1. Technology and the New Common Core
What we don’t know.
What we know.
What can we do.
Students will be expected to do what they know!

2. National Educational Technology Plan

3. Quotes from the National Ed. Tech Plan
“applying the advanced technologies of our daily lives to education”
“leverage learning science and modern technology”
“become facilitators and collaborators”
“measure what matters”
“we do not have the luxury of time”

4. Assessment

5. Instruction

6. What we know!!! Students will need technology skills
Students will be expected to solve real world tasks with technology tools
Technology will be the “toolbox” for project-based learning
Students will be evaluated on what they can do as well as what they know
Someone has to lead technology instruction

7. Our Technology Program?
Administrative Tools
Remediation
Content Delivery
Non Academic Utilities
Teacher Centered Technology
The one thing all these have in common is that they do almost nothing to reach student technology skills.

8. Let me entertain you.
Interactive Whiteboard

9. 21st Century Literacy Who we teach What we teach How we teach it
How did we do
How we teach it!
David Warlick 21st Century Literacy

10. Technology Skill Toolbox
It’s not the tool it’s the task!

11. Sample Primary Tool Box
Word Processor
Presentation Application
Spreadsheet
Internet Resources
Skill Games

12. Advanced Tools Middle Grades, Junior High, High School Toolboxes
Sophisticated Research
Webquests
Podcasts
Animation
Video
Blogs
Shared Learning Spaces
Collaboration School, Local, National, Global
Advanced Publishing
Harry Dickens

13. What Does Skill-Based Technology Look Like?
Student Centered
Uses a variety of technology tools
Sequential in complexity
Has “real world” look and feel
Is standards-based in both content and delivery

14. Samples
Dog Wash
Billy Bob
Graphic Representations
Mark Twain

15. Skill-based Assessments
Learning.com
SimpleK12

16. January 2010

17. May 25, 2010

18. Sepetmber 2010
Basic - 297

19. Your class has done a survey of student’s favorite fruit
Your class has done a survey of student’s favorite fruit. Click on the symbol on the spreadsheet that makes a graph of the data form the survey

20. % who scored 75% or better
CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION %
COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION % .
RESEARCH AND INFORMATION FLUENCY %
CRITICAL THINKING, PROBLEM SOLVING, DECISION MAKING 32.66%
DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP 65.40%
TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS AND CONCEPTS 54.21%

21. Advanced Toolbox Free Sophisticated Research Webquests Podcasts
Manipulatives
Animation
Video
Blogs
Shared Learning Spaces
Collaboration School, Local, National, Global
Advanced Publishing

22. “leverage learning science and modern technology”
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