tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42123356298137741802024-03-13T12:07:34.394-07:00Transforming Education for the 21st CenturyLisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-13599186242076116972009-11-22T12:53:00.000-08:002009-11-22T12:54:56.168-08:00Let’s Stop Making Students Power Down at School<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SwmbUDeMDOI/AAAAAAAABMY/HMGWqjRuaeE/s1600/unplugged.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 221px; height: 148px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SwmbUDeMDOI/AAAAAAAABMY/HMGWqjRuaeE/s320/unplugged.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407023596466605282" border="0" /></a>Unlike parents or teachers at their age, 21st century students are fortunate to have what <a href="http://torres21.com/">Marco Torres</a> refers to as "the global stage" which describes the worldwide publishing potential now offered by the Internet. Yet, for the most part students are performing on this stage completely devoid of teacher or adult influence. It is unfortunate that outside of school students operate in a world where they are interacting, publishing, and producing for thousands, yet as they enter the school building, they have to power down and produce work usually for an audience of one.<br /><br />The self-proclaimed, almighty teacher.<br /><br />I remember a story <a href="http://novemberlearning.com/team/alan-november/">Alan November</a> shared with me about a student he met who struggled with this. She felt her teacher was always wasting her time with unimportant writing assignments and reports that she cared nothing about. Her teacher never even bothered to learn what she actually did care about. The student was much more interested in the writing she was doing on <a href="http://www.fanfiction.net/">FanFiction</a> where she had discovered the world's largest archive and forum where fanfic writers and readers around the globe gather to share their passion. This student literally had thousands of fans around the world reading and responding to her stories. She had no interest and didn't care to make time to prepare work for the teacher who didn’t have interest or seem to care to take the time to learn to allow her students to express themselves in areas of passion and interest.<br /><br />When school started this Fall, I was impressed with 9-year old <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTBnApR7gI0">Sarah’s two-minute recorded response</a> to President Obama’s speech, posted to YouTube. She had 187,632 views, 1600 comments, and a 4 star rating. Talk about authentic assessment, authentic audience, and real learning.<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jTBnApR7gI0&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jTBnApR7gI0&rel=0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /><br />Today there was another video I saw a little closer to home that I was extremely impressed with. It is this video which my boyfriend’s daughter created.<br /><br /><object height="340" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SYG7tCH3Vus&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SYG7tCH3Vus&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="340" width="560"></embed></object><br /><br />It has received more than 15,000 hits in a day! His 13-year old was excited to discover that her voice was heard and her message was shared with thousands of others who rated her work an impressive 4 stars and left relevant and meaningful comments. She also was excited to read the comments from other educators about the video that I posted on my Facebook wall which included:<br /><ul><li>Wow that's pretty amazing! She's got mad iMovie skillz yo! What grade is she in?</li><li>Your daughter is a great teacher for both teachers and students. Rather than taking classes, you should see if she could teach a class at her high school. All the teachers can be her students.</li><li>The immediacy of technology displayed in its best form.</li><li>Wow! Outstanding work! I've shared her work with our media club students - her work is sure to inspire our members! Thanks </li></ul><br />Barry (the video producer's dad) BBMed me saying, his daughter was smiling ear to ear and wanted to know, “What’s so good about my video?” Huh, would you look at that! A student requesting authentic assessment feedback from the educators that were impressed by her. There should be more conversations like these in schools for sure. When I asked her dad how often his daughter has these opportunities at school, he said, “as far as I know she doesn’t have such opportunities.” To answer her question here are a few things that are so good about the video. I’m sure I and others will come up with more.<br /><br />-She learned how to use the software on her own. She didn’t need to take a movie making class. She just needed a subject that inspired her to learn how to make a movie.<br />-She is exploring a topic she is passionate about and her interest shines through.<br />-She teaches her peers through her comments how to employ movie making techniques.<br />-She tells a clear and focused story with a message.<br />-She employs mart and appropriate use of graphics and subtitles.<br />-She has a great eye for capturing engaging video and photography.<br />-She incorporates a range of important story elements from real-time tweets, to audience reaction, to appropriate background music and commentary.<br />-She provides smart on target transitions.<br />-She lays out a clear sequence, flow, and story line.<br />-She is an on the street journalist with a story to tell and thousands of people who want to watch that story.<br /><br />As an educator of innovative educators, I urge you to remember these students, their voices, their passions and don’t force students to power down when they come to school. Encourage and embrace their excitement, their passions, their enthusiasm, their need for socializing and authenticity. Help make school a place your students want to be, discover, grow, learn and share.<br /><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-198942154230179842009-10-25T21:31:00.000-07:002009-10-25T21:34:33.708-07:00COST EFFECTIVE WAYS TO PREPARE YOUR SCHOOL OR CLASSROOM FOR 21ST CENTURY LEARNING IN CASH STRAPPED TIMES<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SuNvk_vQ9sI/AAAAAAAABKQ/r_XpQD7iEOA/s1600-h/school_20.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396279459895637698" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 400px; height: 300px;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SuNvk_vQ9sI/AAAAAAAABKQ/r_XpQD7iEOA/s400/school_20.jpg" border="0" /></a>The most transformative recent game-changer in bringing education into the 21st century is low-cost laptops. Many schools at the NYC DOE and beyond still don’t know much about these devices and have trepidations. Innovative educators know that these devices are the key for any classroom interested in preparing students for the world in which they live, play, and work. Chris Lehmann echoes the sentiments shared by me and others like <a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2008/06/power-of-21st-century-teaching-and.html">CIS 339</a> principal Jason Levy as he shared at a recent <a href="http://www.techlearning.com/blogs_ektid24868.aspx">Tech Forum </a>conference that "Technology needs to be like oxygen. Ubiquitous, necessary and invisible." Low-cost laptops, for the first time make it possible for this idea to be a reality. Every school needs to get on board TODAY. Schools all around the nation have jumped on the bandwagon and are featured in the most recent issue of Tech & Learning magazine in the article <a href="http://www.techlearning.com/article/23860">Netbooks make the grade</a> which features schools across the nation who are using these devices.<br /><br />Unfortunately some schools still believe the myths and lies shared by the hardware companies and industry dinosaurs who will tell you that you need expensive equipment, training and tech support to do this work. Let me dispel some of these myths. The big computer companies are lying. Of course they want you to buy their expense devices. You don’t need to. The dinosaurs in the industry who want to sit you on their knee and tell you about how they walked to work every day in the snow up hill both ways, are dying to hang on to the idea that their jobs are still necessary. They don't want the secret out and they don't want to change. I spoke to one yesterday in fact. He shared how schools will never keep up with innovation because they must do system-wide refreshes of devices and nothing in life is free. Oh really? Google is free. Google Apps are free. Wikispaces are free. Ning for education is free. YouTube is free. Google Voice is free. Schools can develop student iSquads and enable students to be self-empowered to fix technology for free. Well, he said, “That free stuff won’t last I tell ya.” “I’ve been around a long time. I know Missy.” Ugh! Innovative educators are smart enough to move on when we encounter the old timers stuck in Rip Van Winkle's past. These free tools will be around and they are scaring the pants off of the old timers. Businesses like Microsoft, Apple, and the rest are going to have to change their model to the new direction of a savvy and innovative society.<br /><br /><strong>WHERE DO YOU START? WHAT DO YOU NEED?<br /></strong><br /><strong>Do Not Give Teachers Hardware</strong><br />Every school needs to identify which teachers are interested in preparing students for the 21st century. If you’re a leader, when you discover who these teachers are, do not give them hardware!!! If you are a teacher, do not tell your principal you want hardware. I’ve had a lot of experience deploying hardware to teachers and in many cases it is not a good practice.<br /><br />Instead, if you’re and administrator have your teachers apply for the equipment they think they will need to enhance teaching and learning. This will enable you to prioritize your purchasing decisions and limit them to the teachers who have demonstrated that they are planning to use it effectively. This also gives you crucial information in enabling you to have conversations about the work your teachers are doing. If you are a teacher, the conversation shouldn’t just be about hardware. Show your principal you are serious and have all the information together that s/he will need to support you.<br /><br />You can create a free online application using Google forms or SurveyMonkey. The application should require a pedagogical case for why your teacher needs equipment, information about how the equipment will be used to enhance instruction, an indication of which standards this aligns to, and if you collect your information properly this can contain all the information needed to place the order. For teachers the application process demonstrates to his/her principal they are serious. For administrators this ensures you are aware of the teachers plan for incorporating the use of the equipment into instruction, provides school leaders with an idea of how teachers will be using the equipment purchased, and indicates which teachers are serious about this work. <a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGtENGZzWUY5Qy1FNl9fZmFTbGs4RFE6MA">Here is a sample</a> of what the form might look like. I recommend a separate form for each type of equipment.<br /><br />Whether your school has funding today or not, it is essential teachers and schools start documenting what it is they want so they are prepared should funds become available and there are a lot of ways to fund education. If there is not money in your school budget here are some alternate sources. Some are NYC DOE specific, others are not:<br /><br /><a href="http://ted21c.ning.com/group/technologyliaisons/forum/topics/reso-a">Resolution A Funds from City Council</a><br /><a href="http://nycedtech.com/resources/grant-opportunities/" target="_blank">NYC Ed Tech Grant Opportunities Page</a><br /><a href="http://www.eschoolnews.com/funding" target="_blank">eSchool News Funding Resources</a><br /><a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/09/innovative-educators-birthday-wish-help.html" target="_blank">DonorsChoose.Org Giving Page</a><br /><br /><br /><strong>THE 21ST CENTURTY CLASSROOM BASICS</strong><br />No more paper, no more books will be necessary in the 21st century classroom. When all student have devices their materials are available directly from their laptops. This also means no more handouts, no more copies, no more heavy book bags. Here is my recommendation to get started with the 21st century classroom. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SuN447_fGII/AAAAAAAABKw/e1C2MoR6cRQ/s1600-h/Lenovo_S10eBlk.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396289698091964546" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 110px; height: 123px;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SuN447_fGII/AAAAAAAABKw/e1C2MoR6cRQ/s400/Lenovo_S10eBlk.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SuN1pbXFOOI/AAAAAAAABKo/0Q6KEozZbk8/s1600-h/Lenovo_S10eBlk.jpg"></a><br /><strong>Brand: Lenovo </strong><br /><br /><strong>Netbook - 4187RVU S10e Ideapad, 2.65 lbs, 10.1-IN Display<br /></strong>Cost: $359.95 Cost for 32 devices: $11,488<br />Note: This particular device was selected because it is the one available where I work at the NYC DOE -available via SHOP DOE / FAMIS<br /><br /><br /><strong><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SuNvUl2MCBI/AAAAAAAABJw/boyWinBXOxk/s1600-h/projector.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396279178067445778" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 108px; height: 101px;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SuNvUl2MCBI/AAAAAAAABJw/boyWinBXOxk/s400/projector.jpg" border="0" /></a>Brand: Sharp</strong><a name="desc"><strong> </strong></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/571138-REG/Sharp_PG_F212XL_PG_F212X_Conference_Classroom_DLP_Multimedia.html"><strong>PG-F212X Conference/Classroom DLP Multimedia Projector</strong></a><br />Cost: $599.95<br />Vendor: B & H FOTO & ELECTRONICS<br /><br /><br /><strong><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SuNvUf26cCI/AAAAAAAABJo/otXmqNNZ2Qw/s1600-h/flip+video.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396279176459874338" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 91px; height: 98px;" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SuNvUf26cCI/AAAAAAAABJo/otXmqNNZ2Qw/s400/flip+video.jpg" border="0" /></a>Brand: Flip Video </strong><br /><br /><a href="http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/616345-REG/Flip_Video_U1120P_Ultra_2nd_Generation_Camcorder.html"><strong>Ultra 2nd Generation Camcorder (Pink)</strong></a><strong><br /></strong>Cost: $129 Cost for 4 devices: $516<br />Vendor: B & H FOTO & ELECTRONICS<br /><br /><strong><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SuNxyuLsd1I/AAAAAAAABKY/nRT3NwEahls/s1600-h/powershot.