Hp presentation

Effective Implementation of SUSTAINABLE 21st century initiatives.

Robert FranchinoMay 5, 2010

Millennium Hotel, Minneapolis

What you can expect

• Practical vs. theoretical

• My Goal – – To have you leave today with the tools and ideas

to implement SUSTAINABLE 21st century initiatives.

Topics of Discussion

• Topic 1 - Creating a Foundation and Culture for Technology (attitudinally)

• Topic 2 – Need vs. Initiative

• Topic 3 – Sustainable Student and Teacher Laptop Programs

• Topic 4 - Staff Development and Staff Accountability

• Topic 5 – Embracing 21st Century Initiatives

• Topic 6 - Questions and Answers and next steps

Recourse to Implement 21st Century Initiatives

• Money - Often fixed

• Time – Often fixed

• Emotional Energy – A controllable factor that can often influence the success of a new initiative.

Medical Technology (Anesthesia)

Emotional Energy “indicators”

• Technology can have an impact on our professional practice, yet advance at such a rapid rate;

• students sometimes know more than us about technology;

• more students are acquiring personal devices;• we can be “compared” by how much we know or

don’t know, use or don’t use;

• These can cause inherent resistance and cynicism.

The Challenge of Integration• Some studies have shown that 75% of all IT

projects undertaken by Fortune 500 companies do not succeed.

Eskelin, T. (2005). Technology Acquisition: Buying the Future of Your Business. VA: Addison-Wesley.

This notion can be equally as daunting in schools as teachers and leader strive to embrace 21st century technology initiative. Often, these obstacles are due to the lack of funding, training, support, integration, resistance to change, etc.

Topic 1

Creating a Foundation and Culture for Technology (attitudinally).

What is the “technology culture” that is perpetuated in your organization?

How is that culture supported?

Identify your “technology pioneers” and let them institutionalize your initiatives?

What are your organization’s SPECIFIC expectations for embracing 21st Century

Initiatives?

Question to ponder....

Be Clear With Your Expectations

• Develop a plan to be able to articulate specifically your expectations to staff regarding technology.

• Rely on that plan to guide your work.

– See handout

Technology Hierarchy

100%

70%

50%

Question to Ponder

What is our collective responsibility to grow our technology skills to enhance instruction?

How do I do this in my school?

• Minimize technological isolationism.

Grow your leadership density using by using steering teams.

Growing Technology Culture by using Steering Teams

Researched-based decision using steering teams tend to have more sustainability.

Elect rather than appoint your committee members.

See handout

Topic 2

Needs vs. Initiatives

What is the driving force behind technology decision making?

Need vs. Initiative

What is the difference?

“Need” Questions

• How can this enhance teaching and learning?• How is this better than our current methods?• How can we measure our success.• What does the research say about this?• Who are our stakeholders?

“Initiative” Questions

• Do you think the staff would embrace it?• What hardware should we choose?• When can we implement the initiative?• Who should we purchase from?• Who is going to set up the technology?• Who is going to implement?• How are we going to pay for it?

Quiz – Question One

• Is this a “Need” or “Initiative” statement?

• "The plan is that every student at ABC high school gets an iPad to use," said the principal.

"Then we're going to have a team of teachers and students get together to figure out the how-to part.”

Initiative

Quiz – Question Two

• Is this a “Need” or “Initiative” statement?

While we teach our content in schools, kids go home and use technology to learn the skills they need to survive and prosper in an interconnected global economy, how can we better prepare our students?

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Need

Topic 3

Student and Teacher Laptop Programs

Smaller, Faster, Less Expensive = More Prevalent

Ownership

School owned VS.

student / teacher owned

Two Considerations

• Pragmatic Consideration– How can you going to manage personal technology at your school?

• Pedagogical Consideration – How can you allow students/teachers to enhance teaching and learning experience by using their own personal technology.

Thoroughly articulate the need and the initiative will more likely be

accepted.

What does “hardware evolution” suggest?

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What does “cost evolution” suggest?

• Laptop prices in 1998 were $1500 -$2500 (Kanellos,1998).

• Current netbook prices are under $200 (Trotter, 2008).

» Kanellos, M. 1998. CNET News. » Trotter, A. 2008. Editorial Projects in Education.

The University of Michigan conducted a survey of 700+ students regarding their perceptions of laptop use.

93% suggest their laptop is important for doing schoolwork.

One-To- One. (2009). Student Survey of 700+ Students. Retrieved on November 17, 2009 from http://www.one-to-oneinstitute.org/

What are we going to be requiring our students to “know” when they are walking into our class with the internet in their pockets.

Where is the balance between students knowing information vs. students knowing how to find information?

Something to ponder…

Web 2.0?

Developing our future by design/process (rather than default)

• Pilot teacher group• Review(ed) trends and current research (G. Demirtas, S. McCloud, R.

Florida, J. Gulek)

• Develop Laptop/PDA Steering Team

• Developed SMART goals (systematic, measurable, attainable, results oriented, timely).

• Site Council presentation

• Pilot group parent meeting – (84%)

• District Office Personnel

Topic 4

Staff Support, Development and Accountability

Differentiate staff development to meet the needs of teachers.

Measure the accomplishments of staff development initiatives.

Grow the Leadership Density with Technology Support

Responsibility vs. Privilege

Stipend

Time - Technology Duty Hour

Technology - Laptop, Smartboard, upgraded desktop, pioneer new technology

Reward those who are willing to collaborate and share with others

• Provide your “technology leaders” the best resources to pioneer new initiatives.

• Doing so create a culture of acceptance and institutionalization.

See Handout

Create sustainable staff development

Develop a differentiated approach to reach the needs of all stakeholders.

Staff development should be process not an event.

Develop a method of measurement and accountability.

See Handout

Topic 5

Embracing 21st Century Initiatives

There is nothing wrong with change as long as it is in the right direction - W. Churchill

How are we preparing ourselves AND our students for the 21st Century?

The Growth of the Creative Class

Florida, R. (2002). The rise of the creative class (p. 332). New York, NY: Basic Books.

What are these jobs?

Florida, R. (2002). The rise of the creative class (p. 332). New York, NY: Basic Books.

WORKING - Primarily high school diploma, some have college experience, factory workers,

construction workers, food service workers, custodians, truck drivers, low

levels of education, highly manual labor

What are these jobs?

Florida, R. (2002). The rise of the creative class (p. 332). New York, NY: Basic Books.

Service - Beauticians, secretaries, paralegals, workers in retail stores,

tourism and hotel workers, personal health care assistants

What are these jobs?

Florida, R. (2002). The rise of the creative class (p. 332). New York, NY: Basic Books.

CREATIVE - scientists, engineers, technology workers, architects, lawyers, doctors, nurses, K-12 educators, university professors, poets, musicians, and entertainers This grew from 5% in 1900 to 14% in 1945 to 33% in 2008.

Embracing Technological Change is Essential

• Some thing to ponder:

– If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less. General Eric Shinseki

Closing qualifiers

• Flexibility =

• Define the need =

• Accountability =Sustainability

Sustainability

Sustainability

A good process creates a good SUSTAINABLE product.