Instructional Media

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Instructional Media Technology Team Spring
2006 DPI Update

• March 2006
• WEMA Brainstorm Conference
• Wisconsin Dells

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IMT Update Overview

• IMT Staffing Changes
• Program and Initiative Updates
• Kate Bugher
• CSF - School Library Impact Study
  TeachingBooks.net
• Stuart Ciske
• Information Technology Planning - enGauge
  ESTEP
• Donna Steffan, Steve Sanders
• NCLB/Ed Tech/Title II D
• Steve Sanders
• Annual Technology Survey - eRate - Internet
  Safety Email Lists
• Wrap-Up

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IMT Staffing Changes

• New Director
• Steve Sanders appointed team director in December
  2005
• Staffing Changes
• Rob Roy resigned in January 2006

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IMT Staffing Changes
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Common School Fund

• Important dates for 2005-06
• 22.32 per census child (up from 19.52 in 04-05)
• May 1, 2006 Payment must be made
• June 30, 2006 MUST be expended
• More Info - http//dpi.wi.gov/sfs/comsch.html
• Noteworthy Items Affecting CSF
• AB 40 signed into law AB 152 at hearing stage

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School Library Impact Study

• Study Objectives
• Examine the leadership and instructional role of
  library media specialists in a robust information
  and technology literacy program
• Measure their impact on and contribution to
  student achievement

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School Library Impact Study

• Key Findings from the study
• Schools with full-time certified library media
  specialists full-time library aides have higher
  performance on WKCE.
• Schools where the library media specialist spends
  more time on instructionally-related student and
  teacher activities have higher WKCE scores.
• Teachers who aligned WMAS for Information and
  Technology Literacy to their lessons found school
  library media programs more helpful to student
  performance.

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School Library Impact Study

• Key Findings from the study (Continued)
• Schools with greater library media program
  resources for collections and technology have
  higher performance on WKCE.
• Library media specialists help students acquire
  unique skills not taught in the classroom and
  information and technology skills essential for
  students in the 21st century.

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TeachingBooks.net

• Still free
• Has additional resources including professional
  development materials
• www.badgerlink.net/training.html
• www.teachingbooks.net/show.cgi?ftraining
• Wisconsin districts can embed a link to
  TeachingBooks.net
• Logo www.teachingbooks.net/images/tb_logoc.gif
• Link www.teachingbooks.net/enter/

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Information Technology Planning

• No workshops planned for Semester 2
• Will support CESA events via IP Video or
  teleconferencing
• Yearly updates to materials on web and at
  meetings and conferences
• Developing an ONLINE SUBMISSION process for
  implementation in 2007-08

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Information Technology Plan Expiration Revisions
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enGauge Wisconsin

• Fall Cohort Completed
• 18 OnLine/Onsite 15 Online Only districts
• Spring Cohort Underway
• 4 Online/Onsite 14 Online Only
• DPI will still offer on cost-recovery basis
• Details for 2006-07 to come by end of March

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Evaluating States Educational Technology Programs
(ESTEP)

• USDoE Research Grant -- Funded 2003-2006
• A Study of the Effectiveness of Two Models of
  Implementing Educational Technology
• Big6 Information Literacy -- Problem Based
  Learning
• 61 Trait Writing Model -- Inquiry Approach
• Control Group -- No Interventions
• 34 Districts 96 Teachers 8,000 7/8th Science
  and Social Studies

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ESTEP

• Results based on data from
• Pre- Post-Training Teacher Surveys
• Teacher Model Fidelity Surveys 4 times a year
• Student Surveys 4 times a year
• Annual Achievement testing
• Terra Nova Gr. 7 assessment
• 8th Grade WKCE (science and social studies)
• Classroom Observations
• Student Work Sample Analysis 5 times a year

