involving digital parents in digital learning - event 3 in a 4-part series

Involving Digital Parents in Digital

Learning

Presented by: Julie Evans and Jeff La Benz

DIGITAL PARENTS WEBINAR

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Control Panel

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Control panel is on the right

side of your screen.

• Chat with other attendees in

the “Chat” section

• Submit your questions in

the “Q&A” section


Webinar Tips

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• Tweeting today? Use our handles @ChandlerUnified,

@SpeakUpEd, and @Schoolwires and hashtag

#EngageDigitalParents

• A link to the recording of this webinar will be emailed to

you

• There will be a 5 second pause before we start our

speakers’ introduction and presentation…

Involving Digital Parents in Digital

Learning

Presented by: Julie Evans and Jeff La Benz



Guest Presenter: Julie Evans

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• CEO of Project Tomorrow

• Chief Researcher for Speak Up

• Named One of Top Ten Most Influential People

in Ed Tech 1998-2008

• Frequent speaker and writer

Welcome, Julie!


Jeff La Benz, Assistant Director for Instructional Technology

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Chandler Unified School District (AZ)

Instructional Resource Center

Webmaster

Instructional Technology Specialist

Assistant Director of Instructional

Technology

Taught Instructional Technology courses

for NAU and ASU Polytechnic

Welcome, Jeff!


Reaching the New Digital Parent: An Administrators’ Guide

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• New collaboration between Project Tomorrow &

Schoolwires

• Series of webinars, resources and white papers

• Goal: to provide school and district administrators

with insights and tools to communicate, collaborate

and connect with parents

• Based upon new research from Speak Up

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Speak Up National Research Project

Annual national research project

Online surveys + focus groups

Open for all K-12 schools and schools of education

Institutions receive free report with their own data

Collect ideas ↔ Stimulate conversations

K-12 Students, Teachers, Parents, Administrators

Pre-Service Teachers in Schools of Education

Inform policies & programs

Analysis and reporting of findings and trends

Consulting services to help transform teaching and learning

+ 3 million surveys since 2003


Speak Up National Research Project - 2012

K-12 Students 364,233

Teachers & Librarians 56,346

Parents (in English & Spanish) 39,713

School/District Administrators 5,511

Technology Leaders 500

About the participating schools & districts

o 8,020 schools and 2,431 districts

o 30% urban / 43% rural / 27% suburban

o All 50 states + DC

o Honor Roll of States with highest participation:

TX, CA, OH, IN, AL, NC, WI, AZ, FL, PA


Who are the New Digital Parents?

New Digital Parent Profile

Value proposition for the use of technology in education Personal usage of mobile devices Personal experience with online learning Strong interest in digital school-to-home communications

37% of parents of school-aged childrenfit this profile today


Four chapters with accompanying webinars:

• Who are the New Digital Parents?

• Communicating with the New Digital Parents

• Involving Digital Parents in Digital Learning

• Creating a Shared Vision with the New Digital Parents




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How Important is the Use of Technology to Student Success?

© Project Tomorrow 2013


Involving Digital Parents in Digital Learning

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Two areas within digital learning of particular interest to

parents:

Mobile learning

Online learning


Cell phone without Internet access

Smartphone Tablet computer

Parents in 2008

90% 32% 5%

Parents in 2012

35% 73% 49%


Parents are mobilists! Personal Access to Mobile Devices – from 2008 to 2012




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Benefits of mobile learning

All Parents New Digital Parents

Increases student engagement in learning 57% 74%

Provides access to online textbooks 65% 74%

Students can review class materials anytime 60% 66%

Enables more personalized learning 48% 64%

Extends learning beyond the school day 50% 63%

Improves school to home communications 64% 50%




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Would you be willing to purchase a mobile device for

your child to use at school for academics if allowed?

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

New Digital Parents: K-5

New Digital Parents: Gr 6-8


All Parents

Likely

Very likely




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If there were two comparable classes – one allowed

mobile devices and one did not, would you want your

child in the mobile using class?

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

New Digital Parents: K-5



All Parents

Likely

Very likely




Parents have first hand experience with online learning

I have taken an online class:

For work or job training 43%For an academic/college program 29%To learn new skills 22%To explore a hobby 13%For traffic school 7%

* Since 2009 – increase of 65 percent!




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Benefits of online learning

All Parents New Digital Parents

Students can work at their own pace 62% 73%

Students can review materials as often as wanted/needed

59% 72%

To take a class not offered at school 51% 67%

To get college or advanced credit 43% 64%

To increase student engagement in learning 30% 37%




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Should teachers’ evaluations include an assessment of

technology use effectiveness?

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

Strongly agree Agree Disagree Strongly disagree

All Parents

New Digital Parents

Principals



Next chapter: Creating a Shared Vision for Digital Learning

In the meantime:

What do you know about the experiences or expectations of

your parents for digital learning?

