Integrating Education Technology into the Curriculum

EDU 505 – Introduction to Ed TechWeek 1

Where Do We Want to Be?Helping our teachers become 21st Century Educators

Education in the 21st Century

“We’ve slid into the 21st Century-and into the digital age-still doing a great many things the old way.”

Two Terms Coined by Marc Prensky

Digital Native: Today’s Students Native speakers of Technology

Digital Immigrant: Those of us not born in the digital age.

Like those who learn a second language late in life, have an accent; we too have an accent.

Need to Shift Gears and abandon our pre-digital instincts and comfort zones.

Collaborating with Students

Can no longer decide for our students; we need to decide with them. Include them in all classroom decision

making: Discussions about curriculum development Teaching methods School organization Discipline Assignments

May sound like the inmates running the asylum.

Through this we may gain ideas to solve education’s thorniest problems.

The most reliable way to anticipate the future is by understanding The present.

John NaisbittAuthor of Megatrends

Educational Technology K-12

Technology’s Penetration into 25% of the Homes in the USA

Technology Number of YearsTelephone 35Television 26Computer 16Internet 7PDA 3

Percent of U.S. Homes with Computer and Internet Access

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U.S. Dept. of Commerce using U.S. Bureau of the Census Current Population Survey Supplement

Teen Access to Technologies

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Computer

Cell Phone

Video game console

Digital Camera

Digital Cable TV

Digital music player

Web enabled cell phone

Satellite TVages 13-18ages 19-24

Internet Usage By Age

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Age2000 2002

Internet Savvy Students in 2007

Rely on the Internet to do school work

Use Internet as virtual textbook and reference library

Use Internet as virtual tutor and study shortcut

Use Internet for virtual study groups

Use Internet as a virtual guidance counselor

Use the Internet as a virtual locker, backpack, and notebookPew Internet & American Life Project, August 14, 2002

How Technology Has Effected Parenting

While technology offers many positive things, like connectedness and information, those same attributes, if misused, can also be quite harmful. Without the proper guidance and monitoring, teens can be lured into a sphere of digital and real-world dangers.

E-Monitoring Remotely view computer monitors Bad language tools Filters Website blocking Global positioning Performance tracking

How are schools using technology?

Electronic presentation: 81% Word processing: 68% Internet: 50% Publishing: 40% Web editors: 36% Spreadsheets: 6% Databases: <1% E-mail: <1%

E-learning

Provides new opportunities for educators

Promotes local control by expanding opportunities

Increases flexibility for schools

Promotes opportunities for differentiated instruction to meet needs of all learners

Promotes higher level thinking and opportunities for enrichment of all learners

U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige, July 2002

Don’t forget No Child Left Behind

With the pressure put on schools to meet NCLB requirements, it is easy to say we can’t do that and meet AYP!

Not an option:

NCLB requires that all students will be technologically literate by the 8th grade.

December 31, 2006 States must show how they are integrating technology into curriculum and teaching.

Educational Technology can support No Child Left Behind by:

Equipping teachers with productivity tools.

Empowering teachers, parents and decision makers with real-time data.

Expanding access to the best resources and learning opportunities, increasing choices.

Engaging students in their education.

Individualizing learning by personalizing instruction for each student’s unique learning needs.Structuring meaningful work for children to do from which they will learn.

Dr. Phil Schlechty, Schools for the Twenty-first Century

Teacher-centered instruction

Passive learningPassive learning

Isolated workIsolated work

Single mediaSingle media

Single path progressionSingle path progression

Single sense stimulationSingle sense stimulation

Reactive responseReactive response Isolated, artificial contextIsolated, artificial context

Factual/literal thinkingFactual/literal thinking

Information deliveryInformation delivery

Student-centered learningStudent-centered learning

Authentic, real world contextAuthentic, real world context

Proactive/planned actionProactive/planned action

Critical thinking, informed decision-makingCritical thinking, informed decision-making

Active/exploratory/inquiry-based learningActive/exploratory/inquiry-based learning

Information exchangeInformation exchange

Collaborative workCollaborative work

MultimediaMultimedia

Multipath progressionMultipath progression

Multisensory stimulationMultisensory stimulation

Establishing New Learning Environments

TraditionalTraditional -------- -------- IncorporatingIncorporating ------ ------ New EnvironmentsNew Environments New StrategiesNew Strategies

The Students are the Knowledge Workers

We must createmeaningful work forchildren to do from

which they will learn.

Phil Schlechty

The Students are the Knowledge Workers

If students become engaged in the right

“stuff,” they are likely to learn what we want

them to learn.Phil Schlechty, Working on the Work, 2002

The Students are the Knowledge Workers

Focus on inventing highly engaging work for all

students—work that the community deems

important.

Phil Schlechty, July 2002

Six Most Wanted Workforce Skills

SKILL PERCENT OF JOBSREQUIRING SKILL

Technological Fluency 81Communication 74Teamwork (Collaboration) 36Leadership 34Problem Solving 23Creativity 22

David ThornburgThe New Basics

Core Skills Needed for Present Day Worker

Digital-Age Literacy Inventive Thinking Effective Communication High Productivity

School Technology and Readiness ReportNCREL Sponsored enGauge Project, 2006

Students Must Use Technology to:

Create Documents Locate Information Collaborate with Remote Groups Perform Calculations Make Dynamic Presentations

Tools Students Should UseStudents need to know how to use technology effectively to create documents, locate information, collaborate with remote groups, perform calculations, and make dynamic presentations. At minimum, they should understand how to use the following tools:

The Web Blogs and Wiki’s Word, Excel, PowerPoint Spreadsheet Graphing Software Database

Drawing Software Paint/Photo Software Sound and Music

Creation/Editing Software Animation/Movie Editing

Software Presentation Tool (Including

Multimedia Authoring)

What tools do your students’ know how to use??

Create Meaningful Work For Students

WHICH IS:

PROJECT BASED LIFELONG LEARNING

David ThornburgThe New Basics

Results for Younger Students

Results from the NAEP for 4th & 8th grades in Math and Science 2001:

Indicated that the quality of computer work was more important than the quantity.

Using computers to help students work through complex problems, thus tapping higher order thinking skills, produced greater benefits than using computers to drill on routine tasks.

The fact that computers were most effective when teachers used them to promote higher order thinking is a huge argument in favor of technology.

The survey confirmed that teachers were not using computers effectively. Fewer than 30% reported their teachers used computers for higher order thinking skills.

How should they be used?

Word processing: students who are skillful at keyboarding can more easily express their ideas than students who scribble out their homework with a pen and paper.

Using computers for art projects: Although there may not be any history knowledge involved in creating computer graphics, this activity provides students with a set of conceptual tools that they can apply across subject areas.

Creating charts; tables; and graphs: These tasks help students think abstractly about economic, social and physical phenomena.

Completing projects: Experience in planning, implementing, and sustaining a large project—a practice referred to as project-based learning, appears to promote student achievement.

The Bottom Line

“If our schools in the 21st Century are to be anything more than holding pens for students while their parents work, we desperately need to find ways to help teachers integrate kids’ technology-rich after school lives with their lives in-school.” --Marc Prensky

“What we’re talking about is invention – new things in new

ways. Change is the order of the day in our kids’ twenty first-

century lives. It ought to be the order of the day in their schools

as well.”

Marc Prensky, Edutopia, Dec/Jan 2006

Educational Technology K-12