Leadership in a Digital Age

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Different WorldDifferent Schools
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Whatever made you successful in the past, wont
in the future!-Lew Platt, former CEO, HP
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Different Views
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Millennials Want to Learn

• With technology
• With one another
• Online
• In their own time
• In their own place
• Doing things that matter

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Millennials Want to Learn
In their own timeAt their own paceWith one
anotherDoing things that matter -virtually
-interactively -with voice and influence
Source Pew Internet and American Life
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Museum in the Classroom
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Hawaii Student Team Project

• The Data
• After school program with ThinkQuest guidelines
• Students decided topic, message, and medium
• Powerful productspowerful messagespowerful
  reflections

I think I became a better person while working
on this project because I know more about
values. --Clinton, Age 10
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A Window of Opportunity
What are the tipping points that bring surges of
positive change?
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Different World

• Industrial workers were measured by their
  efficiency
• Knowledge workers are measured by their
  effectiveness

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Different Worldview
"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but
in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must
be feasible. Yale University
Management Professor
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Its not about the technology!
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Vision
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BRIDGE
THE
TO EFFECTIVE 21ST CENTURY LEARNING
High Academic Achievement by Students Ready to
Thrive In a Digital Age
TECHNOLOGY GLOBALIZATION
By METIRI
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How will I ever use this? is actually a very
good question!
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Assign Authentic, Intellectual Work!

• Defined as
• Relevance beyond school
• Disciplined Inquiry
• Knowledge Construction

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Quality of Assignments Counts
Source Improving Chicagos Schools, Fred Newman
2001
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This is not about enticing teachers to use
technology enabling teachers to reach students
in ways never before possible.
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Effectiveness in Primary Grades
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Effectiveness in Primary Grades

• Web-based Learning Across Academic Content Areas
• Harvards Teaching for Understanding
• Gets GREAT results with 1st and 2nd graders!

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BRIDGE
THE
TO EFFECTIVE 21ST CENTURY LEARNING
Research-based Technology Solutions That
Work!
High Academic Achievement by Students Ready to
Thrive In a Digital Age
TECHNOLOGY GLOBALIZATION
By METIRI
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enGauge 21st Century Skills
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Digital-Age Literacy
Inventive Thinking

• Basic, Scientific, and Technological Literacies
• Visual and Information Literacies
• Cultural Literacy and Global Awareness

• Adaptability/Managing Complexity and
  Self-Direction
• Curiosity, Creativity, and Risk-taking
• Higher-order Thinking and Sound
  Reasoning

• Teaming, Collaboration, and Interpersonal Skills
• Personal and Social Responsibility
• Interactive Communication

• Ability to Prioritize, Plan, and Manage for
  Results
• Effective Use of Real-world Tools
• Relevant, High-quality Products

Effective Communication
HighProductivity
http//enGauge.ncrel.org
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The Visually Literate Student

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• informed viewers and critics of visual
  information
• knowledgeable designers, composers, and producers
  of visuals
• effective communicators using visuals
• expressive, innovative thinkers and successful
  problem solvers using visuals

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Truth in Advertising
www.pbskids.org/dontbuyit/
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Visual Problem Solver
Source Visual Explanations by Edward R. Tufte
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Visual Problem Solver
Source Visual Explanations by Edward R. Tufte
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Make Thinking Visible
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Making Thinking Visible
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Self-Direction

• A self-directed learner has the ability to
• set goals related to learning plan toward the
  achievement of the goals
• independently manage time and effort
• independently assess results

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To Inhibit Self-Direction

• Focusing on test scores and grades
• Assessing students-not work
• Praising intelligence
• Unnecessary review
• Too much direction
• Fishing expeditions

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Most students give us the answers WE seek
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Web-based Integrated Science Environment

• Inquiry Science
• Rigorous Content
• Scaffolded Learning
• Demonstrated Results!
• Free Resource

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Web-based Integrated Science Environment
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BRIDGE
THE
TO EFFECTIVE 21ST CENTURY LEARNING
Research-based Technology Solutions That
Work!
High Academic Achievement by Students Ready to
Thrive In a Digital Age
TECHNOLOGY GLOBALIZATION
By METIRI
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Leading Titles for Grades 3-5
Kid Pix BroderbundReader Rabbit The Learning
Co./RiverdeepPrintshop Broderbund/Lrn
Co/RiverdeepHyperstudio Vivendi Univ./Knowledge
Adv.Math Blaster Vivendi Univ./Knowledge
Adv.AppleWorks/ClarisW Apple/ClarisOregon
Trail MECC/Lrn Co/RiverdeepMillies Math
House Edmark/RiverdeepAccelerated
Reader Advantage Learning SystemBaileys Book
House Edmark/Riverdeep
Source Education Market Research the Complete
K-12 Report. 2001
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A Tale of Two Software Packages
DevelopmentalParticipatory, In context,
Intrinsically MotivatingIncreases in IQ,
problem solving, abstract thinking and long-term
memory
Non-Developmental50 loss of Creativity over a
year
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Fast Forword

• The Data
• Researchers on the neurological basis for
  language development
• Exercises in game-like environments
• In 6 to 8 weeks students at the 12th percentile
  moved to the 49th

www.scientificlearning.com
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Read 180Vanderbilt University

• Decrease in behavior referrals
• Increased attendance
• Increase in grade point average
• Increases in reading scores

• Reading Labs
• Word Labs
• Spelling Labs

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Little Planet - Vanderbilt University

• All aspects of early literacy
• Effect sizes of .45 to .85
• http//www.sunburst.com

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BRIDGE
THE
TO EFFECTIVE 21ST CENTURY LEARNING
High Academic Achievement by Students Ready to
Thrive In a Digital Age
TECHNOLOGY GLOBALIZATION
By METIRI
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• What actions can you take?

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Five Things

• Get the Digital Age on your schools radar screen
• Identify the things that work expect use and
  gains by all
• Build bridgeshonor and extend existing work

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Five Things continued

• 4. Make technology decisions at the system level
  (base them on students learning needs)
• 5. Redefine measures of success to include 21st
  Century skills

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