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Constructive Turbulence

Enabling Teachers with Better Tools for Student Learning

Bob Wise President, Alliance for Excellent Education

The Challenge for the Nation

One-quarter of students do not graduate from high school.

For students of color, four in ten

will not graduate.

Of those who graduate, only one in four is college ready.

Challenges for Education

Today’s Budgets

Workplace Needs

EDUCATION: June 6, 2011

Industry Puts Heat On Schools to Teach Skills Employers Need

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

32

10 11 10

40

34 30 28

12

810 12

919 21 23

7 10 11 10

1917 17

Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, December 2009

Growing Demand For An Increasingly Educated Workforce

Workforce job requirements, by education level

1973 1992 2007 2018

Graduate

degree

Some

college

HSdiploma

HS dropouts

Associate’s

degree

Bachelor’s degree

Education has an Economic Benefit to the Nation

21,956additional

graduates in North Carolina

90%graduation

rate

$258 million in increased annual gross earnings

$487 million in increased home sales

and $24 million incar sales

1700 new jobs and increase in GDP of

$246 million

$65 million in increased tax

revenue

The Best Economic Stimulus Plan is…

A DIPLOMA

ESEA WAIVERS

Please Fasten Your Seatbelts…for the next 2 years

Are states ready for online assessments?

Are teachers supported in teaching to a career and college ready standard?

Please Make Sure Your Seatbelts are on Tight• Teaching force is less experienced• Do we have the right teachers where

we need them most? • Only 22 percent of teachers feel very

prepared to teach the Common Core

Georgia: Minnesota: # of high schools

88

440

182

971# of certified

physics teachers

Sources: Center for Education Policy, 2012. NCTAF: Modal years of experience is 1-2, down from 15 in 1987

1964 Mustang: That was Then

2012 Mustang: This is Now

Any instructional practice that effectively uses technology to

strengthen the student learning experience.

Digital Learning Is…

Blended Learning

Adaptive Software

Online Learning

Data Assessment Professional

Learning

Collaboration

Anytime, Anywhere

Learning Management

Platforms

You can’t just slap a netbook on top of a

textbook.

Successful Technology Strategy Elements

Technology

Time

Teaching

Goals Challenges

The Role of Teaching

• Teachers as educational designers

• Supporting librarians, mentors, and after-school programs to ensure that learning happens anytime, anywhere

• Support increased professional learning opportunities for teachers

The Use of Time• How can school or programs make the best use of

face to face time with students?

• Supporting multiple pathways to knowledge and expanded learning time – 24/7 learning

• Shift to competency-based, performance-based advancement

• Build on successful afterschool and library programs

• Support hands-on, real-world learning opportunities including service learning, work-based learning , or earning badges Time

Technology

The Right Tools for the Job

• Have a strategy based on learning, not the tool

• Access to broadband

• Access to richer content or self-paced program to help students who are behind

• Interactive & engaging tools to increase student motivation and encourage ownership of learning

www.digitallearningday.orgFebruary 6, 2013

Engaging Students, Celebrating Teachers, Creating Better Schools

The Road Ahead