Google Apps for Education

1. Google Apps for Education WCPS Summer Institute 2011

2. We All Know Google…. • As a search engine…. • But Google Apps are so much more!!

3. Our Agenda This Afternoon…. • We will briefly review: • Our role as education professionals in teaching digital citizenship • How the learning environment has changed • How technology that supports learning has changed • We will look in depth at: • What is Google Apps? • What can be done with this tool • How educators and students are using this tool • Where Wolf Creek’s future use of Google Apps can apply to your classroom or subject area

4. We live in a globally connected society Our vision is to create Excellent Learning Environments that ensure we meet our mandate to prepare our students for adult life. 21st century learning is all about preparing young people to become caring, competent Canadians with the knowledge, skills, and attributes to be successful global citizens

5. Excellent Learning Environments 4. What does good learning look like? (Rubrics and exemplars) 5. Revisit outcomes to think about Instructional design. (Learning styles, complexity of outcome, hidden skills, etc.) 3. Where are students relative to the outcome…a pre-assessment phase? 2. What evidence will show that students have met the outcomes? 6. Selection of input structure for new knowledge. 7.Giving students an opportunity to interact with new knowledge. 1. Outcomes are clear to the student. 12. Classroom structure, peer relationships, culture of school and student strategies for their more independent or collaborative learning . 8.Giving students an opportunity to experiment or use new knowledge. 9. Constant assessment feedback so students can modify learning efforts. 11.A plan to assist students when the outcome is not being met… a new course of action. 10. Final evaluation based on authentic compilation of assessment devices.

6. Citizen: a member of a society Citizenship: The character of an individual in a society Digital Citizenship: The character of an individual in a digitally-mediated society

7. raised in a media rich networked world tech savvy self-empowered highly connected 21st Century Students collaborative innovative skilled communicators But… They Need to be Good Digital Citizens have to realize that online choices have offline consequences underdeveloped sense of risk and responsibility lack an adult perspective on safety, responsibility and general citizenship

8. Today’s digital world is considerably different than the world most of our teachers grew up and went to school in Challenges Technology tools are the contemporarytools of literacy, yet for many of our teachers both the tools and the environments that they enable are foreign • Yet these are essential tools and learning environments in the 21st Century To help guide students wisely, we need to develop a deeper understanding of the digitally connected world and what it means to be good digital citizens Yet many of our schools may not yet be ready

9. Intro to Google Apps

10. A DifferentGeneration

11. Different Expectations & Work Habits

12. Technology & Cloud ComputingConnects Us Everywhere

13. 1950 Computing

14. The Original google.org

15. Today’s Google Servers

16. Yesterday’s Portable Computer

17. Today’s Computing Options

18. 1950’s Classroom

19. Today’s Classroom • Pic of LCHS

20. Google Homepage in 1997

21. Google Home Page August 2011

22. The Pace of Innovation

23. Skills Needed in Today’s World • Employers are looking for new skills from our student graduates today.

24. Essential 21st Century Skills for Canadians • Essential Skills are the fundamental skills that make it possible to learn all others. They are enabling skills that help people participate fully in the workplace and in the community. They are: • Reading Text • Document Use • Numeracy • Writing • Oral Communication • Working with Others • Thinking Skills • Computer Use • Continuous Learning • http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/en/hip/hrp/essential_skills/essential_skills_index.shtml

25. Web 1.0, Web 2.0 – Huh???

26. What’s Next? Voice?

27. Computing Has Become Complex

28. Emerging Non-Complex Solutions

29. How Will We Use the Cloud?

30. We live in mobile times

31. Student Staff Device Zone • The project initially involved ESLCHS having the potential to impact 800 students at our pilot school. • The design approach addresses phased scaling these benefits to all Wolf Creek schools. • Today – the SSDZ is available in all Wolf Creek Schools – the decision to (how/when) move forward rests with the school admin team

32. Google Mobile

33. Google Products Work Together and Closely Integrated

34. Are You Using ?

35. Google Apps has a full suite of products accessed 24/7 from any internet connection

36. Why a Wolf Creek Google Domain?

37. Why Google Docs?

38. Google has powerful editing capabilities right inside the tool

39. Products like Google Translator provide instant translation from a variety of languages

40. Google Sites allows you to create a website quickly and easily

41. Let’s Take A Quick Look…..

42. Google Forms provides instant survey or quiz feedback

43. What is Google News?

44. Google Docs in Plain English

45. Google Apps in Edmonton Public

46. Google Docs

47. Tutorial on Google Apps from an Educator Perspective

48. Student & Educators Share HowThey Use Google Docs

49. Google Apps Online Traininghttp://edutraining.googleapps.com/

50. Future Applications Abound