Classrooms for the Future

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Classrooms for the Future
Pennsylvania Department of Education Edward G.
Rendell Governor
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Technology has transformed our society into

• A global marketplace with immediate and unlimited
  access to
• Information 24/7
• Newer and better services and goods
• A culture that demands that we possess the skills
  and knowledge to use technology resourcefully as
  both a consumer and a worker

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Technology has also fundamentally transformed our
societys

• Customs and Composition
• We use technology daily to collapse time and
  space
• We use the same technology for work and
  entertainment
• Breakthroughs in technology help us live longer,
  healthier lives
• Technology helps us visualize the future

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• If technological exploration and
• innovation facilitate constant changes
• to our world and how we inhabit it
• we must now redesign education to
• reflect a new human paradigm.

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High School Reform

• Three fundamental ideas about todays high
  schools that are not yet widely perceived
• There are results that matter for high school for
  high school graduates in the 21st century and
  these results are different from and go beyond
  traditional metrics.
• Improving high schools requires the nation to
  redefine rigor to encompass not just mastery of
  core academic subjects, but also mastery of 21st
  century skills and content.
• The results that matter 21st century skills
  integrated with core academic subjects should
  be the design specs for creating high schools
  that are truly effective for students and the
  nation.
• Results That Matter 21st Century Skills and High
  School Reform, Partnership for 21st Century Skills

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A Synergistic Convergence

• Research to support adaptive education
• Technology to support and sustain systemic change
  in support of adaptive education
• Public and private support for systemic change in
  support of adaptive education

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The Adaptive Experts

• Students
• Teachers
• Administrators
• Supporting systems
• The community
• The family

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The Foundation

• 200 million three-
• year initiative to
• acquire for each
• public high school
• and AVTS/CTC in core
• subject (English,
• Math, Science,
• Social Studies)
• classroom the
• following

• one laptop per student desk
• one teacher laptop
• one printer
• one scanner
• imaging software
• one web cam
• one electronic whiteboard
• one projector
• up to three digital still cameras (per eligible
  school)
• up to five digital video cameras (per eligible
  school)
• productivity software
• infrastructure
• technical support

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The Framework

• Sustaining the work with additional programs and
  funding
• A stipend for Keystone Technology Integrator
  teacher(s)
• An on-site Classrooms for the Future Coach
• Extensive online and hands-on professional
  development
• Materials and facilities funding to support
  professional development

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The Challenge

• Readiness Efficiencies and Innovation
• Sustainability Planning and TCO
• Responsibility Accountability

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The Teachers

• A Social Studies teacher might have students
  create a weblog to identify views on the most
  significant causes of World War II which can then
  be used as theses for collaborative multimedia
  presentations
• Math teachers might use the design and
  construction of virtual stair systems as a
  meaningful, standards-based approach to bridge
  theory and practice

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• English teachers might develop webquests with
  rubrics that support critical literacy and
  advanced research skills through producing
  digital movies, composing songs, or writing
  narrative essays on Langston Hughess poetry
• Science teachers might lead students on a NASA
  eMission where they need to analyze jet
  propulsion forces and cargo load requirements to
  outmaneuver a meteorite

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The Students

• Examine online artifacts of the anti-bellum South
  and then webcast discussions with anthropologists
  to better understand the cultural exigencies that
  led to slavery
• Observe Martin Luther King delivering his I Have
  a Dream speech and then digitally produce a
  presentation that might have similar social and
  historical ramifications on a group of people
  today

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The Students

• Travel underwater to discover sunken treasures of
  lost civilizations or the golden scales of a new
  species of fish through live streaming video from
  a research vessel
• Create a virtual universe using online Hubble
  Space Telescope resources and calculate the event
  horizon around a black hole or the lifespan of a
  red dwarf star

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The Support

• Leveraging Pennsylvanias Programs
• E-Fund/BOAF Broadband Initiatives
• eStrategicPlanner
• Project 720
• Dual Enrollment
• Job Ready PA
• Keystones Technology Integrators
• Getting to One Technology Integration Mentors
• School Improvement
• Accountability Block Grants

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The Future

• Culture and pedagogical reform
• Change in Perceptions
• Change of Practice
• Change in Performance

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Questions?

• For more information
• www.pde.state.pa.us/ed_tech