Using Technology in the Classroom

State of Education

• Low test scores

• Funding issues

• Poverty

• Lack of support

• Standardized testing

Changing Education Paradigms

Abundance• Information is everywhere, learning

is anytime

• What is the value of school?

• What literacies and skills will our children need in the future?

The World is Changing

• News Media

• Business

• Retail

• Education

Are Our Children Ready?

• 2076

• What skills will they need?

• Creativity

• The ability to manage the growing complexity of the world around them

Are Our Children Ready?• develop proficiency with tools of technology

• build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally

• design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes

• manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of information

• create, critique, analyze and evaluate multimedia texts

• attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments

Our Sense of Urgency

• Transforming the teaching and learning environment

• Preparing our students to be successful

• Critical thinking

• Collaboration

• Communication

• Problem Solving

Leading Change

• Step 1: Establishing a Sense of Urgency• Step 2: Creating the Guiding Coalition• Step 3: Developing a Change Vision• Step 4: Communicating the Vision for Buy-in• Step 5: Empowering Broad-based Action• Step 6: Generating Short-term Wins• Step 7: Never Letting Up• Step 8: Incorporating Changes in the Culture

Where Did We Start?• Always focused on learning

objective

• Technology as a tool

• Research

• How are other schools using technology?

Our Guiding Coalition• Partnership with Apple

• Internal Leadership Team

• Administration

• Teacher Leadership Team

• Instructional Coaches

• Provide opportunities to influence change

Developing a Change Vision

• Use iPads as a catalyst to transform the teaching and learning environment to enable us to achieve and exceed our Middle States student achievement goal

Strategies to Achieve Goal

• Identifying opportunities to improve learning experiences

• Using iPad activities to expand the school day

• Reconsidering existing practices, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors

• Using iPad professional development as a vehicle to develop and expand professional collaboration

Communicating the Vision

• Teacher Meeting

• Parent Information Night

• iPad FAQ

• Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and iPad Agreement

• Principal Coffees

Empowering Broad-Based Action

• Financing and Funding

• Developing the infrastructure

• Content and Instructional Practices

• Professional Development

• Deployment

• Maintenance

Financing and Funding

• Long range support for the initiative

• Technology Fees

• Increase in enrollment brings more funding

• Grants

Infrastructure• Examine existing infrastructure

• School-wide Wi- Fi (CSI)

• Increased bandwidth/erate (25 Mbps) and Gigabyte Switches

• Content Filtering/ server (Smoothwall)

• Device management (Mac Servers, Apple Configurator and Profile Manager, storage, asset tags)

• Purchasing Apps (VPP) ($25/student, $15/student)

• Printers

• Cases- Gumdrop (Parent reimbursement)

• Insurance- Worth Avenue Group (Parent contribution)

Content and Instructional Practices

• How will the iPad enhance and change the teaching and learning environment?

• student centered

• project based

• authentic

• active

• facilitated

• collaborative

• creative

• engaging

Professional Development

• iPad 101

• Appy Hour

• Instructional Coaches

• Faculty Meetings restructured to provide collaboration and discussion

• Grade level collaboration

• Common Planning (Grades K-4)

Deployment • iPad Lessons

• Focus: Using the iPads Safely, Digital Citizenship, Digital Safety

• Guided Discovery

• F.A.I.T.H.

• iPad Agreement

Apps and Resources• Productivity vs. Creation

• Collaborating and Communicating

• Managing Data

• Resources for learning- FIM, Discovery Education, RAZ kids

• Resources for assessment

• Appitic Webinars and app resources

• Apple Distinguished Educators

Measuring Successes

• SAMR Model

• Education Technology Survey (Apple)

• Student, Parent and Teacher surveys

• Focus on the learning goal and not the technology

• 21st Century Skill integration

• Performance Based Assessments

• Promoting reflection