Meeting the Global Needs of Students -- (PC - A07)

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Meeting the Global Needs of Students -- (PC - A07)

• Ben Smith and Jared Mader
• www.edtechinnovators.com
• Red Lion Area School District
• Saturday, June 06, 2015

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About Us

• Ben Smith
• Physics Teacher
• K-12 Science Coordinator
• Technology Resource Teacher
• Keystone Technology Integrator
• Doctoral Student in Instructional Technology
• STAR Discovery Educator
• ISTE Consultant
• BlendedSchools Consultant

• Jared Mader
• Director of Technology
• Former Chemistry Teacher
• Technology Staff Development Trainer
• Keystone TechnologyIntegrator
• Masters Student in Instructional Technology
• STAR Discovery Educator
• BlendedSchools Consultant

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Workshop Information

• Website www.edtechinnovators.com
• Resources tab in the navigation
• Pete C page for presentation files
• Breaks/Bathroom
• Lunch

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Why Use Technology?

• Make work easier - productivity
• Typing, calculating, recording information
• Help students learn better
• Visualization, reading
• Prepare students for 21st century jobs
• Communicate
• Collaborate
• Be Creative
• Solve Problems

Image from http//www.21stcenturyskills.org/
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Todays Students

• 21st Century Learners
• Multitaskers
• Text Messengers
• Gamers
• Appropriaters
• Todays college students have spent
• 5000 hours reading
• 10000 hours gaming
• 20000 hours watching TV

Marc Prensky - Digital Natives, Digital
Immigrants See Article
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Ready or Not . . .The World is Different
Then Now
telecommunications audio tapes video tapes simulations email web projects problem-solving multimedia mobile access laptops (11 access) GIS/GPS systems instant messaging wikis / blogs MUVEs cell phones virtual reality
Then Now
telecommunications audio tapes video tapes simulations email web projects problem-solving multimedia mobile access laptops (11 access) GIS/GPS systems instant messaging wikis / blogs MUVEs cell phones virtual reality
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National Educational Technology Standards for
Students
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National Educational Technology Standards for
Teachers
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National Educational Technology Standards for
Administrators
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Knowing Content is NOT Enough

• In order to be successful in the 21st Century,
  ALL students must be able to
• Construct new understandings
• Solve problems
• Make decisions
• Communicate and express themselves
• Understand complex issues
• Work collaboratively
• Set goals and work to a timeline
• Make ethical choices

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A Taxonomy for Integrating Technology into
Diverse Classrooms
Increasing Complexity of Technology
Skills Technology choices become autonomous
Increasing Levels of Cognition Curriculum mastery
deepens
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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

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Observing

• Students are passive spectators of technology
• Students view PowerPoint during lecture
• Teacher uses Interactive Whiteboard during
  lecture
• Students view websites on large screen
• Students listen to a podcast

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Incorporating

• Students are leveraging technology to increase
  productivity
• Type papers using Word
• Make graphs with Excel
• Online Searches
• Calculators
• Tutorials

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Producing

• Students create a product with a single
  technology
• Students record a podcast
• Students make a movie
• Poster session in PowerPoint

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Exploring

• Students engage in discovery learning prior to
  formal instruction
• Students use online applet to learn about a topic
• Students conduct a lab, online

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Collaborating

• Students interact with peers, instructors, and
  outside resources
• Students make group contributions in text format
  to a Wiki
• Students work together on a Google Doc
• Web 2.0 Tools mindomo, VoiceThread, etc.
• Student email - Gaggle
• Blogging

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Applying

• Students are guided to combine and integrate
  technologies
• Students use Office, Photos and Accompanying
  Software, and a Canvas interface to create lab
  report
• Students use PowerPoint to make slides to import
  into iMovie
• Students add movies, MP3s and images into a Wiki

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Creating

• Students 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

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How to Create

• Creating the Canvas
• Word, PowerPoint, Inspiration, Wikis, Google
  Docs
• Learning to Paint
• User Created Content Podcasts, Movies, Animoto,
  Mapping
• Creative Process
• Instructional Design Be Vague

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The Newer Technologies

• Wikispaces
• Podcasting
• Web 2.0 Tools
• Word Processing / Spreadsheets
• Lots of Extras
• Blabberize, VoiceThread, Animoto, Google Earth
• Bonus
• Blogging and Moviemaking

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Questions

• Email info_at_edtechinnovators.com
• Website www.edtechinnovators.com