Value Added?

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Value Added?

• Realizing the potential of technology in schools
• Michael Simkins, Ed.D.
• Creative Director, TICAL
• Santa Cruz County Office of Education

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Outline

• What is value added?
• Examples good and bad
• 3 questions to ask ourselves

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The Whiteboard Story
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What is value added?

• Doing the same thing better
• Doing something new

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The Eye Doctor
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The Supermarket
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In Education

• Technology affords new ways of teaching
  established disciplines that are likely to be
  more effective for more students

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In Education

• equally important, technology can inspire
  teachers and students alike to move beyond
  conventional content and deepen the process of
  learning in various disciplines.
• Technology Expert Panel

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Good Examples

• Automating everyday transactions
• Collecting and using data
• Improving communication
• Engaging kids

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Engaging Kids

• Carpe diem
• Simulations and modeling
• Project-based learning
• Real school, real work

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PBLMMProject-Based Learning with Multimedia

• PBLMM is a method of teaching in which
  students acquire new knowledge and skills in the
  course of designing, planning, and producing a
  multimedia product.

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Multimedia products

• Web page or site
• Hypermedia stack
• Computer presentation
• Movie or video

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Exemplary PBLMM

• Standards-based, multidisciplinary
• Sustained effort
• Student decision-making
• Collaborative
• Real world connection
• Systematic assessment
• Multimedia as a tool

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Belmont Then and NowJeanine Woodell, et al., 3rd
grade
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The Physics of Great AmericaClarence Bakken,
High School
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http//pblmm.k12.ca.us
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How does it add value?

• Does it do something better?
• Does it do something new?
• If its new, do we really need it?