Technology in education

Beyond One 2 OneThe Challenge of Disrupting

InstructionDr. Richard Voltz, Associate Director

Illinois Association of School Administrators

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Turn to the person nearest you and introduce yourself if you do not know that person, then have that person tell you one thing they will try this year using technology in the classroom and then get your smart phone and tweet the message with the hashtag #riverbend16. Bonus points if you include a selfie.

We have come a long way with technology in education, or have we?

It just kind of happened…• Chromebook replaced notebook• iPad replaced the textbook• PDF replaced the worksheet

BUT we still kept

• Lecture• Memorization of names and dates• PAPER evidence

Back To The Future…What has NOT happened• No Flying cars• No Hover Boards• No Peace in the Middle East• Cubs have not won the world series• What have you been doing for 30 years?• Cell Phones• Selfies• Pokeman

In Education what has technology changed?•Tweet using #riverbend16

• Communication Evolution• Expanding Audience• Poster Boards: A Thing of the

Past• Bye Bye to 3-Ring Binders• Interactive Textbooks• eBooks on the Rise• No More Note Passing

• Disappearance of the Chalk Board• Assistive Tech for Better

Communication• The iPad: A Game Changer• Extended Classroom

Communities• Rise of Web-Based Research• Meeting the Needs of All

Learners

FVS began in 1996

2003 had 24,000 students

2012-13 had 410,962 students

How fast can change happen?

When did the original iPhone come out?

When did the original iPad come out?

When new things come out, you need to ask is it really better?

Is the use of technology better for students?

I want to use technology to better my instruction for __________.

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I want to use technology to better my instruction for differentiating instruction.

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I want to use technology to better my instruction for student engagement.

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Do not be afraid to fail…

Fail is your First Attempt In Learning

If you do not know how to use technology, YouTube it. For example, if you do not know how to use email you can watch this video.

What will people be saying about education in 2016 in the year 2046?

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Will it still look like this?

Or this?

Technology is about making the impossible…possible.

Let your students be your teacher…

Danielson definition of engaged learning is the student is doing the intellectual work.

So how can you use technology to have the student demonstrate that he/she is intellectually engaged in learning?

Source for rubric description of Danielson Frameworks - Use of Technology

http://www.ascd.org/ASCD/pdf/journals/ed_lead/el201303_johnson_rubric.pdf

So You Have Devices, Now What?• Moving beyond Substitution – There’s More to SAMR

It is also not about the device.

Bloom’s Technology

Technology needs to transform the classroom, not just be a substitute.

Most educators stop here because they do not get it figured out.

So now that you have learned a little about these 3 C’s…

What strategies will you use to incorporate the 3 C’s into your classroom?

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Critical ThinkingCreative ThinkingCommunicationCollaboration

We reinvent the workflow• Flipped Classroom: YouTube, Video, Podcasts• Content out there, Applications in Class

• Google Classroom/LMS (Canvas, etc)• More efficient sharing strategies, workflows, curation

• Paperless• Google Forms, YouTube, Wiki

Flipped or Blended Classrooms

Teachers can use the FLIPPED Classroom ideas of curating videos that deliver instruction and focus on in class activities where students EXPLORE those ideas and use the higher end of Blooms Taxonomy

Curriculum vs Interest

Think about using Google’s 80 – 20 idea.

80-20

4 days a week on

Curriculum

1 day a week on what the STUDENT wants to learn about

Caveat – it has to associate with the topic at hand…

e.g. Creat a MineCraft world to demonstrate how civilizations develop.

Have students spend one day a week researching a topic of their own choice with requirement that student has to make a presentation to the class about their topic.

From Lesson Design To Planning and Pacing• The whole lesson needs to be re-evaluated• Mixing modalities; media rich• Leveraging the GEAR available• An Open Source Classroom• Up the pyramid!

Critical Elements• How can I create opportunities for them to collaborate?• How will they communicate their learning? Their questions?• What can they create for me to demonstrate integration of content?• Is it above remembering? (i.e. Could I just Google it?)• Can they apply it to another context?

What’s next?• Need PD around lesson planning (4 C’s, Bloom, DOK)• Peer observations that provide feedback: Did I get beyond my S of

SAMR? How far?• Did I squeeze all I could out of the device I have available?• What evidence did my students produce? (Curation and

Differentiated)• Assessment - Curriculum Based Measures for Student Growth

Educators are preparing students for jobs that do not even exist today.

Information-age jobs• Students also need to think deeply about issues• Solve problems creatively• Work in teams• Communicate clearly in many media• Learn ever-changing technologies• Deal with a flood of information.

• See more at: https://k12.thoughtfullearning.com/FAQ/what-are-21st-century-skills#sthash.HeBXazHY.dpuf

Homework… do we really need it?

What should or could it look like?

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How can we make education more authentic?

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An “authentic” way to teach the scientific method, for example, would be to ask students to develop a hypothesis about how ecosystems work that is based on first-hand observations of a local natural habitat, then have them design and conduct an experiment to prove or disprove the hypothesis. After the experiment is completed, students might then write up, present, and defend their findings to a panel of actual scientists.

A science class might study water conservation, conduct an analysis of their school’s water usage, investigate potential ways the school might reduce its usage, and then present a water-conservation proposal to the school board that includes a variety of recommendations—e.g., posting signs in bathrooms encouraging students not to leave water running, installing low-flow faucets with automatic on-off sensors, using rain barrels below drain spouts, planting drought-resistant plants in the schoolyard that are watered using the collected rainwater, etc. Once these solutions are put into practice, students might conduct observations to calculate how much water the school conserves on a daily, weekly, or annual basis, and then develop a website, infographics, or videos to share the information with school leaders and the broader community.

How can we get students to use social media for good instead of evil?

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What would it look like if your district allowed students to use twitter and start discussions with students in other countries?

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What would you do as a teacher if you had no constraints?

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Pinterest for education…

Remind App

RtI App Mobymax

Student Portfolios App “Seesaw”

Students can take pictures and videos of their work and their parents can see it on their phone or iPad when they sign up. The teacher has to approve what they have taken pictures and videos of before parents can see them. Comments can also be recorded about the children's work. Seems like a pretty neat program. This would also be great at conferences. No papers to fumble through