JOURNEY TO 1:1A Story of Transformation and Possibility

Elizabeth Helfant

MICDS

A Look at Key Elements

Convergence of External Pressures to Encourage Change

Internal Evolution of Technology Use Demand Exceeding Equipment Curriculum Increasingly Requiring Technology

Professional Development of Faculty Changing Understanding of Pedagogical

Theories and Best Practices

Sharing New Curriculum Cool Projects Research Approach Shift to Skills over Content Discussion of Assessment Strategies Rise in Integrated Units/Trans-Disciplinary

Work

Cultural Drivers

Information Explosion

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Participatory Culture

Here’s something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken. Here’s something four-year-olds know: Media that’s targeted at you but doesn’t include you may not be worth sitting still for

I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking about sitting with his four-year-old daughter watching a DVD. And in the middle of the movie, apropos nothing, she jumps up off the couch and runs around behind the screen. That seems like a cute moment. Maybe she’s going back there to see if Dora is really back there or whatever. But that wasn’t what she was doing. She started rooting around in the cables. And her dad said, “What you doing?” And she stuck her head out from behind the screen and said, “Looking for the mouse.”

•Shift from Consuming Knowledge to Evaluating, Constructing, and Creating Knowledge

FlatWorld Ideology

SOCIAL NETWORKING

Ubiquitously connected and pervasively proximate

Evolution of Literacy

•Basic Literacy and Habits of Mind•Visual/Media Literacy•Information Literacy•Inter-Cultural Awareness•Digital Citizenship•Network Literacy

Internal Pressures

MICDS CULTURE BTBEFORE TABLETS

Lab and Cart Based Integration

Issues with access outside of class

(hardware and software)

Issues with installation and customization of machine to create a PLE

DyKnow as Delivery Tool

Curriculum Increasingly Student Centered

Wiki Study Pages Ning Learning Spaces US History Course Zoho Notebook Web 2.0 Devices

QuizletClick2MapVoicethreadxTimelineDel.icio.us and Diigo

Collaborative, Networked, Transparent

Curriculum Increasingly Calling on Software, Browser Add Ons

DyKnow Math Applications- SketchUp, Maple,

Logger Pro Video Editing Photo Editing Toolbars – Diigo, Google Notebook, Zotero

Assessment Transforming with Transparency

Diagnostic/PreAssessment

Formative

Summative

Advantages to Social, Collaborative Learning

Students are more engaged in the learning processStudents provide support system for each other Students identify their strengths and weaknesses and learn to navigate group work accordinglyStudents ENJOY learning.Students employ creativity, critical thinking, and innovation to a greater extent

AN ESSENTIAL UNDERSTANDING

"If we teach today like we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.”

-John Dewey, Educator and Philosopher

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Faculty Professional

Development

Variety of Opportunities

Classes on UbD, Differentiation MICDS SUMMER INSTITUTE Nings (Internal and External) Tool Based Book Clubs PD Days

Networking for Professional Development

Classroom 2.0

EnglishCompanion

Global Collaborations

New Media Literacies

Library 2.0

Developing Understanding of

Pedagogical Theory

TPACK, UbD and DI

Mind, Brain, and Education Science

Research informs the way we approach teaching and learning-

The Learning Zone

SOME IDEAS!Sharing Curriculum

Teaching Collaboration

WIKI BOOKS

WIKI LABS

Wiki Literature

WIKI Lesson Plans

GOOGLE Writing Assignments

Google Spreadsheets and Forms

Scribe Blogs

Embeddable and Shareable

Information Literacy

Evolution of Textbooks

Making Research Transparent

LiveBinders

Managing the Information Flow

iGoogle

Google Reader

Feedbeater

Basic Literacy/Habits of Mind

Visual Literacy

InterCultural Literacy

Student Video

Networked Literacy

Facebook 1800s

Recognizing Audience

ENGLISH 10 Blogs FREDERICK

DOUGLAS SPEAKER SERIES

GLOBAL ISSUES AWARENESS PROJECT

Project Based Learning

•AP Museum

•WikiBooks

•Adv History Documentaries

•Frederick Douglass Debates

•Global Climate Change Symposium

Regular US History Thematic Units Online Student Portfolios

AP US History

Photo Essay

Facebook 1800

History Museum Wiki Final Project

Twittering the Cuban Missile Crisis

WORLD HISTORY

Putting it All Together Using UbD and DI- a 14 Day Unit on World

Imperialism Diigo – Guided Reading Differentiated Reading with DyKnow Google Map Tours Comic Life Cartoons Scaffolded Research with Wetpaint Wikis,

Livebinder and Netvibes Wiki Risk Game OneNote Shared Binders

Role of the Library

MICDS Library

New Curriculum

Trimesters

Final Assessment

Portfolios Projects Performances Exams

THREE THOUGHTS

SHIFTCOLLECTIVE CAPACITY

OXYGEN

SHIFTs in the classroom

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Shift to Paperless

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Shift to Electronic Materials

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Shift to Shared, Collaborative, Electronic Notes

Shift to Two Way Lectures

Shift in Homework

Shift in Audience

Shift to Increased Connections

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Shift to Transparent Learning

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Shift to Student Centered Classrooms

Shift to More Choice/Greater Differentiation

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Shift to Self-Reflection and Peer Review

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Informal checks for understand

ing

Tests and Quizzes

Academic Prompts

Performance Tasks

Shift in Assessment

Shift to Conversational Learning

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Shift to Networked Concept

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Shift in Teacher Tool Kit

Shift in Teaching Models

Shift in Teaching Theories/Defining Documents

UbD

Danielson’s Domains

Marzano’s Best Practices

Web 2.0 that Works

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Shift in Professional Development/Growth

Not Really a Shift

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COLLective Capacity

Thought Two

Pancake Principal

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Growth Mindset

Baby Steps

Oxygen

Thought Three

Chris Lehman quote

“Technology needs to be like Oxygen; Ubiquitous, Necessary, and Invisible.”