Welcome !

1. Welcome! As you come in, please find a seat. At your seat, you will find an iPad. Please use it to complete the opening activity below! • Go to www.todaysmeet.com/ipadsintheclassroom • Type in your name in the blue box and click "join" • Answer the following question in the blue message box and click "say" • What is your philosophy on using technology within the classroom (both teacher and student use)? • *Disclaimer- Todaysmeet only allows you to answer questions in 140 characters or less! :)

2. Follow along with me!  • Go to the nearpod app • In the “Join a Session” box, type in the PIN: KAXGD

3. Effective Use of Technology within the ClassroomMs. Lauren Pfeifer, 5th Grade Teacher

4. Today's Purpose: Learning the “why” behind incorporating technology within the classroom and finding out what your needs are as a classroom teacher

5. History… OCTI: Oldham County Technology Initiative • OCTI was created in the Summer of 2011 by staff within Oldham County who saw the need to encourage and support the use of technology within the classroom • It is made up of teachers, media specialists and administrators who meet to communicate technology knowledge that can be used within the classroom • From joining this community of teachers, I can now see the importance of using technology within the classroom and would like to share this knowledge with you in the next few months

6. End Goal… For all teachers at Camden to: • Feel confident with implementing both teacher and student use of iPads within the classroom • Use iPads effectively to raise student achievement in all content areas

7. What is a Teacher? What is a teacher? A guide, not a guard. What is learning? A journey, not a destination. What is discovery? Questioning the answers, not answering the questions. What is the process? Discovering ideas, not covering content. What is the goal? Open minds, not closed issues. What is the test? Being and becoming, not remembering and reviewing. What is learning? Not just doing things differently, but doing different things. What is teaching? Not showing them what to learn, but showing them how to learn. What is school? Whatever we choose to make it. -Allan Glatthorn

8. Why Should we use Technology within the classroom? “Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.” - Mark Prensky

9. What is the Digital Generation? Digital Immigrant “An individual who was born before the existence of digital technology and adopted it to some extent later in life.” Digital Native “A person who was born during or after the introduction of digital technologies and through interacting with digital technology from an early age, has a greater understanding of its concepts. This usually describes people born during or after the 2000’s.”

10. What is the difference? • Digital Natives Prefer: • Receiving information quickly from multiple sources • Multi-tasking and parallel processing • Pictures, sounds and videos before text • Hyperlinked sources • Interacting with others in “real-time” • User generated content (peers) • Learning that is instant, relevant and fun • Digital Immigrants Prefer: • Controlled release of information from limited sources (pre-determined) • Single or “focused” tasks • Often prefer to get information from a text • Greater need for private and personal space • Like information presented linearly, logically and sequentially Mark Prensky (2011)

11. What is the Digital Generation? • As a result, our students (digital natives)… • Mature earlier years earlier than children did even a couple of generations ago • Have spent their entire lives surrounded by and using computers, videogames, digital music players, video cams, cell phones and other toys and tools of the digital age • On average have spent less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, over 10,000 hours playing video games and 20,000 hours watching TV! • Mark Prensky (2011)

12. Our students today learn differently! • The digital generation processes information differently than the people of the generation before (way they read). • They operate at “twitch speed”: they expect instantaneous access to information, goods, and services at the click of a mouse and expect rewards or instant gratification! • About 95% of students are now either visual or auditory learners with only 5% kinesthetic. Perdue University (2008)

13. Today’s Students… “Today’s generation of students should anticipate having multiple careers in industries that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented yet to solve problems we haven’t even begun to think about yet.” -Thomas Friedman in The World is Flat

14. So how can we meet the needs of our students at camden?

15. Our next steps In the next few months, we will be focused on these “OCTI Beliefs” 1. Teaching with technology, as well as student use of technology, is part of core content standards and necessary for 21st century learning. 2. Edtech implementation is a powerful way of increasing relevancy, engagement and publishable opportunities to authentic audiences. 3. Technology is only a tool for learning. Although it has value as a means to a goal, technology should NOT be the "end" or a goal in itself. Edtech supports but does not replace good teaching. 4. Students already use or will use new technological devices and Web 2.0 skills at home and in the workforce. Teaching with technology recognizes and validates their real world experience and skill sets; in some cases, it utilizes valuable tech resources that students already own. 5. Educational staff plays a crucial role in teaching ethical and moral use of technology.

16. Teacher survey Please take a few minutes to complete the survey using the QR code at your table. Your feedback is very important to me and will help me to plan the following two PD sessions to meet your needs as a teacher! http://lpfeifer01.polldaddy.com/s/effective-use-of-ipads-survey