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396281894724466514" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 130px; height: 94px;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SuNxyuLsd1I/AAAAAAAABKY/nRT3NwEahls/s400/powershot.jpg" border="0" /></a>Brand: Canon </strong><br /><strong></strong><strong><br /></strong><a href="http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/605271-REG/Canon_3445B001_PowerShot_A1100_IS_Digital.html"><strong>PowerShot A1100 IS Digital Camera (Blue)</strong></a><br />Cost: $139.95 Cost for 4 devices $556<br />Vendor: B & H FOTO & ELECTRONICS<br /><br /><br /><strong>Total Cost for 21st Century Classroom: $13,159</strong><br />When you keep in mind these devices have a life of life of 3 – 5 years, this ultimately translates in significant long-term savings for the school.<br /><br /><strong>WHAT YOU DON’T REALLY NEED – DISPELLING MYTHS OF BIG BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY DINOSUARS</strong><br />Many schools are sold equipment they don’t really need and they buy it because they don’t know better. Here are some items you don’t need if you have the above package.<br /><br />A more expensive laptop, server, external hard drives, expensive software<br />Today your students should be doing their work in the cloud. What does this mean? This means their work is done using what is available on the internet for free. Work is created using Google Apps which includes free Word processing, spreadsheets, presentation software, email and more. Work is stored using Wikispaces. These contain unlimited storage and are free. Students work is available anytime, anywhere, from any computer.<br /><br /><strong>Interactive Whiteboards and Projector Carts</strong><br />Somehow teachers and administrators have become enamored with interactive whiteboards. You can save about $5000 per classroom when you realize you don’t need an interactive whiteboard or projector cart. You can accomplish the same instructional goals with a laptop and projector. The benefit is rather than having the teacher front and center in the classroom s/he can be eye to eye with students as the classwork is projected behind him/her. This can be interactive as students work is in the cloud and a teacher can access any website at anytime to feature the student, or the student can come right up to the computer and/or plug in their own computer to project. You may hear that the software is the reason you need to make this costly purchase. I have found there are free alternatives to achieve the same goals.<br /><br /><strong>Laptop Carts</strong><br />Some schools will find they may need to purchase a cart which generally runs about $600 but I have seen other schools that have developed alternative and more secure methods for storing devices. The best solution I have seen is the Depot. This is a secure room or closet for which the teacher has a key. Shelves are built in the area. Devices go on the shelves and the door is locked. Ideally there is electricity so devices can be charged.<br /><br /><strong>THE TIME IS NOW</strong><br />Innovative educators and administrators, it is time to start one classroom at time, one school at a time, one district at a time, one nation at a time. You don't need a special initiative. You don't need special funding. What you need is innovative rethinking the way teaching and learning occur. Join other schools like the NYC DOE's Model Technology Schools. If you don't know where to start or what to do with 21st century tools read about, connect with, and/or visit the the <a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/10/8-innovative-schools-provide-ideas-and.html">8 Innovative Schools that Provide Ideas and Inspiration for 21st Century Education</a>.<input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-86124841199171998382009-10-24T05:20:00.000-07:002009-10-24T05:21:36.629-07:008 Innovative Schools Provide Ideas and Inspiration for 21st Century Education<p class="MsoNormal" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SuBfHWSC3UI/AAAAAAAABJI/TpYihcMg2d4/s1600-h/rip+van+winkle.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395416933434842434" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SuBfHWSC3UI/AAAAAAAABJI/TpYihcMg2d4/s320/rip+van+winkle.gif" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >As the saying goes, if he woke up today, schools would be one of the few places that <a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/03/is-blogging-worth-risk.html">Rip Van Winkle</a> would recognize after his 100 year slumber. Unlike business, medicine, the media, etc, most schools look very much as they did 100 years ago. Sadly, even in schools where leaders and educators want to move into the 21st Century, many don't know what this looks like. One of the best ways to provide inspiration to leaders and educators searching for innovative ideas for providing a 21st century education is to explore successful models of innovative schools. However, it is difficult to develop a vision of a 21st century school because there are few well-know publicly-available models that are captured and shared. Though they tried, <a href="http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=58973">Microsoft’s School of the Future</a> became a lesson in failure and while there are islands of success at schools like <a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2008/05/science-leadership-academy-lessons.html">Science Leadership Academy</a>, <a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2008/06/power-of-21st-century-teaching-and.html">CIS 339</a>, and <a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/07/5-innovative-ways-to-differentiate.html">The School of One</a>, there are few known established places that one can visit to read about innovative schools such as these.<br /><br />That is, until now. Under the leadership of Bruce Lai, Chief of Staff, Office of the Chief Information Officer at New York City Department of Education eight NYC DOE schools have been identified as those providing students with an education that looks different from that of their parents and grandparents. These are schools that are making progress along <a href="http://www.teachingmatters.org/files/rubric_package.pdf">the continuum of 21st century success.</a> </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >The Model Technology Schools Project was created to document and disseminate effective practices that are already in place within the New York City Department of Education school system. More specifically, the project aims to facilitate the transfer of knowledge from some of the City’s most innovative schools to schools that may need guidance in moving toward a 21<sup>st</sup>-century model. A data-driven school in Queens, for example, may be struggling to use Smartboards effectively, while a school in Brooklyn may have mastered Smartboard technology, but needs assistance in setting up a data system. This project is a first step toward connecting schools like these.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >This project was made possible as a result of a key component of the New York City Department of Education’s Children First reforms…the empowerment of school principals. Because principals know more about the on-the-ground reality of their schools than anyone else, they have been given greater power over decisions relating to budgets, programs, and personnel. In exchange for this increased freedom in shaping their schools, principals are held to higher accountability standards. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Many principals have used their increased autonomy to develop innovative practices and programs. However, the tremendous amount of responsibility principals have on both the instructional and operational sides of their schools may limit the time they have to communicate with other principals throughout the City. As a result, best practices can easily get lost in the shuffle of day-to-day realities. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >This is particularly true with regard to technology, which is a relatively new leadership arena for principals. For years, technology in the schools has been seen as an “extra.” However, it has become clear that technology is part of the foundation of a 21<sup>st</sup>-century model of teaching and learning: a blend of face-to-face and online teaching, communication, and collaboration between students, educators, school leaders, parents, and educational partners. This model may just be the next game-changer when it comes to improving student achievement—and improvement is necessary if we expect our children to thrive in the 21<sup>st</sup>-century global economy.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.cabe.org.uk/publications/21st-century-schools" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395419370254437090" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SuBhVMJHCuI/AAAAAAAABJQ/wU9BWhCYZa8/s320/21st-century-schools.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 220px; height: 311px;" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >The eight schools chosen for this project—though they in no way comprise an exhaustive list—all reflect the standards outlined by the <a href="http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS">International Society for Technology in Education</a> (ISTE). These schools, which range from very small to very large, span four of the five boroughs and have diverse student bodies. They are all eligible for Title I funds and a high majority of their students receive free or reduced price lunch. The principals are exemplary leaders who ensure that technology is integrated into instruction and leveraged to differentiate learning. They have all managed to create cohesive communities in which technology is understood to be an inextricable part of the school fabric, and a foundation for their instructional visions.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >The eight comprehensive case studies that follow highlight schools that have used technology to improve student achievement and operational efficiency. Although they offer only a snapshot of the exciting advances schools have made, they are designed to encourage principals to reflect on their practices and look to other schools for new ideas. </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >When reading the case study consider if any of these schools provide inspiration for what could be implemented at your own school site. Then use the <a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEpsRzg2SlJURTVhenVvMFBfd2U3UXc6MA">21st century school visioning tool</a> as a resource to structure and capture ideas that you may want to consider incorporating into your school or classroom. Results can be <a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tJlG86JRTE5azuo0P_we7Qw&output=html">viewed here</a>.<br /><br /><strong>The Model Technology Program Schools</strong><em><br />Note<strong>: </strong></em><em>If you would like to connect with a specific school, please feel free to reach out to its principal:</em></span></p> <ul w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/F520AC97-18FC-4876-AE9C-2A2592E428A8/0/BrooklynTech_v3.pdf">Brooklyn Tech High School</a> -- The Real Thing: Career-Driven Education through Professional Technology<br />Principal: </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Randy Asher <a href="mailto:RAsher@schools.nyc.gov">RAsher@schools.nyc.gov</a></span> </li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/61E33B78-4026-4ADF-A210-793386BB7E89/0/EastWest_finalv2.pdf">East-West School of International Studies</a> -- Languages and Self-Expression: Preparing Students for a Global World through Multiple Learning Modalities<br />Principal: </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Ben Sherman <a href="mailto:BSherma2@schools.nyc.gov">BSherma2@schools.nyc.gov</a></span> </li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/CFBC06AD-C55C-4019-8421-07E50437F052/0/Goddardfinalv3.pdf">The Goddard School</a> -- Teaching Tech to Teachers: Professional Development as a Driver for Instructional Innovation<br />Principal: </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Bill Fitzgerald <a href="mailto:WFitzge@schools.nyc.gov">WFitzge@schools.nyc.gov</a></span> </li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/C0DFABE1-18FD-48F6-9C16-B4E48028A53D/0/IS318_finalv2.pdf">IS 318 Eugenio Maria de Hostos</a> -- Principal as Programmer: Six Years of Differentiated Instruction Fostered by Home-Grown Data System<br />Principal: </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Fred Rubino <a href="mailto:FRubino@schools.nyc.gov">FRubino@schools.nyc.gov</a></span> </li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/9B6F154B-FB18-4FE3-9C52-8EEBADC49C44/69561/339_finalv2.pdf">MS 339, "Tech Tigers"</a> -- It’s Free: Fostering Collaboration and Creating a Seamless Educational Experience with the Google Suite<br />Principal: </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Jason Levy <a href="mailto:JLevy@schools.nyc.gov">JLevy@schools.nyc.gov</a></span> </li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/8E87BD1E-4DAC-41D9-903C-B2FC3DCE08FA/0/NYCiSchool_finalv2.pdf">NYCiSchool</a> -- Students Take Charge: College-Readiness through Educational Independence and Problem-Based Instruction<br />Principals: </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Alisa Berger <a href="mailto:ABerger@schools.nyc.gov">ABerger@schools.nyc.gov</a> and Mary Moss <a href="mailto:MMoss@schools.nyc.gov">MMoss@schools.nyc.gov</a></span> </li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/3229D19B-F770-4E4A-B088-9B6DFE11AF08/0/PS_5_finalv2.pdf">PS 5, The Port Morris School</a> -- XOs and Differentiation: Improving Reading and Writing through Student Empowerment<br /></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Principal: Mary Padilla <a href="mailto:MPadill@schools.nyc.gov">MPadill@schools.nyc.gov</a></span> </li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/025D8F69-6B48-416B-889D-1BCCEBE26AA0/0/Verrazano_finalv2.pdf">PS 101, The Verrazano School </a>-- Apple 2Es to Netbooks: Developing 21st-Century Classrooms for Student-Centric Learning<br />Principal: </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Gregg Korrol <a href="mailto:GKorrol@schools.nyc.gov">GKorrol@schools.nyc.gov</a></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >As you read each case study you will notice a number of themes emerge from this diverse group of Model Technology Schools. They are as follows:</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><strong>Student engagement through digital content</strong></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><br />It is easy for students to disengage when teachers do not require active participation, or when education is delivered in a one-size-fits-all model. Digital content makes it easier for teachers to engage “digital natives,” or students who have grown up with Internet technology. Principals have reported improvements in behavior and attendance since the integration of technology in their schools. At The Verrazano School, students who come in for breakfast go straight to the auditorium afterwards, excited to play a version of Jeopardy with Smartboard remotes. At The