Changing Cultures: How U.S. School Leaders

Support ICTJustin Reich

EdTechTeacher.orgCo-Director

Harvard Graduate School of EducationDoctoral Researcher

Berkman Center for Internet and SocietyFellow

Four Strategies for School Leaders

1) Answer the Why Change question?2) Be the change you want to see3) Empower teachers as Edupreneurs4) Create the vision, Immerse teachers

as learners

BONUS!!: Two specific suggestions for guiding teachers

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U.S. Ed Policy, PD, and ICT–14,000 independent school districts–50 sets of state standards–Teacher education curriculum unique to every university. –Professional development unique to every district–Technology investments devoid of learning goals.

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Self-Directed Learning

Collaborative Learning

Technical Change vs. Adaptive Change

Does promoting SDL and CoL require the application of well-established procedures and technical skills? Or does it require a paradigm shift in culture, values and mindset (along with a shift in procedures and technical skills)? 

Ron Heifetz, The Work of Leadership,  http://mowgli.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/laurie-jump-off-balcony-leadership.pdf

Why Change?

Wave #1: Computers and the Labor Market

Skills for 21st Century Work and Life:

The New Division of Labor

Richard J. MurnaneHarvard Graduate School of

Education

Computerizing Routine Tasks: Self-Service Check-In

Types of Tasks Computers Do Not Well

Tasks that cannot be described well as a series of if-then-do steps because:

• The boundaries of the problem are ill-defined

• Solving the problem requires imagining novel solutions

• We learn to define the task and accomplish it through social interactions

Economy-Wide Measures of Routine and Non-Routine Task Input: 1969-1998 (1969=0)

Changes in Task Mix Within Occupations: Example: Secretary

• 1970 description of a secretary’s job:“Secretaries relieve their employers of routine duties so they can work on more important matters. . . .”

• 2000 description of a secretary’s job:“. . . Office automation and organizational restructuring have led secretaries to assume a wide range of new responsibilities once reserved for managerial and professional staff. Many secretaries now provide training and orientation to new staff, conduct research on the Internet, and learn to operate new office technologies.” Source: U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Handbook

A Homework Question• Examine the homework that teachers in your school

typically assign:

• Does the homework push students to develop expert thinking skills (non-routine problem solving)

• What about communication skills?• Or does the homework ask students to do the kind of rules-based

tasks that computers can be programmed to do?

• The answer may tell you a lot about the types of jobs your school is preparing students to do.

It’s the hardest work I ever undertaken in my career. We’re trying to effect change in scale, and we have to “play on two playing fields” at once. We’re still being judged by the criteria for “Adequate Yearly Progress” and state accountability standards, while we are holding ourselves to a much higher standard. We have to succeed at both. It’s hard work, but it’s the right work to be doing.- Jim Merrill, Superintendent of Virginia Beach Public Schools (in Wagner, Global Achievement Gap)

Be the Change you Wish to See in the

World

I’m talking to the Man in the Mirror,

I’m asking him to make that

change.

http://pwoessner.com/2008/12/15/21st-century-literacy-network-literacy/

Are you connected?

http://pwoessner.com/2008/12/15/21st-century-literacy-network-literacy/

Expert Structured / Guided

Participant Structured / Unguided

Formal Online Courses/Programs:

ICT MentorsWIDE WorldPBS Teacherline

Personal Learning NetworksFacilitated Individual

Classroom 2.0NCSS Network NingETT WebinarsISTE Webinars

“Self-catered”Twitter chatsBloggingRSS Readers

Twitter Chats• #edchat- Education broadly

• #ntchat- New teachers chat

• #cpchat- Connected Principals

• #sschat- History and social studies

• http://cybraryman.com/chats.html– The ultimate guide to twitter chats

Diigo- Social Bookmarking

Diigo Groups

Ning Social Networks• EdTechTeacher

• Classroom 2.0

• English Companion

• Making Curriculum Pop

• NCSS Network Ning

Webinars• EdTechTeacher Webinar Series

• ISTE Webinar Series

• Powerful Learning Practice Webinar Series

Empower your

teachers as

Edupreneurs

Cycle of Experiment and Experience

Fear - Growth+

Institutional Capacity+

Experiment

Review (Experience)Plan

Nurturing Eduprenuers• Provide access to hardware

• Provide time for planning and co-planning

• Provide motivation for experimentation

• Provide protection from the consequences of mistakes and failures

• Celebrating and showcasing successful projects and lessons

Create the

Vision, Immerse

your Faculty

Sharing Practice• Lesson Observations

• Lesson Study

• Lesson Plan Sharing

• Video Evaluation

Teaching for the 21st century program

Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. April. May.

Face to

Face :Skills Focus

Face to Face :

Reflection Focus

Face to Face :

Leadership Focus

Asynchronous Online Course:

Free tools for collaboration and media

production

Asynchronous Online Course:

Free tools for collaboration and media

production

Asynchronous Online Course:

Idea Garden:Exemplars of 21st Century Learning

Asynchronous Online Course:

Idea Garden:Exemplars of 21st Century Learning

T-21 Webinar

T-21 Webinar

T-21 Webinar

T-21 Webinar

EdTechTeacher Webinar SeriesEdTechTeacher Webinar Series

EdTechTeacher.org

Teaching History with TechnologyTHWT.org

BONUS ROUND!

Focus Technology on a Target of Difficulty

Important toUnderstand

Difficultto Teachand Learn

TechnologyProvides

Advantage

ICT in Lessonsvs.

ICT in Units/Project

Leadership• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXnT84

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