Equity in the �Digital Classroom
Dennis Large, Ed.D.
dlarge@rcoe.us
@dennislarge
Riverside County Office of Education
“In today’s society, access to technology is the path to academic and economic opportunity.”��commonsensemedia.org
2,000,000,000,000
63,000
Year:
Day:
Second:
5,500,000,000
Teens & Tweens
It’s Not About the App . . .
Teach Them To Swim
Equity
“If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.”
Ignacio Estrada
“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”
Maya Angelou
Equity
Pew Research Center, 2015
Equity
Pew Research Center, 2015
Advocacy
Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP)
Access, Experience, Exposure
code.org
Access, Experience, Exposure
Pew Research Center, 2016
10X
7X
Equality & Equity
Equality
Giving all students the same thing
Equity
Giving each student what he/she needs
Equality & Equity
Equality
Giving all students a Chromebook
Equity
Personalizing resources for each student
Personalized Learning
“…the tailoring of pedagogy, curriculum and learning environments by learners or for learners in order to meet their different learning needs and aspirations. Typically, though not necessarily, technology is used to facilitate personalized learning environments.”
Zmuda, Curtis, & Ullman (2015)
Personalized Learning
Delivery System | Explanation | Teacher Role | Illustrative Examples |
Personalized Learning | Student owns the learning experience by actively pursuing authentic, complex problems that inspire co-creation in the inquiry, analysis, and final product (student control). | Facilitates learning through student questioning, conferencing, and providing feedback |
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Individualized Learning | Student and teacher owns the learning experience through demonstrate mastery of a topic (student choice). | Drives instruction through teacher-creation of tasks and related lesson plans |
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Differentiation | Student owns the learning experience through assessment and instructional choice around content, process, product, and learning environment (teacher control). | Tailors instruction based on individual student need and preference |
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Personalized Learning Shifts
Recommendation | Example |
1. Shift from primarily structured and constructed response items to performance-based tasks. | |
2. Shift from teacher-determined texts and tasks to more student voice and choice. | |
3. Shift from teacher as primary audience to exhibition/presentation to wider authentic audiences. | |
4. Shift from teacher reporting progress to parents to regular T-S conferences and student-led parent conferences. | |
Personalized Learning Shifts
Recommendation | Example |
1. Shift from primarily structured and constructed response items to performance-based tasks. | 1. Collaborative documents, simulations |
2. Shift from teacher-determined texts and tasks to more student voice and choice. | 2. Google research tools, modality choices (video, text, interactives,…) |
3. Shift from teacher as primary audience to exhibition/presentation to wider authentic audiences. | 3. Screencasting, video, social media, makerspaces |
4. Shift from teacher reporting progress to parents to regular T-S conferences and student-led parent conferences. | 4. Presentation tools, data visualizations |
Personalized Learning
“Brings in the long tail of student interests & experiences.”
Karen Cator
Director, U.S. Office of Ed Tech
Personalized Learning
How Do We Get There?
Access Technologies
Photomath
Facilitative Technologies
Adaptive Technologies
Accessibility
Chrome Extensions
Connectivity
Everyone On - everyoneon.org/
Connectivity
Kajeet - www.kajeet.net
Equity in the �Digital Classroom
Dennis Large, Ed.D.
dlarge@rcoe.us @dennislarge
Riverside County Office of Education
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