Goddard School, students are particularly enthusiastic about a media elective offered in the school’s fully-equipped television studio. </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><strong>Motivation and accountability through public nature of work</strong></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><br />Many schools post student work online. School Web sites often feature multimedia student projects, such as podcasts, videos, and music. Students are also asked to contribute to class and school-wide blogs, and to comment on work contributed by their peers. On all grade levels, principals have found that the public nature of work motivates students to meet or exceed standards and expectations. For example, the elementary school students at P.S. 5 express excitement about seeing their writing “published” and posted on class Web sites and online educational magazines. The middle school and high school students at East-West and Brooklyn Tech regularly contribute to blogs. Although these blogs are not moderated by school leaders, students <em>monitor themselves</em> and <em>meet self-imposed standards</em> of appropriateness. They learn the responsibilities that go along with public presentation on the Web. </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-family:Symbol;"><strong>F</strong></span><strong>ocus on literacy</strong></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><br />Reading and writing are often reinforced through specialized software, such as online leveled libraries, which can assess a child’s reading level, as well as “speak” the story or specific vocabulary words. Literacy software can be used in small groups within the classroom, or in labs (I.S. 318 has a small lab dedicated to Scholastic 180). As mentioned above, blogs give students an outlet to practice their writing skills, as well as a forum to express their opinions and engage in discussion with others. Principals stress that blogs are not diaries, and emphasize their utility as instructional spaces. In addition, programs such as Google docs make it easy for students to share documents with each other and with their teachers, which facilitates peer editing. </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><strong>Internet literacy</strong></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><br />Along with reading and writing skills, Internet literacy is also becoming more and more important; 21<sup>st</sup>-century schools teach students how to analyze online information for accuracy and assess the quality of sources. In the past, students relied on school library books for research. Now, they must learn how to deal with the tremendous amount of information—of varied quality—available to them on the Web. Whether or not principals require students to take a basic technology/Internet course, they agree that Internet literacy must be explicitly taught.</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><strong>Data-driven instruction</strong></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><br />Computerized databases and assessment tools give teachers access to unprecedented amounts of student data. Teachers and administrators can use this data—compiled in ARIS or in other systems—to tailor instruction to different skill levels. Teachers at The Verrazano School and The Goddard School make extensive use of Smartboard remotes to incorporate quizzes into their lessons. This allows them to access real-time feedback on student comprehension, which they can use immediately to modify their lessons. </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><strong>Student-centric classrooms</strong></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><br />Since computers make it easier for students to work independently, teachers can create small groups of students according to skill-level. They are then free to move around the room as facilitators, providing more or less attention as needed. At P.S. 5, for instance, a group of ELL students may be working on pronunciation with headphones plugged into their laptops, while another group may be reading independently. </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><strong>Multimodal learning</strong></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><br />Not every student is a purely auditory or visual learner. Technology makes it easier to engage multiple sensory modalities so that students have a greater chance of learning in the ways most suitable for them. An effective Smartboard lesson, for example, may integrate video and audio clips, as well as interactive components that allow students to answer questions via remote or touch screen. A multisensory approach can be particularly helpful for ELLs and students learning foreign languages. </span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><strong>Project/problem-based learning</strong></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><br />In order to connect learning to the larger world, teachers engage students in project-, or problem-based learning. With so much information at their fingertips, as well as easily-facilitated connections for distance learning, students can act as consultants who solve real world problems. At the NYC iSchool, the curriculum is based around interdisciplinary modules that connect traditional subject knowledge with contemporary issues, making learning feel more relevant.</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><strong>Collaboration</strong></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><br />The increased facility of communication makes it easier for students, teachers, parents, school leaders, and educational partners to work together to reach educational goals. Collaboration can be as simple as teachers sharing lesson plans with each other through Google Docs, or as complex as live streaming presentations and sharing student projects as part of a world-wide Internet conference (M.S. 339). East-West partners with schools in Shanghai and London, and the NYC iSchool utilizes video-conferencing to connect students to organizations, experts, and professors, both nationally and internationally. </span></p> <p style="margin-right: 0in;" class="MsoNormal" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><strong>Student empowerment</strong></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><br />One of the premises of an education at the NYC iSchool is that students take charge of their own learning, and at Brooklyn Tech, students are given access to high-level technologies that are used by professionals in the field. Technology empowers students to seek information independently rather than waiting for it to be delivered to them.</span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><strong>Students as tech support</strong></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><br />Students play a crucial role in the operation of their schools as members of tech-squads. Schools usually need trouble-shooting assistance that goes beyond the capacity of a tech coach, and trained students can respond to requests teachers submit, often through an online system. They usually receive service credit for their work. On an informal basis, students constantly assist their teachers with technology, which gives even elementary school-aged children the opportunity to feel like leaders. </span></p> <div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><strong>Overcoming staff buy-in challenges</strong></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><br />Teachers at different stages of their careers may not see a need to change their practice, so it isn’t always easy to convince them that technology integration is important. Principals have dealt with these challenges in various ways. Some have found specialized professional development to be helpful in making technology less threatening, and others have integrated technology into administrative practices first in order to ease it into instruction. Principals emphasize that teachers should not be forced into technology use; they need to understand how it can help them and how it can help their students.<br /><br /></span></div> <div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" > </span></div> <div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" w="urn:unknown:w" m="urn:unknown:m" o="urn:unknown:o" v="urn:unknown:v"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><strong>Contact Information</strong></span></div> <span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >The Model Technology Schools Project is sponsored by the NYC DOE’s Division of Instructional and Information Technology (DIIT). DIIT in conjunction with the Office of Educational Technology would love to hear about innovative technology practices taking place at your school. To share your ideas or for more information on the Model Technology Schools Project, please visit our survey link <a target="_self"><span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 153);">here</span></a>.<p><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;">Acknowledgments</span></strong><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;" >The Model Technology Schools Project was conceived and led by Bruce Lai, Chief of Staff, Office of the Chief Information Officer / DIIT. In addition to the principals, assistant principals, and teachers who were crucial to this project, DIIT would like to thank the following individuals for their assistance: Cara Spitalewitz (Education Pioneers Summer Fellow), Catherine White, Marina Negroponte, Roya Rahmani, Anissa Moeini, Niko Cunningham, Gazelle Javantash, Hannes Klopper, and Professor Kevin Kelley (Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs), Celine Azoulay-Lewin, Lisa Nielsen, Julian Cohen, Gregg Betheil, Andrew Gallagher, Patricia Paddock, Jane Pook, Troy Fischer, Joel Rose (NYC Department of Education).</span></p></span>Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-40030275412118975312009-10-19T10:18:00.000-07:002009-10-19T10:20:10.620-07:00Come See How Google Saved A School<p>Two years ago, CIS 339 a Bronx middle school was at risk of being shut down by the city. Today it's a success story. You are cordially invited to come see what happened <span style="color:black;">at their first Open House this year taking place on Friday, November 13, 2009 from 9:30 – 12:00 p.m.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;">Visiting other schools that incorporate innovative ideas is one of the best ways to develop ideas that might be a fit for your school and practice. CIS 339 is recognized by the New York City Department of Education as a </span><span style="color:blue;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://schools.nyc.gov/NR/rdonlyres/9B6F154B-FB18-4FE3-9C52-8EEBADC49C44/69561/339_finalv2.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"><span style="font-size:100%;">Model Technology School</span></span></a>. </span></span><span style="color:black;">They have integrated the Google Suite into every facet of their instructional and their administrative practice and have moved their student achievement along in the process.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><br /><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/js/pap/embed.js?frol02s28adq996"></script></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;">Watch this PBS video that shows a bit about their transformation. If you are planning on using Google in any aspect of your instruction or administration you will find this open house worth while. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;">The school is in the Bronx and located at 1600 Webster Avenue. Please register at </span><span style="color:black;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/339Openhouse09">http://tinyurl.com/339Openhouse09</a>. </span></span></p>Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-54195878703792434602009-10-18T06:17:00.000-07:002009-10-19T06:07:23.914-07:00What People Are Saying About The Common Standards<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/StxkG3xPUnI/AAAAAAAABJA/Uc2o2RLvzkw/s1600-h/Sleep+in+class.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 165px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/StxkG3xPUnI/AAAAAAAABJA/Uc2o2RLvzkw/s320/Sleep+in+class.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394296522895479410" border="0" /></a>
<br /><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >The common standards movement is underway in 48 states in our nation and these standards are set to be finalized this month. I’ve been reading what the smart educators I respect are saying about these standards. Here is the summation. These are poorly written standards being put in place with testing companies at the forefront of the decision making. These ed testing companies as well as other big educational businesses/curriculum providers have a huge financial profit to gain after the adoption of these standards because a nation can now adopt their curriculum. There is no alignment or recognition of the changing face of education and the digital worlds in which our students are existing, reading, writing, interacting, producing, and publishing. </span><p m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"> </p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >What can we do? Provide feedback today about the standards by visiting </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><b><span style="color:black;"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/fixthestandards">http://tinyurl.com/fixthestandards</a></span></b></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >. It literally takes less than five minutes. You can use my words above, the words of others below or write your own. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Below are excerpts from other educators about their take on the standards, links to each resource, and where to visit for more information. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><b><a href="http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/on-common-standards/" title="Permanent Link: On Common Standards"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: rgb(0, 51, 102); text-decoration: none;">On Common Standards</span></a> </b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">16 Oct 2009 07:18 am</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Will Richardson</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.25in;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59);">One look at the reading standards and you can’t help but be left with the impression that the authors have never “read” anything much beyond words on paper and that the idea of “remix” and even links are outside of their experience. There is nothing here about how reading and writing in online and digital spaces changes the interaction, nothing about the social interactions that readers and writers will have around texts that are changing rapidly and substantially.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.25in;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59);">
