Leading Effective Technology Integration in Schools
Workshop
12:30 – 7:30
Jo Williamson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Educational leadership/instructional Technology
Workshop Outline Site: http://www.edtechleader.net/
Goals:
What kind of technology use do we want to see in our schools?
Why?
How can we make it happen?
Today…
Participant Tasks:
Define “next step”
Identifying it practice
Practice couching for it
Practice designing it
Practice selecting resources to encourage it
Establish a way to share resources
Question: What kinds of technology uses would you like to see in your classrooms and why?
-Ideas: Video and/or readings
-Pole everywhere activity at www.edtechleader.net
Preferences of Digital Age Learners
-Generate Original Content
-Communicate with others
-Express themselves
-“Individualized” tutor to help them whenever they want
-pursue their own interests
-access to tools that they have outside of school – or – that other students have outside of school
-relevance, useful knowledge
-caring, personal environments
-challenge
Engagement, Understanding, Retention, Transfer
How can we make it happen?
-define the indicators of effective instruction that lead to engagement, transfer, retention, and understanding
-build value for the indicators; EXPECT these kinds of learning experiences in formal evaluations
-develop a common vocabulary to talk about those indicators
-model the indicators and desired technology use in professional development
-coach teachers to higher levels based on evaluation of the indicators
-support teachers in designing experiences or design them ourselves
-provide teachers, students, and parents with tech-based instructional resources that support the indicators; carefully reflect on what we buy, select, and promote
-implement policy and education programs on safe on-line learning
LOTI http://www.loticonnection.com/HEATframework.html
Used to determine the effectiveness of the learning.
H.E.A.T. stands for Higher-order thinking, Engaged learning, Authentic learning, and Technology use. The H.E.A.T. Framework measures the integration of these four factors in classroom instruction.
-Rate the level of technology for any project. To be an effective learning experience the project must be at least a 4 out of a possible 6.
Four Types of Sites
-Reference (Learn About)
-Games, Simulations, and Discovery” Learning
-Next Steps Project
-authentic publishing opportunities
-contextualized for classroom
-indicators of EL
-cool tools
-tools that aren’t contextualized, but have potential to support the creation of original, publishable “next step” Projects
PLIGG – open source content management system – must have your own server to run it off of
http://www.edtechleader.net/nextstep/index.php?category=nextstep_projects
This site is put together to host various sites that meet the criteria of either a Next Step or a Cool Tool.
Overall, this workshop was useful, but wasn’t necessarily what I had expected. We learned how to determine if what we are doing with technology is effective and the importance of the information being authentic.
In this workshop (and in a few others from yesterday) for getting opinions for discussion we used the online program Poll Everywhere http://www.polleverywhere.com/ . I thought this is a great tool to use in any classroom. Students are able to text, tweet, or go online to answer multiple choice, true false, short answer questions. We also used this to put up ideas that we were discussing about in our small groups to then discuss with the whole group. The posts are anonymous so even the shy students who don’t like raising their hand to ask a question can put up a question or comment they have.
Workshop
12:30 – 7:30
Jo Williamson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Educational leadership/instructional Technology
Workshop Outline Site: http://www.edtechleader.net/
Goals:
What kind of technology use do we want to see in our schools?
Why?
How can we make it happen?
Today…
Participant Tasks:
Define “next step”
Identifying it practice
Practice couching for it
Practice designing it
Practice selecting resources to encourage it
Establish a way to share resources
Question: What kinds of technology uses would you like to see in your classrooms and why?
-Ideas: Video and/or readings
-Pole everywhere activity at www.edtechleader.net
Preferences of Digital Age Learners
-Generate Original Content
-Communicate with others
-Express themselves
-“Individualized” tutor to help them whenever they want
-pursue their own interests
-access to tools that they have outside of school – or – that other students have outside of school
-relevance, useful knowledge
-caring, personal environments
-challenge
Engagement, Understanding, Retention, Transfer
How can we make it happen?
-define the indicators of effective instruction that lead to engagement, transfer, retention, and understanding
-build value for the indicators; EXPECT these kinds of learning experiences in formal evaluations
-develop a common vocabulary to talk about those indicators
-model the indicators and desired technology use in professional development
-coach teachers to higher levels based on evaluation of the indicators
-support teachers in designing experiences or design them ourselves
-provide teachers, students, and parents with tech-based instructional resources that support the indicators; carefully reflect on what we buy, select, and promote
-implement policy and education programs on safe on-line learning
LOTI http://www.loticonnection.com/HEATframework.html
Used to determine the effectiveness of the learning.
H.E.A.T. stands for Higher-order thinking, Engaged learning, Authentic learning, and Technology use. The H.E.A.T. Framework measures the integration of these four factors in classroom instruction.
-Rate the level of technology for any project. To be an effective learning experience the project must be at least a 4 out of a possible 6.
Four Types of Sites
-Reference (Learn About)
-Games, Simulations, and Discovery” Learning
-Next Steps Project
-authentic publishing opportunities
-contextualized for classroom
-indicators of EL
-cool tools
-tools that aren’t contextualized, but have potential to support the creation of original, publishable “next step” Projects
PLIGG – open source content management system – must have your own server to run it off of
http://www.edtechleader.net/nextstep/index.php?category=nextstep_projects
This site is put together to host various sites that meet the criteria of either a Next Step or a Cool Tool.
Overall, this workshop was useful, but wasn’t necessarily what I had expected. We learned how to determine if what we are doing with technology is effective and the importance of the information being authentic.
In this workshop (and in a few others from yesterday) for getting opinions for discussion we used the online program Poll Everywhere http://www.polleverywhere.com/ . I thought this is a great tool to use in any classroom. Students are able to text, tweet, or go online to answer multiple choice, true false, short answer questions. We also used this to put up ideas that we were discussing about in our small groups to then discuss with the whole group. The posts are anonymous so even the shy students who don’t like raising their hand to ask a question can put up a question or comment they have.
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