JOURNEY TO 1:1A Story of Transformation and Possibility
Elizabeth Helfant
MICDS
A Look at Key Elements
Convergence of External Pressures to Encourage Change
Internal Evolution of Technology Use Demand Exceeding Equipment Curriculum Increasingly Requiring Technology
Professional Development of Faculty Changing Understanding of Pedagogical
Theories and Best Practices
Sharing New Curriculum Cool Projects Research Approach Shift to Skills over Content Discussion of Assessment Strategies Rise in Integrated Units/Trans-Disciplinary
Work
Cultural Drivers
Information Explosion
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Participatory Culture
Here’s something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken. Here’s something four-year-olds know: Media that’s targeted at you but doesn’t include you may not be worth sitting still for
I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking about sitting with his four-year-old daughter watching a DVD. And in the middle of the movie, apropos nothing, she jumps up off the couch and runs around behind the screen. That seems like a cute moment. Maybe she’s going back there to see if Dora is really back there or whatever. But that wasn’t what she was doing. She started rooting around in the cables. And her dad said, “What you doing?” And she stuck her head out from behind the screen and said, “Looking for the mouse.”
•Shift from Consuming Knowledge to Evaluating, Constructing, and Creating Knowledge
FlatWorld Ideology
SOCIAL NETWORKING
Ubiquitously connected and pervasively proximate
Evolution of Literacy
•Basic Literacy and Habits of Mind•Visual/Media Literacy•Information Literacy•Inter-Cultural Awareness•Digital Citizenship•Network Literacy
Internal Pressures
MICDS CULTURE BTBEFORE TABLETS
Lab and Cart Based Integration
Issues with access outside of class
(hardware and software)
Issues with installation and customization of machine to create a PLE
DyKnow as Delivery Tool
Curriculum Increasingly Student Centered
Wiki Study Pages Ning Learning Spaces US History Course Zoho Notebook Web 2.0 Devices
QuizletClick2MapVoicethreadxTimelineDel.icio.us and Diigo
Collaborative, Networked, Transparent
Curriculum Increasingly Calling on Software, Browser Add Ons
DyKnow Math Applications- SketchUp, Maple,
Logger Pro Video Editing Photo Editing Toolbars – Diigo, Google Notebook, Zotero
Assessment Transforming with Transparency
Diagnostic/PreAssessment
Formative
Summative
Advantages to Social, Collaborative Learning
Students are more engaged in the learning processStudents provide support system for each other Students identify their strengths and weaknesses and learn to navigate group work accordinglyStudents ENJOY learning.Students employ creativity, critical thinking, and innovation to a greater extent
AN ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDING
"If we teach today like we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.”
-John Dewey, Educator and Philosopher
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Faculty Professional
Development
Variety of Opportunities
Classes on UbD, Differentiation MICDS SUMMER INSTITUTE Nings (Internal and External) Tool Based Book Clubs PD Days
Networking for Professional Development
Classroom 2.0
EnglishCompanion
Global Collaborations
New Media Literacies
Library 2.0
Developing Understanding of
Pedagogical Theory
TPACK, UbD and DI
Mind, Brain, and Education Science
Research informs the way we approach teaching and learning-
The Learning Zone
SOME IDEAS!Sharing Curriculum
Teaching Collaboration
WIKI BOOKS
Wiki Literature
WIKI Lesson Plans
GOOGLE Writing Assignments
Google Spreadsheets and Forms
Scribe Blogs
Embeddable and Shareable
Managing the Information Flow
iGoogle
Google Reader
Feedbeater
Basic Literacy/Habits of Mind
Visual Literacy
InterCultural Literacy
Student Video
Networked Literacy
Facebook 1800s
Recognizing Audience
ENGLISH 10 Blogs FREDERICK
DOUGLAS SPEAKER SERIES
GLOBAL ISSUES AWARENESS PROJECT
Project Based Learning
•AP Museum
•WikiBooks
•Adv History Documentaries
•Frederick Douglass Debates
•Global Climate Change Symposium
Regular US History Thematic Units Online Student Portfolios
AP US History
Photo Essay
Facebook 1800
History Museum Wiki Final Project
Twittering the Cuban Missile Crisis
WORLD HISTORY
Putting it All Together Using UbD and DI- a 14 Day Unit on World
Imperialism Diigo – Guided Reading Differentiated Reading with DyKnow Google Map Tours Comic Life Cartoons Scaffolded Research with Wetpaint Wikis,
Livebinder and Netvibes Wiki Risk Game OneNote Shared Binders
Final Assessment
Portfolios Projects Performances Exams
THREE THOUGHTS
SHIFTCOLLECTIVE CAPACITY
OXYGEN
SHIFTs in the classroom
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Shift to Paperless
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Shift to Electronic Materials
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Shift to Shared, Collaborative, Electronic Notes
Shift to Two Way Lectures
Shift in Homework
Shift in Audience
Shift to Increased Connections
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Shift to Transparent Learning
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Shift to Student Centered Classrooms
Shift to More Choice/Greater Differentiation
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Shift to Self-Reflection and Peer Review
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Informal checks for understand
ing
Tests and Quizzes
Academic Prompts
Performance Tasks
Shift in Assessment
Shift to Conversational Learning
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Shift to Networked Concept
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Shift in Teacher Tool Kit
Shift in Teaching Models
Shift in Teaching Theories/Defining Documents
UbD
Danielson’s Domains
Marzano’s Best Practices
Web 2.0 that Works
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Shift in Professional Development/Growth
Not Really a Shift
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COLLective Capacity
Thought Two
Pancake Principal
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Baby Steps
Oxygen
Thought Three
Chris Lehman quote
“Technology needs to be like Oxygen; Ubiquitous, Necessary, and Invisible.”