<br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.25in;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"> </p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.25in;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59);">In all of this, the thing that most frustrates me both in the talk about national standards and national assessments and the whole “Race to the Top” bunk that is coming out of the administration is just a total lack of vision, this sense that nothing has fundamentally changed, that this is the same old classroom with the same old expectations and the same old ways of proving them that we’ve had forever. I’m not saying we don’t need assessments, but there’s a lot of required learning right now that few if any standards are addressing.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.25in;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" > </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59);"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.25in; font-weight: bold;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"> <span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >
<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:times new roman;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Weblogg-ed Comment by <a href="http://stager.tv/blog"><span style="color:blue;">Gary Stager</span></a> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/on-common-standards/#comment-72856"><span style="color:blue;">2009-10-19 03:51:17</span></a>
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normal;font-family:times new roman;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >You cannot have “core” standards without additional standardized testing. Now districts already addicted to testing will have a more potent hallucinogenic with which they can poison public education.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:times new roman;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:times new roman;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Teachers and students are terrorized by testing and externally-imposed curricular mandates.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:times new roman;"> <span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" > </span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><b><a href="http://www.practicaltheory.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/1219-Core-Standards-Sound-Bites-and-Standardization.html"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; text-decoration: none;color:black;" >Core Standards - Sound Bites and Standardization</span></a></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Saturday, October 10. 2009</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59);">Chris Lehmann</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.25in;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59);">This Core Standards movement should scare everyone who believes that meaning and learning is still most powerfully made in the spaces that students and teachers share. More than teachers, students, state administrators, the group that stands most to gain from national standards and a national test is the education-industrial complex.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.25in;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59);">
<br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.25in;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"> </p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.25in;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">This isn't about whether or not people think that all students should be able to write a thesis statement. This is about how students are taught that information, how they are assessed on that information, and on the role of big business in teaching and assessing them.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.25in;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"> </p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.25in;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">I find them hard to read, because I think they are poorly written, but standards often are.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><b><span style="color:black;"><a href="http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2009/09/10-reasons-why-you-should-care-about.html"><span style="text-decoration: none;color:black;" >10 Reasons you should care about the Common Core State Standards Initiative's Draft English Language Arts Standards</span></a></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color:gray;">Wednesday, September 30, 2009</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpLast" style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: border; -moz-background-origin: padding; -moz-background-inline-policy: continuous;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color:black;">Tom Hoffman </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.25in;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><b><span style="color:black;">We are inviting testing companies to determine the future of our schools with virtually no accountability or public input.</span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.25in;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color:black;">These standards were developed by two testing companies, the College Board and ACT, with help from a nebulous non-profit, Achieve, Inc. It is essential to understand this when reading the Common Standards; it explains many of their odd choices. In the example above, the obvious interpretation is that they chose to define the standard as "support or challenge assertions" rather than "construct a response or interpretation," as every international example they cited did, because the former is much easier and cheaper to score reliably on a standardized test.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.25in;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.25in;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color:black;">
<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.25in;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color:black;">No high performing educational system in the world would consider giving testing companies this much control over their standards and curriculum. It is absurd.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0.5in; margin-left: 0.25in;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color:black;">These standards are specifically designed to <i>not</i> be the sole responsibility of English teachers, so any data system properly linking student performance on related tests to teachers would attribute the results to all subject area teachers.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.25in;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color:black;">The idea that these English Language Arts standards are "internationally benchmarked" to those of high performing countries is a farce, except insofar as the benchmarking demonstrates the low level and quality of our proposed standards.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.25in;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.25in;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color:black;">
<br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0.0001pt 0.25in;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color:black;">No country with high reading scores in international assessments conceives of the discipline of Language Arts as being limited to literacy skills, or "college- and career-readiness," as the Common Standards do. Thus, the Common Standards are narrower, lower and shallower than the English Language Arts standards of high performing countries.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><b><a href="http://zhao.educ.msu.edu/2009/09/01/3/">Catching Up or Leading the Way</a></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">Saturday, October 10. 2009</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Yong Zhao</span></p> <p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Zhao describes how schools have to keep pace with a world that is being dramatically transformed by globalization, the “death of distance,” and digital technology. Instead of falling in line with mandates for standardization, his prescription is for educators to</span></p> <ul m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Expand the definition of success beyond math and reading test scores. </span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Personalize schooling so that every student has opportunity to learn. </span></li><li class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >View schools as enterprises that embrace globalization and digital technology. </span></li></ul> <div style="border-style: none none solid;" m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> <span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://gothamschools.org/">Gotham Schools</a> in New York City is running this series on the Common Standards:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://gothamschools.org/2009/10/08/standards-demystifying-debunking-and-discrediting/">Standards: Demystifying, Debunking and Discrediting</a></span></p> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://gothamschools.org/2009/10/09/debunking-standards-issue-1-which-bar-to-raise/">Problem #1: Which Bar to Raise?</a></span> </li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://gothamschools.org/2009/10/12/debunking-standards-issue-2-an-unrealistic-bar/">Problem #2: An Unrealistic Bar</a></span> </li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://gothamschools.org/2009/10/13/debunking-standards-issue-3-fear-of-failure-rates/">Problem #3: Fear of Failure Rates</a></span> </li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://gothamschools.org/2009/10/14/debunking-standards-issue-4-classrooms/">Problem #4: Classrooms</a></span> </li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://gothamschools.org/2009/10/15/debunking-standards-issue-5-tests-matter-standards-do-not/">Problem #5: Tests Matter; Standards Do Not</a></span> </li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Problem #6: Local Control </span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Why Does Anyone Bother? </span></li></ul><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >
<br />I encourage you to read the full articles, take a look at the standards for yourself and provide feedback at <b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/fixthestandards">http://tinyurl.com/fixthestandards</a>. </b></span> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> <span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><b><span style="color:black;">
<br /></span></b></span></p> </div> <span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><b m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><span style="color:black;">For Further Reading</span></b>
<br /></span> <ul m="urn:unknown:m" w="urn:unknown:w"><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Common Core State Standards Initiative Website: <a href="http://corestandards.org/">http://corestandards.org/</a></span></li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >An FAQ with more information about the project is here: <a href="http://www.corestandards.org/FAQ.htm">http://www.corestandards.org/FAQ.htm</a></span></li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >Feedback form: </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/fixthestandards">http://tinyurl.com/fixthestandards</a> </b></span></li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >English Standards: <a href="http://www.corestandards.org/Standards/index.htm">http://www.corestandards.org/Standards/index.htm</a></span></li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" > Note that many of the handy links to benchmarked standards under "see evidence" don't point to the right place, so if you want to be complete you need to use... </span></li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >The full English standards PDF: <a href="http://www.corestandards.org/Files/ELAStandardsSources.pdf">http://www.corestandards.org/Files/ELAStandardsSources.pdf</a></span></li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" > The bibliography provides links to all the full documents for the relevant international standards. </span></li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" >English Programme of Study for Key stage 4, 2007: <a href="http://corestandards.net/ADP/Achieve%20International%20Documents/England/England_ELA_KeyStage4.pdf">http://corestandards.net/ADP/Achieve%20International%20Documents/England/England_ELA_KeyStage4.pdf</a></span></li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" > England's standards make an easy point of comparison if you're curious about what actual benchmarked English Language Arts common standards might look like. </span></li><li><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color:black;">Race to the Top: <a href="http://www.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop/index.html">http://www.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop/index.html</a></span></span></li></ul>Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-22623274634997991382009-10-12T16:49:00.000-07:002009-10-12T16:57:39.091-07:00The PODs Are Coming!<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 12"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CiLead%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><link rel="themeData" href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5CiLead%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><link 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<br />The presentation entitled, “The PODs Are Coming!” explains how we are soon approaching a day where most of our students will be bringing PODs <strong>Personally Owned Devices </strong>to school. In schools where students are empowered to bring learning devices to school and acceptable and respectable use of technology is just the way things are, every student coming to school will have more capability in their pockets and hands than most teachers have on their desks today.
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<br />I am optimistically hopeful that in the future school districts like New York City will embrace rather than ban students from bringing their potential 21<sup>st</sup> century tools to the classroom.<span style=""> </span>This is a great video for educators in districts who are, or will eventually be, supporting students in utilizing the personal learning devices they own.<span style=""> </span>It addresses the question, “Are <span style="">we ready to utilize these amazing tools that students want to bring to our classrooms.”<span style=""> </span>If not, why not?<b> </b></span><span style="">What do we need to do to be ready? What needs to change? How do we maximize what we can do now? </span><span style="">Who makes this happen?</span>
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<br />For some insight into the answers to these questions, it is my pleasure to invite you to view this provocative presentation.