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ESTEP

• Wisconsin Learning and Teaching Assessment
  (WiLATA)
• Instrument measuring higher order thinking skills
  on student work samples
• Compares the teacher cognitive expectations
  (assignments) to student's cognitive levels (work
  sample)
• Used the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy initially,
  which really did not get as close to measuring
  cognitive and meta-cognitive processes
• Developed an alternative (WiLATA) in conjunction
  with UW-Milwaukee
• WiLATA Rubric examines two dimensions of student
  work
• Cognition and meta-cognition

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WiLATA Preliminary Findings

• Cognitive Process Expectation in Work Samples
• Analysis of student writing data indicates
• increase in the use of application, analysis and
  evaluation (higher level of thinking according to
  Bloom)
• reduction in the use of recall (remembering) and
  understanding (lower levels of thinking
  according to Bloom)

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NCLB Title II Part D

• Enhancing Education Through Technology (Ed Tech
  or EETT)
• March 6, 2006

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EETT Contacts

• Competitive Grants Donna Steffan
• [phone] -- donna.steffan_at_dpi.state.wi.us
• Formula Grants Stuart Ciske
• [phone] -- stuart.ciske_at_dpi.state.wi.us
• Online Consolidated Form/Budgets and Competitive
  Grants Amy French
• [phone] -- amy.french_at_dpi.state.wi.us
• II D Program Director Steve Sanders
• [phone] -- stephen.sanders_at_dpi.state.wi.us

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Title II D Funding Update
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FY 2006 ChangesCompetitive Awards
The dollar amounts are ½ of last year.
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FY 2006 ChangesCompetitive Awards
Note By Advisory Committee recommendation,
Milwaukee Public Schools (or a consortium
including MPS) is eligible to apply for up to 11
of the distributable funds for the competition.
The dollar amounts are ½ of last year.
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FY 2006 ChangesEligibility for Competitive

• LEAs in the state with the highest numbers or
  percentages of children from families with
  incomes from below the poverty line.
• Last year 9 and above (143 districts)
• This year 9 and above (151 districts)

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FY 2006 ChangesEvaluation Requirement

• Projects must have a Project Evaluation Design.
• Follow the FY2006 Application Guidelines
• Evaluation plan should be facilitated by a
  qualified project evaluator identified in the
  application.
• Allocate sufficient resources to insure quality
• Take out the requirement that their be an
  external evaluator
• Replace the requirement that 5 - 10 of the
  funds be spent on evaluation with applications
  must include sufficient resources for the
  evaluation plan

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FY 2006 ChangesDissemination

• Remove the requirement of 5 to 10 of the budget
  to be spent on dissemination
• Replace above requirement with
• Projects must have a Dissemination Plan and
  sufficient resources need to be budgeted for
  dissemination
• Budget includes participation, upon request, in
  WDPI dissemination and sharing of the projects to
  interested educators throughout Wisconsin
• Expenses for 3 people to present to a group
  within Wisconsin

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FY 2006 ChangesLibrary Media Programs

• DPI encourages inclusion in EETT grants of
  Library Media Specialists along with classroom
  teachers
• Example
• Project includes professional development for
  school-based collaborative instructional teams
  that include classroom teachers and school
  library media specialists as effective users of
  information and technology learning tools/
  strategies and as professional mentors/coaches
  within their local school learning community.

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FY 2006 ChangesCompetitive Application Timeline

• Application posted March 3
• Applications due April 7
• Applications reviewed by May 1
• Awards announced by May 7
• May slide back a week
• Is their any reason not to release the scoring
  rubric?

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FY 2006 ChangesReporting Changes

• Demonstrate improved student achievement in LEAs
  which receive a substantial amount of Title II D
  Funds
• LEAs will implement a comprehensive curricula
  that integrate technology in all schools
• Work with schools and other state agencies to
  ensure infrastructure and access by schools to
  the Internet

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FY 2006 ChangesFormula Funding

• Range of Formula 583,837 - 0
• Average Formula 3,158
• Median Formula 908

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FY 2006 ChangesGrade 8 Technology Literacy

• State Educational Technology Directors
  Association (SETDA) Definition of Literacy
• DPI believes the SETDA definition covers all 4
  WMAS for Information and Technology Literacy
  areas
• A. Media Technology
• B. Information and Inquiry
• C. Independent Learning
• D. Learning Community

