The Importance of Technology in Education:

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The Importance of Technology in Education How
South Dakota Is Integrating Technology in
Education
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Challenges How SD Solved Them

• Why Technology in Education?
• The South Dakota Problem
• Wiring SD Schools
• Connecting SD Schools / the DDN Network
• TTL Academies Professor Sabbaticals to
  Integrate Technology and Education
• NSU Center for Statewide E-Learning, Star
  Schools and DDN Courses
• Overcoming and Preventing Problems

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Why Technology in Education? ?
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• Equal Footing
• Level Playing Field
• We Live in an Information Society

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The South Dakota Problem ?
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The World
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The United States
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South Dakota ( 1 Dot 15 People)
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SD Is A State of Small Schools
176 School Districts 308 Cities/Towns 125,612
K-12 Students 10 Districts in 10 Towns 57,011
(45) 166 Districts in 298 Towns 68,601
(55) 131 Districts have LESS than 600
students 83 High Schools of the 176 Districts
have LESS than 100 students
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How Small / Big Are We?
ALL of SD
Just 15 of the 48 Mpls-St. Paul School Districts
125,612 Students
125,375 77,121 Square Miles
382 9,161 Teachers
7,570
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34 Years Fall Enrollment Students Total Staff
17,425 Staff
?
12,714 Staff
4,711 Staff
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175,654 Students
- 50,042 Students
- 28
125,612 Students
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1970
2002
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Problem 1 Cost-- 100 million to wire all SD
public schoolsProblem 2 Inmates-- Laying
around all dayThe Answer Inmates wire schools
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Wiring South Dakota Schools ?
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SD School District Boundaries
2 Inmate Crews Wiring Now
FALL 96
Colman- Egan Hill City
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Each School Received

• Cat 5 wire
• R 59 TV cable
• Fiber optics
• Electrical upgrades
• Conduit bridle ring system in place for any
  future wiring

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Who Pays For What?

• State paid for
• Cat V wire, fiber optics, conduit, rings,
  electrical wires/panels, inmate salaries,
  electrician, tools
• School paid for
• Night security, food, lodging

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Inmates

• 10 hour days, 6 days a week
• Pay-- 3 a day
• Journeymen electricians-- learn wiring
  electrical
• Crew evaluations weekly
• Learn good work habits the reward of
  accomplishment
• Built political constituency

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Connecting SD Schools the Digital Dakota
Network ?
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176 School Districts
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Over 60 Telephone Territories
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One Big Jigsaw Puzzle!
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Who Will Build Infrastructure?

• 1997 Telecommunications Act -- regulatory
  mandates dont work
• States must foster cooperation
• In SD, thats 63 telcos!!!
• (US West 29 Independents 13 Coops 3
  Municipals 17 Out-of-State)
• State must provide leadership

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What Schools Get

• Leveraged US West contract for 220 video
  classrooms to ALL public school districts
• State gave schools
• ATM scalable T1 service
• 391 network servers for every school building
• Cabletron switches
• 500 Gateway Destinations
• Local Area Networks-- routers, hubs, switches,
  software, training PLUS connection to statewide
  Dakota Digital Network
• Fast, reliable, robust Internet access
• Statewide E-mail, web-hosting, grades software,
  filtering technology WebCT
• Statewide network management
• Automatic bandwidth upgrades
• Videoconference scheduling

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Wiring Connecting the Public Schools

• 622 school buildings
• 624 inmates worked for 640,067 hours
• 3 redundant connections for every 3 of 4
• students 101,250 for 125,612
• 11,481,683 feet of Cat 5 Wire (2,715 miles!)
• Huge length of R59 Television Cable
• 124,722 feet of fiber optics
• Conduit/pathways for any future technology
• 67,207 electrical outlets

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Universities, Private Schools Libraries

• Wired all public universities-- 6
• Wired all private universities-- 5
• Wire all dorm rooms-- ONE drop for each
  student
• Wired all private K-12 schools-- 34
• Wired libraries coops-- 25

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Network Connections to ALL Schools

• Throughput speed -- guaranteed minimums for
• T1, DS-3 OC-3
• Data delivery performance -- guaranteed
• 99.967 availability -- guaranteed
• Only 4 hrs outage allowed per year!
• 30,000 penalty
• State pays the bill 3-year contract
• Future open to any delivery technology

