sense of Urgency • Step 2: Creating the Guiding Coalition • Step 3: Developing a Change Vision • Step 4: Communicating the Vision for Buy-in • Step 5: Empowering Broad-based Action • Step 6: Generating Short-term Wins • Step 7: Never Letting Up • Step 8: Incorporating Changes in the Culture

  10. Where Did We Start? • Always focused on learning objective • Technology as a tool • Research • How are other schools using technology?

  11. Our Guiding Coalition • Partnership with Apple • Internal Leadership Team • Administration • Teacher Leadership Team • Instructional Coaches • Provide opportunities to influence change

  12. Developing a Change Vision • Use iPads as a catalyst to transform the teaching and learning environment to enable us to achieve and exceed our Middle States student achievement goal

  13. Strategies to Achieve Goal • Identifying opportunities to improve learning experiences • Using iPad activities to expand the school day • Reconsidering existing practices, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors • Using iPad professional development as a vehicle to develop and expand professional collaboration

  14. Communicating the Vision • Teacher Meeting • Parent Information Night • iPad FAQ • Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and iPad Agreement • Principal Coffees

  15. Empowering Broad-Based Action • Financing and Funding • Developing the infrastructure • Content and Instructional Practices • Professional Development • Deployment • Maintenance

  16. Financing and Funding • Long range support for the initiative • Technology Fees • Increase in enrollment brings more funding • Grants

  17. Infrastructure • Examine existing infrastructure • School-wide Wi- Fi (CSI) • Increased bandwidth/erate (25 Mbps) and Gigabyte Switches • Content Filtering/ server (Smoothwall) • Device management (Mac Servers, Apple Configurator and Profile Manager, storage, asset tags) • Purchasing Apps (VPP) ($25/student, $15/student) • Printers • Cases- Gumdrop (Parent reimbursement) • Insurance- Worth Avenue Group (Parent contribution)

  18. Content and Instructional Practices • How will the iPad enhance and change the teaching and learning environment? • student centered • project based • authentic • active • facilitated • collaborative • creative • engaging

  19. Professional Development • iPad 101 • Appy Hour • Instructional Coaches • Faculty Meetings restructured to provide collaboration and discussion • Grade level collaboration • Common Planning (Grades K-4)

  20. Deployment • iPad Lessons • Focus: Using the iPads Safely, Digital Citizenship, Digital Safety • Guided Discovery • F.A.I.T.H. • iPad Agreement

  21. Apps and Resources • Productivity vs. Creation • Collaborating and Communicating • Managing Data • Resources for learning- FIM, Discovery Education, RAZ kids • Resources for assessment • Appitic Webinars and app resources • Apple Distinguished Educators

  22. Measuring Successes • SAMR Model • Education Technology Survey (Apple) • Student, Parent and Teacher surveys • Focus on the learning goal and not the technology • 21st Century Skill integration • Performance Based Assessments • Promoting reflection

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