1. Enhance, Enrich, Engage, Empower and Envision The Future
Getting To The
Heart of I.T.
Enhance, Enrich, Engage, Empower
and
Envision The Future
Presented By: Cheryl Capozzoli
Instructional Technology Specialist/Educational Consultant
CAIU

2. What changes in education and technology use and access have
Changing Times
What changes in education and technology use and access have
you seen or been part of in the past 5 years?
It’s time to retool education and better prepare our students for success in the global skills race. Critical to our present and future economic competitiveness, is our dedication to a redefined personalized instructional delivery through a strategic and relevant use of technology.

3. New Skills for Present & Future Workforce
ACT, INC., Workplace Essential Skills: Resources Related to the SCANS Competencies and Foundation Skills
New Skills for Present & Future Workforce
The new literacies almost all involve social skills developed through collaboration and networking.
What are the skills needed to be successfully competitive?
effective communicators that listen and can convey information verbally or in written form.
analytical thinkers that can identify, scrutinize, improve, and streamline complex work processes.
digitally literate with extensive software proficiency encompassing various applications and hardwares
team players that can effectively with others while prioritizing and completing several concurrent tasks.
Educational experiences must provide learning opportunities for students to attain and excel in all of these areas.

4. Today’s Skills For New Age Success
Create
Access, evaluate and use information
Exercise critical thinking
Technology fluency
Displays Originality
Uses various forms of media to present ideas
Learn
Access and evaluate information
Critical thinking
Fluent with technology
Collaborate
Demonstrates cross cultural awareness
Works successfully as a team
Communicates complex ideas effectively

5. Skills For A New Economy
Higher Order Thinking Skills
are Critical!

6. How can we better prepare our students?
American Workforce
How can we better prepare our students?

7. US DATA Collection How Do We Rate?

9. US Problem Solving Skills
Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003, Test Results
15-Year Olds, Problem Solving

10. PISA Math Literacy Results - 2006

11. PISA Science Literacy Results - 2006

12. How Do We Get Them Where They Need to BE?

13. 21st Century Instructional Framework

14. 21st Century Skills Framework
What are 21st Century Skills
What are the NETS
Student Profiles
Essential Conditions for leveraging technology in education
ISTE NETS Wiki collaborative effort
US Dept. of Ed. Report - Harnessing Innovation to Support Student Success Using Technology to Personalize Education

15. What Is Instructional Technology and Why use It?
Relevant technology resources, when effectively integrated and utilized, can differentiate instruction, support content, improve data collection, and maximize levels of student engagement, learning, and performance outcomes.
When relevant technology is used effectively for learning it will:
Enhance & Enrich
Engage
Empower
Envision E 5
Education to the 5th Power

16. It’s Not About The Bells and Whistles
It's not about the “technology” it’s about “the use of technology”
It's about “Best Practice” paired with relevant and meaningful instructional technology resources

17. Are Integration Efforts Really Worth It?
YES, if we want to successfully compete in our global economy
Research on Technology in Education
Marzano at the 2009 CUE Conference and the Use of Interactive White Boards during instruction
Howard Gardner suggests that we regard technology as a tool, neither positive nor negative. It's merely a tool we can use to educate, but one that shouldn't dictate educational goals.
Bruce and Levin (1997), tools, techniques, and applications of technology can support integrated, inquiry-based learning to "engage children in exploring, thinking, reading, writing, researching, inventing, problem-solving, and experiencing the world.“
More Resources - Ed. Tech and Student Achievement - ETAN Data

18. Preparing Our Students
Dispelling Misconceptions
Assumption that today’s students know how to effectively utilize technology to learn and achieve in school
All students are digital natives, however, mainly native to technology for their own personal digital interests and priorities
The internet is a dangerous place for students and all Web 2.0 resources should remain blocked
Technology increases student achievement
Every learning activity must include technology

19. 21st Century To Do List
Do not stop what you do well – it’s all about moderation
Model responsible, ethical, productive uses of technology resources
Create collaborative options for learning
Provide choice for learning – identify learning styles and readiness
Develop assessments and task performance indicators with students
Learn and grow together – trial and error, problem solve
Integrate relevant Web 2.0 tools to maximize levels of participation and productivity
Take risks, try something new, and have Fun not Fear!

20. Relevant Tools That Work
Web 2.0 Resources
Writing, reading, listening, speaking
Blogging, Wikis Scrapblog
Podcasts
Itunes U, librivox, lit2go, spokenword
Concept Mapping -Wisdomap
Collaboration
Google Docs a virtual office
Nota – digital web design
Mixbook – online ebooks
Problem Solving and Critical Thinking
Classtools Game Creator
Cartoon Network Game Creator
Secret Builders
IMMEX – Science simulations and experiments
DoInk – simple flash animations
Fluxtime , Animasher , Dvolver - create animations and movies for demos
BrainyFlix – create vocabulary videos
Amap – create quality arguments
Networks
Ning – create classroom or professional networks
Bloust – online classroom learning environments
Hotchalk – online classroom learning environments
Visit
WEB 2.0 Guru
Wiki
For more resources
And integration strategies

21. Sustaining Practice
Take responsibility for ongoing Professional and Personal learning opportunities
Alison, Edweek – Free webinars
Work collaboratively with colleagues to build interdisciplinary activities
Instructional Coaching - PIIC
Include parents and community to build awareness
Create or join Personal Learning Networks (PLN)
ISTE Ning
Classroom 2.0
PA Educators
CFF Connections
Twitter
PBS Teachers Connect
ETAN – Ed. Tech Action Network

22. Suggestions For Next Steps?
Develop comprehensive K-12 Integrated Curriculum
Focus on 21st Century Skills and assessment of 21st Century Student Proficiencies
Participate in ongoing professional development opportunities that support 21st Century instruction and learning
Assess current technology resources and build a consistent robust infrastructure to support teachers and students
Create collaborative learning models – Collective intelligence of all teachers and students
Assess integration strategies and design quality
Capacity for IT in your pedagogy and ISTE’s ICOT
LOTI Lounge – survey, project plans, resources
Matrix with examples of exemplar integration practices

23. Resources
Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 21st Century Skills Education and Competitiveness Guide.pdf, 2008; Route 21
Jenkins .Clinton, Purushotma, Robison, Weigel; Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century; at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ed Coughlin, Cheryl Lemke, et al. enGauge 21st Century Skills: Literacy in the Digital Age (Los Angeles, CA: The Metiri Group, 2003)
ACT, INC., Workplace Essential Skills: Resources Related to the SCANS Competencies and Foundation Skills
OECD - The OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2006 US Results
U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences – PISA 2006
NAP – Technically Speaking, 2002
Edutopia
PearsonFdtn ; Youtube;