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Innovation in Teaching and Learning

Jackson Public Schools

Office of Instructional Technology

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Using technology successfully in the classroom is a mindset not a skill set.

  • Kim Cofino, International School Bangkok

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Nishant Shah, director at the Centre for Internet and Society in India

  • ...“bombarding a country with technology and infrastructure is not a rounded solution to the digital poverty problem. India, for example, has connectivity and access in abundance, but the country continues to suffer from a generation of "digitally poor classes”...simply providing the equipment does not help young people understand how that technology can better their lives without education and training.”

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Things WE Must Do...

  • Let go of the fear and imagine the possibilities.
  • Allow scholars to be the experts and collaborate to create authentic learning opportunities
  • Do what works for you ( and them)
  • Set goals and expectations before we teach
  • Try new things, take what works, and fix the rest
  • Be honest and willing to say, “I don’t know.”
  • Throw it at the wall and see what sticks
  • Ready, shoot, aim

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Innovation teaches us...

  • Be willing to help and be helped
  • Personal responsibility
  • Technology culture
    • Attention
    • Collaboration
    • Independence
    • Resourcefulness
    • Versatility
    • Responsibility
    • Persistence

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Really? That’s all it takes?

  • Think about your rooms.
    • Physical placement of tech during non-tech time
    • Physical layout of the room for the activity
    • Does the room look the same? All the time?
    • Is it broken? Does it belong? Is it dusty?
    • Who is using the technology in the school?
    • What do we do with the technology?

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Classroom Management 101

  • Be consistent!
    • Rules that support technology in the classroom must be consistently monitored and reinforced.
    • scholars who break rules must be corrected
  • Proximity 101
  • MBWA - Management By Walking Around
  • 2 Eyes 2 Feet App
  • Set expectations and create routine procedures
    • What are the expectations for online time? Can they multitask? Listen to music?
  • Hold scholars accountable

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Create a Consistent Digital Presence

  • Find ONE thing YOU like to use that you CAN use consistently
  • Use your online presence to develop and build routines and culture

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Start Small and Have Fun

  • Find ONE thing YOU like to use that you CAN use consistently
  • Research consistently supports the high ROI related to quick checks for understanding and short, formative assessments

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Build Your Capacity!

  • Plan for scholar lessons
  • Provide resources for scholars
  • You can lead a horse to water, and make him drink!

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Let’s Find Things We All Like!

  • Plan for scholar lessons
  • Provide resources for scholars
  • You can lead a horse to water, and make him drink!
  • Don’t try and teach...outline the expectation and set the limits.
  • Rubrics work great!

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Now We Can Really Rock...

  • The more engaging your lessons are, the more engaged your scholars will be.
  • Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

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The Reality of Technology

  • If you have poor classroom management now, technology won’t change that.
  • Adding technology to a boring lesson does not make it interesting.
  • You must adapt to the technology. It does not adapt to you.
  • Adding technology does not mean more learning.

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Scattergories

  • Usage - not every task is best done on a device.
  • It should never be about the device. It should always be about teaching and learning
  • Use technology with a purpose - don’t just add technology to the same old lesson
  • We are teaching children, not macbooking or laptopping them.
  • Technology is not the objective. Learning is the objective.

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Be the MVT (Most Valuable Teacher)

  • Think about your teaching
    • Technology is a tool
    • Teaching isn’t about the tool
  • Curriculum drives instruction, therefore it follows curriculum drives technology.
  • Technology should be ubiquitous, necessary, invisible. You should not notice it, but you should miss it if it was gone.
  • We must guide the instruction.
    • Would you ever hand a kid a science book and him/her to find 5 facts about science and make a poster?

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Work SMART Not HARD!

  • Think about what you like to do and what they like to do. As humans, we always do what we like.
    • Chat? music? multitask?
  • Think about your pain points? How can technology help?
  • Children love to communicate with technology, just not always with the teacher.
    • Communication can be a powerful tool.l
    • Find ways to use communication tools for collaboration and learning.

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Work SMART Not HARD!

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What do the people in your school do with technology they can’t do with paper and pencil?

  • Kilroy

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This presentation can be found at http://go.jpsms.org/home/teachers

Jackson Public Schools

Office of Instructional Technology