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<br />Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-34641129907761813862009-09-25T16:32:00.001-07:002009-09-25T16:41:17.210-07:00Educational Technology Tips for New EducatorsLast year <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SKLyGF3A1iI/AAAAAAAAASA/_nEKSag0Cj0/s1600-h/tech+for+teachers.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5234011903423993378" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SKLyGF3A1iI/AAAAAAAAASA/_nEKSag0Cj0/s400/tech+for+teachers.gif" border="0" /></a>I was asked to put together a short guide that would be helpful for new NYC educators in the area of educational technology. I'm not sure where this ended up, but I believe this might be useful to others. If you see something missing, let me know and I’ll be sure to add it.<br /><br /><a name="m6ai14"></a><a name="m6ai13"></a><a name="m6ai12"></a><a name="jlry"></a><a name="s.qw8"></a><a name="s.qw7"></a><a name="s.qw6"></a><strong>Welcome to the Office of Educational Technology!</strong><br />The Office of Educational Technology provides innovative solutions to transform teaching, learning, and leading with real-word, standards-based, integration of technology throughout the curriculum using standardized services and customized support - all with the goal of preparing our students to succeed in a global community.<br /><br /><strong>Professional Development for New Teachers</strong><a name="lf44"></a><a name="epoi3"></a><br />The Office of Educational Technology offers a variety of professional development opportunities for educators including institutes and workshops to support educators in using 21st Century tools to enhance teaching and learning. You can register for classes our online registration system found by visiting <a href="http://pd.nycoit.org/">http://pd.nycoit.org/</a> and selecting the Office of Educational Technology in the "Deparment" field.<br /><br /><strong>Principles of Quality Instruction in Instructional Technology<br /></strong>The Office of Educational Technology uses the International Society of Technology Educator’s (ISTE) National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) to serve as a roadmap for improved teaching, leading, and learning. The standards, used in every U.S. state and many countries, are credited with significantly influencing expectations for students and creating a target of excellence relating to technology. The National Educational Technology Standards for students focus more on skills and expertise and less on tools. Specifically, they address:<br /><br />§ Creativity and Innovation<br />§ Communication and Collaboration<br />§ Research and Information Fluency<br />§ Critical thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making<br />§ Digital Citizenship<br />§ Technology Operations and Concepts<br /><br />For a description of technology literate students at key developmental points in their pre-college education visit, <a href="http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForStudents/2007Standards/Profiles/NETS_for_Students_2007_Profiles.htm">http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForStudents/2007Standards/Profiles/NETS_for_Students_2007_Profiles.htm</a>. There you will find the NETS-Students profiles that highlight a few important types of learning activities in which students might engage as the standards are implemented.<br /><br /><strong>Useful Instructional Technology Curricular Resources for Teachers</strong><em> (Listed Alphabetically)<br /></em><a name="s.qw26"></a><a name="s.qw25"></a><a name="s.qw24"></a><a name="s.qw32"></a><a name="s.qw31"></a><a name="s.qw30"></a><a name="xa930"></a><br />Classroom Management: The Power of Procedures<br /><a href="http://teachers.net/wong/FEB05">http://teachers.net/wong/FEB05</a><br />This article discusses effective management techniques and procedures for every classroom. The article includes a PowerPoint that is used by a teacher with her students. For further study, read “First Days of School,” by Wong or take the online class at <a href="http://docs.google.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.classroommanagement.com/" target="_blank">http://docs.google.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.classroommanagement.com/</a> (fee based).<br /><br /><a name="ugnz4"></a><a name="ugnz3"></a>Classroom 2.0<br /><a href="http://www.classroom20.com/">http://www.classroom20.com/</a><br />This is a networking site for those interested in Web 2.0 and collaborative technology tools for education.<br /><br />ISTE's Educational Technology Standards<br /><a name="n:yl0"></a><a name="ugnz6"></a><a name="ugnz5"></a><a href="http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS">http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS</a><br />ISTE's Educational Technology Standards serve as guides for teachers, students and administrators to help them focus on the skills and expertise needed to teach, learn, and lead more effectively in an ever changing global community. Teachers can use the standards to facilitate student learning and creativity, create digital work and assessment, model good digital citizenry and pursue personal growth and leadership.<br /><br />New York Learns<br /><a href="http://www.nylearns.org/">http://www.nylearns.org/</a><br />NYLearns.org identifies, organizes and delivers educational resources that are aligned to learning standards. The site also provides teachers with easy to use integrated classroom tools that enhance their teaching effectiveness. The site offers a curriculum section, which features all of the NYS Learning Standards and is searchable by standard area, grade level, course, and key word; the educational resources section, with thousands of peer-reviewed instructional resources that are searchable by standard area, grade level, content type, and key word; and a catalogue of face-to-face and on-line professional development opportunities for teachers across New York State.<br /><a name="v5ek5"></a><a name="v5ek"></a><br /><a name="aimc0"></a><a name="sqi21"></a><a name="tfs90"></a><strong>Online Safety</strong><br /><a name="udjs0"></a><a name="udjs"></a><a name="o6lu"></a>The NYC DOE offers a comprehensive K-12 Internet safety curriculum to schools and workshops for parents. You can ask your school's parent coordinator, librarian, or technology specialist about what your schools is doing. If they do not have plans but are interested in launching the curriculum, encourage them to contact School Library Services, eLearning, or the Office of Family Engagement and Advocacy to arrange for internet safety training for teachers, parents and/or students at your school. To participate in an online safety professional development class visit <a name="o8qk0"></a><a href="file:///D:/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http:/pd.nycoit.org">http:/pd.nycoit.org</a> and do an advanced search for "Cyber Safety."<br /><a name="e6kx"></a><a name="dags"></a><a name="s.qw88"></a><a name="s.qw87"></a><a name="kypi0"></a><a name="kypi"></a><a name="isow5"></a><a name="egk_"></a><a name="isow12"></a><a name="isow11"></a><a name="isow10"></a><a name="egk_3"></a><a name="isow55"></a><a name="isow54"></a><a name="isow53"></a><a name="isow57"></a><br /><a name="sqi2"></a><a name="rmgg0"></a>School 2.0<br /><a name="n_t40"></a><a name="n_t4"></a><a href="http://etoolkit.org/etoolkit">http://etoolkit.org/etoolkit</a><a name="g_0k"></a> <a name="g_0k0"></a><a name="n_t43"></a><br /><a name="ob:5"></a><a name="fpf1"></a>The School 2.0 eToolkit is designed to help schools, districts, and communities develop a common education vision and explore how that vision can be supported by technology. School 2.0 provides a “big picture” perspective on community-based, next-generation schools that allows for a common point of entry so that all community stakeholders can participate in this important conversation.<br /><a name="aimc"></a><a name="n_t42"></a><a name="tfs9"></a><a name="isow60"></a><a name="isow63"></a><a name="egk_4"></a><a name="isow67"></a><a name="isow66"></a><a name="isow65"></a><br />Teachers Network: New Teachers New York<br /><a name="isow69"></a><a name="isow75"></a><a name="isow73"></a><a href="file:///D:/unreadable/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http:/www.teachersnetwork.org/NTNY/index.htm">http:/www.teachersnetwork.org/NTNY/index.htm</a><br /><a name="isow77"></a><a name="isow81"></a>The Teachers Network: New Teachers New York provides many resources for educators including information about upcoming events; curriculum units and lesson plans; how-to’s; grants; research; videos and more.<br /><br /><a name="dags1"></a><a name="dags0"></a>Technology Integration Matrix<br /><a name="dags4"></a><a name="dags3"></a><a name="dags2"></a><a href="http://fcit.usf.edu/matrix/index.html">http://fcit.usf.edu/matrix/index.html</a><br /><a name="dags6"></a>The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells as illustrated on the website.<a name="uuwt"></a><a name="iz8l1"></a><a name="aimc6"></a><a name="tfs91"></a><a name="jgox1"></a><a name="lv8t0"></a><a name="lv8t"></a><a name="v5m5"></a><a name="s.qw61"></a><a name="s.qw60"></a><a name="s.qw59"></a><a name="mdpd4"></a><a name="mdpd3"></a><a name="mdpd2"></a><br /><br /><a name="e6kx1"></a><a name="e6kx0"></a>Technology-Rich Classroom Visitation Rubric<br /><a name="e6kx3"></a><a name="e6kx2"></a><a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pjV2wGxpR6LMHBAVcv1nYBQ&hl=en">http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pjV2wGxpR6LMHBAVcv1nYBQ&hl=en</a><br /><a name="lwru"></a>This rubric was created to help educators determine how well they are using 21st Century skills in the classroom.<br /><br /><a name="ma5g0"></a><a name="h5ny3"></a><a name="o6lu1"></a>21st Century Skills<br /><a name="mvua1"></a><a name="rpzo0"></a><a name="rpzo"></a><a name="sxpw"></a><a href="http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/">http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/</a><br /><a name="k-y84"></a><a name="k-y83"></a>Teachers can use as a resource of the six skills that students need to master to be successful in the real world environments of the 21st century. The website contains illustrations of how these information and communication skills can be integrated into the core academic subjects.<br /><br /><a name="xa939"></a><a name="xa9313"></a><a name="xa9312"></a><a name="xa9311"></a><a name="xa9310"></a><strong>Useful NYCDOE Resources for Teachers</strong><em> (Listed Alphabetically)<br /></em><br />Email Services<br /><a href="http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/FinanceandAdministration/DIIT/Email/">http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/FinanceandAdministration/DIIT/Email/</a><br />To activate your DOE email account, please call the helpdesk at 718-935-5100 or visit the website above.<br /><br />Help Desk & Tech Support<br /><a href="http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/FinanceandAdministration/DIIT/Helpdesk/">http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/FinanceandAdministration/DIIT/Helpdesk/</a><br />This Web site serves as an extension of the Division of Instructional and Information (DIIT) Help Desk. You are always invited to speak to a technical support analyst by calling the Help Desk at (718) 935-5100.<br /><br />Internet Acceptable Use Policy<br /><a href="http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/FinanceandAdministration/DIIT/WebServices/iaup/default.htm">http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/FinanceandAdministration/DIIT/WebServices/iaup/default.htm</a><br />Visit the New York City Department of Education’s rules for Internet Acceptable Use at this site.<br /><br />ProTraxx Online Class Registration<br /><a href="http://pd.nycoit.org/">http://pd.nycoit.org/</a><br />To view all the courses that are offered through the Office of Instructional Technology, log into <a name="vc:d0"></a><a href="file:///D:/Documents%20and%20Settings/tfischer/Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Training/iTiL%20Templates/ProTraxx">ProTraxx</a> at the above site. 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Enter the URL for the website you would like to research in the “Enter URL” field.</span> <span style="font-family:Calibri;">Click the Submit button.</span> <span style="font-family:Calibri;">In the “Disposition” field of the form it will now inform you if it is blocked or not.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><br /><a name="s.qw39"></a><a name="s.qw38"></a>Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-52866069310734037312009-09-25T05:15:00.000-07:002009-09-25T05:31:15.291-07:00National Day on Writing Essay Contest<span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/Sry1sQti6aI/AAAAAAAABHg/YVNbabjkbKs/s1600-h/world_700.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 234px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/Sry1sQti6aI/AAAAAAAABHg/YVNbabjkbKs/s400/world_700.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5385379026433141154" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 107, 185);font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://write.teachingmatters.org/">Writing Matters</a> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 107, 185);font-size:100%;" >to everyone. Whether you are a student publishing content online, submitting an essay to be graded in class, or writing for pleasure in your personal journal or diary, writing is an important communication skill and part of our daily lives. Students have an opportunity to celebrate the role of writing with <a href="http://write.teachingmatters.org/">Vantage Learning</a> today.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br />Vantage Learning is sponsoring the 2009 Countdown to The National Day on Writing Essay Submission. The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) recognizes this day, October 20, 2009, as a day to submit your works of writing based upon the ideal that writing is important in furthering our students professional and personal lives.<br /><br />Participants can submit their writing to one of several writing prompts that provides IntelliMetric® automated essay scoring, the same scoring engine used in the award-winning MY Access instructional program. Students can enter works of writing today. The top essays in each category will be honored with posting of their writing in the NCTE National Gallery of Writing.<br /><br />Prizes will be awarded for the top three essays in the Elementary, Middle, and High School categories and a $100 gift certificate sent to each of the winners.<br /><br />Additionally, each winner will receive a 1-year subscription to MY Access Home Edition and 30 licenses of MY Access School Edition for his or her school.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 107, 185);font-size:100%;" >Deadline for entry is October 20, 2009. 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This self-evaluation is a critical initial aspect of developing a long-term plan to put your school on a path to your 21st century vision.
