On this page you will find the agenda, notes, and links.
AGENDA
Middle School Technology Planning
Spring, 2008
9:00-11:30
Hogan, Room 207
Notes below from Dean L.; Vicki L.; Joe O.; add your name here if you add below)
Purpose: Our purpose is to identify the ways technology will be used in the next 4-5 years to support student learning (as best we can). Once identified, buildings will identify the tools/software/access needed to support student learning (what will kids know and be able to do, what is needed, where located, what it will do). Equitable (to be defined) purchasing plans will be designed to meet as many of the needs as possible. Infrastructure design discussions will occur to determine how to support these plans in the short and long-term. Bottom line – what information and technology skills/knowledge/abilities do we want every 8th grader to have when he/she leaves our buildings to go to high school.
January 7th
Welcome and share “why are we here” – Vicki Lyons (5 minutes)
Review current practice – celebrate achievements (45 minutes)
(10-15 minute short description by members of each building describing ways technology supports student learning now – e..g. probe for data collection in science, spreadsheet problem solving in math, word processing for writing process, multimedia for knowledge sharing, etc.)
Hear what the current/future world of communication, collaboration, and creativity will be for our students in their personal, educational, and work lives. Discuss what we have learned and what it may mean for our planning.
(75 minutes)
John Pederson, Curriculum and Technology Coordinator
Instructional Technology Support Services
CESA 3
In-Building Discussions – Continue discussing with colleagues the purpose stated above to determine what technology use will look like in each building to support student learning. May hold discussions with instructional supervisors to integrate the goals/objectives of each area with the work you are doing here.
NOTES
Here are some general notes from the January 7th Middle School Technology Planning Meeting. You will also find links to the two videos we saw. Thank you to everyone for participating, presenting, and taking time out of your busy schedules to assist with the decision making process. A special thanks to John Pederson for his wonderful presentation. Please add to this any of your own notes from the meeting.
Lincoln
Rick Stewart & Sherry Gillies - 7th Grade Teacher & LMC Director
All 7th graders proficient in keyboarding, MS office tools
Taught ethical use of electronic resources
Taught electronic research strategies
Skills set
Internet
Projection/Document Cameras
Safari Montege
Rschool - Core Teachers - Music examples/Digital recordings
EEN / ELL / HPL - ALEX - Moodle/Wycaty - WYNN S&L - Read 180
Online discussions activities - Science/Quicktopic - Message board Rschool - Post/Reply
Video Productions - Program groups - Broadcast to school
Integration Projects - Art/SS/Sci/Larts
Web evaluation - Science/Vaccine ie.
Blog Servers/Wiki Servers = discussion groups
Higher performance computers - Safari / distance ed / cameras / Mic's
Check out Lincoln's use of Rschool
Music teachers create/post audio clips of music for student review/access for learning
Logan Middle
Logan Middle School Committee Members: Mrs. Jodi Jansky (8th grade teacher), Mrs. Nancy Amunson (LMC Director), Mrs. Jodi Hughes (6th grade teacher), Mrs. Lisa Schreiner (Associate Principal), and Dr. Troy D. Harcey (Principal)
Shared the responses to this query: What are the current practices being utilized, technology specific, to support student learning?
Educator Responses: We received hundreds of responses from the Logan Middle School staff. For organizational
purposes, some liberties were taken to help minimize redundancy and focus our utilization. Thus, four overriding
categories were employed. The categories are as follows: (1) Technology as a teaching mechanism, (2) Technology
as a productivity tool, (3) Technology as an Internet portal (primarily computer), and (4) Technology as a data
processor.
Technology as a Teaching Mechanism …
About 20% of the responses we received fell into this category. The responses included-although not always identified specifically as such—computer based training (CBT) applications
(i.e. instructional software applications).
- READ 180 (full-featured reading instructional support program
- Keyboarding applications
- Skill building games
- WYNN (literacy sofhvare tool designed to enhance success for students with reading and writing challenges … NOTE: has proven effective with our ELL, ADD, ADHD, and dyslexic students
- "Write to Read" and "Write Out Loud" applications
- CAD (Computer Aided Drafting) and CAI (Computer Aided Instruction)for learning modules in Tech. Ed.
- Single-user simulations
- Smart Board (e.g. demonstrated how to navigate a Web site)
- Test-prep activities
- Finale Notepad software (e.g. notating and printing student music compositions)
- Will be implementing "Career Cruising"
- "Intellipics" (adaptive keyboard)
- Various books on CD, tape, and video
Technology as a productivity tool…
Approximately 35% of the responses received fell into this category. 5.3 fir# .+ = Projection units (myriad uses)
- Research, digital photos, word processing, etc.
- Organized presentations (vast majority of which created via Power Point)
- Spreadsheets (creation of forms and financial reports … small business course)
- Windows Movie Maker
- "Speechviewer" program (e.g. improve sound production of students)
- Dynavox (student communication device)
- Specially designed software for use with our laser cutter and button making equipment
- Publishing equipment
- Entrepreneurship budget work (e.g. small business Excel)
- Video recorder far video conferencing
- Document cameras (e.g. share illustrations or passages fiom single text, details from rocks/minerals, fragile documents, etc.)
- Flex cameras and scanners (e.g. demonstration of art pieces, etc.)
- Creation of graphs, graphics, etc.
