ICT Literacy

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ICT Literacy

• Instruction and Assessment
• NH Library Conference

Cathy Higgins Office of Educational
Technology May 18, 2007
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• What do the standards say?
• What does the research say?
• What do NH schools say?

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• What do the standards say?

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ICT Literacy Standards
a) Integrated approach to using 21st century
tools grades K-12 ...
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Create digital portfolios addressing NETS-S and
showing ethical responsible use in core areas
Access, manage, integrate, evaluate, and create
information within context of core subjects
Develop cognitive proficiency in literacy,
numeracy, problem solving, decision making,
spatial/visual literacy
Develop tech proficiency in hardware, software,
networking, digital tools
Develop knowledge of ethical, responsible use of
tech tools
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Standard on Portfolios
K 8 Portfolio High School Portfolio
Cumulative from K 8 Reflects ICT in core contents Contents assessed by end of 8th grade to determine competency District decides on rubrics used and who should assess Build from work in H.S. content courses May be used to show competency for ½ credit
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Implementing Portfolios
Options Folders
Use portable storage Organize student folders on school server Build web-based storage Purchase web-based storage space or software Other Science artifacts Language arts artifacts Social Studies artifacts Math artifacts Portfolio Sub-Folder Choose artifacts Add reflections Organize items Periodically update
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• What does the research say?

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21st Century Learning and Information Literacy

• Breivik, P. S. (2005, Mar/Apr). 21st Century
  Learning and Information Literacy. In EBSCO
  (20-27). Change, 37(2). Retrieved April 2, 2006,
  from EBSCO database.
• Breivik argued that in our 21st century world,
  it is critically important for both K-12 and
  higher education institutions to teach
  information literacy skills, stating that it is
  time for both technology and information literacy
  skills to be accepted as a core competency to be
  acquired systematically through all levels of
  formal learning (Breivik, 2005, p. 25).

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More about Breivik

• In Breiviks view, information literacy, seen as
  critical thinking abilities, is the umbrella
  literacy encompassing computer literacy, library
  literacy, media literacy, network literacy, and
  visual literacy. She reminded the reader that
  teaching students research and information
  literacy skills is a responsibility of all
  faculty in all classrooms, not just in the
  library environment.

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BellSouth Study

• BellSouth. (2003). The Growing Technology Gap
  Between Schools and Students. BellSouth
  Corporation, BellSouth Foundation. Retrieved 8
  December 2006, from http//www.bellsouthfoundation
  .org/publications.aspx.
• As part of a multi-state technology training
  program for teachers, the BellSouth Foundation
  surveyed middle and high school teachers and
  students regarding the extent to which technology
  was being integrated into their classrooms.
  What did they find?

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BellSouth Study Results

• Results published in a report titled The Growing
  Technology Gap Between Schools and Students
  revealed vast differences between student and
  teacher perceptions of instructional technology
  practices.
• While teachers feel they are making dramatic
  leaps in their ability to harness the power of
  technology to create stimulating, engaging and
  challenging learning experiences for students,
  the students themselves have seen few changes in
  classroom instruction. Whats more, students
  revealed that they were hungry for more
  opportunities to use technology in challenging
  and meaningful ways in the learning environment
  (BellSouth, 2003, p. 1).

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More about Literacies

• Leu, D. J., Jr. (2000). Literacy and technology
  Deictic consequences for literacy education in an
  information age. In M. L. Kamil, P. Mosenthal, P.
  D. Pearson, R. Barr (Eds.) Handbook of reading
  research, volume III (pp. 743-770). Mahway, NJ
  Erlbaum.
• Leu (2000) makes a strong case that literacy
  instruction should not hold to traditional
  instructional practices, but should constantly
  change as new technologies arise. He points out
  that innovative teachers will always find ways to
  use the technologies available to them in their
  classrooms for literacy instruction in creative
  new ways.

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More about Literacy

• Hobbs, R. (2007). Reading the media Media
  literacy in high school English. New York
  Teachers College Press.
• Hobbs (2007) echoes this viewpoint, emphasizing
  that making informed choices, questioning texts,
  composing and sharing ideas using various symbol
  systems, tools, and technologies, and fully
  engaging in the practices of citizenship these
  are key dimensions of literacy in an information
  age (Hobbs, p. 159)."

