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Technology Plan

Technology Plan. Technology Budget Update Technology Training Technology & the Future. Mabry Middle School. 2005 Winner – Intel/Scholastic Schools of Distinction Technology Innovation. What are some possible keys?. Provide a strong, performance based curriculum.

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Technology Plan

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  1. Technology Plan • Technology Budget Update • Technology Training • Technology & the Future

  2. Mabry Middle School 2005 Winner – Intel/Scholastic Schools of Distinction Technology Innovation

  3. What are some possible keys? • Provide a strong, performance based curriculum. • Accurately assess, evaluate, and link student performance and classroom instruction. (Ensuring that achievement data gets to the people who can make a difference, teachers!) • Recruit, train, and maintain highly qualified teachers in the classrooms. • Define 21st century learners and skills they need to compete in a vastly changing world. • Create 21st century learning environments that engage students, individualize instruction, and take full advantage of today’s learning tools • Promote a shift in pedagogy to become more student-centric.

  4. Are there others?

  5. All of this will require……………… CHANGE Created in Business 839 Fall 2004: Organizational Systems and Change Professor: Tom Lawrence

  6. Change can be an eye opening or a body altering experience.

  7. Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. • To the fearful it is threatening because it means things may get worse. • To the hopeful it is encouraging because it means things may get better. • To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

  8. To create this type of change, we have to ask some important questions………. • What is the purpose of public education in the US? • How do we describe the world in which our students will work? What about in 5 years? • Is there anything different about the students today? • What is a 21st century classroom? • What is the role of the teacher in a non-21st century classroom? • Is the role any different in a 21st century classroom? • What is the leadership role in change?

  9. WHY CHANGE? • China’s plan today is to educate 15-20% of their population...they have 1.3 billion people. Therefore, they will have almost as many college graduates as we have people in the United States! • China produces 6 engineers for every 1 produced in the US. China’s colleges and universities now turn out 378,000 engineers annually while those in the US graduate only 68,000. (1/2 of the ones who graduate in the US are foreign born.) • And what about India, Singapore, Pakistan, South Korea… • What are the implications for America’s future?

  10. So what is wrong with the way we have always done it?

  11. 3 - 21st Century Workplace Trends: Planning for an online society. • The unskilled labor market is disappearing. Technology literacy is and will be fundamental for employability. Today 70% of all jobs require individuals to touch computers on a daily basis. • Downsizing – a move from big corporations to small, flat companies. • Significant trend to move work to the worker instead of moving the worker to the workplace.

  12. “Education is essential in getting a high paying job. In fact, for all but 1 of the 50 highest paying occupations, a college degree or higher is the most significant source of education or training.” US Dept. of Labor –Occupational Outlook Handbook

  13. Does this bother you? • 80% of all jobs today require some type of post secondary education. • 60% of the skills needed in the workforce today are possessed by only 30% of the workers.

  14. What about the numbers?

  15. WHY CHANGE? According to the Center for Educational Statistics, approximately 488,000 students drop out of American high schools per year.

  16. 100 Students Entering the 100 90 9th Grade 80 Graduate 70 67 60 Enter College 50 40 38 Remain in College after 30 their First Year 26 20 10 15 – 18 Graduate with an Associate’s or Bachelor's Degree in 0 6 years Students Are we really meeting the needs of our students nationwide when…… Teacher Magazine – March 2004

  17. National Annual Income Comparisons (2004) $51,206 $27,915 $18,734 High School Grads Non-Grads College Grads Source: U.S, Census Annual ASEC Supplement

  18. National Annual Income Comparisons x 40 years (2004) $2,048,240 $1,116,600 $749,360 High School Grads Non-Grads College Grads Source: U.S, Census Annual ASEC Supplement

  19. What does a 21st century student look like and how are they different from you and I?

  20. So what does a 21st Century Student look like?

  21. The average college student today has ……… • Over 20,000 hours watching TV • Over 200,000 e-mails and instant messages sent • Over 10,000 hours talking on cell phones • Over 500,000 commercials watched • Over 10,000 hours playing video games • Maybe - 5000 hours reading. Marc Prensky all before they leave school!

  22. And it’s not just today’s students Tomorrow’s students are even more connected • 70% of 4-6 year olds already have used a computer • And of those 4-6 year olds • 50% play video games • 38% can start the computer themselves • 40% can load software from a CD Keep in mind, these children haven’t yet entered first grade.

  23. Student Expectations Today’s Students • Have never known “life before the PC”. • Spend an average of 12 hours per week online. • Are more likely to know their friends’ instant message address than their phone number. • Overwhelmingly use the Internet for homework. • 98% see knowledge of Internet usage as “key” to their education. • View technology access as an education right. • 97% say technology access is important for their education. • 71% enjoy using technology and learning new ways to use.

  24. Students today • Have to “power down” when they get to school. • Are used to the instantaneity of hypertext, downloaded music, phones in their pockets, a library on their laptops, beamed messages, and instant messaging. • The have no patience for lectures, step-by-step logic, or “tell-test” instruction. Marc Prensky - 2001

  25. 3 Types of Students in our Classrooms Today • Dudley Do-right – Comes to school, sits upright, does all work, and will learn regardless of the situation. • Paul “Play School” – Is bored out of his mind, but understands that he has to play the game to get the appropriate credentials that will help him get to college. • Eric Entertain Me – This student gets angry when his time is wasted even by entertainment that is not engaging. School is not relevant to his life. This type of student is becoming the “norm” in classrooms across the country.

  26. What “basic” hardware should a 21st century classroom have in place? • Connectivity • Computer Access – moving toward 1:1 • Projector – mounted • Printer or close printer access • Electronic presentation device • Electronic testing apparatus • Multimedia equipment • Content-specific hardware

  27. What Next?

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