- Podcasts (students organize information that can be recorded in MP3 format to then be digitally loaded to Web sites; used in oral defenses in science, stories for literature, and
organizational information for research in various disciplines, etc.)…only a couple of staff using their personal equipment.
- Laptop/mobile labs (e.g. curriculum and program support, differentiation of instruction, etc.)
- Handheld GPS , its (e.g. map skills utilizing latitude and longitude, team building, other geographic skills, etc.)
- Handheld Palm computing devices (e.g. language arts skill builders, math skills, voice recording, science probes, document development, organization, etc.)
Technology as an Internet Portal…
Approximately 35% of the responses fell into this category. The amount of Internet utilization varies, not so much by grade level, but rather from teacher to teacher and subject to subject.
- ELLIS (Internet based language acquisition program)
- Myriad Web sites were identified by staff (e.g. www.musicteacher.com, www.webtimer.org, Ikeepbookmmks.com, and on…and on…and on.
- Streamed video clips from internet
- Online assessments (quizzes and tests)
- Online Web quests & study groups
- Safari Montage
- WISE (Cal Berkley on-line experience)
- NASA sit-live spacelreal time updates
- Internet feeds from major news sources (MSNBC, etc.)
- Internet for lesson designs
- Research reports, vocabulary practice, book reviews, reading practice, etc….all Internet based.
- Internet access to Skyward (for educators at school and home)
Technology as a data processor. ..
Approximately 10% of the responses received fell into this category. The responses in this category generally analyze and report information. Alas, technology as a data processor does not directly deliver or support instruction, but rather provides information that drives curricular decisions, site plan decisions/progress, etc. This category also assists with the requirements of NCLB and other federal and state legislation, which demands data-supported decisions.
- Teacher (classroom assessment) data
- Title I data
- Report card data
- Test performance data
- SEEDS/IEP data
- DRA data
- District writing prompt data, etc.
Looking to use of increasing portable computing
Video projection completion in classrooms
Use data sets for building decision making
Longfellow/SOTA II
Terri Kendhammer - 6th Grade Longfellow/SOTA II
Keyboarding Blogging/LArts Class
Sci - Teacher Powerpoints - Canada/A to Z Project - Inote/Keynote/Garage Band/IDVD
Audio casts - Latin America i.e.
Intergrated LArts
Jeanne Halderson - 7th Grade Longfellow/SOTA II
Kids come up from 6th grade knowing more tech.
Podcasting
- - Incorp. Diff subject areas (6 traits plus presentation)
- Teamwork and meeting deadlines
- Road She Traveled Project (70 Women) - Post the work - Docu-Drama
Ipods
Health project
- Nike - Map Routes - Mile achievments
- Blogging / Tundra Trucker's Blog
- Throw files on the Ipods - Ebooks/Audiobooks/Notes/Flashcards
- Podcatching/Listen to other PodCasts
Math Integration - Scale Factor/Heart Monitors
Enhanced Podcasts = added the video component to audio
Jeff Hanson - 8th Grade Longfellow/SOTA II
Kids come up with the skills
Laptop/Mobile Cart = HUGE
Digital Microscopes/Proscopes
Waterfowl project
- Wildlife - Duck on the stick
- Posts Links on rschool - students hit it.
- Monitor Flyways
- Proscopes/Digital cameras
- Powerpoints / Graphing / Migration / Pond mapping - depths
- Classroom sets of GPS devices
Dr. Penny Reedy - Principal Longfellow/SOTA II
Living & Learning Plan
- Staff Dev Training
- Teacher expert , but availability of comtpuers
- Tech - way we learn
- Res/data collection/problem
- Some community
Other
Internet/world wide web searching
WorldBook online
Projectors/document cameras/flex cameras
Safari Montage
RSchool (posting assignments, web site links, pics)
Blogging
IMovie (creating movies, using digital video cameras)
Brochures (using Microsoft Word)
Power points/Keynote presentations (both teachers & students)
WCTY (online class)
Podcasting
Pictures (taking digital pics/editing pics; using pics in projects)
Scanners
Garageband (create own music, edit music, audiocasts, create audio tracks)
Email (student accounts on Gaggle.net)
Corresponding with members of the community
Word processing
Drop boxes to hand in assignments
Shared folders on server for students to access a document created by the teacher
Picture sharing via iPhoto
John Pederson, Cirriculum and Technology Coordinator, Instructional Technology Support Services, CESA #3
- how do we allow personal devices on our network - & incorporate the personal devices into their learning.
- www.pewinternet.org = Teens & Social Media
- Chat room to Instant Messaging to social websites to ? what comes next
- You tube
- "Did You Know - Shift Happens"
- "Pay Attention"
- "A Vision of Students Today
- Shifthappens.wikispaces.com
- "grow kids in creativity"
- www.ted.com - TEDTalks : Ken robinson (2006) video
- CREATIVITY - COMMUNICATION
- TWITTERRIFIC
VIDEO 1
Did you Know - Shift Happens - Update 2.0 version as of 2007
http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=6f2c2eba77f39993d118
When finished with the video hit the BACK button on your browser to return to this page.
VIDEO 2
Sir Ken Robinson (2006) video
Do Schools Kill creativity?
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/66
When finished with the video hit the BACK button on your browser to return to this page.
http://www.shiftedlearning.org/wiki/index.php?title=La_Crosse_Middle_School_Technology_Visioning - John Pederson's Wiki site
To download copies of the Handouts from the meeting click "files" in the bottom right of the screen. Then choose the file or files you wish to download.
