Follow up on 21 at C skills

21st c skills
Engauge guide
Change beliefs
21st c context
Cognitive science
Emancipated info
Authentic work
Are we already irrelevant ?
Huge content online MIT huge
Carol dweck. Incremental beliefs
Research based. Research on brain. Hard intellectual study.
Book is Mindsets.
Praise is harming our kids.
Lots of technology but little use.
Range of technology use scale
One to one failing
Very low ordered uses of technology.
Dr. Silvia Bunge need to build brainpower
Azada and rush hour
Why kids don't like school
Effect of knowledge on comprehension - context is crucial
Keith Hughes was highlighted today.
How do we bring explicit instruction into the critical thinking universe.
It is ok to integrate tools, skills, curriculum
Skill, curriculum, pedagogy, assessment
P21 website. Catalina foothills district. Great model.
6 key skills-shepard middle school
Very narrow and deep
Building leadership teams. Great idea
Steal scope and sequence fom shepard
Ohio stem initiative
Authentic achievement book - knowledge construction, in depth learning, links to outside world
Essential -
-Localized buy in
-research centric
-authentic learning
-formal curriculum integration
-Assessment and evaluation
!!!authentic does not mean project based!
Great session. Very salient stuff for buffalo!

ISTE 2010 - Monday 12:30

21st Century Skills

Best presentation for me so far

ISTE 2010 - Monday 11:00

11:00am-12:00pm

Strategies for Effective Implementation: Districts Share Their Stories [Formal Session; Panel] Location: CCC 503

They have all had success with Tech 4 Learning product called Pixie

So far it looks as though there has been no coordination on this presentation

Forsyth has an ITc in each school and 12 break fix for the district

So far it's pretty universal that they have separated "break fix" from ITC work. This is a good sign considering the movements we've made.

Jill - good advice...if you are adopting something, take something away. Must sunset some legacy stuff.

ask the question "what's the problem I'm trying to fix" before going after new software.

Trailblaze with a few users before going to a wider audience

Again this session is drifting and is lacking focus of exactly why I'm here.

Again - they gloss over the IT side of the issue.

Initial deployment - Obviously, staff development is key. Ft. Collins discussed the Digital Education program and Understanding by Design. Removes shotgun approach ex) target all 4th grade teachers.

Importantly, how does this session relate to the early morning session?

Create templates for teachers for implenmentation - this will give teachers a formula for success. Develop self-help materials

This session could have been so much better if each presenter was focused on the kernel of managing implementation

Use Jing or Camtasia to develop vignettes for software implementations
Reduce barriers for teachers - get teachers to feel comfortable with time, curriculum, etc...

Where is the discussion surrounding data, standards and curriculum, and student achievement.

Again, templates are suggested - this is good, but show examples.

Presenter discussed online curriculum - good idea, but why is this crucial?

Administrator support - this is an obvious factor, but the curriculum Ed tech connection is an absolute necessity for success

This preso could have been an absolute home run with better preparation and focus

*ITC's need to be connected with curriculum coaches to connect and infuse the technology into the taught curriculum

Coaching, communication, and technical support - the communication is essential, exchange cell numbers and skype maybe

Again - the question of equity has come up, and equity does not necessarily mean all will be equal...foster you tech eagles and put lots of your eggs into your best baskets.

The facilitator needs to speak less and let the panel share their thoughts. Ran out of time because facilitator gabbed too much

Last topic was celebrating success - film festivals, etc...Parkway Digital Film Festival

ISTE 2010 - Monday 10:15

10:15-10:45am

Problem-Based Instruction and 21st-Century Classrooms [Formal Session; IVC Showcase] Location: CCC 703

CILC center for interactive learnign and collaboration

How can we incorporate problem based learning into our curriculum?

What an utter disaster...VC was unsuccessful to other end (presenter could not display .ppt to our end.

The staff from AZ discussed their PBL experiences but there was no discussion of the tech aspects or research presented to link PBL to student achievement.

