Cougar Ridge Site Council April 22, 2013

What is our focus for classroom technology? District End Statement 4 Throughout life, students will understand and apply current and emerging technologies to extend their personal abilities and productivity. – State Educational Technology Standards Integration Digital Citizenship – Common Core State Standards – OSPI Tier 3 Integration in the Classroom Powerful Student Centered 21 st Century Learning Environment

State Standards for Educational Technology EALR 1. Integration Students use technology within all content areas to collaborate, communicate, generate innovative ideas, investigate and solve problems. Integration components 1.1 Innovate – be creative 1.2 Collaborate – work together 1.3 Investigate & Think Critically – research and solve problems

State Standard s for Educational Technology EALR 2. Digital Citizenship Students demonstrate a clear understanding of technology systems and operations and practice safe, legal and ethical behavior. Digital Citizenship components 2.1 Internet Safety & Digital Ethics 2.2 Hardware & Operations 2.3 Applications 2.4 Transfer knowledge

State GLEs and Evidence of Learning by Grade Span

Online State Grade Level Standards & Resources

Common Core State Standards Students use technology and digital media strategically and capably – “Students employ technology thoughtfully to enhance their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language use. They tailor their searches online to acquire useful information efficiently, and they integrate what they learn using technology with what they learn offline. They are familiar with the strengths and limitations of various technological tools and mediums and can select and use those best suited to their communication goals.” “Using technology” is found many places throughout the specific content area goals.

Our Essential Question: How do we enable our students to actively engage in using technology for individual and collaborative learning activities? How can teachers accomplish this?

By integrating technology into the classroom curriculum: Students use technology throughout the day for many purposes. Teachers can guide students in using technology to enhance their thinking and learning. Technology is embedded in the instruction of the content and the learning activities.

To assist teachers the District is: Providing professional development for our teachers – Issaquah Technology Project – Professional Development specific to applications teachers are using to help them integrate its use into their current classroom curriculum Providing the equipment they need for instruction Providing the equipment students need for learning activities Providing technical support so staff and students can focus on teaching and learning

What are the tools teachers are integrating into their classroom curriculum? Projector/ActivBoard/Document Camera for visual display of instruction and for student interaction Electronic Student Response Systems (Votes or Expressions) to gather data from students to inform instruction Desktops/laptops/netbooks/tablets Classroom website (Connect)

What’s next? Mobile devices More and more online BYOD On-line testing – Smarter Balanced – Practice Test open May 29 –

Questions?