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Branka MarcetaOTAN [Outreach and Technical Assistance Network]

[email protected]

Technology in the Classroom: Promising Practices and New Directions

Objectives

Identify frameworks and mandates• Rich Higher, America• The Power of Technology to Transform Adult Learning• Investigating the Language and Literacy Skills Required

for Independent Online Learning• National Educational Technology Plan

Examine promising practices• Cell phones & other mobiles• Social media, open source, learning analytics

Apply new concepts to classroom and distance education

Discuss effective integration of content, pedagogy and technology in preparing adult learners for the 21st Century Skills

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Frameworks and mandates

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Reach Higher, America

Crisis in education and workforce

Prison population Family literacy 20 million by 2020 6/26/08


http://www.nationalcommissiononadultliteracy.org/report.html

High School Attainment Graph


Reach Higher, America - Quote

“Technology should be used in all its forms to make learning a continuous process of inquiry and improvement that keeps pace with the speed of change in business and society.”

June 2008, p.24


Tech to Transform Adult Ed

Information and communications technology skills (ICT literacy) are essential, both on and off the job…. Some 70 percent of all jobs in the U.S. will require some level of ICT skills by 2016.p. iii


http://www.caalusa.org/POWER_OF_TECH.pdf

Independent Online Learning


New Horizon Report 2011, k-12 Edition, this year

Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less• Cloud Computing• Mobiles


New Horizon Report 2011, k-12, in the future

Time-to-Adoption: Two to Three Years• Game-Based Learning• Open Content

Time-to-Adoption: Four to Five Years• Learning Analytics• Personal Learning Environments


National Ed Tech Plan

Transform the… professional learning of educators…by leveraging technology to create career-long personal learning networks…

p. 11


A Model of Learning, Powered by Technology


From the National Education Technology Plan 2011, US Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology, page 11

From consuming to producing From authority to transparency From the expert to the facilitator From the lecture to the hallway From "access to information" to

"access to people”

Shifts Happening


Shifts Happening – cont.

From passive to passionate learning

From presentation to participation

From publication to conversation From formal schooling to

lifelong learningSteve Hargadon, Educational Shifts, http://web20ineducation.wikispaces.com


TPACK


Mishra & Koehler, 2006

…knowledge about technology cannot be treated as context-free, and ...good teaching requires an understanding of how technology relates to the pedagogy and content.

Promising practices


Mobiles: Cell Phones in the Classroom

OTAN workshop developed by Susan Gaer, Santa Ana Community College• Features• Etiquette• Question of the Day -

texting• Call in a Poem - audio• Create a story around

a photo - camera


Phone On My Phone By Stephanie Krishnan On Flickr

“Clickers” – formative and summative evaluation

TabletsClassroom systems,

personal tablets, educational tablets,


Other Mobile Devices in the Classroom

Ck-12 FlexBooks

customizable, standards-aligned, free digital textbooks for K-12

National Repository of Online Courses

a growing library of high-quality online course content for students and faculty in higher education and high school


Digital Textbooks & Open Content

Math Anywhere & Learning Analytics

Khan Academy Tracking System


PLNs – Social Networking

Facebook• PR for adult education programs• Way to extend learning and communication: stay in

touch with alumni• Personal PD for teachers and administrators

Twitter • Personal PD for teachers and administrators


The only link you need to know

Resource wiki page:

http://webtwopointohinadulted.wikispaces.com/CASAS+2011


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