Welcome

Interactive Learning for the Interactive Generation

Presenter: Terri Stice, Director of Instructional Technology, ADE; GCTGreen River Regional Educational Cooperative

Fundamental QuestionsDoes technology fundamentally change good instructional practice?

Is good instruction just good instruction and technology just an add on?

Guiding Questions•What does teaching & learning look like when

technology is being effectively used? •What are the challenges of the classroom? • How do we engage the interactive generation?

Research

“Technology integration is the future of education.”

“Technology has a way to get every student involved – we simply can’t overlook it.”

“It’s not about the technology. It’s about the interactions we get because of the technology.”

John Medina

Rule # 10 – Vision trumps all other senses

Teachers must use classroom technologies to enhance and expand student interactions with knowledge and people.

•Physical Interactions •Social Interactions•Cognitive Interactions

1. Is the technology being used “Just because it is there?”

2. Is the technology allowing the teacher/students to do old things in old ways?

3. Is the technology allowing the teacher/students to do old things in new ways?

4. Is the technology creating new and different learning experiences for the students?

Effective Instructional Strategy

Research Application to Differentiated Classrooms

Technology to help Engagement for Learning

Recognizing similarities and differences

45% percentile gain

Graphic organizers, sorting, classifying, using metaphors and analogies

Inspiration/KidspirationGraphic Organizers

Emotion is the best way into the mind.

Summarizing information and taking notes

34% percentile gain

Beginning, Middle, End, Clarifying information, webbing

Primary Pad VoicethreadRead Write Think

Work has meaning and value

Reinforcing effort and providing recognition

29% percentile gain

Effective praise, & rewards Storybird.comKids R Authors Scholastic

Would the kids keep doing the work if the teacher wasn’t here?

Homework and practice 28% percentile gain

Planners and Organizers Twitter, Facebook, Homework helpers

Clear/Modeled Expectations – Students know what success looks like.

Nonlinguistic representations

27% percentile gain

Cause and Effect OrganizersConcept Organizers

Digital CamerasGlogster, Google Earth

Choice – Students have meaningful options.

Cooperative and collaborative learning groups by ability, interest, and other criteria

27% percentile gain

Think-Pair- ShareIndividual and Group accountability

WikispacesGoogle DocsThinkQuests & Webquests

Learning with others – Learning has a social component.

Setting objectives and providing feedback

23% percentile gain

Ongoing feedback, student feedback

Blogs, Discussions Boards, Facebook

Personal Response – work that engages almost always focuses on a product or performance

Generating and testing hypotheses

23% percentile gain

Decision Making, Historical investigation, invention

Graph Club, Xtra Normal, Sense of audience – Student work is shared.

Questions, cues, and Advance Organizers

22% percentile gain

Advance organizers question wait time

Cubing, Think Dots, video conferencing

Emotional / Intellectual Safety – Freedom to take risks.

Be Thoughtful….

Software Selections What are the interactions it provides?

(physical, social, cognitive) Is it meeting the need? (FREE)

Kids touching the board/laptop does not mean you have cognitive interaction.

Get away from the “Undeniable Wow” and ask why?

Work to design, not to decorate lessons and resources

What’s the task?

Terri Stice, Director of Instructional Technology

Green River Regional EducationTerri.stice@grrec.ky.gov