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
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