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<br /><span style="">F</span>ollowing the forum, leaders will have the opportunity to discuss educational priorities for 2009/2010 and your 21st century goals for the next three to five years. This information, along with a school-wide teacher survey, the Quality Review, the Progress Report and personal observations can be used to draft an <i>Innovation Roadmap</i> to guide you for this school year.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style=";font-family:";color:black;" >The event takes place this<span style=""> </span>Thursday, September 24th from 4:00 - 6:00 pm at
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<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" >To Register, visit this link:<b><span style="color:navy;"> </span></b></span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;color:navy;" > <a href="https://www.protraxx.com/Scripts/EzTraxx/ActivityClass/ViewActivityClass.aspx?ID=169518"><span style="color:purple;">OETM: 21st Century Schools Seminar for Leaders</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;color:navy;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;color:navy;" >For questions, contact: Lauren Morris, Program Coordinator by email at <a href="mailto:lmorris@teachingmatters.org" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;">lmorris@teachingmatters.org</span></a> or by phone at 212.870.3505.</span><span style=";font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><span style="line-height: 115%;font-family:";font-size:100%;" ><span style=""> </span></span></p> Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-594607197411740212009-09-05T06:51:00.000-07:002009-09-05T06:53:04.650-07:00President Obama's Innovative Back to School Challenge for Students<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SqJsJ_qN7DI/AAAAAAAABHE/BQPUKqOYp-o/s1600-h/am+what+i+am.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 534px; height: 63px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SqJsJ_qN7DI/AAAAAAAABHE/BQPUKqOYp-o/s400/am+what+i+am.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377979823996922930" border="0" /></a>On the first day back to school in New York City and other districts, the U.S. Department of Education will ask students to respond to the President’s Back to School challenge by creating videos, up to two minutes in length, describing the steps they will take to improve their education and the role education will play in fulfilling their dreams in the “I Am What I Learn” video contest for students. This is a great opportunity for innovative educators to showcase their students, school and teachers. This could also serve as a possible activity that students and families can do together promoting family involvement in student learning. <strong><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><br />For more information about the “I Am What I Learn” video contest for students visit </strong>http://www.ed.gov/iamwhatilearn/index.html.Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-41452628808434120322009-08-26T05:40:00.000-07:002009-08-26T05:45:47.995-07:00Leader of the Year<strong>Are You Making a Difference?<br /></strong>Explain how you lead by using technology in education. Enter yourself — or a colleague — in Tech &Learning's 22nd annual Leader of the Year Program. <a style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold" href="http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB229B7LK4MPQ%20">Click here to enter! </a><br /><br /><img style="BORDER-LEFT-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); BORDER-BOTTOM-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); WIDTH: 182px; BORDER-TOP-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); HEIGHT: 108px; BORDER-RIGHT-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255)" height="108" alt="LOY logo" src="http://www.techlearning.com/uploadedimages/TL_LOY_logo_2008_small.jpg" width="182" align="left" border="3" />You inspire, encourage, empower, and give wings to others' dreams. Now it's your turn. Tech & Learning's Leader of the Year Program is once again honoring K-12 administrators, technology coordinators, and teachers who use technology in innovative ways to help teachers teach and help students learn. We invite you to share your teaching, training, and managing success stories with our judges. Four finalists will win prizes, gain national recognition, and be profiled in T&L's December Awards Issue.<br /><br />Deadline: September 30, 2009<br /><br />PreviousLeaders of the Year<br /><a href="http://www.techlearning.com/article/13842">2003</a> <a href="http://www.techlearning.com/article/13896">2004</a> <a href="http://www.techlearning.com/article/13914">2005</a><a href="http://www.techlearning.com/issues/2006LeaderOfTheYear.php">2006</a> <a href="http://www.techlearning.com/article/8216">2007</a> <a href="http://www.techlearning.com/article/15100">2008</a><a href="http://www.techlearning.com/article/8216"></a>Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-16769169643133865872009-08-19T14:59:00.001-07:002009-08-19T14:59:54.068-07:00Ideas for Engaging Students in Passion-Based Learning - Pt 2<meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" 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italic;">E</span></o:p><i>ditor's Note: Below is an excerpt from a post written for the International Society for Technology Educator's "ISTE Connects." This post was published at the <a href="http://www.isteconnects.org/2009/08/17/engage-me-or-enrage-me-pt-2/"><span style="color:blue;">ISTE Connects</span></a> site which targets educators engaged in improving teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology education.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;">
<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/Sox0RCHPPKI/AAAAAAAABGE/f8DIvNVb1UU/s1600-h/jumpingin.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/Sox0RCHPPKI/AAAAAAAABGE/f8DIvNVb1UU/s320/jumpingin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371796291519986850" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(41, 48, 59);font-size:100%;" >Technology provides the window to connections and learning around areas of passion and deep personal interest that were never before possible. Some educators I have discussed this concept with have scoffed at the idea for various reasons believing it would be too much work for them to make individualized, differentiated connections for each student. I’ve suggested that their job is not to determine a student's passion, or find the experts and make the connections, but rather to support their students in doing so. And, that doesn’t mean have all the students in your class create blogs where they respond to your prompts or make a podcast about a topic you are studying in social studies. That really, isn't an effective means to helping students explore their passions, publish authentically to an audience they care about, or connect with others with their similar interests. This is a big shift. Here are some smart ways educators might engage in passion-based learning with our students.
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<br /><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Ideas for Engaging Students in Passion-Based Learning</b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">
<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Discover and Consume</span></b></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" >First you need to support your students in finding area of passion and deep personal interest which is an ongoing journey. Next you may want to connect them with other students and teachers who share these interests so they have a face-to-face (f-2-f) connection with others with like interests. Once they have identified an area of passion, help them develop strategies to learn more about their topic of interest.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" >Finding Passion
<br /> Help students discover what passions and interests they may have. One way to do this is by having them take an interest inventory. While I am a fan of the <a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2008/07/get-going-with-renzulli-learning-at.html"><span style="color:blue;">Renzulli Learning Profile</span></a> that helps students discover interests, learning styles, abilities, and expression styles, there are many different types of <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=interest+surveys+for+students&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a"><span style="color:blue;">interest inventories</span></a> out there. While this is a good idea for starting on the road to helping your students discover their passion, take some time to explore multiple ways to <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=helping+students+find+their+passion&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a" title="helping students find their passion"><span style="color:blue;">helping students find their passion</span></a>. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" >F-2-F Connections with Others with Similar Interests
<br /> Ideally an entire school student body and staff would engage in taking a learning profile. If so, this is a terrific way to connect students with other students with similar interests and even identify teachers with interests shared by students. These interests can turn into elective classes in the school and provides a tremendous opportunity for students to make deep connections with other students and their teacher. If a school wide implementation is not possible this is still powerful even if partnering with other classes or finding common interests within your own class. As an educator you'll want to work with your students on some conversation guidelines, starters, and extenders to support your students in engaging in meaningful and perhaps accountable talk.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" >Researching Your Passion
<br /> Once you’ve helped students determine some areas of passion, help them learn more about their area of interest. Perhaps start with an encyclopedia then move to supporting students in using smart <a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/08/teaching-search-in-classroom-with.html"><span style="color:blue;">search techniques</span></a> about their area of interest. You may want to show them how to use <a href="http://technorati.com/" title="Technorati"><span style="color:blue;">Technorati</span></a> to locate bloggers who are writing about the topics they are interested in. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:100%;" >Following Your Passion
<br /> Once you've supported students in searching for and finding their passions, show them how to follow their passions. An RSS aggregator like <a href="http://www.google.com/reader" title="Google Reader"><span style="color:blue;">Google Reader</span></a> is a simple, easy to use tool made just for this purpose. You can learn how to get started by going <a href="http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/aggregator-as-textbook/" title="here"><span style="color:blue;">here</span></a>. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size:100%;">To find out innovative ways you can support students in “Communicating and Connecting” and ‘Creating and Producing” read the whole story by clicking <a href="http://www.isteconnects.org/2009/08/17/engage-me-or-enrage-me-pt-2/"><span style="color:blue;">here</span></a>. Be sure to check out (and leave) comments too.<o:p></o:p></span></p> Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-21501028935177891992009-08-18T08:31:00.000-07:002009-08-18T08:35:35.082-07:00Engaging Students with Passion-Based Learning<em>Editor's Note: Below is an excerpt from a post written for the International Society for Technology Educator's "ISTE Connects." This post was published at the <a href="http://www.isteconnects.org/2009/08/17/engage-me-or-enrage-me-pt-1/">ISTE Connects</a> site </em><em>which targets </em><span style="font-style: italic;">educators engaged in improving teaching and learning by advancing the effective use of technology education.<br /></span><div style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/Soq0YwXi6FI/AAAAAAAABF0/2gHv2kbd5X8/s1600-h/studying.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 158px; height: 119px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/Soq0YwXi6FI/AAAAAAAABF0/2gHv2kbd5X8/s320/studying.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371303842986256466" border="0" /></a>Recently I attended Alan November’s <a href="http://novemberlearning.com/blc/">Building Learning Communities Conference</a> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">where I participated in a session for educators exploring how to become transformational leaders.</span></span> A participant at my table said, “This is all nice, but kids need to learn that school isn’t always interesting. Sometimes school is just boring.” “Not true!" I responded. "<a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/03/immunization-for-uninteresting.html">School shouldn’t and doesn’t have to be boring</a>.” When I shared this with Alan he recommended I ask this participant, “Which teachers should teach students that they have to learn that school is boring?“ This certainly would not be me. While I’ve witnessed teachers who accept that students are disengaged, sometimes even falling asleep in their class, I do not believe a teacher passionate about his/her career would embrace the idea that it is okay for their students to be bored. In fact, I contend that if every teacher prioritized just one thing, we could eradicate boredom in our classrooms, deeply engage students, and dramatically decrease the dropout rate. That one thing is... </div> <h2><span style="font-size:85%;"><b>Supporting students in finding their passion.</b></span></h2><br />To find out how, read the whole story by clicking <a href="http://www.isteconnects.org/2009/08/17/engage-me-or-enrage-me-pt-1/">here</a>. Be sure to check out (and leave) comments too.<br /><em style="font-style: italic;"></em>Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-90851833110367376422009-08-10T13:14:00.000-07:002016-06-05T05:34:32.805-07:00My 21st Century Transformation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4EuvYoGlFis/SoS4iwC6BxI/AAAAAAAAAAw/p7jG53wohak/s1600-h/man+embracing+internet.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369619562884630290" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4EuvYoGlFis/SoS4iwC6BxI/AAAAAAAAAAw/p7jG53wohak/s320/man+embracing+internet.jpg" style="float: left; height: 237px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 179px;" /></a><em><span style="font-size: 78%;"><strong>by Jacek Polubiec</strong></span></em><br />
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Most people agree that schools need transformational leaders in order to become learning communities that prepare our students, teachers, parents and administrators for the challenges of the future. For that reason, I have always aspired to be a transformational leader and a progressive thinker. I also thought of myself as being an innovator up until......1:01 pm, Monday, July 27, 2009, which is when my first workshop at 2009 Building Learning Communities Conference in Boston began.<br />
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One of the first questions Alan November asked us was: <em>"Do your teachers have the right information?"</em> which I immediately translated into self-reflective: <em>"Do <strong>I</strong> have the right information to be a progressive leader I want to be?"</em>. As I kept asking myself this question during the five days I spent in Boston, my answers gradually went from <em>"maybe"</em> to <em>"definitely not"</em> to "WHERE HAVE I BEEN ALL THESE YEARS!?". In other words, for me, BLC09 was an eye-opening and humbling experience as it caused me to rethink many of my earlier ideas and even shift the focus of my studies in the area of urban school leadership.<br />
