Presentation given to UCFSD Curriculum & Technology sub-committee for a 1:1 program.

1. Technology 2013
and Beyond
January 14, 2013

2. TEACHING and LEARNING
with Technology

3. WHAT IF...
The Pencil Analogy
● Let's just buy one to see how it works
● Maybe 5 for the class
● Dangerous, pointy, break, what is
someone writes a bad word?

4. PREPARATION

5. 2012-2013
● Teacher Preparation
○ Professional Development, Curriculum Development
● Infrastructure
○ Backbone, Wireless, Security
● Planning
○ Management
■ Content (LMS)
■ Devices (MDM)
● MS Student/Parent Preparation

6. 2013-2014
● Student/Parent Training
● Continued Professional Development
● Continued Curriculum Development
● Implementation
● UHS Preparation
○ Professional Development, Curriculum
Development, BYOD

7. Eighth to Ninth Grade and Beyond
Middle School High School
● Learning to ● Continuation in a
Integrate Mobile BYOD
Devices Environment with
Effectively and Device Diversity
Seamlessly

8. 2014-2015
● 2013 Eighth graders given option to
purchase and bring device to UHS BYOD
Environment
● Repeat Eighth grade implementation
● Implement in Seventh Grade?

9. The Why
UCFSD Mission Statement:
To empower each student to succeed in life
and contribute to society
What are the Exit / Culminating skills we wish
our students to possess?

10. The Why
● Learning with Technology Skills
○ Critical to post-secondary success
● Increased Student Engagement
○ Active involvement in their learning
● Authentic Learning Environment
○ Mirroring higher education and workforce
environments
● Differentiation/Individualized Instruction
○ Broadens the number of ways teachers can engage
students

11. Twenty-First Century Skills
● Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
● Effective Oral and Communication Skills
● Collaboration
● Creativity, Curiosity and Imagination
● Adaptability
● Organization
● Initiative and Entrepreneurialism

12. The Why
H - Developing Higher Order of Thinking Skills
E - Engaged Learning
A - Authentic Connections
T - Technology

13. Why One to One
● Power of Personal Use
● Access, Anytime, Anywhere
● Create, Anytime, Anywhere

14. AUTHENTIC LEARNING

15. 8th Grade Creative Writing
Student
engagement,
working with
"their-world" tools,
authentic and
individualized. It's
about kids having
access to
knowledge and
the ability to
manipulate it.

16. 8th Grade Creative Writing - iPads
"It's a creation device and we create with it. We
write with it. We create podcasts on it. We
create posters which synthesizes imagery with
writing. We research and analyze."
"And it's not about magic apps. It's about kids
having access to knowledge and the ability to
manipulate it."
"For my class, when they come in and the
iPads are out they immediately pick them up on
their own and go to the blog. They write."

19. FEEDBACK
"Students are writing on the iPads during the
day...and then returning to it on their own at
night."
"Students are writing more. I can measure that.
They are writing more independently. I can
measure that. They are engaging with each
other's writing. I can measure that."
"It's not about any magical apps--it's still about
writing and about access."

20. Evaluation of Success
Pre and Post skills tests/surveys for teachers,
students and parents
○ HEAT
○ 21st Century Skills
○ Apple's Evaluation Toolkit

21. Potential Savings
● Textbooks
● Computer Labs, Clusters, Carts
● Paper, toner, server, etc...
● Cost to not do this...This is happening, like it
or not - this project will focus and manage
the content and technology more efficiently

22. QUESTIONS?

23. What we are currently doing
● Library 20 iPads, research and writing
● Nanis 9 ipads learning support, reading,
writing, research, moving making,podcasts
● Kropp/Ilgenfritz 6th Language Arts
● Kelley - creative writing, blog, Skype, Twitter,
podcasts
● World Language - digital storytelling
● Geography - real time geo-information,
current events, world economics, analyzing
country data, podcasts, subject inquiry

24. Authentic Connections
● TED Video speaker Hans Rolling, Sweden
● Learning more than subject matter
(searching, cultural literacy, group
discussion about topics, copyright of
intellectual property)
● Better student engagement
● Vocabulary videos

25. Authentic (continued)
● Higher order thinking skills with rigor
● Analysis of content
● Synthesis of information
● Not workbook/worksheet teaching
● Real time relevant information at our
fingertips
● No longer consumers of knowledge but
transformers of content into meaningful
learning
●

26. Students
● Requests for bringing own devices is
increasing
● Professional development being done
anyway why not connect it to 24-7 learning
● We used to be considered a leader in best
practice locally & state
● We can be a leader in 21st Century
classrooms for challenge and change

27. 2011-2012 Wrap-Up
● UHS Construction and Renovation
● Classroom Technology
○ Smart Boards / Projectors
○ Sound Field Systems
● Mobile Computing
○ iPads
● UHS World Languages Lab
● Essential Computer Applications Course
Online
● Infrastructure Assessment / Improvement
● Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) at UHS

28. Reaching the Dream
● Mobile Technology Proliferation
● Ease of Use
● Teacher Commitment
● Cloud Computing
● Resources and Content
● Cost
● Access, Anywhere, Anytime

29. Textbooks
The Race is on...
Cost Savings are unknown at this point

30. Millenniums

32. Making Connections

33. Investment
● Curriculum
○ Professional Development
○ Materials
● Technology
○ Infrastructure
○ Management
○ Devices
○ Support/Maintenance
● Consider backfilling to seventh grade
● Technology Tie to MS Renovation