True Technology Integration 21 st Century Learning

1. True Technology Integration21st Century Learning

2. Objectives • Define 21st Century Learning and Importance of 21st Century Skills. • Determine why technology integration is necessary. • Define what technology integration is and isn’t. • Examine a variety of methods to use technology tools seamlessly to help students master the foundation TEKS. • Develop a toolkit with new tools to help teachers integrate technology in the classroom curriculum. • Align teachers and students roles in the 21st century. • Reflection and Plan of Action • Create a presentation/activity/lesson to share with others using 21st Century techniques.

3. Tool #1: Poll Everywhere

5. Tool #2: Today’s Meet Our back channel today will be… Today’s Meet http://www.todaysmeet.com/21stcentury Throughout the day: post questions, share concerns, and give praise.

6. Tool #2: Today’s Meet What would you like to learn today? Do you have a cool website, integration idea, etc to share?

7. Activity #1: Why integrate technology? • In pairs, watch the following movies (in the Why Integrate Technology folder) and answer the questions. Be prepared to share your answers with another pair. • Pair A: 24 Hours in the Life of a Digital Native Student • Pair B: No Future Left Behind (volume is low) • Pair C: Pay Attention • Pair D: It’s Time

8. Questions to Answer What did you see? What were the students (if any) doing? What was the role of the teacher? What was the main idea? What does this mean to you personally?

10. TCEAPD Bow Drill Set Cameron What types of skills is the learner illustrating in this video?

11. Challenge What does it mean to be well educated in the 21st century? • What should teaching and learning look like in the 21st century?

12. Necessary 21stCentury Skills Personal and social responsibility Planning, critical thinking, reasoning, and creativity Strong communication skills Cross-cultural understanding Visualizing and decision-making Knowing how and when to use technology

13. Partnership for 21st Century Skills -Thinking critically and making judgments about content -Solving complex, multidisciplinary, open-ended problems that all workers, in every kind of workplace -Creativity and entrepreneurial thinking -Communicating and collaborating with teams of people across cultural, geographic and language boundaries -Making innovative use of knowledge, information and opportunities to create new services, processes and products. -Taking charge of financial, health and civic responsibilities and making wise choices.

14. Seven Survival Skills (Careers/College/Citizenship) • -Critical Thinking and Problem Solving • -Collaboration Across Networks and Leading by -Influence • -Agility and Adaptability • -Initiative and Entrepreneurialism • -Effective Oral and Written Communication • -Accessing and Analyzing Information • -Curiosity and Imagination

15. “In the new global economy, with many jobs being either automated or "off-shored," what skills will students need to build successful careers? What skills will they need to be good citizens? Are these two education goals in conflict?”

16. Identifying relevance of 21st Century Skills • Only about 1/3 of US high school students graduate ready for college today, and the rates are much lower for poor and minority students. • 40%of ALL students who enter college must take remedial courses. • It is estimated that 1 of 2 students who start college never complete any kind of postsecondary degree.

17. Identifying relevance of 21st Century Skills • The high school graduation rate in the US, which is about 70%, is now well behind that of other countries.

18. Identifying relevance of 21st Century Skills • An estimated 85% of current jobs and almost 90%of the fastest-growing and best-paying jobs now require postsecondary education.

19. Identifying relevance of 21st Century Skills • 65% of college professors report that what is taught in high school does not prepare students for college. • One major reason is that the tests students must take in high school for state accountability purposes usually measure 9th or 10th grade-level knowledge and skills.

20. Identifying relevance of 21st Century Skills Teamwork is no longer just about working with others in your building. Christie Pedra, CEO of Siemens, explained, “Technology has allowed for virtual teams. We have teams working on major infrastructure projects that are all over the U.S. On other projects, you're working with people all around the world on solving a software problem. Every week they're on a variety of conference calls; they're doing Web casts; they're doing net meetings.”

21. Identifying relevance of 21st Century Skills • “Although writing and speaking correctly are obviously important, the complaints I heard most frequently were about fuzzy thinking and young people not knowing how to write with a real voice.”

22. Identifying relevance of 21st Century Skills • “Employees in the 21st century have to manage an astronomical amount of information daily. As Mike Summers told me, “There is so much information available that it is almost too much, and if people aren't prepared to process the information effectively it almost freezes them in their steps.”

