Uses of Learning Technology

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Placentia Yorba Linda USD January 2004
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Hebrew proverb

• Do not confine your children to your own
  learning, for they were born in another time.

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International Center for Leadership in Education
Richard D.Jones, Ph.D. Senior Consultant
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Using Technology to Achieve Rigor and Relevance
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Personality Quiz
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Challenging Time for Teachers
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Lessons on innovation and change
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Your Technology Level

• Cyber Superstar
• Micro Master
• Nanotechnology Neophyte
• Reluctant Rhetorician

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TOP 5 SIGNS THAT YOU USE TECHNOLOGY TOO MUCH

• 5. You haven't played solitaire with a real deck
  of cards in years.
• 4. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach
  your family of three.
• 3. You call your son's beeper to let him know
  it's time to eat. He emails you back from his
  bedroom, "What's for dinner?
• 2. Your reason for not staying in touch with
  family is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
• 1. You just tried to enter your password on the
  microwave.

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Technology Accelerating Change

• All Around Us
• Internet
• Information Technology
• Biotechnology
• Nanotechnology

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Internet Applications

• Amazon
• Ebay
• IM
• Google
• Camera
• Virtual Tour
• Visual Thesaurus
• Virtual Body

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Next Internet

• Wireless
• Semantic Web
• Embedded Appliances

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• Information Technology
• Processing Power
• Bugging the World
• Communications

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• Smart Orb

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Projection Keyboard
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• Bio Technology
• Medical
• Agriculture

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• Nanotechnology
• Atom Up

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2003
Info Tech
Nano Tech
Bio Tech
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2008
Info Tech
Nano Tech
Bio Tech
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Technology Accelerating Change

• All Around Us
• Internet
• Information Technology
• Biotechnology
• Nanotechnology

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Why bring technology in schools?
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If technology is your goal, you will never
achieve it.
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• Remember Young people respond and adapt to the
  new technology differently.

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Mommy, this string doesnt work, do you have any
fiber optic cable?
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Education Technology-Positive Possibilities

• Save teachers time

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Save teachers time

• Aligning with Standards
• Measuring progress
• Communicating
• Creating Assessments
• Lesson Planning
• Learning
• Pedagogy
• Technology

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Rigor/Relevance Framework
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Knowledge Taxonomy

• 1. Awareness
• 2. Comprehension
• 3. Application
• 4. Analysis
• 5. Synthesis
• 6. Evaluation

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Application Model

• 1 Knowledge of one discipline
• 2 Application within discipline
• 3 Application across disciplines
• 4 Application to real-world predictable
  situations
• 5 Application to real-world unpredictable
  situations

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Rigor/Relevance Framework
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Rigor/Relevance Framework
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Rigor/Relevance Framework
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NYS Math A Question June 2003
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CA Exit Math Exam - Released items
KNOWLEDGE
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A P P L I C A T I O N
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NY Math A - June 2003
KNOWLEDGE
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A P P L I C A T I O N
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Rigor/Relevance Framework
KNOWLEDGE
Adaptation
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Reflection on Teaching
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Strategies on Rigor/Relevance
Quadrant A

• Lecture
• Demonstration
• Worksheets
• Memorization
• Homework

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Strategies on Rigor/Relevance
Quadrants B, C, D

• Inquiry
• Presentations/ Exhibitions
• Problem-based Learning

• Project Design
• Research
• Simulation/Role-playing
• Work-based Learning

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Reflection on Using Technology
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Is technology a strategy?
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Is technology a strategy? Rarely, technology
enhances other strategies
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Technology is a vehicle for teaching to high
levels of rigor and relevance
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Strategies

• Brainstorming
• Cooperative Learning
• Demonstration
• Guided Practice
• Inquiry
• Lecture
• Note-taking/ Graphic Organizers
• Memorization

• Presentations/Exhibitions
• Research
• Problem-based learning
• Project Design
• Simulation/Role-playing
• Teacher Questions
• Video
• Work-based Learning

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Education Technology-Positive Possibilities

• Save teachers time
• Improve efficiency/effectiveness of current
  learning

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Improve efficiency/effectiveness of current skills

• Writing
• Gathering information - reading viewing
• eLearning bits
• Presenting - using visuals
• Representing data graphically
• Reading Comprehension
• Demonstrating Competence

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Education Technology-Positive Possibilities

• Inform policy development with timely data
• Equalize access to learning
• Improve efficiency/effectiveness of current
  learning

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Education Technology-Positive Possibilities

• Inform policy development with timely data
• Equalize access to learning
• Improve efficiency/effectiveness of current
  learning
• Create opportunities for new learning

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Create opportunity for new learning

• Building knowledge - enhancing the work of others
• Collaborating across time and location
• Searching and sorting information
• Editing audio/video/graphics
• Discovery learning peeling the onion
• Virtual exploration
• Viewing off limits simulations
• Personal publishing
• Linking knowledge and ideas
• Data manipulation

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Using Technology to Achieve Rigor and Relevance
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Everyone needs support when they take new risks
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• Dick Jones Web Site http//www.dickjones.us
• Email dick_at_natpd.com

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Lessons from Life
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Get rid of that machine, get back in line and
pick grain like everybody else.
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Dont panic, We are trained professionals, we
are going around the leaf.
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Look into the future through the eyes of a child?
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Lovers never send form letters.