VIRGINIA INITIATIVE FOR TECHNOLOGY AND ADMINISTRATIVE

LEADERSHIP

What We Want…

Connect with your inner 18th century…

Tuck This Thought Away #1

“I would think my child was being educationally deprived if they weren’t using Internet technology often in school…”

Parent, 2007

Tuck This Thought Away #2

“There’s not really an avenue at school for me to share, or publish my own stuff, or especially get feedback from people all over – that’s really the only reason I rush home to do MySpace so much.”

High School Honors Student

LET’S SEE HOW WE COMPARE TO OUR CONNECTED YOUTH

Lingo Bingo

Today’s Internet Users - Video

Video – Who’s watching what?57% of total online adults have watched

videos online;76% of the 18-29 age bracket consume,

upload, and share video;News & comedy for the young adult group

Pew Internet Project, July 2007

Today’s Internet Users – Social Video

Video – Social video viewing57% of the total surveyed population watch

video with others;73% of the young adult group does so.

Pew Internet Project, March 2007

Today’s Internet Users - Social Networking

66% of Online Teens say their profile is not visible to everyone

32% of Online Teens were contacted by strangers, with 65% of those stating that they ignored the contact, deleted, or reported it

“I'm really careful with the whole MySpace thing...I've heard of employers not hiring people because of it. I don’t post anything that I can’t show my mom or grandma.”

Pew Internet Project, April 2007

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), May 2007

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), May 2007

Decision-making & online resources

Users asked about internet’s role in eight types of decisions in 2002 and again in 2005: Career training and/or changes; Helping another with (or dealing with ones’ own)

major illness or medical condition; Choosing school (for self or child); Making major investment/financial decisions; Finding a new place to live.

OECD, May 2007OECD, May 2007

Growth from 2002 to 2005Growth from 2002 to 2005:millions of Americans for whom internet played an important role

SourceAll

respondentsHome

broadbandUnder age 30 & broadband

Television 41% 33% 32%

Internet 20 34 44

Magazines 14 15 9

Newspapers 14 11 3

Radio 4 4 1

Other 7 3 9

Where people report getting most of their science and news information

Information Access

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), May 2007

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), May 2007

Cell Phones

Ya wanna talk about how connected students are? WE are?

Pull out your cell phones, and let’s text a message to this number: 46645

Message examples: movies 23451sushi virginia beach

Today’s Users - Information Online

44% of the 18-29 age group use Wikipedia to look for information;

Of all online users surveyed, 50% of those with at least a college degree consult Wikipedia, compared with 22% of those with only a high school diploma;

Wikipedia is now the top free online educational reference site;

5.3 million total entries

Pew Internet Project, April 2007

Hitwise, March 2007

Students Today – Bottom Line

Our high schoolers are actually pretty “old” when it comes to technology;

Even our first year teachers are pretty old when it comes to technology;

Today’s students have incorporated technology heavily into the social aspects of their lives;

We must tap into these wired, social brains!

“What Goes On Once They Leave Us?”

Released October 2, 2006, by The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the Society for Human

Resource Management.

Workforce Survey

What skills are most important for job success when hiring a High School graduate?

Work Ethic 80%

Collaboration 75%

Communication 70%

Social Interactions & Responsibility 63%

Critical Thinking & Problem Solving 58%

Workforce 2.0

What skills and content areas will be growing in importance in the next five years?

Critical Thinking 78%

Information Technology 77%

Collaboration 74%

Innovation 74%

Personal Financial Responsibility 72%

Workforce 2.0

Technology Changes and Web 2.0

Web 2.0 simply means an Internet that is more: Customizable Interactive User-Centric Controllable Mobile Socially Motivated

How do we tap into this MySpace mind, but in the context of an educational atmosphere that

addresses world-readiness skills?

Learner 2.0 Tools

Wikis

Strengths: Free, easy access for K-12; Immediate Publishing to the World; Collective Intelligence; Drafts, revisions, final all in one; History of edits

Issues: The Wikipedia “Issues” Basic level publishing

Blogs

Strengths: Free, easy access for K-12 – journaling, book clubs; Publishes a progression of learning; Ongoing collaboration; Single and group authorship; Easy medium for soliciting feedback; Endless opportunities for reflections, revisions, etc.