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SD Fiber NetworksJune 2002
MOUND CITY
ABERDEEN
BISON
MOBRIDGE
GROTON
MILBANK
EAGLE BUTTE
ASHTON
REDFIELD
FAITH
WATERTOWN
CLEAR LAKE
SPEARFISH
HITCHCOCK
HIGHMORE
PIERRE
HURON
BROOKINGS
DEADWOOD
MADISON
WOONSOCKET
RAPID CITY
DELL RAPIDS
WALL
KADOKA
MITCHELL
SALEM
EROS
CUSTER
GARRETSON
BALTIC
KIMBALL
SIOUX FALLS
EMERY
HOT SPRINGS
WINNER
MISSION
MARTIN
PINE RIDGE
SPRINGFIELD
YANKTON
VERMILLION
Black Hills FiberCom
SDN Communications Network
McLeod USA Network
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The Digital Dakota Network

• Content filtering of Internet
• Free electronic library for ALL students ALL
  South Dakotans
• over 4,000 magazines, newspapers, databases,
  journals (Proquest Infoquest)
• Office of Technology to help teachers (5)
• Distance learning and in-service coordination
• State gives expert technical help
• State gives huge storage for all school websites
• State gives Videoconferencing Internet access
  to schools -- FREE of CHARGE and upgraded as
  needed.
• State provides Cisco Academies

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33 SD Cisco Academies

4 Regional Academies
SDSMT Region Bennett Co. SDSMT Kadoka
Spearfish Lower Brule Wall Rapid City (2)
Pierre Region Eagle Butte Todd Co. Huron
White River Miller
Winner Pierre
L.A. Tech Region Aberdeen(2)
DeSmet ECI-- Brk L.A.
Tech Milbank Redfield Webster
SE Tech Region Canton Emery
Hansen Flandreau Mitchell SE Tech Tri-Valley Vermi
llion Yankton
2nd Yr Independent Douglas Meade
Co. Elm Valley Sisseton Com. Hecla
TIE-- RC Lake Central
Funded by John and Tashia Morgridge-- Aberdeen,
Canton, Redfield, Spearfish, Vermillion, Wall,
White River, Winner
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Summary of Benefits for Students Teachers
Wiring-- 3 drops for every 4 students
Internet -- Cheap Fast
Real-Time Video-- Courses Activities
Local Area Networks-- in every district
Educator Development-- TTL Academies
Digital Dakota Network-- statewide
State Tech Support
ONE Neighborhood
ONE State
Hardware Software
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265 VideoConferencing Sites
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Educators on State K-12 E-mail System
11,444 Users
2000-2001 School Year 8.4 million e-mails
This School Year (thru April) 12.2 million e-mails
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Integrating Technology with Education the
Technology for Teaching and Learning (TTL)
Academies ?
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Teacher Technology Training

• IBM, Apple, Sun Micro, others said
• Short courses dont work! Tech
  training should be a concentrated 200 hours.
• South Dakota Teachers said
• We want to use computers and other new
  technologies, but we need time to learn and
  time to integrate it into our lessons and
  units.

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Governors Technology for Teaching and Learning
(TTL) Academies (Goals 2000)

• 4 Weeks--All Day IMMERSION --200 hours
• Improving Technology Skills
• Integrating Technology to Enhance Education
• Transforming lesson plans, units
• Creating new learning methods/materials
• 1,000 stipend per teacher
• 1,000 to buy new technology
• Free Dorm room meals on campus
• Local / Regional Academies in 2001

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TTL Basic 200 Hour Immersion
5,010
54 Of All Teachers
3,659
2,456
1,474
743
134
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TTL Academies
Basic TTL 5,010Advanced TTL 569Network
Administrators TTL 463School Administrators
TTL 357Distance Teaching TTL
400Professor Sabbaticals 319Professor 2nd
Sabbaticals 98
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Diverse Videoconference Users

• High school courses
• College courses
• Healthcare training
• Seminars and workshops by professional
  organizations
• VA regional office hearings
• State Government commission and board meetings
• Private association meetings
• Contest Hearings
• (from Welfare Appeals to Liquor Licenses to
  Water Permits, etc)

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NSU Center for E-Learning, Star Schools, and
Digital Dakota Network Courses ?
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NSU Center for Statewide E-Learning

• For K-12 Schools, NSU Master Teachers Are
• Teaching Needed Courses to Small Schools
• Training Other Teachers How to Teach Needed
  Courses via videoconferencing
• Training All Teacher Graduates to be Technology
  Proficient
• Providing Unique E-mentoring program for
  E-students
• For K-12 Schools, NSU Is a Technology Resource
• For Non-Education NSU students, NSU Is
• Integrating interactive, multimedia technology
  throughout the university curriculum
• Giving all students a world class basic
  technology integration skills special
  technology integration skills in their major
  minor

