Educational Technology

Curriculum Committee Meeting – Next Steps

Linda Carmona-BellJuly 7, 2010

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Agenda• Welcome & Introduction• NJDOE Information• Where are we now?• NAEP Discussion• Considerations for developing a new

tool• Committees• Wrap Up

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Outcome

• Develop an action plan that lists our activities and corresponding timeline to provide full proposal to NJDOE administrators by the end of August.

Welcome

Introductions

information

CoSN – Consortium for School Networking

Data Decision Making International Initiative

news

NJDOE

http://www.state.nj.us/education/genfo/overview/orgchart.pdf

Title II, D – formula funding reimbursements

Organizational Chart -

update

NJDOE

Financial Literacy

Office of Educational Technology

Common Core Content Standards

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Section I. Where are we now?

Desired Outcome

• All on the same page regarding the committee’s role – historically and presently

Educational Technology Curriculum Committee – Research, develop and recommend policies and resources to support the

integration of educational technology

within NJ school districts.

Where are we now?

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•Committee designed and recommended NJTAP-IN process 2002-2007•November 2009 Meeting discussed direction to support districts in evaluating new technology standard.

Where are we now?

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• Decided to move forward with developing tools for assessing both 8.1 – Educational Technology and 8.2 – Technology, Engineering and Design

• The NJTAP-IN Process remains the same with some tweaks

Where are we now?

Section II - Considerations for developing a new

tool

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Outcome

• Understand the ramifications of developing a new tool in terms of available resources, school district concerns and “outside” influences

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•Date assessment is to be in place

•Clarity – define “meeting 8.0 Standard”

•NJTAP-IN Process

Considerations for

developing a new tool

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Clarity – define

“meeting 8.0 Standard”

• Meeting 8.0 Standard– Technologically

Proficient• Both 8.1 and 8.2

– Stages of proficiency– Other issues?

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Definitions

• Technology – how people modify their modern world to suit their own purposes.

• Tech literacy – the diverse collection of processes and knowledge that people use to extend human abilities and to satisfy human needs and wants.

• Educational Technologyhttp://newlearninginstitute.org/

21stcenturyeducation/21st-century-learning/index.html

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Assessing technology

Literacy: The case for an authentic,

project-based learning approach

White Paper

While battles over defining technological literacy continue to rage on, 49 of the 50 states have technology literacy goals and standards. Furthermore, across nearly all definitions of technological literacy, there is agreement that the construct is multi-dimensional and that the dimensions are interdependent and inseparable.

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NJTAP-IN Process

• Reporting

• Review process– What needs to be

tweaked?

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NEEDS

• Supporting Tools

• Rubric

• Professional Development Modules

All simultaneously

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• We have existing tools – State, Local

• Depiction of materials – more graphics & less narrative

Considerations for

developing a new tool

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• Committees– Modify

•Scope and sequence?

•Rubric

How

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• Committees– revise the professional

development module

– review submitted assessment software that is intended to meet the needs of school districts and develop a process for reviews

How

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COMMITTEE VOLUNTEERS?

• Rubric– Roseanne– Elise– Karen– Paulette

• PD– Kathleen– Richard– Kirstin– Charlette– Diana– Kathleen

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Review “stuff”

Stephanie

Agnes

Linda

April

SECTION III – WRAP UP

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Outcome

Develop clear timelines on when we have to do what we have to do

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•Supporting Tools

•Rubric

•Professional Development Modules

All simultaneously

TIMELINES

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Other Steps?

• generate a draft of the NJTAP-IN Rubric and an implementation guide – latest December 2010

• PILOT – go back to NJTAP pilot, and invite new (next spring> exempt from any assessment)

• Change Website – December 2011

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NEXT MEETING? • At the beginning of October 2010