TF440B+++Leading+Effective+Technology+Integration+in+Schools

Hoke Wilcox**
 * Jo Williamson, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership/Instruction

EdTechLeader Site

Goals:
 * 1) What kind of technology use do we want to see in the schools?
 * 2) Why? Can we answer it? Can we make others answer it?
 * 3) How can we make it happen?

Define "Next Steps" in technology use
 * Identify its practice
 * Practice coaching for it
 * practice designing it
 * practice selecting resources to encourage it
 * establish a way to share resources

Everything we do needs to be intentional and have a purpose

What kind of technology uses would you like to see in your classrooms and why?

A lot of resistance of changing is seeded by fear of change

Engaging students...connection to curriculum...collaboration

Preferences of DIgital Age Learners want to:
 * Generate Original Content
 * Communicate with others
 * Express themselves
 * Pursue their own interests
 * Relevant, useful knowledge
 * challenge
 * Access to tools they use
 * caring, personal environments
 * "individualized" tutor to help them whenever they want

To be engaging content needs to be truly thought provoking, fascinating and energizing

Understanding...not just to know facts but the whys, hows etc. They need to uncover underlying content facts

By engaging and understanding, students will retain better.

Identifying Indicators of Engaged Learning (model paper to use)...helps get over that oohhh that's kool to what can we do to make that better? What is missing?

Engaged Learning Model more effective than the Problem Learning Model

Define the indicators of effective instruction that lead to engagement, transfer, retention and understanding Build Value for the indicators Develop a common vocabulary Model the indicators and desired technology use in the PD Coach teachers to higher levels based on evaluation of the indicators Support teachers in designing these types of learning experiences or design them ourselves Provide teachers, students and parents with tech-based instructional resources that support the indicators; carefully reflect on what we buy, select and promote Implement policy and education programs on safe online learning

Levels of Technology Implementation (LoTi)

Types of Resources
 * Reference (Learn About)
 * Games, Simulations and "Discovery" Learning
 * Next Step Projects - Authentic publishing opportunities, contextualized for the classroom, indicators of EL
 * Cool Tools - Tools that aren't contextualized but have potential to support the creation of original, publishable Next Step Projects

Resources: Tabula Digita

Pligg (martinmale/iste2010) a great tool for people adding the types of resources above.