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- 1.From Toys to Tools: Technology in the Classroom
Liz Kolb, Ph.D.
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2. 3. Classroom Technology requested by new teachers
4. % of New Teachers who would like technology in their hands of
the students
5. New Teachers List The Technologies They Use EVERYDAY outside of
teaching
Everyday Use
Classroom Wish List
TV-DVD-DVR
Internet
Online Courses
Web Blogging
Cell Phones
Facebook or MySpace
Wikipedia
Video Games (Wii and Computer-Based)
iPod/MP3 Players
GPS Devices
Google, Google Earth, Google Maps
Twitter
TV-DVD-DVR
Internet
LCD Projector
Chalkboard/Dry Erase
PowerPoint
Teacher Laptop
Word
Excel
Tape/CD Player
Overhead Projector
Educational Software
SMARTboard
Telephone
6. 10 years agoWe thought we succeeded with technology integration
in schools.
K12 schools, state and federal governments have spent around $6.9
billion on computer hardware, Internet access, wiring, software,
servers, and other digital equipment to make todays technology
available to students and teachers
Kleiman, G.M. (2000). Myths and Realities about Technology in K-12
Schools.
Leadership and the New Technologies. Retrieved April 7, 2004, from
http://www2.edc.org/LNT/news/Issue14/featurecontents.htm
7. 2001 Findings
Access to educational software and hardware did not lead to its
widespread use in classroom learning.
Cuban, L., Kirkpatrick, H., and Peck, C. (2001). High Access and
Low Use ofTechnologies in High School Classrooms:
Explaining an Apparent Paradox.American Educational Research
Journal, 38(4), 813-834.
8. Recommendations have not changed much since 1983
1. Improve access, connectivity, and requisite
infrastructure;
2. Create more, high-quality content and software;
3. Provide more, sustained, high-quality professional development
and overall support for teachers seeking to innovate and grow in
this domain;
4. Increase funding from multiple sources for a range of relevant
activities
5. Define and promote the roles of multiple stakeholders, including
the public and private sectors;
6. Increase and diversify research, evaluation, and assessment;
and
7. Review, revise and update regulations and policy that affect
in-school use of technology, particularly regarding privacy, and
security.
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:gz5N4W_2Me4J:www.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/20years.pdf+technology&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShqjm9L7nD6WzVm2hupHuwmkqumO4KV71hNv1cZ-KlI4dMoYQMvKkw1ZVcjDcddwk9u-KmpEjyKhxJN0b10_WfPMzMmu4AnIRB6MrssOT_lvlrCOvgvRjk2MW6jnT-vT68gde3k&sig=AHIEtbRKyUjaQEHshOGjxBk1_t-KDN49aA
9. Keep Spending
10. 9years later
Still a digital disconnect
- Between students and adults
11. No dramatic evidence that technology integration in schools
has improved learning in the long term (sustainable) 12. Between
school technology and students everyday technology use.Speak Up
2007
Report.Retrieved:http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/speakup_your_data.html
13. Why havent we seen long-term education technology change that
reflects technology changes in society?
In 1986, Larry Cuban Found:
Technology Traditionally infused from Top-Down
Cuban, L. (1986). Teachers and machines: The classroom use of
technology since 1920.
New York: Teachers College Press.
14. Teachers Say Technology in Their school is introduced by
15. The Solution?
16. Some of the most crucial steps in mental growth are based not
simply on acquiring new skills, but on acquiring new administrative
ways to use what one already knows.
-Seymour Papert
17. Bottom-Up
What is in
Your
Backpack?
18. 19. 20. 21. "Kids tell us they power down to come to
school.-Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow (2008)
22. Secretary of Education
http://tinyurl.com/yzvr944
23. How many of your schools use cell phones for learning?
24. How many of your schools use the Internet for learning?
25. Internet v. Mobile
73% of U.S. households have Internet access
57% have broadband
43% have dial-up
30% of U.S. citizens do not use the Internet at all
63% of people with a household income of