What do You Mean by Technologically Literate Students Reporting Student Success for Title II D

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What do You Mean by Technologically Literate
Students? Reporting Student Success for Title
II D

• NCLB Grade 8 Technology Literacy Requirement
  What does it mean for me and my district?

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NCLB Title II, Part D EETT Grade 8 Technology
Literacy Requirement

• Evidence and analysis of data relating to student
  Information and Technology literacy levels
• To assist every student in crossing the digital
  divide by ensuring that every student is
  technologically literate by the time the student
  finishes the eighth grade, regardless of the
  students race, ethnicity, gender, family income,
  geographic location or disability.
• NCLB Title II D, Sec 2402
• http//www.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/esea2/pg34.htm

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NCLB Title II, Part D EETT Grade 8 Technology
Literacy Requirement

• NCLB asks your local Information Technology
  Plan for two items centered on Student
  Proficiency
• Identification of all students with special needs
  or underserved populations
• Evidence and analysis of data relating to student
  Information and Technology literacy levels

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NCLB Title II, Part D EETT Grade 8 Technology
Literacy Requirement

• Identification of all students with special needs
  or underserved populations
• You need to identify special needs /underserved
  students and tell how they are ensured access to
  your districts technology
• Special Needs is more inclusive than Special
  Education
• Special Needs EEL, ESL, TAG, Homeless, Migrant,
  At-risk, Section 504, etc.
• .includes students with needs who do not have an
  IEP

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Definition of Technology Literacy

• State Educational Technology Directors
  Association (SETDA) Definition of Literacy
• Technology literacy is the ability to
  responsibility use appropriate technology to
  communicate solve problems and access, manage,
  integrate, evaluate, and create information to
  improve learning in all subject areas and to
  acquire lifelong knowledge and skills in the 21st
  century.
• http//www.setda.org/NLItoolkit/TLA/tla02.htm

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Definition of Technology Literacy

• What the definition means in terms of Wisconsins
  Model Academic Standards for Information and
  Technology Literacy
• The four content standards are
• A. Media and Technology
• B. Information and Inquiry
• C. Independent Learning
• D. The Learning Community

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Definition of Technology Literacy

• A. Media and Technology - Students in Wisconsin
  will select and use media and technology to
  access, organize, create, and communicate
  information for solving problems and constructing
  new knowledge, products, and systems.

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Definition of Technology Literacy

• B. Information and Inquiry - Students in
  Wisconsin will access, evaluate, and apply
  information efficiently and effectively from a
  variety of sources in print, nonprint, and
  electronic formats to meet personal and academic
  needs.

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Definition of Technology Literacy

• C. Independent Learning - Students in Wisconsin
  will apply technological and information skills
  to issues of personal and academic interest by
  actively and independently seeking information
  demonstrating critical and discriminating
  reading, listening, and viewing habits and,
  striving for personal excellence in learning and
  career pursuits.

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Definition of Technology Literacy

• D. The Learning Community - Students in Wisconsin
  will demonstrate the ability to work
  collaboratively in teams or groups, use
  information and technology in a responsible
  manner, respect intellectual property rights, and
  recognize the importance of intellectual freedom
  and access to information in a democratic
  society.

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Requirement Reporting

• Two places for reporting this information
• First
• In your LEA Information and Technology Plan as
  part of your needs assessment analysis

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Requirement Reporting

• Two places for reporting this information
• Second
• On ESEA Consolidated Application End of Year
  Report for 2005 2006
• What percent of your Grade 8 students are
  technologically literate?
• How have you determined this?

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Meeting the Requirement

• The Big Question
• How will LEAs meet this requirement?
• The Big Answer
• LEAs will decide!

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Meeting the Requirement

• Three ways to meet the requirement
• Use already embedded curricular
  projects/assignments
• Stand alone assessments
• Combination of both above
• Each has advantages and disadvantages depending
  on a variety of factors unique to each LEA

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Meeting the Requirement

• Use already Embedded Curricular
  Projects/Assignments
• Local assessments of embedded ITL curriculum
  within core content areas
• Locally developed progress monitoring assessments
  or assessments of unit projects
• Observations logs
• Examination of artifacts and/or portfolios

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One Districts Example

• We have each ITLS matched to a specific class.
  Teachers in that class will teach the ITLS as an
  "integrated" standard along with their "content
  area" standards, but the ITLS will be identified
  in the units they are taught in.
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• So what I laid out was this then
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• An ITLS is taught in a specific unit in a
  specific class.
• The unit is assessed
• The student earns a "passing" grade on the
  assessment for the unit.
• The student is deemed to have then passed the
  ITLS.
• The unit is a part of a class made up of many
  units.
• The student passes the class because they passed
  the assessments for each of the units.
• The student would be then be deemed "proficient"
  at each of the ITLS identified in that specific
  class.

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Meeting the Requirement

• Stand Alone Assessments tied to the ITLS
  Standards
• Standardized tests
• Self-assessment surveys
• Combination of both Stand Alone Assessments
  Embedded Curricular Projects/Assignments

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Tools to Assist LEAs

• Student Proficiency Tools LEAs will decide!
• PETI -- Profiling Educational Technology
  Integration Resources for Assessing Readiness
  and Use (SETDA/Metiri)
• http//www. setda-peti.org/
• NCRTEC Scoring Guide for Student Products
• http//www.ncrtec.org/tl/sgsp/index.html
• NETS Online Assessment (ISTE/CoSN/MicroSoft)
• http//www.iste.org/resources/asmt/msiste

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For More Information

• USDoE website for Ed Tech http//www.ed.gov/progra
  ms/edtech/index.html
• It gives generic language on the different
  sections of the law.
• Next is the law itself with the different
  sections listed as links.
• SEC. 2402. PURPOSES AND GOALS http//www.ed.gov/po
  licy/elsec/leg/esea02/pg34.htmlsec2401
• The program guidance, see page two.
  http//www.ed.gov/programs/edtech/guidance.doc

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Title II Part D Ed Tech

• Goals of the program
• Improve student academic achievement through the
  use of technology in schools
• Assist all students in becoming technologically
  literate by the end of eighth grade
• Encourage the effective integration of technology
  with teacher training and curriculum development
  to establish successful research-based
  instructional methods.

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• (1) PRIMARY GOAL- The primary goal of this part
  is to improve student academic achievement
  through the use of technology in elementary
  schools and secondary schools.

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• (2) ADDITIONAL GOALS- The additional goals of
  this part are the following
• (A) To assist every student in crossing the
  digital divide by ensuring that every student is
  technologically literate by the time the student
  finishes the eighth grade, regardless of the
  student's race, ethnicity, gender, family income,
  geographic location, or disability.

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• (2) ADDITIONAL GOALS- The additional goals of
  this part are the following
• (B) To encourage the effective integration of
  technology resources and systems with teacher
  training and curriculum development to establish
  research-based instructional methods that can be
  widely implemented as best practices by State
  educational agencies and local educational
  agencies.