The Classroom Technology

~ Integration Challenge~

How can school administrators turn their school’s investment in hardware and connectivity into measurable learning results?

Technology made a lot of promises

About changing the way we teach, and the way we learn.

Can it deliver on those promises ?

With BILLONS invested

in hardware and connectivity nationwide,

what is the next step to see this investment

really turn into daily learning results?

How can we ensure

Technology reallydd‘Turns into Learning’?

This workshop is designedto help you define a plan

that will help your teachers,students, and parents reallysee a measurable return on

your school’s technology investment.

Making technology deliver on its promise is up to US, each and everyone of us, not on cabling, CPUs,

or bandwidth.This is going to be accomplished by our HUMAN

intention.

You can make this happen!

Let’s start, right now, making it happen…

For the next 2-1/2 days, we are going to work together

to set new attainable goals, and we will then follow-up with

implementation projects you will be proud to lead at your school site.

Joining us for this workshop has set you on the path to discovering solutions to your technology integration challenges. You will leave the workshop with at least five concrete and attainable goals that you may begin to implement in the next 14 days.

We guarantee it.

STEP ONE : Look at educational technology’s potential benefits AND the potential pitfalls.

Which of the following fit your school’s current situation?

Are there others factors you realize need to be included in your analysis?

Technology’s Potential Benefits

Are any of these happening at your school ?

Expands teaching resources

Motivates student learning

Builds employable

skill sets

Improves reading scores

Brings the real world into the

classroom

Provides multiple levels of

challenges

Prepares for the real

world workplace

Breaks down

isolation and links in

the community

Offers a world wide

librarynot

available locally

Stimulates cross-

curricular interests

Encourages pursuit of

higher education

Establishes a positive pattern of life long learning

Technology’s Potential Pitfalls

Are you seeing any of these problems?

All connected – but teachers lack training to use technology

All connected – but teachers with interest have no time

All connected – but students lack focused productive use

All connected – but how is it different than 2-D books?

All connected – but where is the meaningful content ?

All connected – but where are the learning results?

To help your school reach the

benefits ~ and avoid the pitfalls

We will first go through a series of questions for you to begin considering

Then we will open our workbooks and begin identifying the real benefits and pitfalls you face

And by the end of the workshop we will have developed an administrator’s planning tool to help you reach the benefits of technology and avoid the pitfalls

Now let’s ask the hard questions:

Do your teachers see any real benefit from going to the effort to integrate technology in their classroom ?

Do they believe that computers can really help make teaching more rewarding?

Do they have what they need to really succeed?

Where does your school stand?Basic Hardware Do you have a computer

lab? If so, does it have enough stations for a full class or do classes break into teams to use it?

Does the ratio of students to computers in your classrooms provide enough technology access to yield results?

Do teachers allow students to really USE the technology every week ?

Basic Connectivity Do your students have

web access ? Email access? Can they view educational video streaming? Is there a means to do tele-conferencing with guest lecturers?

Do you host parent events to promote family access?

Are your teachers resistant to technology integration in their own classroom?

Or are they eager

to embrace ways technology can make teaching more enjoyable

and their students happier learners?

If they ARE ready to integrate technology, Do they have a

focused use for the technology that is standards-based and that will yield year-round learning results by building dynamic, new student knowledge banks?

If some are still resistant …

Do you have a way for fellow teachers to showcase their own success stories so “seeing can become believing” with a trusted source?

Here is a tough one - Are there barriers to technology integration that you can be the leader in overcoming?

Teachers at-large have two main complaints about the use of technology:

1. They are too often expected to face the learning curve all on their own.

2. Once they are trained and ready to deliver, they can’t find enough time in the day given the other demands placed on them by school administration. 0

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Do the Parents in your School Community SUPPORT Technology Integration?

Even if there may be a low level of technology in the home, are parents supportive of student technology access at school or the library?

Do they understand – or have they experienced – technology’s benefits?

Are they fellow technology champions?

These have been some of the hardest and most important questions to begin to ask ourselves ~ and the inquiry can be a challenge… but the results it leads to are well worth the effort.

Facing your technology integration challenges and finding solutions is a great step forwards in finding campus-wide rewards from the school’s investment in technology.

There ARE solutions, sometimes internal, other times supported by external facilitators. And the reward of seeing Technology Turn into Learning – Everyday is an outcome you can enjoy each school day.