In an envirenment of explicit instruction, we must continue to strice to look for opportunitiies to inject problem based opportunities to get to critical thinking within explicit instruction. This session did not look like it would provide that information.

I left for my 11am session halfway through their preso.

ISTE 2010 - Monday 8:30

Monday, June 28
8:30-9:30am	Top 10 Components of Effective Technology Leadership [Formal Session; Lecture] Location: CCC 403/404

http://chris.wikispaces.com

Supporting Research

http://sws.wikispaces.com/Change+%26+Leadership

1. Data
2. Effective professional development
3. Effective modeling
4. Authentic collaboration
5. Deeper school/team unity
6. Genuine reflective practices
7. Communication cycles
8. Research on technology and learning
9. Parental Involvement
10. Student-driven technology

Equity does not mean everybody has stuff

At home not all of our students have Internet access - how do we solve the after 3:30 dilemma?

Technology should not be a reward

Data is Important - Test scores and attitudinal data - focus on the trend data. Make an effort to dig in and look at data, i.e. Male 4th grade oral fluency

Attitudinal data is important as well

Effective Professional Development - Must be data connected and connected to standards and curriculum...ex)Second grade oral reading fluency

Walk the walk - Talk the talk - Model what your expectations -

The leader must be the expert - The leader must be doing it themselves

If the leader will not use it, the troops have every right not to

Good example is Google Forms...pick 3 for the year, that's a good start. Another example is podcast with Audacity

Linking Google docs with Wordle is another quick and easy activity to do with staff

Reward Growth

Genuine and Meaningful Reflection - jot out notes that are meaningful. NSDC says givign and receiving reflection are crucial. WHat's do-able for me?

Student driven technology - Encourage students to manage the "stuff". Synching, united streaming, interactive whiteboards. Have the students handle the connections. I'm certain the students can handle this. Can the students handle much of this?

Personal Learning Network

Give things like Twitter and blogs a bigger chance to enhance your personal learning. Don't knock it until you give it a try.

NECC 2009 - Washington DC - Session Three - Wednesday Afternoon - Cell Phones in the Classroom - Harness the Power for Learning

David Rose: Southfield, MI Public Schools
Kim Guffey: Haywood County Schools, Waynesville, NC

wikispaces page for presentation --- http://necc09.wikispaces.com/

Today's 21st century learners already use technology in creative and innovative ways as they explore new tools to help them gain fast access to information and each other. Nearly two-thirds of teens and one-third of tweens (ages 8-12) own a cell phone, sending over 250,000 text messages and spending thousands of hours talking, sharing, and collaborating with this forbidden classroom technology.

In this session, participants will explore powerful ways cell phones can be used constructively for educational purposes as they actively engage in the use of cell phones to research, collaborate (using a wiki), evaluate (polls, surveys), and communicate within the content area. As educators, we can embrace this technology, that our students have already mastered, and use it as a way to present curriculum and change teaching and learning.

NECC 2009 - Washington DC - Session Two - Wednesday Afternoon - Strong Nests - Successful Students - Skills & Strategies for 21st Century Learning

Strong Nests - Successful Students - Skills & Strategies for 21st Century Learning

Presenter: Annette Lamb
eduscapes.com/sessions/nests

How to take all of the great web 2.0 content tech standards that involves great content and challenge students to be thinkers, problem solvers, and think creatively.

Incorporating technologies to go deeper in content and think more deeply to get to the 21st Century learning standards.

Engaging, meaningful projects...going beyond the standards to think more deeply

Content + ISTE +AASL Standards = Strong Nests

Using the great new standards and use the amazing new web tools to get students to go deeper and produce challenging work that is beyond low level thinking skills. We have a unique opportunity to capitalize on these new technologies to create 21st Century learners.

