We are partners in learning.

Alexa Joyce Director of Policy, Teaching & Learning, Worldwide Education

Helping Transform Education We are delivering services and experiences that bring learning to life in and out of the classroom and allow education leaders to reimagine how technology can modernize learning and improve learning outcomes.

Inspiring Students We are providing the technology skills and support programs that can help students get prepared for their next step in life, whether the workforce or advancing their education.

Supporting Educators We are empowering educators with the training, communities, technologies and experiences they need to succeed and to help every student achieve their greatest potential.

Empowering Schools and Universities We help education institutions meet the evolving needs of education infrastructure by offering cost-effective IT products and technologies that help secure and manage the business of education, in the cloud and on premise.

Microsoft in Education We are partners in learning.

How learning technology impacts communities

Better education outcomes

Empowers knowledge economy

Enables entrepreneurial growth

Higher GDP

Tools and references in Microsoft EDU Digital Inclusion Model, 2014, //citynext

I am privileged in my role that I get a chance to travel the world and visit many countries. Almost everywhere I go I am either shown something transformative, or I am asked the question: Where or what have you seen that is transforming education? And in most part, the question is underpinned by a curiosity about how technology in particular, and often Microsoft technology is having a transformative effect. It is never an easy question to answer. In many ways we are still a long way from transformation. In many ways, access to technology has been part of the problem, and not only in the simplistic view that lack of technology is holding us back. Often, in places where there is ubiquitous access to technology, to devices, to services etc., it can be the dependence or blind faith in technology that sometimes holds us back. Technology can be a double-edged sword…

Drivers of technology in the classroom Trends impacting teaching and learning

Drivers of technology in the classroom What do they mean for us?

Learning beyond school walls and days

Anytime anywhere learning,

blended, online

eContent, O365, cloud,

apps

Personalization

Adapt pace, path, pedagogy

Data, BI, adaptive

content, PD

Interactive Authentic Content

Rich media, multiple means of engagement,

creation

Integrated O365 with apps, LMS,

content, inking

21st Century Skills &

Assessments Broader skills,

digital collaborative assessment

Tools and resources for collaboration,

problem solving

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We envision

Education for all centers on engagement

Current situation in virtual & blended learning

Enabling effective virtual & blended learning

Vision of Anytime

Anywhere Learning

for all

Strategic Planning, Organizational Capacity and

Sustainability

Leadership and Policy

Quality Assurance

Partnerships for Employability

Teacher and Leader Capacity

Inclusion and Accessibility

21st Century Pedagogy

Curriculum, Content, and Assessment

Personalized Learning

Learning Communities

Technology for Efficient and Effective Schools

Learning Environments

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Engaged Learners Build knowledge in personal learning networks Acquire higher order learning and 21st century skills Create media, build artifacts, develop authentic portfolios Apply feedback from teachers, peers, and experts

Learners engaged in doing and creating

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Engaging Learning Environments Learning complex content and skills Learning in games and designing games Learning through coding Learning in schools designed for today and tomorrow

Engaging learning environments

21st Century Skills

Cloud Collaboration

Pen technology engages students

Scientific evidence for touch/pen interface (The Design of Future Educational Interfaces, 2013, S. Oviatt)

Increase the quantity and quality of ideas

generated and problems solved

Reduce cognitive load, allowing more attention to learning

content

Facilitate divergent thinking, a prime

component in creativity

Support learning by low performing

students

Support natural communication and

thinking

Allow psychomotor engagement,

conceptual learning

Reduce attention shifts among input and output, aiding

students with learning disabilities

Enable full richness of symbolic thought, all written languages and representations

Help learners become experts in

their own learning, a prime goal of 21st century schooling

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Teachers engaged in leading and creating

Why professional learning matters

Expectations of graduates

New learning environments

Preservice & inservice preparation

Impact on learning

New skills and dispositions needed for college, career, and community

Increasingly personalized, blended, digital

Limited in time and agility to reflect new learning environments and pedagogies

More time in collaborative PD = higher performing schools

Students must be expert learners

Increased complexity

Limited budgets for training

More focus on practice in PD = higher performing schools

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Engaging Pedagogy Learning time is the variable for each student Learning time expands with blended approaches, the world as the classroom

Teaching capacity grows in personalized professional learning Assessment is embedded, relevant, and continuous

Pedagogy that engages anytime anywhere

Adapts to today’s student and who they are Prepares students with 21st Century skills Makes the lives of teachers easier

The 21st Century Classroom

Making the lives of teachers easier •  Creating interactive, personalized content •  Providing to students in and beyond the

classroom •  Engaging teaching strategies and

assessment: Apps •  Ongoing collaborative professional learning

Preparing students with 21st Century Skills •  Communication and Collaboration •  Critical problem solving and creativity •  Global awareness •  Personalized learning

