Project Tomorrow: Speak Up! Data to Move Your School Forward Robert Hindman, Principal Taylor Elementary School Arlington Public Schools July 2012

ISTE Student Presenters…Now What?

National K-12 Survey, funded since 2003 Formerly NET Day This year: 416,758 online surveys submitted from K-12 students, parents, teachers and administrators This year – provided survey to Canada, Australia and to US Higher Education Join and get involved! Project Tomorrow – Speak Up!

Taylor Involvement Participated 2009, 2011

Questions Asked 2009 and 2011 K-2 and 3-5 Grade Gender Do you know more / less / about the same as other classmates about technology? What tech do you have to use?

Findings – Tools for own use at home 2011K-23-5 National Cell phone 3%16%25% Smartphone 1%15%21% Computer at home 26%32%40% Tablet / iPad 13%25%18% MP3 / iPod 30%55%37% Video game 64%75%67% National Cell phone 15%28% Smartphone 12%16% Computer at home (desktop) 59%41% Tablet / iPad/ Laptop 41%31% MP3 / iPod 71%54% Video game 74%63%

Home Computer Use – Then and Now 2009K-23-5National -97%53% 2011K-23-5National 81% (71% High Speed Internet) 96% (67% High Speed Internet) 90%

How do you use Technology for Schoolwork? 2011K-2 (%) National (%) 3-5 (%) National (%) (%) National (%) Writing Assignments PPT / IM/ text friends Listen to podcasts / books Learning / educational games Online tests Internet Use Video Use Online Textbooks

Barriers from Technology Use at School (%) National (%) 3-5 (%) National (%) Computers are not always available Cannot / IM / text classmates Cannot always use my own cell / smartphone or MP3 player Internet not fast enough Blocked websites Teachers don’t know how to use sites, none of the above or other

Emerging Trends Online learning Social Media Bring your Own Devices Diminished school funding Digital textbooks

K-2 Emerging Trend: Social Media K-2 (%)National (%) Do art projects5023 Download / listen to music 5734 Websites for TV4827 Virtual worlds / Webkins, Club Penguin 6132 Play online games6952 Share photos4310 Update Profiles5913 Watch Videos8040 Blog / Journal Online153

3-5 Emerging Trend: BYOD If you could use your own device, how would you use it? 3-5 (%)National (%) Check grades2948 Create video / podcasts3822 / text classmates / teachers4742 Go to websites or portal (Blackboard) 2423 Use internet for research5753 Get online textbook6127 Receive reminders / alerts4329 Record a lesson4234 Take notes6152 Use the calendar feature4933 Work on projects collaboratively6245

Key Findings – Personalized Learning Students are adopting technologies and then adapting them to support their own self-directed learning. For example, 1 in 10 high school students have Tweeted about an academic topic. 46% of students have used Facebook as a collaboration tool for schoolwork. Parents are supporting their children’s personalized learning journeys. 64% of parents report that they would purchase a mobile device for their child’s academic use at school.

Key Findings – Personalized Learning There is a gap in offerings between what schools offer and what students want to learn. As a result, students are looking outside of the classroom to meet their personalized learning goals. For example, 12% of high school students have taken an online class on their own, outside of the classroom, to learn about a topic that interested them. Beginning with the 9 th grade class of , VA is requiring one online class for graduation. In math and science classrooms where students and teachers direct learning supported by technology, students’ interest in a STEM career is 27%, compared with 20% for students in traditional math and science classrooms.

Key Findings – Personalized Learning Parents’ definition of academic success for their children places a strong emphasis on learning the right skills to be successful (73%)- more than any other metric for success, including monetary success or getting into a good college.

How Are We Using Technology at School? What should we be preparing for according to this graph?

Do It Yourself Learning… Are your students using and social media? If so, how is the school teaching internet safety? Taylor has a Ning we are using with 4 th graders to teach social learning skills and instructional behavior – a collaborative project.

Value of Digital Learning Is your school using digital textbooks and Blackboard as your learning management access?

Going Mobile? How can we harness personal tools for students at school?

MD Assisted Learning How can we move from the paper agenda? How can we build access inside and outside of school?

Major Obstacles to Learning? What shift has to happen with these issues / tools to allow learning to occur?

Imagine a New School… (%)National (%)K-2National3-5National Projectors Document Cameras Online Games Handheld devices (clickers) Interactive Whiteboards Mobile computer for every student Birng own Mobile Devices (cell, smartphone, iPad) *combined / provide / 66 (use own) 40 / 48 (use own) *108 (use own) *79 (use own) Online classes Online Texts Online Tutors Communication tools /portals (customized software) Organizational tools Video / sound editing tools Collaborative tools (Google Docs) Internet Use Anywhere Video Conferencing

Taylor Students are Ready! For continued Internet Safety Instruction For instructional social media For communication tools (Blackboard / Google…age constraint? Use Gaggle or e-Pals) Mobile Devices 1:1 mobile device initiative STEM use of all tools

Is Your School Ready? Participate and Follow your data on your school’s technology needs Use data to inform teachers, parents and community Use data to inform budget decisions Use data to inform interview questions for specialists and teachers Use for comparative information after completing online observation tool to inform teacher

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