23. Identifying relevance of 21st Century Skills • "Our old idea is that work is defined by employers and that employees have to do whatever the employer wants...but actually, you would like him to come up with an interpretation that you like-he's adding something personal-a creative element." • - Michael Jung, Senior Consultant at McKinsey and Company

24. Understanding the Need • A recent survey predicts that by the year 2020, most people across the world will be using a mobile device as their primary means for connecting to the Internet. PEW Report “The Future of the Internet”

25. NETS (S) from ISTE -Creativity and Innovation -Communication and Collaboration -Research and Information Fluency -Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making -Digital Citizenship -Technology Operations and Concepts

26. Break Video

28. Our Job: To Be Change Agents! Rule of thumb: To increase student learning school-wide, we must change one-third to one-half or more of the content and the teaching strategies. The Cambridge Institute estimated that educational technology would require 50 to 75% of teaching to change if the potential of technology was to be realized.

29. Discussion What does it mean to be a “change agent” in your district? How do you feel about this role?

30. We used to say that technology integration was: • Do something! • Do anything! • Just please turn it on!

31. Today, however… Technology integration means using technology as a transparent tool to fit the task at hand and to enhance learning. In our perfect world, students and teachers should reach for a technology solution as easily as they reach for a pencil!

32. True Technology Integration Example: Cameron & Hockey Q1-What is Cameron trying to learn how to do? Q2-What tools did Cameron use to learn and how did the tools facilitate the learning goal?

33. True Technology Integration True Technology Integration • Technology integration is invisible. Do you have pencil integration?

34. True Technology Integration • Educators use technology to create rich environments where student work shows evidence of conceptual understanding beyond recall. • Educators use technology to encourage students to engage in activities that develop understanding and create personal meaning through reflection. • Educators use technology to provide opportunities for students to apply knowledge in real world contexts.

35. True Technology Integration • To learn collaboration, work in teams. • To learn critical thinking, take on complex problems. • To learn oral communication, present. • To learn written communication, write. • To learn technology, use technology. • To develop citizenship, take on civic and global issues. • To learn about careers, do internships. • To learn content, research and do all of the above.

36. True Technology Integration is NOT… • Sporadic • Limited • Scheduled • Convenient • Unstructured • Procedural

37. What’s needed for tech integration? • Hardware • Software • Support of the IT Department • Administrative Support • The Internet • Training • Effective and Engaging Curriculum (most critical piece)

38. Engaging Curriculum It’s the task! Real inquiry requires us to create information, not just retrieve it.

39. At its best, integration includes • Access to up-to-date, primary source material • Methods of collecting and recording data • Ways to collaborate with students, teachers, and experts around the world • Opportunities for expressing understanding via images, sound, and text • Learning that is relevant and assessment that is authentic • Training for publishing and presenting their new knowledge

40. An Example You are on the jury for the trial of Macbeth, who is accused of the murder of the king. It is your responsibility to decide if Macbeth is innocent or guilty, and, if guilty, how he will be held responsible for his actions. Be prepared to defend your decision to the other jury members.

41. Another Example You are an archeologist and have the amazing opportunity to be the first person to travel back in time to Ancient Egypt. You will only be there for 24 hours to observe before you have to return to the present. It is your task to report back on how people lived out their daily lives in Ancient Egypt. Once you return, you must report your findings, including visual aides, to the scientific community (the class).

42. A Third Example President Obama has asked you to serve on a committee to bring a decision to him regarding global warming. He wants you to gather and present evidence to him as to whether it is actually happening or not.

43. Activity #3: Commonalities Get with another pair. What do the three examples just given to you have in common?

44. Technology-Enhanced Environments Contextualized Intentional Reflective Rich collection of primary sources Active Collaborative Constructive Conversational

46. In the classroom, it looks like…

47. Discussion • In your small groups, discuss the following: • What made the lesson that Miss B. was about to teach different from the more traditional lessons you’ve seen? • What technology do you think was going to be used? • What did the technology allow the students to do that wouldn’t have been possible without it? • Was technology what made this lesson effective and engaging? If not, what was?

48. Tool #2: Today’s Meet • In your own words, post (to Today’s Meet) a 140 character definition/phrase of true technology integration.

49. Remember….. It’s all about creating better learning experiences for kids!

50. targeting 21st century skills Building 21st Century Classrooms