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FY 2006 ChangesGrade 8 Technology Literacy

• Reporting your information in 3 PLACES
• In your LEA Information and Technology Plan as
  part of your needs assessment analysis
• On ESEA Consolidated Application
• An added assurance that your district has a plan
  in place to determine your students literacy
  starting June 2006
• As part of the monitoring process in 2006 2007
  districts will need to provide evidence of the
  process when monitored for Title IID

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FY 2006 Changes8th Grade Assessment

• Monitoring Handbook Item The district has a
  plan for the evaluation of students in order to
  demonstrate technological literacy by the end of
  eighth grade
• Possible evidence includes
• Curriculum maps -- Curriculum benchmarks --
  Assessment tools -- Evidence of student
  achievement -- Records of student literacy --
  Details of the process to evaluate students
• Monitoring for 06-07 Districts/Consortia in
  CESAs 1, 6, 8 11, Milwaukee Public Schools

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FY 2007 and Beyond

• Advocacy at federal level
• Amount not likely to increase beyond 272 million
  until reauthorization in 2 years
• Focus for 2007
• Study other states
• Focus on particular area or problem
• Statewide efforts supplying everyone with ???

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District Technology Survey

• Collect information required by
• EDEN, EETT and State
• Primarily aimed at district
• level information, but contains
• 1 school-level questions
• Due April 7
• www5.dpi.state.wi.us/imtt/techsurvey/dist2006.htm

Please Help!!
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Internet Safety

• iSafe - www.isafe.org
• Leader in internet safety education
• iSafe Goal
• to educate students on how to avoid dangerous,
  inappropriate, or unlawful online behavior
• Uses dynamic K-12 curriculum and community
  outreach programs through i-LEARN and i-Mentor
  Network
• Contact your CESA for training details

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E-Rate

• Application window for 2006-07 year closed
• For 2007-08
• Will need Technology Plans expiring after June
  30, 2008
• Plan written by Fall 2006
• Plan approved by July 1, 2007
• DPI Workshop in Sept/Oct 2007
• Monitor WIERATE Listserv

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Technology Media Email Lists

• WIPK-12 - general PK-12 education discussion list
  
• wema-l - WEMA members/others interested in
  educational media issues
• wetech - Persons interested in PK-12 educational
  technology
• WIERATE - E-rate issues and activities
• ChannelWeekly - issues and activities for school
  and public libraries
• http//dpi.wi.gov/imt/listserv.html

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IMT Contact Information

• Steve Sanders (Director) 608-266-3856 stephen.san
  ders_at_dpi.state.wi.us
• Distance Education - E-Rate - Instructional
  Technology Certification
• Kate Bugher 608-267-9287 kathryn.bugher_at_dpi.state.
  wi.us
• School Library Issues - Reading First - Library
  Media Specialist Certification
• Stuart Ciske 608-267-9289 stuart.ciske_at_dpi.state.w
  i.us
• enGauge - EETT (Ed Tech/Title II D) Formula -
  Tech Plans
• Barry Golden 608-267-2373 barry.golden_at_dpi.state.w
  i.us
• ESETP BCN - Network Subcommittee
• Donna Steffan 608-267-1282 donna.steffan_at_dpi.state
  .wi.us
• EETT (Ed Tech/Title II D) Competitive - Tech
  Plans - Library Automation
• Arun Marathe 608-266-1924 arun.marathe_at_dpi.state.
  wi.us
• Surveys, data entry, application development
• Cathy Debevec 608-267-9221 cathy.debevec_at_dpi.state
  .wi.us
• Amy French 608- 261-6327 amy.french_at_dpi.state.wi
  .us

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Have a Great Afternoon!

• Other IMT Presentations
• Preparing Students for Learning and Working in
  the 21st Century
• Session 61 - Monday 315 pm - Empress
• Wisconsin School Library Media Impact Study
  Results
• Session 78 - Monday - 315 pm - Tamarind