PEOPLES ACADEMY MIDDLE LEVEL
STAFF MEETING - MONDAY, 3/14
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Awareness:
National
Educational Technology Plan
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From Blackboards to Keyboards
Highlights:
Introduction to the Millennials (00:02:18)
The Millennials at School (00:03:29)
Changing the Way We Learn and Our Sense of Community
Higher Education (00:08:18)
Healthcare (00:13:08)
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Discussion:
Middle Level Technology Integration ~Many elements
Wireless Laptops
1. Vision
2. Lessons Learned - Issues to consider (see below)
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| QUESTIONS - ISSUES |
| 1. Storage/security of laptops: Where will laptops be stored and who should be given access to them? |
| 2. Management - charging the laptops: ~3 hours on a fully charged battery, will be less as the battery ages. What policy should we establish to make sure they are plugged in to charge after use? |
| 3. ~30 laptops will be acquired for the ML: How will teachers/others sign out computers for use (e.g. number that can be signed out, priority of use for sign out, etc.)? |
| 4. How will laptops be transported from storage to classroom? ... will laptops be used in places besides the classroom? |
| 5. Development of formal sign-out and use policy. |
| 6. Training for use of these learning resources within the classroom: How can we make these learning resources meaningful additions to our instructional practice and how do we start to convert potentials into realities? |
| 7. What issues regarding safe and responsible use should be considered before these additional technology resources arrive in our classrooms? |
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3. Discussion
4. Direction (action steps)
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Presentation:
Vermont Information Technology
Initiatives to support technology integration going on around Vermont.
Thinking Ahead:
Curriculum Mapping, Instruction, and Technology Integration
~Supporting technology integration
~Aligning technology with instructional objectives
~Many elements...one step at a time.
| Weaving resources and tools into instruction |
| Vermont Information Technology Grade Expectations, 2004... Information Technology Integrated into Content Areas The Grade Expectations described in this document should be integrated into content area lessons appropriate to each grade cluster. In most cases, they are not intended to be taught as independent information technology learning skills. Therefore, teachers working with their principals and/or district curriculum coordinators must decide where they will be integrated into appropriate content areas and units/lessons. It is imperative that the use of information technologies become an integral part of a larger task or activity that is helping the students meet additional field of knowledge or vital result standards. |
National Education Technology Plan, 2005... This report was undertaken by the staff of the U.S. Department of Education in response to a request from Congress for an update on the status of educational technology. As the field work progressed, it became obvious that while the development of educational technology was thriving, its application in our schools often was not. Over the past 10 years, 99 percent of our schools have been connected to the Internet with a 5:1 student to computer ratio. Yet, we have not realized the promise of technology in education. Essentially, providing the hardware without adequate training in its use – and in its endless possibilities for enriching the learning experience – meant that the great promise of Internet technology was frequently unrealized. Computers, instead of transforming education, were often shunted to a “computer room,” where they were little used and poorly maintained. Students mastered the wonders of the Internet at home, not in school. Walls – both physical and philosophical – have held back new, more creative and more effective uses of the Internet in schools. Virtually every public school has access to the Internet. Yet in most schools, it is business as usual. Computers are enclosed in computer rooms rather than being a central part of the learning experience. Internet-savvy students are frustrated, as is well documented in the 2002 report, The Digital Disconnect: The Widening Gap Between Internet-Savvy Students and Their Schools. |
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