Monday, October 26, 2009

National Educational Technology Plan Webinar

20091026 webinar national tech plan

National coalition for tech in ed and training

Jim Shelton office innovation and improvement doe, barbara means sri, linda roberts netplan, melinda george, mark schneiderman

Jim

Reality-oportunity in crisis; failure of system to serve students well; economic crisis;

We must get dramatically better in increasing productivity of our sector; this plan how we fundamentally improve student learning; improve effectiveness of educators

Barbara: different from prior: this is to be something with transformational vision; also wanted draft by end of 2009; group of 16 people working on draft; now outreach and info gathering

ID 4 themes: learning assess & continuaous imrpovement, teaching and productiviyt & infrastructure

Learning: enabling unprecedented access to high quality learning experiences

Assessment: measuring what matters and providing the info that enables continuous improvement process at all leve3ls of ed system

Teaching: new ways to support those who support learning

Productiity & infra: ubiquitous broadband infrastructure to support all these goals . Redesigning systems and process to free up ed system resources to support;

Edtechfuture.org

QA

Jim-Focus on low income first; as prices drop, how get tech to students; difficult with current funding environment;

?-more of the same not what we are looking for;

How will plan relate with state plans? Hope for bubble up and trickle down; \

Funding: how plan address funding? Framework drive policy action;

Any recommendations for skills to be taught? Any relationship with Partnership21cs?

Group aware of partnership; some efforts , eg 8th grade tech literacy; need to look globally at tech literacy

Ntechplan deal with growing Gap with equity?

Not just equipment; very first topic technical working group tackled; can't answer yet, can say want it addressing

Hope to see examples of networking often prohibited in many schools

Well intentioned policies ha ve limited students to important educational resources;

R uecommendations to erate? Fcc broadband plan comment period right now; hope for alignment;

How will plan address dropouts? 2 ways to look a this: address students already in this stage & engage students while we have them

What role for teacher pd in plan?

Talks about supporting supporters of learning; move away from one-occasion and more online, finding time in busy schedules--this will be theme in plan

Higher ed--teacher training divide? How guide professors of ed?

Welcome input; some discussion for needs of preparing teachers;

Hybrid mode emphasis and assessment techniques; more in alignment with what we expect them to do with their own students

Not gotten volume of response we expected;

Problem plan: how many audiences we write to, the more we add, the less likely to become policy;

Offiline NECC notes 2

Earth Mashing: Web 2.0 Meets Google Earth
www.digitalgoonies.com
www.curriculummagic.com

web20tools.wetpaint.com
googleearthlessons.wetpaint.com

lesson exampless:
add haiku to picture placemark
Several placemarks, use strikethrough for incorrect placemarks
measurement lessons

voki narrarate
polls
slideshows
leafletter
photopeach
scrapblog
vocaroo
wix
magtoo
slideroll
photostory
timetoast

students can piggyback on teachers' gmail
eg holland@gmail.com holland+johnsmith@gmail.com

jholland.otherinbox.com so that anything@jholland.otherinbox.com will come to one email box

slideboom.com

timetoast can make or find timeline , click embed/share

scrapblog needs some maniputaiton
on digitalgoonies.com we describe 3 lines of code you must replace first line of scrapblog, then it will work

magtoo.com
slideshow where click addphotos ; can grab from flickr [teachers can collect photos and point students to folder]
example: jayleesdaddy washdc folder
add style, skin, music
uncheck autostart

[online-stopwatch.com]

voki.com
use myspace code embed

http://creativeedgeresources.com/
jim@crea... susan@crea...

can make powerpoint slides into jpg instructions on digital goonies

when make placemarks, can drag into folders and rightclick saveplaceas for kmz file


iste.org/byoleval2009

Offiline NECC notes 1

Computational constructs and techniques fo rprovlems oslving
www.nationalacademies.org

3 exqmples
Multitasking: psych studies to dermine if mroe efficient or not
info management “interpreting code as data and data as code”
k12 - honey bees-joshua danash complex model...

CT the 4th r

to teach ct must you use tech in some way in the classroom

magic machine
fues any number between 1-10 in 4 tries or less
1-20 in five guess
1-50 in 7 tries
1-100 in 8 trires
how about 1000--how many guesses

information theory--strategy
20 questions-guess animal what is a good first question

hangman


csunplugged.com
activity 5 info theory
Activity 6 Searching algorithms

important skills: mamaging large voumes of data

Alice a 3d interactive animation envronment
program visualization tool
free at alice.org

smart drag and drop editor

Studies:


chris moersch

Loti survey

lotiounge.org.com
can get school levels and teacher levels

web 2.0
wordle
backboard

what gets measured gets improved


1:1
note teacher linear/text organizers “translate” with student visual concept organization

Smartboard recordings available to all immediately

whole grp passage analysis in englisht with smargboard

Jing--students can follow other’s directions; can record whatever we want; eg student demonstrating virtual lab

(we allow open access to install) some of hte best software has been found by students; eg iflash for creating stacks of flashcards

delivery does not have to be syncronous

student production can be taking a test to interviewing community; what teachers assess; usually limit ways students to produce; now wide variety
eg voice composition instead of written, speech to text for writing problems; found a way to reach this kid
eg raps in foreign language
eg oral history


Leslie fisher great gadgets
tripit
yelp
twitter--backchannel
jott
rememberthemilk
evernote-can take comptuer pic and ocr
ustream.tv

adium adiumx.com mac and windows trillian
mozy.com backup; pc maxtor at home with remote
orbicule.com/undercover (mac) if stolen

istockphoto.com artexplosion.com dreamstime novadelelopment.com clipart.com$12/wk
theflip.com now hd

sd cards can be slow, may need faster card; sandisk extreme

smugmug - can set up passwords for galleries or download size or sell
free - $99

if 100% education, then can get pro level ($200) free

Pnnacle pctv hd pro stick
pinnaclesys

speakers: harman-multimedia.com

slingbox

netflix roku

ion-audio converst records to mp3

Iphone apps
saisuke -google calendar
shazam id songs
smug mug
twitterfon can do searchs
remember the milk
beejive multiple im clients
yelp
aroundme

inflightpower.com
badkup power on plane using sound

solio.com
solar power--company handed out during katrina

kensington.com
one charge and a half

mophie juce pack
case that will add to batterylife

cradlepoint.com
can make wifi out of phone

virtual-laser-keyboard.com
keypan present remote

sfbags.com
northface surge backpack for 17” laptop

thinktankphto.com

diy.despair.com/motivator.php

Scott Mcleaod
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Effective Leadership in an Era of Disruptive Innovation https://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2009/program/search_results_details.php?sessionid=43600747

http://www.schooltechleadership.org/

bit.ly/neccmcleod1

two books innovators delema and disrupting class

what is disruptive innovation

http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=344

good orgs with goo people will disappear if don’t understand the natrual loaws of disruptive innovew
ver difficult fo rexisitng suuccesful orgs to become dominant in new market
it easier to create new or or buy one thatn to turn and existing org around
its difficutl to anlayze the unkowable
first-mover advantage is important when it comes to disruptive innovations


1. education disruptive innovation--it’s personalized learning (not online learning)
existing educational model is not a given
? 2019

what do we do?
dont wait until it is good enough
start with underserved student groups
us different metrics for success
compete directly with the existing organization