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Now, that I had some time to sift through the enormous amount of information I collected and digest some ideas I have been exposed to, I come to the conclusion that now I do, because of BLC09 and a great team I attended it with, have sufficient information and resources to be a major force <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4EuvYoGlFis/SoS9UcfcmVI/AAAAAAAAAA4/bYw0SlDjxjc/s1600-h/leading-people.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369624814675597650" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4EuvYoGlFis/SoS9UcfcmVI/AAAAAAAAAA4/bYw0SlDjxjc/s320/leading-people.jpg" style="float: right; height: 322px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 184px;" /></a>in bringing educational innovation into all aspects of my professional life. As transformational leader, I will provide intellectual stimulation to everyone around me by challenge assumptions of what Internet has to offer and why we should focus on giving students opportunities to contribute to the world of knowledge by the means of wikis, blogs and online discussions. I will inspire and motivate everyone around me by articulating a clear vision for 21st Century education in person, on Twitter and in my posts. I will also, as suggested at the "21st-Century-Ready Student begin with the Teacher" workshop, respect the time and the skill level of the people I am working with so I can mentor and coach them effectively. Individualized consideration is an important element of transformational leadership but equally important is practicing what we preach and leading by example. For that reason, I have developed a plan of action that I will share with my staff and students at the beginning of the year. As you will notice, this list includes not just what I will do at work but also how I will bring these tools into my personal life.<br />
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<br />MY POST-BLC09 PLAN OF ACTION<br /><br />1. Meet with as many administrators, teachers, students and parents as early as possible in order to share my first reactions to the "BLC09 experience".<br />2. Monitor Twitter activities related to BLC09, TEd21C and current events and my other interests,<br />3. Show everyone I interact with how to do the above.<br />4. Continue using diigo, google docs, tinyurl as often as possible.<br />5. Frequently visit and contribute to learning networks I have joined especially TEd21c.<br />6. Set up one wiki for my academy and another for myself.<br />7. Create <a goog_docs_charindex="3026" href="http://www.progressivelearningcommunity.ning.com/" id="rnki" title="my own learning network">my own learning network</a><br />8. Respond to blogs and discussion threads as often as I can.<br />9. Use google docs to create interactive chart to take notes on our experiences with using new (to us) Internet tools. <em><span style="font-size: 85%;">My teachers will enter the information in the above chart and I will invite other supervisors to view it. </span></em><br />10. Start an after-school program for advanced students to create tutorials for other students using Jing and Camtasia.<br />11. Purchase a webcam and start using Skype to communicate with friends, colleagues and family.<br />12. Train computer lab teacher and classroom teachers on custom search engines, google search tips and tricks.<br />13. Display charts with google search shortcuts in all classrooms in my academy and in the lab.<br />14. Clearly label one computer in each classroom as research stations and request that each classroom has a full time researcher who will be changed each day<br />15. Rename the computer lab on my floor to Global Communication Center<br />16. Teach teachers how to use google docs to collaborate on lesson plans and agendas<br />17. Spearhead initiative of teachers using Twitter to send homework information and announcements to parents.<br />18. Publish some of my older papers on my own wiki and invite other educators to comment on them<br />19. Use my current written college assignments as blog entries, discussion threads and wiki pages and invite others to visit, critique and contribute.<br /><br />As I am supervising the installation of two new computer labs (sorry Alan I know how you feel about the labs:) in our school, getting ready to collaborate with nice folks from MOET and Teaching Matters I am very optimistic that our school will zoom up the scale of Dimensions of the 21st Century success. Beginning mid September you will be able to use the following tags to follow us on Twitter WSA4 (William Shakespeare Academy at PS4) or DES4 (Duke Ellington School 4).<br />--------------------------------------<br />
<em><span style="font-size: 78%;"><strong>Jacek Polubiec</strong> was born and raised in Powisle, a small picturesque neighborhood near downtown Warsaw, Poland. Working on archeological excavations in his youth invigorated his interest in higher education after years under very traditional, teacher-centered school system. Self-driven and taught, he applied and was accepted to the Institute of Archeology, one of the most elite departments of Warsaw University, where he completed three semesters of studies. Upon coming to the United States, Jacek started a family and pursued his passion for music. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from City College and M.A. in Jazz Performance from Queens College. He held many roles in the music world: jazz guitarist, band leader, composer and teacher. His satisfaction from seeing adults and children learn inspired him to work with the New York City Board of Education. There he has worked as a music teacher, a Project ARTS Coordinator, and after graduating from the Principals Institute at Bank Street College, an Assistant Principal—a position he has served in for the past 7 years. Jacek feels strongly about bringing progressive thinking and innovative approaches to teaching and educational leadership. He is a transformational leader passionate about emotional intelligence, teacher and student leadership, collaboration and technology. He is currently pursuing doctoral degree in Urban School Leadership at Fordham University. He is a proud father of two girls ages 15 and 20. When he is not working or studying, he enjoys surf fishing, camping, photography, cooking and salsa dancing.</span></em></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-48159365938265478332009-08-03T15:47:00.000-07:002009-08-14T05:26:30.943-07:00BLC09 - A Reader's Digest for Those Unable to Attend (In Person, At Least)<p><em>Editor’s Note: This post is written by Dana Lawit an NYC DOE high school teacher who serves as a contributor to <a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/">The Innovative Educator blog</a>. For this post I asked Dana to look through my Tweets to learn, gather, and share what she and others could learn remotely from what I tweeted. Dana does a great job in this post of not only providing an overview of my experience through a Twitter lens, but she also demonstrates how Twitter can be used to enhance learning. </em></p><p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SndmgeQNxdI/AAAAAAAABE8/Yb1VGbQ22n4/s1600-h/twitter2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365870189098157522" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 400px; height: 306px;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SndmgeQNxdI/AAAAAAAABE8/Yb1VGbQ22n4/s400/twitter2.jpg" border="0" /></a>The Innovative Educator (a.k.a. Lisa Nielsen) just returned from the <a href="http://novemberlearning.com/blc/">Building Learning Communities</a> conference on <a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/07/innovation-roadmap-criteria-for.html">Innovation in 21st Century Schools</a> in Boston. While she was tweeting, blogging, and broadcasting in real time throughout the event, I wanted to compile some of my favorite quotes and takeaways as a non-participant. Think of this post as a cliff notes, or cheat sheet -- a reader's digest inspired by <a href="http://twitter.com/InnovativeEdu">InnovativeEdu's tweets</a> from the event.</p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">InnovativeEdu: Education was ranked the lowest (below coal mining even!) for use of technology. Learning to Change-Changing to Learn. BLC09 12:14 PM Jul 27th from web </span><br /><br /><p>Clearly, if schooling is to continue to prepare young people to engage as productive members of their community, schools need to do a much better job and <a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/08/ideas-for-leading-transformation-in.html">infusing technology and digital literacy into their curricula</a>. </p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">InnovativeEdu: Reading Student as Contributor: The Digital Learning Farm </span><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" href="http://tinyurl.com/digitalfarm">http://tinyurl.com/digitalfarm</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> at BLC09. MOET12:16 PM Jul 27th from web </span><br /><p>Conference organizer Alan November provides a historical context for charging students with responsibility and creation, and offers suggestions as to what the looks like in a 21st century classroom. </p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">InnovativeEdu: Watching the Learning to Change - Changing to Learn video http://bit.ly/1oRKfr at BLC09 MOET12:30 PM Jul 27th from web</span><br /><p>Inspiring video produced by the <a href="http://www.cosn.org/">Consortium for School Networking</a> that frames the need for 21st century classrooms. </p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">InnovativeEdu: Nice post for BLC09 folks and others who are ready to transition from lurking to contributing. Inspiration @ </span><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" href="http://blogush.edublogs.org/">http://blogush.edublogs.org/</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">/9:21 AM Jul 28th from web </span><br /><p>How do we as educators make the transition from reading, researching receiving to collaborating, creating, and contributing? <a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/07/can-technology-be-used-to-circumvent.html">It's a transition I recently made</a>. This post captures many of the reservations one might have as she transitions from lurking to contributing, but ultimately calls upon all of us to comment and exchange ideas more. </p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">InnovativeEdu: Alan November is @ BLC09 saying we shouldn't have tech action plans just like we shouldn't have pencil and paper action plans.12:24 PM Jul 28th from web </span><br /><p>Technology in a classroom isn't innovation. Just as an arrangement of desks and chairs doesn't necessarily yield a classroom. Instead, the deliberate arrangement of chairs combined with human capital transforms spaces to experiences. The thoughtful application of technology combined with learning experiences yields innovation. </p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">InnovativeEdu: Alan November says Ning is "THE" tool for building learning communities at BLC09. At the NYC DOE we were told ARIS Connect was. MOET2:01 PM Jul 28th from web </span><br /><br /><p>As <a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-i-use-social-networking-to-keep-my.html">I posted earlier</a>, Ning is a powerful tool for teachers and students. Its applications are endless -- connecting students within a classroom, teachers within a school, educators across the globe. </p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">InnovativeEdu: @ BLC09 Alan November says we should replace the word technology with information or instruction @</span><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" href="http://twitter.com/PLCJP">PLCJP</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> really loved this concept. </span><br /><p>I too love this concept for two reasons: 1) it debunks technology as a fancy word denoting slick, humming machines and 2) folds that word into the work of teaching and learning as another tool. </p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">InnovativeEdu: </span><a style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" href="http://www.mathtrain.com/">mathtrain.tv</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> is a site that was set up to share student created tutorials shared at blc09. I think marc prensky would love this.10:30 AM Jul 29th from web </span><br /><p><a href="http://www.mathtrain.com/">Mathtrain</a> is great example of creating an authentic audience for student products. On this site, <a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/07/kids-teach-kids-with-mathcasting.html">students produce videos that not only demonstrate their own understanding of a topic, but can be used as a resource for other students</a>. </p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">InnovativeEdu: Connecting to students online allows educators to build and develop relationships that would not otherwise be possible.2:14 PM Jul 29th from web </span><br /><p>I couldn't agree with this more. From my recent experience using a Ning Network with an English class in summer school, I found students reaching out (by sending me Ning messages) that had never engaged in a classroom before. For many, social networks carry with them a different set of social expectations. This is a powerful change of pace for many students and teachers alike bored and unsatisfied by the traditional conventions of schools. </p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">InnovativeEdu: New York City School Leaders just created a learning network for transforming ed @ blc09. Come join us at http://ted21c.ning.com. Ted21c</span><br /><br /><p>Join the conversation, join the <a href="http://ted21c.ning.com/">Transforming Education in the 21st Century Ning</a> and continue the conversation. </p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">InnovativeEdu: Blc09 concept: When you learn something, don't keep it inside. Do something with it. Publish it! Blog it! Tweet it! Discussion Forum it!9:56 AM Jul 31st from txt </span><br /><p>------------------------------------------------</p><p>As usual, we challenge ourselves and each other to continue sharing and discussing our experiences and insight about innovation in education.<br /><br />Leave a comment, start a blog, join a Ning network. One of the most powerful and innovative ideas brought about by the introduction and widespread use of Web 2.0 technology is a lesson I'm continually learning and sharing with my students: you are important, and what you have to say and thing matters.<br /><br />Look forward to hearing every one's thoughts.</p>Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-13149406025356903722009-08-03T07:23:00.000-07:002009-08-03T07:24:13.914-07:00Ideas for Leading Transformation in Schools from Alan November<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SnbyNGQx7MI/AAAAAAAABE0/zZUCCUm8YKE/s1600-h/Alan+November+and+Team.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365742312891739330" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 270px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 126px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SnbyNGQx7MI/AAAAAAAABE0/zZUCCUm8YKE/s400/Alan+November+and+Team.png" border="0" /></a><br />While at the Building Learning Communities conference, Alan November sat with leaders from New York City schools to discuss ideas for leading transformation in their schools. Below are highlights from the conversation.<br /><br /><strong>Kids Teaching Kids</strong><br />->Switch the capacity of learning from the teacher to the student.<br />->Run a contest where kids create learning objects for other kids using screen casting.<br />-->Resources: PHPmotion, Techsmith, Camtasia, Techsmith<br />->Students can produce a video that welcomes other children to your school. This can go to all new students. Written, produced, directed by children in the school.<br />->Ask every teacher to submit the 10 most difficult concepts for students to learn in each content area.<br />->Challenge students to create ideas to teach the most difficult concepts.<br /><br /><strong>Integrating Technology into the Curriculum</strong><br />->Too many schools are doing cool things with technology but it is not aligned with the content area. Select 2-3 areas where technology will make a difference.<br />->Do not use technology just because you can do it. Use the tools (wikis, podcast, Twitter) but make sure they are strategic.<br />->Globalize the curriculum. We need to see the work of other kids around the world in every subject they teach. Find the award winning work from students around the world in each curriculum area.<br /><br /><strong>Have a Family Plan<br /></strong>->Create a Grandmother network.<br />->Get a grandparent to connect to through skype. Have grandmother read books to class.<br />->Create subject-area guides<br />-->Have teachers in each content area/department make cds/dvds for families that show the families how they can support their student in that particular subject.<br /><br /><strong>Extend The Learning Time</strong><br />->Provide opportunities for students to access their learning environment afterschool day, before school, Saturday,<br />->Think outside the box<br />->Open up the library beyond the school day and have an internet café.<br />->Can a librarian come in at 10 or 11 and work til 6 or 7 everyday, or a couple days a week?