What Administrators Should Know What Administrators Should Know and Do With Technologyand Do With Technology

An ISTE WebinarAn ISTE Webinar

Ben SmithBen Smith

www.edtechinnovators.comRed Lion Area School DistrictRed Lion Area School District

Friday, April 21, 2023Friday, April 21, 2023

Background

Physics TeacherK-12 Science CoordinatorTechnology Resource TeacherKeystone Technology IntegratorDoctoral Student in Instructional TechnologySTAR Discovery EducatorISTE Science Curriculum SpecialistISTE Board of Directors

Polling Question

Are you familiar with the NETS-S (National Educational Technology Standards for Students)?

Yes

No

National Educational Technology Standards for Students

National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers

Poll Question

Have you shared the ISTE NETS-T with your teachers?

Yes

No

National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators

Required Reading:NETS-A available through www.iste.org

Visionary Leadership

Inspire and Lead development and implementation of a shared vision for integration of technology and promote excellence and support transformation throughout the organization

Inspire

Engage

Advocate

Pedagogical FoundationsCurriculum must drive the need for technology integration

Technology is the tool used to facilitate student-centered learning

Scaffolding technology skills has to occur prior to the expectation that students can make thoughtful choices about its appropriate useDegree to which students can utilize technology is also dependent upon their level of cognitive ability.

Digital Age Learning Culture

Create, promote and sustain a dynamic, digital-age learning culture that provides a rigorous, relevant and engaging education for all students.

Ensure Innovation

Model and Promote

Provide

Ensure Practice

Participate

Why Use Technology?

Make work easier - productivityTyping, calculating, recording information

Help students learn betterVisualization, reading

Prepare students for 21st century jobsCommunicateCollaborateBe CreativeSolve Problems

Image from http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/

Today’s Students

21st Century LearnersMultitaskersText MessengersGamersAppropriaters

Today’s college students have spent5000 hours reading10000 hours gaming20000 hours watching TV

Required Reading: Marc Prensky - Digital Natives, Digital ImmigrantsAvailable at www.marcprensky.com

Speak Up Report

Disconnect among teachers and administrators

Student Perceptions

Defining Integration

Rating the Quality of Integration

Required Reading:Speak Up Report. Available at www.tomorrow.org

Excellence in Professional Practice

Provide an environment of professional learning and innovation to empower educators to enhance student learning

Allocate

Facilitate and Participate

Promote and model communication and collaboration

Stay abreast

Systemic Improvement

Provide digital-age leadership and management to continuously improve the organization through effective use of technology

Lead change

Collaborate on metrics

Recruit and Retain

Establish and Leverage Partnerships

Establish and Maintain Infrastructure

Digital Citizenship

Model and facilitate understanding of social, ethical and legal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture

Ensure equity

Promote, model and establish policies

Promote and model social interactions

Model and facilitate global culture

Striking a Balance

Creating a secure, safe environment for student learning

Allowing students to use their technology

Allowing student creativity, collaboration, innovation and communication to develop

Knowing Content is NOT Enough

In order to be successful in the 21st Century, ALL students must be able to

Construct new understandingsSolve problemsMake decisionsCommunicate and express themselvesUnderstand complex issuesWork collaborativelySet goals and work to a timelineMake ethical choices

Administrative Issues

Collaboration Policies

iPods / Cell Phones / PDAs

Banning Pencils by Doug Johnson

Security

Observations

Classroom WalkthroughsI

COT

Supervision Plans

Building Goals

A Taxonomy for Integrating Technology into Diverse Classrooms

Increasing Levels of CognitionCurriculum mastery deepens

Increasing Complexity of Technology SkillsTechnology choices become autonomous

How to Include ALL Students

Have students move through the taxonomy appropriate to their abilities.

As students acquire the skills of using a technology….

It becomes a tool they may choose

The emphasis of an activity shifts from the technology to the cognitive skills students must employ

Becomes invisible

ObservingStudents are passive spectators of technology

Students view PowerPoint during lectureTeacher uses Interactive Whiteboard during lectureStudents view websites on large screenStudents listen to a podcast

IncorporatingStudents are leveraging technology to increase productivity

Type papers using WordMake graphs with ExcelOnline SearchesCalculatorsTutorials

ProducingStudents create a product with a single technology

Students record a podcastStudents make a moviePoster session in PowerPoint

ExploringStudents engage in discovery learning prior to formal instruction

Students use online applet to learn about a topicStudents conduct a lab with probes

CollaboratingStudents interact with peers, instructors, and outside resources

Students make group contributions in text format to a WikiStudents work together on a Google DocWeb 2.0 Tools: mindomo, VoiceThread, etc.Student email - GaggleBlogging

ApplyingStudents are guided to combine and integrate technologies

Students use Excel, Probes and Accompanying Software, and Photobooth in Notebook to create lab reportStudents use PowerPoint to make slides to import into iMovieStudents add movies, MP3s and images into a Wiki

CreatingStudents are making sound choices about the appropriate synthesis of content and technology into a final product

Students are given an assignment and must choose the format for communicating information

How to get Students to be Creative

Creating the CanvasWord, PowerPoint, Inspiration, Wikis, Google Docs

Learning to PaintUser Created Content: Podcasts, Movies, Animoto, Mapping

Creative ProcessInstructional Design: Be Vague

Planning Documents

Year Long Plan

Being Creative

Curriculum Map

What are 21st century skills?

What are technologies you / your students can use?

What are your current integration activities?

Questions

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