Presentation for NEMESPA (Northeast MN Elementary School Principals' Association.) Presentation held at The College of St. Scholastica January, 2010. This presentation looks at how technology can support student achievement.

1. Chery Takkunen, Ph.D
Chair, Assoc. Professor
Graduate Education Programs
The School of Education
The College of St. Scholastica

2. http://www.techlearning.com/printablearticle/8670
Bloom, Lorin Anderson, revised Bloom's Taxonomy and published this- Bloom's
Revised Taxonomy in 2001.Key to this is the use of verbs

3.  Framework(s): Technology for
Learning and 21st Century skills
 Empower students for optimal
learning
 Higher level thining

4. Facebook and Twitter Digital Native

6. What is the best example of
technology integration you
have witnessed in your school
in the last year?

7. Research
Teachers and Technology
 Internet searches
 Word processing
 Skill based games
 Infrequent
 Teacher-directed
manner
 Low-level thinking
activities
*Includes new (Digital Native) teachers

8.  Technology can improve learning
 Motivated to use technology
 Desire to use technology
 Believe that they are using technology in a
student-centered manner
 Believe: Higher-level thinking
Image: http://captology.stanford.edu/2003 /

9. 21 st Century Skills
LoTI
ISTE Standards

11. Partnership for 21st Century Skills

12. We are currently preparing
students for jobs that don’t yet
exist . . . using technologies that
haven’t yet been invented . . .in
order to solve problems we don’t
even know are problems yet.
—
Richard Riley, Secretary of Education
under Clinton

13.  Core Subjects  Global
 Critical Thinking Awareness
 Collaboration  Information
 Creativity Literacy
 Communication  Technology
Literacy
 Innovation
 Life/career skills

14.  Return to basic skills- safer?
 Concerns: NCLB state tests?
 Deep learning vs. shallow learning
 Have faith 21st Century skills teaching and
learning works.
 Not either/Or
 A Vision of K-12 Students
 Article from TechLearning in folder cites research to
support 21st century skills

15. http://www.techlearning.com/printablearticle/8670
Bloom, Lorin Anderson, revised Bloom's Taxonomy and published this- Bloom's
Revised Taxonomy in 2001.Key to this is the use of verbs

16.  Quantity  Quality of use
 Number of computers  How students are
 Internet use using technology
 Quality of product
 “How much?”
Old Way New Way

17.  Six Levels
 Level Four- Target Level
 Adopted by many states
 At Level Four best chance for student learning
potential
 Dr. Christopher Moersch (1995)
 LOTI- Connection
Formerly named Levels of Technology
Implementation

18. Level
0 Non-use
1 Awareness
Teacher use only- Grades, email, etc. (Productivity)
2 Exploration
Student us (Lower level thinking)
Teacher directed
Technology is an extension or enrichment
3 Infusion
Higher level thinking and engaged learning used to
care out teacher-directed tasks
4 Integration
A and B (Mechanical vs. Routine)
Learner Centered- Student inquiry driven process
5 Expansion
Goes beyond the classroom
6 Technology infusion
Technology goes beyond the classroom walls

19. http://www.techlearning.com/printablearticle/8670
Bloom, Lorin Anderson, revised Bloom's Taxonomy and published this- Bloom's
Revised Taxonomy in 2001.Key to this is the use of verbs

20. Students use of digital tools and resources is
inherent and motivated by the drive to answer
student-generated questions that dictate the
content, process, and products embedded in
the learning experience.

21.  Promoting higher-level cognition
 Student-inquiry (Student lead questions)
 Authentic connections
 Rigor and high expectations

23. 1. Standard texting rates only (worst cast US $0.20)
TIPS 2. We have no access to your phone number
3. Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling do

24.  Promethean Lesson
 Maui Movie
 Tessellations
Let’s give this the LoTI “sniff” test….
1. Watch each lesson
2. Use the LoTI “sniff test” flow chart
3. What level do you think each lesson belongs
to?

25.  What did you identify as the best technology
project you saw in your school last year?
 What LoTI level do you believe the lesson falls
in?
 Did this project encourage 21st century skills?
If so, what skills?
 What ISTE skills were promoted in this lesson?

26. Marzono’s Work
Classroom Instruction
that Works
Marzono’s Research
Promethean use: 17%
Achievement Gain
"You don't get gains from
technology... you get gains
from changing the learning
environment with
technology"
Twitter quote from #ties09 “quoting
Marzono”

27.  For the past 8 years the LoTI level for
teachers completing the survey has been a
“2”. Still is….
 The building principal controls the LoTI level.
◦ Dr. Chrisopher Moersh at NECC 2009

28.  Administrators
 Teachers
 Students
 Student Profiles
 44 states have adopted these or other tech
standards
 Minnesota still does not have a set of grade
level measureable technology standards…..

29.  Visionary Leadership NETS-A
 Facilitate
and Inspire Student
Learning NETS T
 Creativity
and Innovation NETS S
 Communicate and Collaborate
NETS S

30. Marzono’s Work
Classroom
Instruction that
Works
Promethean: 17% Achievement
Gain
"You don't get gains from
technology... you get gains
from changing the learning
environment with
technology"
Twitter quote from #ties09 “quoting
Marzono”

31. Higher Empower
Level and
Thinking Engage
21st Century
Skills
LoTI ISTE NETS

33. The illiterate of the future will
not be the person who cannot
read. It will be the person who
does not know how to learn.
Alvin Toffler

34. Where to start?
Awash in too many ideas…

35. It’s a little like herding cats.

36.  School leader is critical
 Start small
 Measure progress
 Support and encouragement
 Reduce barriers
 Increase access
 $$$ is not always the answer
 Higher-level thinking focus

38.  I like the Smartboard, but I think that all kids
should have their own small smartboards so
that we could do more stuff….
 1st grader from Northern MN
 When I go to school I have to “power down”…
 5the grader from Illinois

39.  Digital- Age Literacy
 Remember that schools may be the only place
for some children to access technology
 TALK to students about what they need- they
know!
 Let Children Create

40. Thank you!
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