Are You Ready for the Next Wave of Technology Integration

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Are You Ready for the Next Wave ofTechnology
Integration?

• Walter McKenzie

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Lets Gain Some Perspective
My First Computer Was..
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Lets Gain Some Perspective

• The first great wave of
• educational technology
• is over!

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Lets Gain Some Perspective

• What have we accomplished?
• More toys
• More tools
• Greater accessibility
• Improved communication
• Access to resources
• Better questions _at_ teaching and learning
• Less textbooks
• More collaboration
• More uncertainty
• Enhanced student learning

Bigger/Global community Need for more
technology Better archive of information Staffing
Information as power Greater demand to learn to
use technology Online commerce Professional-lookin
g documents Info overload
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• What fell short of the mark?
• Unable to see implications for use of technology
• Need for teacher enthusiasm to learn and use it
• Resistance to change
• Measurable student achievement
• Technology keep changing/trying to keep up
• Technology is expensive
• Supposed to save us time, not take up more of it

• People have wound up demanding more documentation
• Accomplish more, so expectation is to do more
• Voice recognition doesn t work well
• Software doesnt necessarily work as well as it
  should
• Tech support
• Funding keeps getting cut

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• Its not
• about the
• technology!

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Lets Gain Some Perspective

• What would we do differently?
• Open source to promote collaborative development
  of software
• Teach and learn in general, use technology where
  appropriate
• Be more visionary about the goal then decide on
  the tool
• Key question Whats worth knowing? Working On?
  What skills do we want students to come out of
  school with? Also values, politics, being
  engaged, being good citizens.
• Redesign schools, physically conceptually
• Mentoring students and teachers
• Better teacher training programs
• Create partnerships with students, parents,
  business, teachers, communities, gvt agencies,
  higher ed

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Goals for the next Decade

• Ubiquitous Computing
• Personal
• Portable
• Seamless
• Integrated
• Task Driven

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A New Age Demands a New Paradigm
Goals for the next Decade
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Goals for the next Decade

• All children are learners
• Each learner is unique
• One size does not fit all
• There is more than one way to solve a problem
• Skills and concepts should be taught in multiple
  ways and contexts

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Goals for the next Decade

• Technology can accommodate all learners
• Student-centered classroom
• Collaborative problem-solving
• Authentic tasks and assessments
• Creativity and diversity are celebrated

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Goals for the next Decade

• By 2016 instructional technology must
• Get rid of classrooms as we know them
• Redefine job description of teacher, student,
  family
• Create a collaborative learning community setting
• Allow students to take more responsibility for
  their education
• Replace AP system based on golbal citizenship and
  decision-making
• IT should be in control of the learner entirely
• IT must be equally accessible to all
• Set parameters for students using IT
• Creating a vision for IT
• Identifying a plan

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Next Steps

• Your personal goals
• Your action plan
• Your resources
• http//surfaquarium.com/wave/