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NH Portfolio Study

• What do students think about creating digital
  portfolios?
• Selected data from a study of NH middle school
  (8th grade) students creating digital portfolios
• (Dissertation draft, Cathy Higgins, 2007)

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NH Portfolio Study

• It was a lot of fun. going back and seeing all
  the hard work I did.
• I wanted to kind of put my own little kind of
  style into it. fun designing the pages and what
  you put in it. had a choice on what you wanted
  to put in it And it was a lot of fun.

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NH Portfolio Study

• having the layout already for you was a lot of
  help, and the information, like, organizing your
  folder before you did anything was really, really
  helpful.
• Just like seeing everything that Ive done in
  the last, past 4 or 3 years was like kind of
  like, oh wow, you know, I cant believe that Ive
  done this much stuff.

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NH Portfolio Study

• I pretty much put everything into it because
  teacher told us like teachers from next year
  are going to be looking at our portfolio, so I
  want it to be good, and I think that its fun
  learning how to, like, do new different things
  with PowerPoint.

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NH Portfolio Study

• I think that its, its a good idea definitely
  to have us do this now because we can reflect on
  everything that weve done and throughout our
  whole career, I guess, at school. And I hope
  that we can, like, do it next year maybe, and
  about what we did that year and then keep going
  on and on and on until we graduate.

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• What do NH schools say?

- Results from 2006-07 NH School Technology Survey
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Question 41 Staff Involved
Please indicate which staff position and to what
extent each staff is involved in the process of
updating your instructional program to address
these ICT Literacy standards
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Question 41 Staff
  A Lot Some A little Not at all No response
Principal / Asst Princ. 113 134 95 34 39
Library Media Specialist 89 121 89 60 56
Technology Coordinator 194 95 35 18 73
Computer Teacher 161 69 27 36 122
Content Area Teachers 59 161 101 31 63
Special Ed Staff 12 124 112 80 87
Other 33 26 21 42 293
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Question 45 Assessment

• Do you currently assess students digital
  portfolios using an assessment rubric designed
  for their level?

• Yes 46 (includes 3 high schools and 2
  elementary schools)
• No 125
• No response or N/A 244

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Question 48

• 7,406 students out of 15,368 (48)
• While 48 currently are known to have met the ICT
  competency, many schools indicated they do not
  yet have a way to assess this in order to report
  it.

• How many 8th grade students in 2005-06 met ICT
  competency requirements by the end of 8th grade?

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Question 49 ICT Course
Do students in your school take a technology
(ICT) literacy course?
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Question 53 Info/Media Lit

• Are Information / Media Literacy skills included
  within your ICT instructional program?

• Yes 278
• No 122
• No response 15

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Question 57 Internet Safety

• Do you provide Internet safety training to
  students (i.e., NetSmartz, iSafe America,
  SafeKids, SafeTeens?)
• 255 No, we have no program.
• 21 iSafe America
• 63 NetSmartz
• 72 Other AVP teacher created (19) Computer
  Class Discussion/Guest Speakers/DARE (2)
  Computer Specialists IE training CyberSmart (2)
  Disney and safety curriculum guidance / SAP
  program iPrism (2) lessons in the computer lab
  as well as reviewing rules and teaching safe
  browsing whenever students are online (3) media
  Awareness NetworkCanada taught by Media Center
  Specialist (4) taught in Media Class Missing
  Simulation/ Guidance Dept. Oprah Winfrey
  Transcript Internet searches Part of 9th Grade
  Literacy Part of ICT Curriculum (25) part of IT
  and me PBS Kids Safe Teens Local police pgm
  SafeKids SRO presents to advisories and parents
  welcometotheweb.org.uk
• 18 No response

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Contact Information

• Cathy Higgins
• Educational Technology Consultant
• Office of Educational Technology
• NH Department of Education
• 101 Pleasant St, Concord, NH 03301
• 603-271-2453
• chiggins_at_ed.state.nh.us
• MORE INFO AT www.nheon.org/oet