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How Cloud Computing is Revolutionizing Education

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Growth: Population doubled from 2000 to 2010

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Median Household Income: $119,540

Consortium for School Networking

Mission: To empower educational leaders to leverage technology to realize engaging learning environments

Professional association for school system technology leaders.

K-12 Education

Unprecendented, profound

culture shift!

Political Forces – Belief that Education is Failing Students

PISA Results – U.S. Students 17th in Reading, 30th in math, and 23rd in Sciences

Lack of highly qualified teachers

Disenfranchisement of boysBoys are 30% more likely than girls to flunk or drop outWomen outnumber men in higher ed – 56% of bachelor's degrees

Conclusion: The current K-12 education model is no longer meeting the needs of our children or the 21st century workforce and has to change!

Economic Forces – School Funding Cuts

Federal, state, and local funding is down

Class sizes are growing

Teachers are being laid off

School sites are being closed

Conclusion: We need a new model that allows us to do more with less!

Loudoun Schools Expenditures

Proposed

Technological Forces – Consumerization

Cloud Computing - Computing services that can be delivered in real time over the Internet through a web browser from any computer or mobile device.

Mobile Computing on a variety of devices

Social Media

Conclusion: Technology offers promise of new models of education that

embrace new curriculum standards, capture student performance data, individualize instruction, support larger class sizes.

Is K-12 Education Ready?

80% said they would prefer to see a digital curriculum supported by 1:1 computer access and interactive whiteboards in classrooms.

84% said 21st century skills, including critical thinking, problem solving and the ability to think creatively, are a high priority

69% sited budget constraints as top concern.

Survey of 300 superintendents, assistant superintendents and principals

The 2011 Horizon Report indicates two trends: Cloud solutions and mobile devices.

The newly released FCC/DOE Digital Playbook calls for digital content to replace print textbooks in all schools by 2017.

FCC / DOE Digital Playbook

Next 5 years

$7 Billion Per Year

This is Derrick - 11th Grade Student

1st Period – German III 2nd Period- AP U. S. History 3rd Period – American Literature 4th Period – Pre-Calculus 5th Period – Drama 6th Period – Biology 7th Period – Psychology

Derrick’s Class Schedule

German III $130.00 AP U.S. History $145.00 (two books) American Literature $120.00 (two books) Pre-Calculus $100.00 Drama $120.00 (two books) Biology $185.00 (two books) Psychology $80.00 (two books)

Total Cost $880.00 Consumables $55.00 Total Weight 47.6 lbs.

Derrick’s Textbook Costs

This is Derrick - 12th Grade Student

MULTIMEDIA: text, audio, video, simulations, gaming

INTERACTIVE

Easier and less expensive to update

Flexibly structured for collaboration

Supports a wide-range of learning approaches

Motivating and engaging for today’s students

Potential Benefits of Digital Content

How We Learn – Brain Research

Preconceptions of curriculum must be engaged in the learning process.

Expertise is developed through deep understanding that is personally meaningful (Read: authentic learning activities).

Learning is optimized when students develop “metacognitive” strategies.

How We Learn – Educational Research

Bransford, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School

How We Learn in a Global SocietyThink Social Media

StumbleUpon

FaceBookRSS Feed

Twitter

Delicious

Glogster

LinkedIn

Joe’s Non-netbook video

Students – How we Want to Learn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkhpmEZWuRQ

Parents: How we want our Children to Learn

Individualized Instruction

Face-to-face and Distance Learning Hybrids

Rich Learning Opportunities

Parent Portals into Learning Management System (gradebook, virtual classrooms)

Loudoun Story – SaaS

Easier administration – SIS Feed, levels of users, reporting Automatic updates of software Compatibility - all users have same version of software Global accessibility – anywhere, anytime from any device Free – Office 365 and Google

Digital ContentSoftware (authoring & communication)Personal StorageCollaborative SpaceInstructional Software

What goes to the Cloud?

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Curriculum Management

Assessment Management

Instructional Management

Integration and Alignment

Application to Manage

Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment

Learning Environment in the Cloud

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Portability for End User

Some Free Enterprise Authoring, Communication, and Collaboration Software and Storage

Simpler Devices

Greater flexibility with virtualized resources

Self-service Interface

Enhanced collaboration

Better reliability and security

Scalability and Pay for use

Advantages for School Districts

Increased Bandwidth Needs and related Latency Issues

True Cost of Services

Not All Applications will work in the Cloud

Enhancing In-house IT Services to work with Cloud Services

Migrating Data to/from the Cloud Service

Lock-in

Data Security

Challenges for School Districts

Approval◦ Do school district have policies, regulations and procedures to approve internal and

external data sharing? If approved…

Transmission◦ Are there technical specifications securing electronic transfer of data (in and out)? If so,

then…

Processing◦ Do you have a clear understanding how the data are used and processed within internal

and external applications? Then…

Reporting◦ What guarantee do you have on the accuracy and validity of the reports using your

data? If it is worthwhile, …

Exporting◦ Is sharing a two-way street?

Deleting◦ When is reasonable to stop sharing and remove all trace of data from external systems?

Security of Student Data is an Issue!

Questions

Contact Information: Lynn [email protected]

Thank you.