What Administrators Should Know and Do With Technology

1. What Administrators Should Know and Do With Technology An ISTE Webinar Ben Smith www.edtechinnovators.com Red Lion Area School District Thursday, September 4, 2014

2. Physics Teacher K-12 Science Coordinator Technology Resource Teacher Keystone Technology Integrator Doctoral Student in Instructional Technology STAR Discovery Educator ISTE Science Curriculum Specialist ISTE Board of Directors Background

3. Polling Question • Are you familiar with the NETS-S (National Educational Technology Standards for Students)? • Yes • No

4. National Educational Technology Standards for Students

5. National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers

6. Poll Question • Have you shared the ISTE NETS-T with your teachers? • Yes • No

7. National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators Required Reading:NETS-A available through www.iste.org

8. Visionary Leadership • Inspire and Lead development and implementation of a shared vision for integration of technology and promote excellence and support transformation throughout the organization • Inspire • Engage • Advocate

9. Pedagogical Foundations • Curriculum must drive the need for technology integration • Technology is the tool used to facilitate student-centered learning • Scaffolding technology skills has to occur prior to the expectation that students can make thoughtful choices about its appropriate use • Degree to which students can utilize technology is also dependent upon their level of cognitive ability.

10. Digital Age Learning Culture • Create, promote and sustain a dynamic, digital-age learning culture that provides a rigorous, relevant and engaging education for all students. • Ensure Innovation • Model and Promote • Provide • Ensure Practice • Participate

11. Why Use Technology? • Make work easier - productivity • Typing, calculating, recording information • Help students learn better • Visualization, reading • Prepare students for 21st century jobs • Communicate • Collaborate • Be Creative • Solve Problems Image from http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/

12. Today’s Students • 21st Century Learners • Multitaskers • Text Messengers • Gamers • Appropriaters • Today’s college students have spent • 5000 hours reading • 10000 hours gaming • 20000 hours watching TV Required Reading: Marc Prensky - Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Available at www.marcprensky.com

13. Speak Up Report • Disconnect among teachers and administrators • Student Perceptions • Defining Integration • Rating the Quality of Integration Required Reading:Speak Up Report. Available at www.tomorrow.org

14. Excellence in Professional Practice • Provide an environment of professional learning and innovation to empower educators to enhance student learning • Allocate • Facilitate and Participate • Promote and model communication and collaboration • Stay abreast

15. Systemic Improvement • Provide digital-age leadership and management to continuously improve the organization through effective use of technology • Lead change • Collaborate on metrics • Recruit and Retain • Establish and Leverage Partnerships • Establish and Maintain Infrastructure

16. Digital Citizenship • Model and facilitate understanding of social, ethical and legal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture • Ensure equity • Promote, model and establish policies • Promote and model social interactions • Model and facilitate global culture

17. Striking a Balance • Creating a secure, safe environment for student learning • Allowing students to use their technology • Allowing student creativity, collaboration, innovation and communication to develop

18. Knowing Content is NOT Enough • In order to be successful in the 21st Century, ALL students must be able to • Construct new understandings • Solve problems • Make decisions • Communicate and express themselves • Understand complex issues • Work collaboratively • Set goals and work to a timeline • Make ethical choices

19. Administrative Issues • Collaboration Policies • iPods / Cell Phones / PDAs Banning Pencils by Doug Johnson • Security

20. Observations • Classroom Walkthroughs ICOT • Supervision Plans • Building Goals

21. A Taxonomy for Integrating Technology into Diverse Classrooms Increasing Complexity of Technology Skills • Technology choices become autonomous Increasing Levels of Cognition • Curriculum mastery deepens

22. How to Include ALL Students • Have students move through the taxonomy appropriate to their abilities. • As students acquire the skills of using a technology…. • It becomes a tool they may choose • The emphasis of an activity shifts from the technology to the cognitive skills students must employ • Becomes invisible

24. Observing • Students are passive spectators of technology • Students view PowerPoint during lecture • Teacher uses Interactive Whiteboard during lecture • Students view websites on large screen • Students listen to a podcast

25. Incorporating • Students are leveraging technology to increase productivity • Type papers using Word • Make graphs with Excel • Online Searches • Calculators • Tutorials

26. Producing • Students create a product with a single technology • Students record a podcast • Students make a movie • Poster session in PowerPoint

27. Exploring • Students engage in discovery learning prior to formal instruction • Students use online applet to learn about a topic • Students conduct a lab with probes

28. Collaborating • Students interact with peers, instructors, and outside resources • Students make group contributions in text format to a Wiki • Students work together on a Google Doc • Web 2.0 Tools: mindomo, VoiceThread, etc. • Student email - Gaggle • Blogging

29. Applying • Students are guided to combine and integrate technologies • Students use Excel, Probes and Accompanying Software, and Photobooth in Notebook to create lab report • Students use PowerPoint to make slides to import into iMovie • Students add movies, MP3s and images into a Wiki

30. Creating • Students are making sound choices about the appropriate synthesis of content and technology into a final product • Students are given an assignment and must choose the format for communicating information

31. How to get Students to be Creative • Creating the Canvas • Word, PowerPoint, Inspiration, Wikis, Google Docs • Learning to Paint • User Created Content: Podcasts, Movies, Animoto, Mapping • Creative Process • Instructional Design: Be Vague

32. Planning Documents • Year Long Plan • Being Creative • Curriculum Map • What are 21st century skills? • What are technologies you / your students can use? • What are your current integration activities?

36. Questions • Email: info@edtechinnovators.com • Website: www.edtechinnovators.com