What do your parents know about the use of digital tools in

your classrooms? Are their perceptions accurate?

How are you engaging parents in your planning for digital

learning?



Chandler Unified School District Background

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• Premier school district of choice in central Arizona:

• Suburban, serves over 40,000 students

• opened 22 schools since 1998

• consists of 29 elementary, seven

junior highs, four high schools,

two alternative schools,

and an early college campus

• Challenges and Opportunities:

• Arizona – Parent choice capital

• 46th in education funding

• Since 2008, deeper cuts to public

education than any other state


Journey 2020

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• Journey 2020:

• 10 year strategic plan

• Input from all stakeholders to ensure that CUSD is a district of

choice, defined by:

• academic excellence for students

• outstanding staff

• a culture of success, and

• effective management of resources

• Empower all stakeholders to leverage technology in support of the

learning and teaching environment


Bragging Rights

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• Currently have

3,500 students

enrolled who live

outside CUSD

• 9,000 students

who live within

CUSD attend a

different CUSD

school

• Specialty

programs


The Choice is Yours

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• School and district

grades

• Honors and Awards


How We Listen to Parents

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• Parent satisfaction

survey

• Elementary school

parent surveys

• Website Secret

Shopper

• Listen and Learn

Tour


Leveraging Website and Web Resources

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• Schoolwires

• Teacher sections

• Training, school webmasters

• E-Alerts

• Posting:

• Content regarding assignments

• Due dates

• Links to assist success

• Infinite Campus

• SIS and gradebook online, linked

from our Schoolwires website


Teacher Websites

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Technology Tutorials Repository

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• Requested assistance

• Relates especially to classroom

hardware and software

• Feedback and request links

throughout the site (online forms in

Schoolwires)



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Just 4 Kids

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• Juried resources

• Suggested sites

• Homework help


Just 4 Kids

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Just 4 Kids

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Just 4 Teachers

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• Outgrowth of

Common Core

training for

teachers

• Development

of aligned

lesson plans

• To be linked

directly from

curriculum

maps


Just 4 Parents

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Cyberbullying Resources

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• Repository of

teacher lessons

• Included resources

for parents

• Multiple topics

addressed


Software

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• GOAL: Student Achievement and Growth

• Software approval process, curricular:

• Online forms completed by

content-area experts

• Responses scored

• Alignment with current

standards, higher levels of DOK

• Software approval, curricular and

non-curricular:

• Compatibility testing

• High quality interface


Software

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Software

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Software

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• GOAL: Student Achievement

• Alignment with current standards

• Higher levels of DOK

• Software approval process


Hardware

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• GOAL: Student Achievement and Growth

• Standard minimum equipment

• Site based decision-making for

above and beyond

• Research and pilots

• Examples:

• TI Nspire

• Responders

• COWs

• Limitations:

• Funding, cost of WiFi expansion


Hardware

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Hardware

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Hardware

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BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology)

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• Process:

• Input from

parents,

teachers,

principals

• Committee to

research and

develop

• Samples from

other districts

• Legal review

• Board approval


Grants, Partnerships, Programs and Pilots

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Examples:

• High School Biotechnology program

• Engineering is Elementary

• PBL (Problem Based Learning)

• Wireless Generation™ (Amplify™) DIBELS Next BURST™

• Assessment used three times per year for benchmarks

progress monitoring of early literacy skills

• BURST™ is utilized on many elementary school campuses for

RtI Tier 2 intervention

• Chandler Online Academy



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• Acceleration project:

• Target growth (not just achievement) – even in already high

achievers

• Identifying untapped talents, tapping into, extending it

• Computer labs

• Used extensively for formative, summative assessments

• Redefine how we use computer labs

• Has been a test of PARCC readiness


Acceleration Project

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• TI Nspire:

• Re-engage students

through tech

• Taking challenging math,

where might have not

taken otherwise

• Greatest growth in

country



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• STRUT (Students Recycling

Used Technology)

• Teaches high school

students how to refurbish

used computers



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• CIMA (Chandler Intel Math

Academy)

• Results: 1 of 2 MSPs

(Math and Science

Partnership) in nation to

show increase in student

achievement tied directly

to increase in teacher

content knowledge


Our Experience – Summary

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• Using technology to meet parents’ expectations and personalize

instruction to meet students needs involves:

• Using technology to actively listen to your community

• Involving stakeholders to visualize the ideal, and plan for how to

get there

• Providing a variety of programs for families to select

• Thoughtful evaluation and leveraging of:

• Website and web resources

• Software

• Hardware (including BYOT)

• Grant, partnership, program and pilot opportunities


Our final event in the series…

June 11, 1:00 pm EST

Exploring Digital Parents’ vision for 21st century learning

Register at: www.schoolwires.com/getbetterconnected

http://www.schoolwires.com/getbetterconnected


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