What You Can Do TODAYhere at the workshop Listen to teachers who are managing successful technology integration programs. Learn about what IS working in real classrooms from real front-line teachers and fellow administrators.

Start an objective analysis of the technology benefits you want your school to achieve this coming year – not just a repeat of the school’s technology plan – but fresh ideas!

Note the pitfalls you want to avoid or recover from. Start matching solutions to problems.

What you will do here tomorrow

Draft a plan for teacher training by identifying professional development partners on campus, in your district, and from the community.

Design a mix of teacher, student, and parent activities and outcomes that will improve student learning - and share your ideas in a small group of fellow technology leaders.

Try out some hands-on technology projects that you can easily bring to your school.

Getting to know one another

We are now going to go around the room and learn who is attending the workshop

Please tell us a little about your school, its technology goals and its current challenges

Now, lets start the technology integrations

analysis process in your workbooks

In the section after the power point slides you have just seen, fill in the first profile page using the survey data we suggested you prepare in advance.

Now move to the first level of analysis pages. Here you will begin to review the possible technology challenges faced at your school site/s – and see solutions.

~ MORNING BREAK ~

We will reconvene at 10:30AM

Front Line Technology in Action

Now we are going to watch and listen to footage from actual classrooms implementing technology on a daily basis.

Write down observations

What did you see that was a working idea in use by these classrooms?

Did you see any projects that you would like to introduce to your teachers and students?

Listen to Teacher’s Concerns

We asked six teachers who use technology as often as possible to tell us what would allow them to make BETTER use of technology as an integrated teaching and learning tool.

Does your school also face these issues?

Use your workbook video review page to mark which of these teacher’s concerns your teachers also face.

Add any others you face and want to solve. Prioritize all of these concerns in terms of

their importance at your school. (Solutions col 2)

Then prioritize in terms of concerns you think you can chronologically address (col 4-5)

This is your first analysis draft

As the workshop unfolds, it is very likely you will want to go back and change some of your entries, so keep your mind open to new things as we proceed …

Nothing is set in stone – you are just beginning the discovery process.

Next up, we break for lunch and encourage you to get to know one another by lunching in the groups set out by name cards at the dining tables.

You will then work in these small groups after lunch.

Lunch and Afternoon BreakoutsJosef Edwards (elem)

Maria Hernandez (elem)

Judy Tait (elem)

Edgar Fitzgerald (elem)

AFTER LUNCH: Meet in Library

Randy Paige (middle)

Sarah Cummings (middle)

Carl Mendez (middle)

Elaine Richards (middle)

AFTER LUNCH: Meet in Oaks Room

Sylvia Pace (elem)

Victoria Ramone (elem)

Ray McDonald (elem)

Steve Wilson (elem)

AFTER LUNCH: Meet in Sycamore Rm

Javier Gonzalez (high)

Tom Peterson (high)

Loren Guliano (high)

Imelda Garcia (high)

AFTER LUNCH: Meet in Laurel Room

Breakout Group Activity #1

Share your school’s best technology integration accomplishment to date.

Outline the difficulties you see your school/s currently facing right now, today, that prohibit more thorough technology integration.

Narrow your discussion to the top three common problems.

Brainstorm on possible solutions, as a group, to the top three issues.

Write down the top three common problems, and possible solutions, on a large work board.

Select a Breakout Group Spokesperson

Bring your work boards back to the main conference room and mount them on easels around the perimeter.

Enjoy a coffee break and take time to view one another’s boards.

Each spokesperson will then describe the group’s top three challenges, and the possible solutions they have envisioned so far.

~ Day ONE Review ~ Beginning the

visioning process Listening to what

teachers have to say Creating a baseline

to analyze individual school issues

Keeping our minds open to possible solutions

Listening to fellow administrators share their challenges

Brainstorming together to envision possible solutions

Benefiting by the combined problem solving skills of the entire group

Day TWO Workshop Thinking outside the

classroom walls What a content

developer can offer to integrate technology in your classrooms easily and cost effectively.

How your technology staff and adept teachers can build a program.

Hands-on technology projects your students can do right away.

Tie-ins to standards-based objectives.

Day THREE Workshop Prioritizing the most

important issues. Selecting solutions based

on your technology path. Designing a new

technology integration pilot project that you can begin to implement on your campus in the next 14 days.

Charting out a 3 mo., 6 mo, 12 mo, and 3 year technology integration plan.

W hat is Y O U R Techn o lo gy In tegratio n Path?

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