1. TECHNLOGY and TRANSITION
Marian Thacher
OTAN

2. Where to find links and handout
TechAndTransition.wikispaces.com/

3. Technology and Transition
Why would technology be important in moving from adult school to post-secondary – college or a certificate program?
Online assignments
Online research
Online communication with professors
Online collaboration

4. Technology and Transition
Why would technology be important in moving from adult school to employment?
and other online communication
Texting, videoconferencing, VoIP
Locating information and instructions online
Online communication with co-workers, other locations, other countries
Online training

5. Some Frameworks

6. What NEW Skills Do We Need?

7. National Ed Tech Plan
“By 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.”
—President Barack Obama, Address to Congress, February 24, 2009

8. National Ed Tech Plan
• We will raise the proportion of college graduates from where it now stands [39%] so that 60% of our population holds a 2-year or 4-year degree.
• We will close the achievement gap so that all students – regardless of race, income, or neighborhood – graduate from high school ready to succeed in college and careers.

9. National Ed Tech Plan How is that going to happen?
It can’t! Not without adult education.

10. National Ed Tech Plan
Create personalized learning experiences for all learners
Teaching is a team activity – build online communities
Seat time is no longer relevant
Everyone needs broadband access

11. What New Skills Do We Need to Teach?
The Four C’s
Critical Thinking
Communication
Collaboration
Creativity and Innovation
American Management Survey defines these as the critical skills employers are looking for at all levels.

12. Critical Thinking

13. Bloom’s Taxonomy

14. Analyzing Traditional New Skills Comparing Organizing Outlining
Finding
Structuring
Integrating
Linking
Tagging
Mashing up
Validating
Reverse-engineering

15. Analyzing New Assignment Traditional Assignment
Post a paragraph about cooking turkey on your blog.
Make the topic sentence blue and link each supporting detail to a photo.
Give your paragraph 3 tags
Post a comment
Write a paragraph about how to cook a turkey.
Include a topic sentence and three supporting details.
Critique with your partner. (Rubric)

16. Critical Thinking About Info
Evaluate online information
Read the Web address
Examine site content
Who is the Author or publisher
Who Links to this site?

17. Communication

18. Traditional Assignment

19. New Assignment

20. Texting Question of the Day Are you practicing English?
Did you complete the math homework?
Please bring your math homework to class tomorrow
What does Information Literacy mean?
How many centimeters are there in one meter?
Did you watch 60 Minutes last night? Text me one thing you learned.
???

21. Text Students or Staff or…
phonenumber = your 10 digit phone number

22. A collection of ideas for using cell phones in instruction
mlearninginadulted.wikispaces.com/

23. Collaboration

24. Collaboration
We are the queens (and kings)!

25. But What’s Different? How are people collaborating in college, or at work?
Chat rooms
Cell phones
Texting
Online meetings
Skype
Video calls
Video conferencing

26. What about the flat world?
We can find and experts
We can invite them to chat or skype with our class
We can share information across states and continents

27. Creativity and Innovation

28. OK, teachers have always been creative!
But now, we have many fewer limitations
Publish student writing to the world
Create cartoons, animations, videos, with a few clicks

29. So how are we doing?

30. Are we providing online assignments?
Are we communicating with students via or online forums?
Are we posting course information?
Are we encouraging online collaboration?
Do we expect students to locate information online?

31. A Little more context

32. Reach Higher, America
“Technology should be used in all its forms to make learning a continuous process of inquiry and improvement that keeps pace with the speed of change in business and society.”
p.24

33. Tech to Transform Adult Ed
Information and communications technology skills (ICT literacy) are essential, both on and off the job…. Some 70 percent of all jobs in the U.S. will require some level of ICT skills by 2016.
p. iii

34. Independent Online Learning
Adults across the literacy and language spectrum show strong motivation to gain computer literacy skills, perceived as key to work advancement.
p. iv

35. Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.   --Mark Twain