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Examples
Art from McLaughlin to Faith Wessington
Drivers Ed from Mobridge to Dupree, Buffalo,
Faith McLaughlin
Calculus from Salem to Canistota, Baltic
Tri-Valley
Spanish I, II, III from 20 sending schools to
41 receiving schools
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K-8 Enrichment
Projects Interviews Drama Math
Games Art Music Electronic field trips Science
experiments
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NSU Videoconferenced HS Courses
2001-2002 Calculus Physics
British Lit Chemistry Senior Math French
1 Spanish 1 Am. Govrnmt AP Am. History
2002-2003 AP Am. History French 1 AP
Calculus French 2 AP English
Spanish 1 AP Physics Spanish 2 Senior
Math Psychology Physics Chemistry
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DDN Courses Offered by High Schools to Other
High Schools
2001-2002
2002-2003
AP Chemistry Art Algebra
1,2 AP English Calculus
Geometry Drivers Ed Family Rel.
Earth Sci. Health Physics
Biology Psychology Parenting
Geography Spanish 1,2,3 Theater
World Hist. Visual Basic
Sociology Am. Hist Senior Math
Am. Gov. And Communications
Creative More for
Business Writing
AP Chemistry Art AP English
Calculus Drivers Ed Family Rel. Health
Physics Psychology
Parenting Spanish 1, 2 Theater Visual
Basic Sociology Senior Math
Communications for Business
Creative Writing
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DECA DDN Elementary Enrichment
Nitrogen
Machines with No Motors
Monthly Virtual Visits with EROS Data Center
Scientists
All Charged Up with Electricity
Physics
Fingerprints, Forensics More
A Balancing Act
Magnetism
How Weather Affects a Barrier Reef
3 Pigs Go High Tech
Looking for Shipwrecks Virtual Dive into Lake
Michigan
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Butterfly Puppetry
Carbon Dioxide
Adventure to Mars
Through the Eyes of the Elders
Virtual Field Trips to Tybee Island, GA.
Prairie Pasque Book Talks
Egypt, Egypt, Everywhere
PLUS STEPStar Curriculum Elementary
Japanese Primary/Intermediate/Middle Spanish
Young Astronauts Middle School Math
Mini-Course
Dr. Seuss
Wonderful Wetlands
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SD World War II Veterans Unit
Ten Units -- 40 Lessons
www.sd4history.com
www.state.sd.us/deca/technologyThemeUnits/wwII/
Buffalo Roundup Unit
www.state.sd.us/deca/technology/ThemeUnits/Buffalo
Roundup/
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Other Recognitions Digital State Ranking, 1 in
Education in 2000 Digital State Ranking, 1 in
Education in 2001 2001 USDLA Eagle Award
Education Week May 9, 2002
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Digital State Rankings SD 1 Last Two Years

• Wired Networked schools provide excellent
• access to the Internet for all SD students
• Technology Training for Teachers (TTL)
• State uses technology to disseminate standards
• State promotes technology integration
• State invests in innovative uses of technology
• State uses technology for administrative work,
• communication coordination with school
  districts

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http//www.sdedweb.com/
Connecting Educators, Students andParents to the
Worldwide Web About the SDEdWeb l Recommend a
Site l Reviewers Resources l Contact Us l
Disclaimer

• Includes links to over 53,000 teacher-reviewed
  websites aligned with SD Content Standards for
  Teachers, Students, and Parents
• Features a minimum of Best 5 list of resources,
  Best 5 lesson plans and Best 5 on-line
  activities for SD Content Standards

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Star Schools Grant
K-8 enrichment events Expand Governors
http//www.sdedweb.com with 150 more theme-based
sites in line with SD content standards More
national virtual field trips via
videoconferencing More videoconferencing
equipment at SD parks, science centers and
museums for in-state virtual field trips
Targeted In-service to meet teachers needs
Distance learning instructional videos Action
research for more innovation in distance
education Measurement evaluation to quantify
the benefits of technology in education
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DDN Campus Statewide Student Information System

• For School Districts (teachers and
  administrators)
• Creates class schedules for students
• Stores displays records for students and staff
  
