All Technology Uses are NOT Created Equal: Accelerating High-Yielding Practices
Tuesday November 17, 2009 5PM SLT/8PM EDT
The BIG question is not whether students are learning or using technology but to organize for visible, rigorous, added-value, worth-the-money and time RESULTS for all!
Technology accelerates something! Are your planning teams shopping or intentionally targeting high-yielding instructional practices to increase student achievement? What is the SOMETHING being targeted in your schools? The BIG question is not whether students are learning, practicing or using rather, are these resources organized to deliver high-yielding visible, added-value, worth-the-money and time RESULTS for all students?
Many school goals for technology resources are couched in terms such as “enriching or enhancing curriculum,” “creating lifelong learners,” “supporting state standards,” or “integrating technology throughout the curriculum.” Though these sound like worthy goals, when it comes to implementing and evaluating these outcomes, we are actually left with counting the ITs (Instructional technology) activities not specific practices, skills or understandings—student results if they did use IT! Participants will be introduced to three categories of technology uses that shape goals, staff development, curriculum, and focus student achievement on results school-wide.
- Identifying three categories of technology uses
- Conducting walk-throughs to code technology uses as staff development and
decision-making dialogues
- Using student work as a body of evidence
- Shifting strategies from optional, mood use to essential, expected experiences
- Embedding high-yielding instructional strategies
Location: ISTE Broadcast Studio:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/ISTE%20Island%203/197/238/23
Bernajean Porter
SL: Bernajena Pinazzo
Bernajean Porter- AKA writer, speech and debate coach, inventor, auntie, teacher of possibilities, media maker, futurist, master of survival techniques when working with adolescents, professional speaker, future search coach, technology consultant, teacher of teachers, long-term technology user, promoter of anything that increases joy, spirit and outrageous possibilities in all aspects of life for kids and adults and now. . . a digital storytelling guide and Second Life learner and coach. Likes: Watching stars, designing group events, mountain living, learning anytime anywhere, moon glows, adventure travel, can-do attitudes, mangoes, magic, building community spirit, lilacs, ATVing mountain trails, a good story and living life juicy! Dislikes: Rules of all kinds. Loose ends. Stale strawberry licorice. People insisting on having their negative and limiting beliefs. Letting worst fears rule the day. Having narrow choices. And milking cows. Pet Philosophy: Da Um Jeitinho – there is always a way. Bernajean is the author of many articles as well as DigiTales: The Art of Telling Digital Stories; Evaluating Digital Products: Training and Resource Tools for Using Student Scoring Guides; Nutz and Boltz of Large Group Facilitation.
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