1. Leadership and 21st Century Skills
What’s Your Vision?

2. The Case for 21st Century Education
Education is changing.
Competition is changing internationally.
The workplace, jobs, and skill demands are changing.
We can no longer claim that the US educational results are unparalleled. Students around the world outperform American students on assessments that measure 21st century skills. Today’s teachers need better tools to address this growing concern.
Innovation and creativity no longer sets US education apart. Innovators around the world rival Americans in breakthroughs that fuel economic competitiveness.
Today,every student, whether he/she plans to go on to a 4-year college, trade school, or entry-level job, requires 21st century skills to succeed. We need to ensure that all students are qualified to succeed in work and life skills in this global economy. Teachers need the training to empower them to transmit these skills through their instruction.

3. Change our teaching methods? Why?

4. Discuss
What implications does the video have for our current way of doing things?
What challenges do we have?
These changes, among others, are ushering us toward a world where knowledge, power, and productive capability will be more dispersed than at any time in our history—a world where value creation will be fast, fluid, and persistently disruptive
Economic Impact
Shifts in the nature of business organizations and the growing importance of knowledge-based work also favor strong non-routine cognitive skills, such as abstract reasoning, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration.
Increasingly, the term “knowledge workers” is applied to workers who go beyond just providing information to now being responsible for generating and conveying knowledge needed for decision-making

7. Framework for 21st Century Skills Partnership for 21st Century
Hyperlink to Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Click on Core Subjects

8. 21st Century Skills Learning & Innovation Skills Life & Career Skills
Creativity & Innovation
Critical Thinking & Problem-solving
Communication & Collaboration
Information, Media & Technology Skills
Information Literacy
Media Literacy
ICT Literacy
Life & Career Skills
Flexibility & Adaptability
Initiative & Self-direction
Social & Cross-cultural Skills
Productivity & Accountability
Leadership & Responsibility

9. Examine ICT maps
Take a few minutes to read an appropriate grade level and content area.

10. Route 21

11. 20th Century Learning Teacher-directed Direct Instruction Knowledge
Content
Basic Skills
Theory
Curriculum
Individual
Classroom
Summative Assessed
Learning for School

12. 21st Century Learning A Better Balance Teacher-directed
Direct Instruction
Knowledge
Content
Basic Skills
Theory
Curriculum
Individual
Classroom
Summative Assessments
Learning for School
Learner-centered
Collaborative Construction
Skills
Process
Higher-order Thinking
Practice
Life Skills
Group
Community
Formative Evaluations
Learning for Life
A Better
Balance

13. Who are our students?
Today’s students have not just changed incrementally from those of the past, nor simply changed their slang, clothes, body adornments, or styles, as has happened between generations previously. A really big discontinuity has taken place. One might even call it a “singularity” – an event which changes things so fundamentally that there is absolutely no going back. This so-called “singularity” is the arrival and rapid dissemination of digital technology in the last decades of the 20th century.

14. In their voice…
Younger Students
Older Students

15. Digital Native Learners
21st Century Learners
Digital Native Learners
Multitasking
Learning through media
Social networking
Online info researching, writing and sharing
Games, simulations and creative expressions

16. Essential Questions for Administrators
How can a leader support teacher effectiveness to improve student achievement?
Transition to what can administrators do???

17. Leaders who support teacher effectiveness…
believe that technology is important and makes a difference in teaching and learning.
are enthusiastic about technology and supporting their teachers.
believe that this is the right thing to do for kids.

18. CDE’s Definitions of Technology Literacy
The ability to use appropriate technology responsibly…
to communicate
to solve problems,
to access, create, integrate, evaluate, and manage information
to improve learning of state content standards in all subject areas and to acquire lifelong knowledge and skills in the 21st century.

19. CDE’s Definition of Curriculum Integration…
Involves the infusion of technology as a tool
to enhance the learning of state content standards in a content area or multidisciplinary setting. Technology integration enables students to learn in ways not previously possible.

20. CDE’s says…
Effective integration of technology is achieved when students are able to select technology tools to help them obtain information in a timely manner, analyze and synthesize the information, and present it professionally. The technology should become an integral part of how the classroom functions- as accessible as all other classroom tools.

21. Defining Integration of Technology
Technology integration is the process of teachers and students routinely and seamlessly using technology resources and technology-based practices to enhance learning. 

22. Let’s look at leadership behaviors
Use the Visual Ranking Tool to rank and compare leader behaviors in supporting effective technology integration
Rank behaviors in order of importance to YOU

23. Visual Ranking Tool: www.intel.com/education/visualranking
Learning Through Ranking Introducing the Visual Ranking Tool
Visual Ranking Tool:
Free online resources for ranking and comparing items in lists
Free project workspace for teachers and students
Professional development available
To begin this exploration, we’re going to use the Visual Ranking Tool which is available online. It’s a learning tool developed to help learners of all ages through the use of ranking – which items are more important than others. It’s free, and part of the Intel Teach to the Future suite of professional development opportunities.
3.01 gives you a written introduction to the tool.
Link out to the site, show features, demo comments box, return to this show.
Go to next slide.

24. Learning Through Ranking Logging In
Teacher ID:
Team ID: Userxx (xx is your assigned number 01 through 29)
Password: Userxx (same as Team ID)
Insert your teacher ID on this slide, have participants number off or use their response card numbers, and make sure you use 01, 02, etc. if that’s how you’ve set up the VR activity. Edit this slide for your number of participants.
OK, here are your Team IDs and passwords… put your information in the appropriate place on your screen and write in this information in your Participant Guide.
Specific directions and screen shots are in your guide on Module 3.03.
Then, there are directions for how to sort using the tool on Module 3.04 and 3.05.
You can ignore the Roman numerals and numbers behind each behavior… we’ll come back to those later but don’t let them influence your rankings.
Circulate and assist, then go to next slide.

25. Understanding Standards for Administrators
ISTE – International Society for Technology in Education
NETS – National Educational Technology Standards
“A” for Administrators, “T” for Teachers, “S” for Students
We now move on to Activity 2 in this Module, looking at the NETS A.
The national standards are published through ISTE and they come in three versions… NETS A for administrators, NETS T for teachers, and NETS S for students. Many of you will recall hearing about “TESSA” and these standards came directly out of those efforts.
You just finished ranking several of the NETS A Standards, and now you’ll have a chance to look more closely at what they are.
Also, note that we do have two case studies in the Appendix, showing how an actual principal and a superintendent are supporting technology integration in their schools.
Go to next slide.

26. Go to NETS Go to Nets Look at Student Standards in handouts
Choose one of the profiles and look at these
Go to NETS

27. Standards for Teachers
Look at this video to find evidence of 21st century skills and NETS for teachers and students.
Hula to High Tech
What 21st century skills are evident?
List one teacher standard and one student standard exhibited.

28. Have a discussion…
How can you shift priorities and time to support a 21st century learning environment?
What helps a leader move to higher levels of comfort and knowledge relative to 21st century skills?

29. Let’s look at a Technology Observation Rubric
What evidence will you accept that integration is occurring – keeping in mind that USE and INTEGRATION are separate?

30. Sample Student Products
Look at these classrooms.
Clearfield High School
Where on the observation tool would you place these activities?