Here is the link to the whole preso: eduscapes.com/sessions/nests

Shifting focus to create engaging learning environments

NECC 2009 - Washington DC - Session One - Wednesday Morning - Digital Citizenship: Tools, Resources, and Best Practices

Digital Citizenship

Vicki Davis, Teacher, Coolcatteacher.com
Anne Bubvic, K12 Educator
Julie Lindsay

Digital citizenship education and issues are difficult to "teach" children because of the transitory, emerging nature of many of the issues. Explore the tools and strategies used in a global collaborative project, Digiteen (www.digiteen.net), used to teach digital citizenship to middle and early high school students. Additionally, learn how these students are empowered to develop and deliver compelling digital citizenship education to elementary and middle grade students in a compelling, hands-on digital citizenship action project.

Participants will explore the project, join a Diigo group for Digital Citizenship (http://groups.diigo.com/groups/Ad4dcss), harness the power of a digital RSS reader, learn how to share and locate digital citizenship educational tools (http://www.netvibes.com/coolcatteacher#Ad4dcss) and create digital portals of information for parents, teachers, and others.

Outline (for BYOL)

I. Backchannel and Introduction - (We will maintain a backchannel for this session to answer questions and facilitate discussion among those who are more advanced as introductory material is covered.)

II. Digital Citizenship Education.
A. Overview of tools and projects in use
B. Grassroots Movement of Teachers to connect and how to connect with others (http://www.netvibes.com/coolcatteacher#Ad4dcss)
C. Staying current (important resources to add to your RSS reader)
D. Diigo bookmark sharing group

III. Digiteen
A. Project Overview and Links
i. Digiteen Ning (http://ning.digiteen.net)
ii. Digiteen Wiki (http://wiki.digiteen.net)
iii.Digiteen Bookmarking Group (http://diigo.digiteen.net)
B. Strategies and Tools for Facilitating Student-led mentorship and education programs.
C. Case studies and methods

IV. Digital Citizenship Best Practice
A. Overview of 9 aspects of Digital Citizenship and issues for each along with resources.
B. Examples of digital citizenship education courses.

Supporting Research

The work in Digiteen has been based upon the ISTE book by Mike Ribble and Gerald Bailey, Digital Citizenship in schools. Additionally, ISTE nets standards require that digital citizenship is an essential aspect of student awareness, practice, and learning as it relates to technology.

Digital Citizenship is an issue that is vitally important as educators work with Acceptable Use Policies as discussed in Edutopia's recent article on appropriate behaviors - http://www.edutopia.org/netiquette-guidelines.
Additionally, as character education programs become updated for the digital age, many schools are seeing and predicting a renewed effort to help children understand appropriate online behaviors (see Edutopia's recent article on Character Education - http://www.edutopia.org/whats-next-2008-character-education).

Many online safety programs such as iSafe are creating student mentorship programs to facilitate effective teaching of younger students about online safety. See (http://www.isafe.org/channels/sub.php?ch=op&sub_id=3).

Peer mentorship, global collaboration, and participative projects that focus on digital citizenship bring together many of the trends in education include bringing character education online. TEachers need practical ways in order to do this.

Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay are co-creators of the Digiteen project (http://www.digiteen.net) and other award winning global collaborative projects and considered leaders in project based learning due to their extensive citations in Reinventing Project Based Learning by Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss, published by ISTE. This is their project based approach to teaching digital citizenship. Anne Bubnic is part of the team that created the award-winning CTAP IV Cybersafety Project and the CTAP IV Middle School Math Project. All three presenters are co-founders and administrators of the grassroots effort of teachers, Advocates for Digital Citizenship, Safety and Success (http://ad4dcss.wikispaces.com.)

