Planning for Technology Infusion

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Planning for Technology Infusion
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Module Objectives

• Importance of technology infusion
• Learning environments
• Technology infusion stages
• Self-assessment

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Benefits

• Teachers or instructors
• Students
• School
• Oklahoma

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Infusion Stages

• Research-based
• Flexible stages
• Fluid continuum

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Four Stages in Spectrum
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• Begin with the end in mind.
• - Stephen Covey

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True Infusion Stage

• Appropriation and innovation
• Technovator
• Technology used in innovative ways to improve
  teaching and learning

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Reasons to Infuse

• K-12 PASS requirements
• Not a matter of why but when
• Shrinking world
• Need for lifelong learners

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Lifelong Learners
1998 Right now 70 percent of all jobs require
basic technology literacy.
2010
In 10 years, 100 percent of all jobs will require
significant technology skillsand 80 percent of
those jobs do not even exist right now.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Lifelong Learners
None of the top 10 jobs that will exist in the
year 2010 exist today . . . . And these jobs will
use technology that hasnt been invented to solve
problems we havent even thought of yet.
Secretary of Education Richard Riley
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Learning Environments
Teacher- centered
Learner- centered
Fact teller
Collaborator
Collaborator
Listener
Relationship through inquiry and invention
Memorize facts
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Learning Environments
Accumulation of facts
Transformation of facts
Quality of understanding
Quantity
Norm-referenced
Performance/ portfolios
Drill and practice
Communications
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Instructional vs. Constructional
Guide students in finding
Giving
Information
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Characteristics ofTechnovators

• Look for ways to enhance learning quality.
• Listen to students.
• Help find innovative solutions.
• Participate as a community of learners.

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Characteristics of Technovators

• Serve as guide by the side.
• Question students about their self-directed
  learning processes.
• Use nontraditional assessment tools effectively.

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Best Practices of Technovators

• Design opportunities for student inquiry.
• Establish avenues for students to seek
  primary-source materials.

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Training Needs of Technovators

• Leadership skills
• mentoring/coaching
• train-the trainer
• Process skills and developing lifelong learning
  objectives
• On-line training viable

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Entry-Level Stage

• Just beginning (if even)
• Technovoid
• Does not currently use technology for any purpose

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Characteristics of Technovoids

• May be a very good, creative teacher
• Harbors secret fear of technology.
• Does not need technology

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Best Practices of Technovoids

• None related to technology.

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Training Needs of Technovoids

• Make the connection - WIIFM
• Goal Get them to say Yes.
• Fundamentals

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Adoption Stage

• Commits to gaining skills and increasing
  productivity.
• Technorookie.
• Lights are on!

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Characteristics of Technorookies

• Learns several software packages for personal
  use.
• Establishes a means for regular access to
  computer.

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Best Practices of Technorookie

• Uses applications to automate existing tasks
  (adoption).
• Makes little change in classroom instruction.

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Training Needs of Technorookies

• Help set a plan of study to prevent burnout.
• Expand on fundamentals.
• Encourage to expand to classroom instruction.

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Adaptation Stage

• Mastered basic tools.
• Developed a class assignment.
• Called technotraditionalist.

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Characteristics of Technotraditionalists

• Enjoy technology.
• Create student materials and resources.
• Troubleshoot simple problems.

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Best Practices of Technotraditionalists

• Teacher adopts online projects to fulfill
  curricular objectives.
• Student work includes adding technology to
  traditional methods (adaptation).

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Training Needs of Technotraditionalists

• True technology infusion
• Paradigm shift
• Alternative assessment methods

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Profiling StagesCase Studies
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Profiling the Stages

• Technology skills
• Instructional methods
• Stages I, II, III - Growth strategies for moving
  to next stage
• Stage IV - Roles to help others attain highest
  level

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In what stage are you?

• Self-assessment time

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Success Stories
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Summary

• Importance of technology infusion
• Learning environments
• Technology infusion stages
• Self-assessment