• Automates special education Individual Education
  Programs
• Records report attendance to administrators
  parents
• Tracks discipline offenses actions
• Allows statewide gathering of data from schools
• Lowers costs to school districts
• Provides secure web-based online grading
• For Parents
• Instant access to grades, attendance
  discipline records
• Track graduation records course requirements
• Increase Improve communications between
  schools parents

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• For Public
• Web-Publishes school accountability information
  (tests
  scores, graduation rates, etc.)
• Information available in graphic and table
  formats
• For Board of Regents (BOR)
• Identifies Regents Scholars
• Identifies labels courses needed for BOR
  entrance requirements
• For Department of Education and Cultural Affairs
  (DECA)
• Retrieves demographic information from schools
  (ADM, enrollments, federal reporting
  information, etc.)
• Improves accuracy of student information data
• Makes school information available more quickly
  
• Meets federal reporting requirements for the
  re-authorized federal Elementary Secondary
  Education Act -- No Child Left Behind
• Enhances ability to track student records as
  they move from district to district so they are
  not lost between schools

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Preventing and Overcoming Problems ?
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Bumps in the Road

• We can do it better ourselves
• Local fear of inmates
• The job is too big
• Meredith Wilsons Music Man
• Telco resistance
• Local control (Murdo)
• Lets wait.
• No Money

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What Makes It Happen

• Ubiquitous, universal aspect
• Centralized benevolent dictatorship
• State pays for it
• Bring world class team together
• Negotiate. No bids or RFPs.
• Make decisions and stick to it
• Strong executive leadership from Governor on
  down
• Do ALL aspects needed infrastructure, local
  wiring, networks, equipment, state coordination
  management, teacher / administrator /
  network administrator training, course modeling
  helper office

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What didnt work, Page 1

• Local School expertise-- far below
  expectations state must do it for them or
  train them well
• E-rate a bureaucratic nightmare for small
  schools
• Colleges of Education
• Local in-service attempts

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What didnt work, Page 2

• State technical resources-- we needed MORE
  people but they arent available
• Wide area network management was outsourced
  to US West-- good job IF you constantly
  pressure them
• Videoconferencing-- it is not intuitive, so
  users needed more training time to use it.
  Now, we have large usage increases.

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• Some of the many benefits
• Incredible variety of courses experiences
• Accommodate different learning styles rates
• Students and teachers
• have fast, reliable and robust Internet access
• can easily connect with students, educators
  and experts throughout the world,
• have greater access to powerful learning
  tools and information resources at any time
• Parental tracking of students
• Easier for parents to be involved
• Help schools fulfill 24 / 7 role

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The Exploding Use of the Internet

• 45 million kids on-line by the end of 2002

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What are Internet Crimes Against Children?
Using a computer to
1. Create or Possess Child Pornography unlawful
in every state to possess even one image
2. Solicit our Children to Engage in Sexual
Activities prior to any actual physical contact
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www.whitehouse.gov
www.whitehouse.com
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www.crazyhorse.org
www.crazyhorse.com
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Cybersex Locations on the Internet
1.4 Billion Registered Domains 12 or 168
Million Are Pornographic Sites Source Google.com

• Commercial and Private Websites
• Newsgroups
• Post messages to others like a bulletin board
• 70,000 newsgroups on the Internet
• Chat Rooms
• Luncheon Presentation
• Personal E-mail

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Youth Internet Safety Survey
Category I Sexual Solicitations
20 received unwanted sexual solicitations
during the past year

• 70 AT HOME
• Most others occur at a friends house
• 3 received an aggressive solicitation
• asked to meet offline
• called on the telephone
• sent money/gifts via regular mail

National Sample of Youth Ages 10-17 Conducted by
U of New Hampshire Commissioned by NCMEC
Report Dated June 2000.
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Youth Internet Safety Survey
Category II Unwanted Exposure to Sexual Material

• 25 received unwanted sexual exposures during
  the past year

• Unwanted exposure received
• 67 at home
• 15 at school
• 13 at a friends home
• 3 at a library
• State/federal laws require schools/libraries to
  restrict access to obscene materials on
  computers

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TTL Academies Sabbaticals

Teachers Teachers
Network School Distance Univ.
2nd Year Basic TTL Adv. TTL
Admins Admins Teachers
Profs Study
1997 134 1998 609

57 1999 765
170 88 71 2000
982 183 98
128 57 2001 1,203
184 51 88 150
51 61 2002(est) 1,317 385
59 83 122 83 37
Total 5,010 569 463 357
400 319 98
Of 9,220 54
Of 1,062 30
Of 613 58
Of 400 110