ISTE 2010 Notes - Denver, CO - Convention Center
Monday, June 28
Transforming American Education - Karen Cator (US dept of ED)
Big focus is on learning, not on tech
Why?
Mobility
Social interactions for learning (PLN)
Digital content
Move from print to online
"By 2020, America will have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world"
How was the National ED tech plan developed?
Focus groups, open government, getting feedback, and then will publish
it is in draft mode right now
Five parts to the plan
Learning - 21st Century skills, how do people learn?
Personalized learning, universal design for learning (technologies for accomodation), connecting formal and informal learning environments (24/7 learning environments)
Teaching -
highly effective, connected, online environments, connecting formal and informal environments, inspired
Assesment -
measure what matters, embedded assessments, real time feedback, persistent learning record, universal design, continuous improvement
Infrastructure -
24/7 community wide, broadband, access points, supported, equity for access
Productivity -
cost efficiency, financial systems, process redesign, interoperability standards
Bonus section -
Research and development - What needs to be invented? Grand challenges - four of them
Top priorities - improve access for everyone, manage the transition from print to digital, focus on the front lines ( teachers and students), continuous improvement
What is engagement and where can I get some? Bernie Dodge
What does engagement mean to you?
Active involvement, getting excited, committment, self-motivation, interest
Must be high challenging work
Instructor warmth
Hands on
Out of 160 stories. Only two were about lecture
What about tech?
It isn't about the technology, it is about what we already know
Engaged learning has to centered in collaboration, coupled with contructivist principles and problem-based learning
Engagement is about interactions - teachers/students, stedents/ textbooks, students/students, students by themselves
Newsdots - an interactive news site
The same tools can and will result in different engagement mainly due to teaching
360 cities - website - compare and contrast, where would you rather live? A novel that you read and how would it change, taking a trip - where would you visit and why, math - types of shapes and architectural features,
How can we measure engagement in our own teaching?
Get a friend to watch you teach and watch the interactions
www.webquest.org/workshops/engagement7
From consumer to prodecer - Jeff Utecht
Everything's amazing and nobody is happy
Constructivism -
Connectivism - Learning is occuring in shifting environments
Bloom's taxonomy - create is at the top
Use wikipedia to improve/change something
Have them compose or create something - wikibook or an ipod app
Combine/mashup different ideas or skills
Hypothesize or predict using data
From add on technology to essential technology: constructing 1:1 aware - Elliot Soloway and Cathie Norris
“Within 5 years, all K-12 students will be using a mobile device”
Challenges - global marketplace, brain jobs not back jobs, 21st century skills and content, dropout rates and digital divide, NCLB and data driven decisions
Moving the needle - We must increase student achievement
Time on task = success = time on task
Mobile devices are much more engaging
Students are using devices as essential, not supplemental
Curriculum must change from what to how
We need active learners - a pedagogical change
21st century learning needs 21st century tools
Mobile is that which you can put in your pocket
It is their technology - children have mobile everywhere but school - 10 hours per day of use
4 out of 5 teens carry a mobile device
Profession based OS - software must help with teaching and learning - multiple linked representations
Cellular is cheaper and 24/7 everywhere
In their words - "Let me use my own devices and tools"
It's not about the gadgets, It's about the possibilities - Leigh Zeitz and Angela Maiers
We're trying to put new things in old systems
Gary Hayes' social media counts
We have to get rid of all-knowing
You cannot fit the world in a three ring binder
We have to change from ‘to know’ to ‘to do’ to ‘to be’
Kids have to be infosumers, sythesizers, question askers, translators, contributors
“We need to teach our kids for their futures, not their past” - Daniel Pink
Distributed learning communities - diversity of experience, shared objective of advancing the collective knowledge, learning how to learn, mechanisms to reflect shared learning
Need to build a community for learning
Tuesday, June 29
Support beginning Literacy with Technology: Two Literacies with one stone! Gail Lovely
Literacy is changing. How we determine who is literate is changing fast
To be literate is to be able to communicate
Listening is becoming more and more important
Smories.com - students reading/tellling stories online
Combining literacies - Fcit.USF.edu/matrix/lessons/lpooo16.HTML
Technology Integration matrix
Kerpoof.com - educator free account
Cool is ok but it is not good enough
Literacy center - literacycenter.com
Book talks and book trailers
When kids look at letters today, they see thousands of different fonts.
Curriculum first
Learning strategies second
Technology third
Assessment
Mobile wireless devices that empower engagement, learning, and assessment - Chris Dede and Marie Bjerede
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~dedech/
www.Ed.gov/technology/netp-2010
We are migrating to cloud computing as a result of mobile devices
Wireless reach - A global initiative
There is a disconnect between what kids do in school vs what they do at home.
Mobile wireless devices are not magic, you have to develop a learning community along with engagement
Matching Teachers and Technology: Good ideas and common mistakes - Rushton Hurley
Training
Don't Let teachers require themselves to be experts
Do remind teachers of their expertise
Don't sit everyone in a lab for training
Do allow regular (and short) sharing time
Don't start with standards
Do show something fun
Using funds
Don't limit tech to labs
Do show what is possible with one or two computers in the classroom
Don't buy expensive software a teacher hasn't used
Do learn what is freely available
Don't blanket the campus with expensive hardware
Do use targeted spending to focus purchases
Wednesday, June 30
Digital Age Teaching and Learning - Frank Gallagher
Three areas- safety and security in digital spaces, digital literacies: information/technology, and media literacies, and ethical behaviors and effective engagement in various communities
Bit.ly/cstWZp - Youth safety on a living Internet
The central task of citizenship is learning to be good to each other
Kids need to develop the filter between their ears
We need social media in schools - that is where learning how to become a digital citizen can occur
Virginia - passed a law to teach Digital Citizenship across the curriclum (K-12) - focused on safe and responsible use of the Internet
Admongo.com - teaches advertising literacy based on critical thinking skills. Want kids to ask who is responsible, what the ad is saying, what does the ad want them to do
Instead of talking about the things you cannot do, let's start talking about what kids are doing and what they will be doing
Net Cetera - Parents guide to chatting with kids about being online -get the free guide at bulkorder.FTC.gov
Common sense media - not for profit whose mission is focused on media and technology for parents and teachers regarding media that children choose
Digital Citizenship units at common sense media - digital life, privacy and digital footprints, connected culture, self-expression and Identity. Respecting creative work
How do what kids do online affect their self. Their friends and family, and their community
Common Sense Approach
Empower kids - with power becomes responsibility
Balanced voice - celebrate positives, avoid perils
Rings of responsibility -
Whole school effort
Access for all
Closing session - Jeff Piontek - Today's Global Learners = Tomorrow's Global Lesders
“Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach” - Mark Prensky, 2001
STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics
Learning is social
STEAM - Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics
What's your passion? What do you want for your kids? Have you ever asked your students?
Children should have the chance to give it a GO...which ends in 3rd grade (usually)
All Children should have access
There is no longer an excuse not to know how
Our students need to be culturally literate as well
The culture teachers deal with is not their own
It is time for a revolution in education, not reform
If you start a project, finish it