Issues: Highly filtered in schools; Be wary of the ‘blogging just for blog’s sake’

Students and Blogging

A 5th grader, when asked about her blogging experience: “My teacher measured the readability of my posts

from the beginning of the year until now. I went from lower 2nd grade to 5th grade this year. What did I learn? Well, I pretty much found out that the more detailed descriptions I used in my post, the more comments I got back. I loved that part. Now I just can’t find enough time to write as much as I want!”

Do students in your school(s) use Blogging as a learning

tool in the classroom?

Show of hands…?

Other Online Publishing

Video & audio podcasts Capitalizes on the high interest of publishing; Allows teachers to use some “Learner 2.0” tools

inside an educational context; Pushes the concept of ongoing learning and global

interaction; Provides a nice “mashup” between teacher-directed

classroom goals, and student-driven learning opportunities;

Lots of fun

Connecting 2.0

More of this…

From The World is Flat, by Tom Friedman…

But this moment in the mid- to late 1990s was when people first started to feel that something was changing in a big way. There was suddenly available a platform for collaboration that all kinds of people from around the globe could now plug and play, compete and connect on--in order to share work, exchange knowledge, start companies, and invent and sell goods and services.

in touch with people they’d never been in touch with before,

were being challenged by people who had never challenged them before,

were competing with people with whom they had never competed before,

were collaborating with people with whom they had never collaborated before, and

were doing things as individuals they had never dreamt of doing before.

They couldn’t always quite describe what was happening, but by 2000 they sensed that they were

The FlattenersThe Flatteners 11/9/89 8/9/95 Work Flow Software Uploading (aka Open

Sourcing) Outsourcing Offshoring Supply-Chaining Insourcing In-forming

11/9/89 8/9/95 Work Flow Software Uploading (aka Open

Sourcing) Outsourcing Offshoring Supply-Chaining Insourcing In-forming

From Tom Friedman, The World is Flat, 2005From Tom Friedman, The World is Flat, 2005

The Steroids

•Digital

•Mobile

•Personal

•Virtual

globalization

1.01492-1800Concern

for Country

2.01800-2000Concern

for Companies

3.02000-

Concern for

Individuals

Most jobs are not lost to outsourcing to India or China--most lost jobs are outsourced to the past.

BUT…Google “online tutoring India” to see how education IS being outsourced

Being Untouchable

Leading on the edge of the flat world

• Know thyself• Know the faculty

• Think, Pair, Share (Untouchable Exercise)

The Educational Convergence

The Flat WorldThe Flat World

MillenialsMillenials

21st Century Skills

21st Century Skills

The Millennials Meet Globalization

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Science and math emphasis

• Learn how to learn• CQ + PQ > IQ• Learn to like people• Nurture more of your

right brain• Model of

employability

Information, communication, and media literacy

•Thinking and problem solving

•Interpersonal and self-directional skills

Skill Sets and Attitudes

Friedman:• Science and math emphasis• Learn how to learn• CQ + PQ > IQ• Learn to like people• Nurture more of your right brain• Model of employability

21st Century:• Information,

communication, and media literacy

• Thinking and problem solving

• Interpersonal and self-directional skills

Leadership ala Warren Bennis

The vision thing Passion Curiosity Daring

A distinctive voice Integrity Adaptive Capacity: learn

and re-learn

Information LiteracyInformation Literacy

Computer LiteracyComputer LiteracyMedia LiteracyMedia Literacy

ICT LiteracyICT Literacy21st Century Literacy21st Century Literacy

Digital LiteracyDigital Literacy

Multimedia LiteracyMultimedia Literacy

Visual LiteracyVisual Literacy

Critical Consumers

of Information

Critical Creators

of Knowledge

The only way we are going to keep our standard of living rising is to build a society that produces people who can keep inventing the future (p. 390).

The GeoLiteracy Project

Essential Conditions

Shared VisionSkilled PersonnelProf. Development AccessTechnical Assistance

ISTE

Student-Centered Teaching

Internal Equitable Access

Community SupportSupport Policies

1. Using the Essential Conditions handout, mark where you feel your school is along each continuum;

2. Could you choose one issue on which to focus this year?

3. Which would you choose? Why?

4. How might your teachers answer regarding your school?

Essential Conditions Activity

Essential Conditions Vision Activity

Posters around the roomDOTS!

Red = most urgent, needs attention nowYellow/orange = next most urgent, second in

lineGreen = celebrate/analyze how well we’ve

done with this

YOU

Admins Pushing It…

THANK YOUSee you next time!