NECC 2009 - Washington DC - Session Three - Tuesday Afternoon - NCLB Technology Literacy: Web Based Technology Literacy Project

NCLB Technology Literacy: Web Based Technology Literacy Project

Presented by Chicago Public Schools

Chicago Public Schools
District Demographics
•3rd Largest School District in the U.S.
•407,955 Students
•23,727 Teachers
•20 to 1 Student/Teacher Ratio (ES)
•24.6 to 1 Student/Teacher Ratio (HS)
•6 to 1 Computer Ratio
Data as of June 2009
•666 Schools
•84.3% Low Income
Chicago Public Schools
District Demographics
•3rd Largest School District in the U.S.
•407,955 Students
•23,727 Teachers
•20 to 1 Student/Teacher Ratio (ES)
•24.6 to 1 Student/Teacher Ratio (HS)
•6 to 1 Computer Ratio
Data as of June 2009
•666 Schools
•84.3% Low Income


InJanuary2003,theChicagoPublicSchools(CPS)Information&TechnologyServices(ITS)eLearninginitiatedaprojecttodevelopandassessthetechnologyliteracyofallstudentsbyeighthgradeIntroduction to the TLC Projects

InDecember2005,Intel®EducationpartneredwithCPStocollaborateonthefollowingcomponentsofITSeLearning’stechnologyliteracyprogram:
Technology Literacy Projects: AWeb-based curriculumofsixth through
eighth grade technologyliteracyprojects forstudents
Teacher Guide: Aresourcedesignedtohelpteachers integratetechnologyintothecorecurriculumandfacilitatetechnologyliteracyprojects
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InJanuary2003,theChicagoPublicSchools(CPS)Information&TechnologyServices(ITS)eLearninginitiatedaprojecttodevelopandassessthetechnologyliteracyofallstudentsbyeighthgradeIntroduction to the TLC Projects

InDecember2005,Intel®EducationpartneredwithCPStocollaborateonthefollowingcomponentsofITSeLearning’stechnologyliteracyprogram:
Technology Literacy Projects: AWeb-based curriculumofsixth through
eighth grade technologyliteracyprojects forstudents
Teacher Guide: Aresourcedesignedtohelpteachers integratetechnologyintothecorecurriculumandfacilitatetechnologyliteracyprojects
Parent Guide: Aresourceprovidedforparents tohelpthemencouragetheirchildrentousetechnologyforlearningRecipient of ISTE Seal of Alignment | NETS.S

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NECC 2009 - Washington DC - Session Three - Tuesday Afternoon - Making 21st Century High Schools

Making 21st Century High Schools

Book: Teaching the Digital Generation - No more Cookie Cutter High Schools
Frank S. Kelly - doing the presentation
Ted McCain
Ian Jukes
c. 2008 Corwin Press

Frank is an architect and teacher

21st Century High Schools

17 Principals:

1. Start by looking at kids and learning
2. Learning must prepare students for a world of constant change (Moore's law!)
3. Learning must focus on 21st Century thinking skills
4. Learning must include 21st Century information fluency skills
5. Learning must reflect the new digital reality - Instructional context does not match
6. Learning must be interdisciplinary
7. Learning must be shaped for the individual - one size does not fit all
8. Learning must engage 21st Century digital kids
9. Learning must be connected to the outside world
10. Learning opportunities should be available 24/7/365
11. Time should be flexible, not learning
12. Students should assume responsibility for their own learning
13. Every student should have a close working relationship with at least one adult in the school
14. Students should have their own personal workspace
15. Assessment must encompass both knowledge skills and higher ordered thinking skills
16. Every student must be prepared to pursue post secondary studies
17. The configuration of high school spaces must be highly flexible

**Major components: Technology, time architecture, costs and instruction are a complex cycle that all must work together to be successful

Industrial age high schools or the "platoon school" was a concept conceived in 1908 to produce one raw material - Today's high schools are not much different.

Little interdisciplinary - very departmentalized, time - not learning - is still the measure of school.

How do we fix this problem? The problem that the industrial age high school is now deeply flawed.

10 models for 21st Century High Schools - all models assume ubiquitous technology and flexible schedules

Academies School - small learning communities related to real world subjects with few or no extra curricular activities - Wunsche Senior High School, Spring ISD near Houston

Instructional centers