Bing Word Excel

OneNote

DragonBox Mastery Assess

Pearson Kno GGfl

Geoboard Geogebra Wolfram

Khan Academy Chronozoom

Worldwide Telescope

3D Builder Movie Moments

Fresh Paint Photosynth

Nearpod Socrative NovaMind

iXplain Yammer Skype Lync

Office OneNote

Kodu, Project Spark ITAcademy

Visual Studio

Classflow Edmodo

Haiku Learning

Desire2Learn

21st Century Skills IDC 2013 Top 20 Skills Microsoft Products Microsoft Programs Collaborative problem-solving skills:

Problem solving, Project management, Time management, Interpersonal skills

Skype, OneDrive, Office Mix Partners in Learning, Faculty Connection

Working together Office Office 365, games Shout.org, Imagine Cup, BizSpark, Kodu, DreamSpark

Solving challenges Office, Detail oriented, Independence, Troubleshooting, Analytical

Office 365, Bing for Schools

Idea generating and sharing

Office, Self-starting, Organization Office 365

Knowledge generating and sharing

Communication skills, Office, Organization

Office 365, Bing for Schools, Mathematics

Resource creating and sharing

Communication skills, Office, Self-starting, Organization

Office 365, Visual Studio, Storyteller, 3D Builder, Movie Moments, Fresh Paint, media apps

ICT literacy skills: Office Skype, OneDrive Learning through social networks

Communication skills, Ethics Office 365 MS student blogs and forums

ICT Literacy Office 365, Bing for Schools, Visual Studio, media apps

IT Academy, MS Virtual Academy, MS Certification, Azure in Education

Technological awareness

Troubleshooting Bing for Schools, media apps YouthSpark, IT Academy

Simulation Analytical Games, Visual Studio Imagine Cup

IDC, http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/oct13/10-15skillspr.aspx DC Study: Top Skills Comparison. IDC Study: Top Skills Comparison - High-Growth/High-Wage Positions Versus All Occupations (Wanted Analytics and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Data, October 2013)

Why collaborate?

Enables learners to more thoroughly think through topics

Encourages exploration of alternative ideas and perspectives

Stimulates critical thinking and helps learners to build on ideas through discussion

Enables students in different places and geographies with an opportunity to work together—simulating the workplace of the future

What capabilities should collaboration tools enable? •  Social Collaboration •  Synchronous and asynchronous

collaboration on any device •  Peer review, polling, and feedback •  Cross cultural and language

interaction

What capabilities should personalized learning tools enable?

New literacies, application of learning to novel contexts

Data manipulation and visualization

Comprehensive organizing and sharing for complex projects

Content acquisition, assessment, workflow among groups and audiences

Microsoft personalized learning tools overview

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Affordances Tools New literacies, application of learning

Word, PowerPoint, Office Mix, Story Author, 3D Builder, Movie Moments

Data manipulation and visualization

Excel, BI

Comprehensive organizing and sharing

OneNote

Collaboration, assessment, workflow

Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, OneDrive, Skype, Yammer

Content acquisition Chronozoom, Bing in the Classroom

Personalized learning

Student Scenario: Digital History Project Office Mix overview of local historic highlights from past century and essentials of personal history with brief comprehension checks of concepts. Content includes a video describing the personal history project with a local expert. Students identify a person who was born before 1950 and use Chronozoom to see the main events in the person's life. The students interview and collect media from the person using Skype, plan the history using NovaMind, create media using iXplain and Sketchbook, develop a chapter for the class local history book published using Story Author, and work with local historical society to enter the book in a history archive.

Personalized Teaching

Teacher Scenario Microsoft Certified Educator professional learning courses help the teacher to learn technology tools and develop TPACK Office Mix content and quizzes are quickly created for individualized learning Project materials are organized and shared in the learning community using OneNote/OneDrive 21st Century Learning Design rubrics are used for student self assessment

Video – school 1:1 learning

For evidence and expert perspectives, look for the Microsoft in Education Transformation with Anytime Anywhere Learning for All papers and decks: •  Vision for Anytime Anywhere Learning for All •  Enabling Transformation with Strategic Planning, Organizational

Capacity and Sustainability •  Quality Assurance: Monitoring and Evaluation to Inform Practice

and Leadership •  Inclusion: Equitable Access and Accessibility •  Public, Private, Community Partnerships for Employability •  Curriculum, Content and Assessment for the Real World •  Personalized Learning for Global Citizens •  Learning Communities and Support •  Building Leader and Educator Capacity for Transformation •  Transforming Learning Environments for Anytime, Anywhere

Learning for All •  Designing Technology for Efficient and Effective Schools

Thank you! Contact: alexa.joyce@microsoft.com