Inside an Innovative Classroom

Inside an Innovative Classroom: A Day in the Life of Today’s Students and Teachers

Julie Evans, Project Tomorrow CEO

(c) Project Tomorrow 2014

A big thank you to:

www.blackboard.com/K12

Today’s Discussion:

About Speak Up 2013

Selected national findings from the

research

Panel discussion

Your comments, questions or

thoughtsSpeak Up 2013 National Research Project: Views of K-12 Students, Parents & Educators


Meet our Panel of Experts


Students: School/District/State

Brandon, 3rd grader Lawrence Public Schools, Kansas

Scout, 6th grader Lawrence Public Schools, Kansas

Anna, 8th grader Lawrence Public Schools, Kansas

Frances, 9th grader Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Public Schools

Neri, 11th grader Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Public Schools

Educators:

James Bell North Carolina Virtual Public Schools

Shannon Conley Medina City School District, Ohio

Stacy McGowen Pennsylvania Virtual School

Project Tomorrow, a national education nonprofit

organization Programs:

• Research & evaluation studies

• STEM education programs• Advocacy for digital learning


Mission: To ensure that today’s students are prepared to become

tomorrow’s leaders, innovators and engaged citizens of the world.

Annual national research project Using online surveys + focus groups Surveys for: K-12 Students, Teachers, Parents,

Administrators, Community Members Special: Pre-Service Teachers in Schools of Education Open for all K-12 schools and schools of education Schools, districts & colleges receive free report with

their own data

Inform policies, plans & programs Local: your stakeholder data State: state level data Federal: national findings

Speak Up National Research Project

+ 3.4 million surveys

since 2003


K-12 Students 325,279

Teachers & Librarians 32,151

Parents (in English & Spanish)

39,986

School/District Administrators 4,530

Community Members (new this year!) 1,346

About the participating schools & districtso 9,005 schools and 2,710 districtso 90% public schools – 10% private/parochial/charter/othero 32% urban / 31% rural / 37% suburbano 30% school wide Title 1; 43% majority minority school o All 50 states + DC + Guam + DODEA schools

National Speak Up 2013 Participation: 403,292



Speak Up 2013 National Reports

www.tomorrow.org

Students function as a “Digital Advance Team”

Students regularly adopt and adapt emerging

technologies for learning

Students’ frustrations focus on the unsophisticated

use of technologies within education

Persistent digital disconnect between students

and adults

Learning is a 24/7 enterprise; school time is only a

small part of the learning day

Students want a more personalized learning

environment – both in and out of school

What have we learned over the past 11 years?


Social–based learning

Un–tethered learning

Digitally–rich learning

Students & Digital Learning


Student Vision for Digital Learning

Personalized

learning


“When students are using digital

resources, building multi-media

projects, collaborating and

connecting online and conducting

online research, they are more

interested in school work today,

and feel more connected to what

their future holds tomorrow.”

Dr. Mark Edwards, SuperintendentMooresville Graded School District, North Carolina


Why is this discussion about innovative classroom models important today?

Common Core State Standards

Focus on college, career and civic

readiness

Educators’ increased familiarity with

digital tools

Emergence of the new digital parent -

with new demands for digital learning

New student expectations for different

types of learning processes


Key findings include:

Students have a clear idea of the value of digital learning within various innovative classroom models with high interest in:

social media to provide opportunities for them to connect and collaborate with peers and experts,

mobile devices that enable untethered learning experiences, and

online, blended, and flipped classes that that marry digitally rich content with real-world relevance.


Audience poll:

Which of these digital solutions is having the greatest impact on transforming teaching and learning at your school right now?

A.Blended learning

B.Digital content

C.Games

D.Flipped learning

E.Tablets and other mobile devices

F.Fully online/virtual classes


According to school principals:

Which of these digital solutions is having the greatest impact on transforming teaching and learning at your school right now?

A.Blended learning 22%

B.Digital content 46%C.Games 35%

D.Flipped learning 17%

E.Tablets and other mobile devices 41%

F.Fully online/virtual classes 16%









Educators:













Educators:




“Imagine you are designing the

ultimate school for today’s

students, what technologies would

have the greatest impact on

learning?”


Favorite Speak Up Question: Superintendents & School Boards

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Do we have a shared vision around the digital tools in our ultimate school?









Educators:





Your thoughts,

comments, questions

National Speak Up Findings and reports

Targeted and thematic reportsDigital learning trendsMobile learning & social mediaPrint to digital migrationSocial learning Intelligent adaptive softwareDigital parent series

Presentations, podcasts and webinars

Services: consulting, workshops, evaluation and efficacy studies

Speak Up 2014 opens on October 6


More Speak Up? www.tomorrow.org

Thank you.

Let’s continue this conversation.

Julie EvansProject Tomorrow

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Twitter: JulieEvans_PTSpeakUpEd

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