<br />->Can any staff members work Saturdays rather than Monday?<br /><br /><strong>Roles of the leader</strong><br />->Build Capacity<br />->Create Study Groups<br />->Develop great communication skills and express yourself using various channels: Twitter, learning networks, blogs, Skype<br />->Ensure technology is in alignment with strategic goals you set for your school<br />->The role of the leader is to build capacity (w/ specific tools, study group,)<br />-->Family capacity building group<br />-->Global connection group<br /><br /><strong>Jobs of Student</strong><br />Below are creative ways that students can make valuable contributions to their learning community. Click <a href="http://novemberlearning.com/resources/archive-of-articles/digital-learning-farm/" goog_docs_charindex="2878">here</a> for more details.<br />->Tutorial Designers: Students can document their learning by recording themselves solving problems based on material discussed in class. You can read how a middle school teacher named Eric Marcos is doing this <a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/07/kids-teach-kids-with-mathcasting.html" goog_docs_charindex="3131">here</a>.<br />->Official Scribes: Use a collaborative tool like EtherPad or Google Docs to share responsibility to take perfect notes that can be captured, published, and used by an entire class. See how a teacher named Darren Kurpatwa is doing that with his calculus students <a href="http://tinyurl.com/68djoz" goog_docs_charindex="3423">here</a>.<br />->Researchers: Many classrooms have a few computers sitting in the back that gets very little use. What if that computer became the official research station where one student each day was responsible for finding answers to all the questions in class – including the teacher’s? Once sites are found that give details about the questions being asked, you might consider adding it to your own search engine built using Google’s <a href="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/" goog_docs_charindex="3879">Custom Search Engine</a> creator.<br />->Collaboration Coordinators: Using Skype (<a href="http://www.skype.com/" target="_blank" goog_docs_charindex="3979">http://www.skype.com/</a>), a collaboration team could be responsible for establishing and maintaining working relationships via the Internet with classrooms around the world. Find out more about how middle school teacher Andrea Trudeau did that <a href="http://dps109.wikispaces.com/Skype" goog_docs_charindex="4225">here</a>.<br />->Contributing to Society: Teach students about social justice and empathy using sites like <a href="http://www.kiva.org/" goog_docs_charindex="4345">Kiva</a> a site that opens the doors of learning and gives students the opportunity to make a small but meaningful difference in the lives of others.<br />->Curriculum Reviewers: As the resources above come together, the curriculum review team jumps into action to create material that can be used for continuous review. This team combines visual and audio components into podcasts that can be posted online for individuals to download into their mp3 players. See how Bob Sprankle’s class did this <a href="http://www.bobsprankle.com/podcasts/0506/rm208vodcast.mov" goog_docs_charindex="4858">here</a>.<br /><br /><strong>Safety Thoughts<br /></strong>->Teachers should be wary of following students on public sites where the teacher subscribes to or receives instant updates of the students activities as we do not want teachers to become responsible for what students do 24/7.<br />->There are ways to friend a student without subscribing to their updates in some forums<br />->Family members should be following students, modeling responsible behavior, and should be aware and responsible for what students engage in online and offline.Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-60845468214186005442009-07-31T19:43:00.000-07:002009-07-31T17:53:17.631-07:00Leading By Example - Transforming Education for the 21st Century<span 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group of New York City school administrators who have made significant progress in becoming transformative leaders. I felt it was important during my week with these leaders for us not only to talk the talk, but to walk the walk and (even if things got messy) use a variety of the tools they were beginning to explore so that in addition to learning about theoretical implications of innovative practices, they would have hands on experience in discovering what it was like using these tools.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">During our time at the conference our group used a variety of technologies to enhance the way we were communicating and collaborating.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">To set the stage it was important to establish that our work together wasn’t around learning about things like wikis, blogs, twitter, and learning networks (which we did learn about) but rather about working in innovative ways that enhanced the work we were doing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">
<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style="">Sharing Knowledge with Google Docs<o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Prior to the conference we established a Google doc where we would each capture our </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkAMK3GXd1YWck5mOFdHUjIzb2VQWG1mU04xNXZ0VWc&hl=en">Schedules</a> <span style=""> </span>to enable us to share our plans for the conference. This would serve a couple purposes. 1) It allowed us to be aware of the sessions one another was attending as it’s always great to be able to connect with colleagues who experienced the same learning as you, process, and extend the thinking. 2) It enabled us to capture the knowledge each of us set out to gain so we had an instant record of our group’s professional development experience.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style="">Using a Wiki for Collecting, Capturing, and Accessing Important Materials <o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">We also set up a <a href="http://manhattantitleiid.wikispaces.com/BLC+Conference">wiki page</a> for our conference experience.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">This provided a place for us to collect and access all important conference information such as the conference program, our daily reflection.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">It also provided a place where we could capture notes and materials shared at various presentations.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">
<br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style="">Tweeting to Follow Conference Activities and Share Reflections and Plans<o:p></o:p></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">School leaders set up Twitter accounts which they used to follow the goings on of the conference using the tag “BLC09” for the first two days.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">By day three most school leaders were also contributing tweets that included instant reflections of what they learned that they planned to bring back to their schools. This is now permanently captured and available for future reflecting and all leaders have access to see what their colleagues are thinking of doing allowing them to connect and collaborate.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">Here are some examples of their tweets using the tag 21cl.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> <span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" >·</span><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" ><span style=""> </span>I plan to introduce digital writing portfolios through student blogs, expand use of wikis/blogs, expand our newspaper to be multi-media </span><span style=";font-size:100%;color:blue;" > </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" >·</span><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" ><span style=""> </span>I will learn and share Google secrets by going to </span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://tinyurl.com/nwyeey" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/nwyeey</a></span><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" > <span style=""> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);font-size:100%;" ><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" >·</span><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" ><span style=""> </span>Use twitter and google docs to promote a sense of community that can be extended outside of school <span style=""> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);font-size:100%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" >·</span><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" ><span style=""> </span>Have staff tweet to share what is going on in school using a school tag<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" >·</span><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" ><span style=""> </span>Teachers can tweet homework assignments<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" >·</span><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" ><span style=""> </span>Have students create tutorials using Screencasting. (mathtrain.tv) <span style=""> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);font-size:100%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" >·</span><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" ><span style=""> </span>As a leader I will model using tech tools in my practice </span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);font-size:100%;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" >·</span><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" ><span style=""> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);font-size:100%;" >Use </span><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" >Google Docs to construct grade level planning conference agendas and collaboratively write lesson plans</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">
<br /></span><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="color:black;">Using Google Graphs, Spreadsheets, and Twitter to Poll Participants<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" >Our group was determining what our online brand would be.<span style=""> </span>To do this, all members of our group were asked to contribute by tweeting nominations for the potential group name using the tag 21cl.<span style=""> </span>I collected the nominated names and placed the 25 nominees in a <a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=t9p5QlZYEl0d8Zqf6UUtyqQ">Google Spreadsheet</a> which we planned to use as a free polling tool.<span style=""> </span>Our group members names were placed across the top of the sheet and each school leader used their five votes to nominate their top choices.<span style=""> </span>As they did this we watched the graph rise and fall.<span style=""> </span>The winner was Transforming Leaders for the 21<sup>st</sup> Century.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">
<br /></span><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" ><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="color:black;">During Conference Reflection Using Google Forms<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" >School leaders completed a </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=ckt6UXZ3bWhxY0FhX1VvcVJJMEFRUXc6MA..">Conference Reflection Form</a> a few times during the conference to capture what they learned and planned to bring back to their schools.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">These were captured as
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<br /></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b style=""><span style="color:black;">Capturing Memories Using Flickr<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" ><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" >Photos of our experience were captured at Flickr using a new account we set up at </span><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/40957740@N07/">ted21C</a> (friend us)<span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" >.<span style=""> </span>These photos are also posted on our learning network.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal;font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-size:100%;color:black;" >
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struggling student understand a math concept.<span style=""> </span>A few days later, another student happened to see the video and when he came across a difficult math concept he asked Mr. Marcos if he would make him a video too.<span style=""> </span>The next thing he knew he had his MATH students asking to stay late to make math videos. 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<br /></span>Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-40000027100434876752009-07-30T17:28:00.000-07:002009-07-31T17:37:42.027-07:00Get Going with Google Apps in Your School<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/index.html"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 161px; height: 40px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SnGcg5YP66I/AAAAAAAABEA/8bx6CQNjed8/s400/Google+Apps.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364240720147245986" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;">As a Google Certified Educator I am often asked how to get started using Google Apps. As many teachers know, Google Apps Education Edition is a free suite of hosted communication & collaboration applications designed for schools and universities. (<a href="http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/sell.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>See the top 10 reasons</u></span></a> to switch your school to Google Apps.)<br /></span><div class="Section1" style="font-family:arial;"><p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Though I know Google is a valuable tool, when faced with this question, I first ask, “Why Google Apps?” This is important to consider as the goals and objectives must come before the tool. Here is a recent response I received to that question:<br /></span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;">We're looking for a school web site that is enhanced by the too</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SnGcsoiuBsI/AAAAAAAABEI/iVR_yuGbocA/s1600-h/Fav+Five.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 186px; height: 187px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SnGcsoiuBsI/AAAAAAAABEI/iVR_yuGbocA/s400/Fav+Five.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364240921786189506" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;">ls that Google seems to offer.As a school, we'd like to be able to communicate with students and parents about assignment deadlines and events, on a general school-wide level as well as for individual classes. We'd like email accounts for students and teachers, calendars, class web pages. We are also interested in using Google docs as a means of encouraging collaboration among students during group projects, lab activities, etc. I think there are a lot of applications to our school.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 36pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;">We are on paid site right now, but I have heard a lot of good things about Google Apps for Education. It seems more user-friendly/intuitive since Google is something the kids (and staff) are used to working with. Not to mention that it's free.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;">This school seems to have some great reasons for using Google Apps. Now that the stage is set, here is how I recommend getting started.<br /></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b>GET READY</b></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 18pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b>Read the </b><a href="http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=67775"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b><u>Quick Start Guide<br /></u></b></span></a>The Education Edition is engineered to help schools organize the wealth of knowledge that lives inside schools. This guide will assist a full-scale deployment of Google Apps.<br /></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 18pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b>View </b></span><a href="http://edu.googleapps.com/tutorials-and-tips"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b><u>Tutorials & Tips</u></b></span></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">View videos and tutorials on how you can use Google Apps at your school and in the classroom.</span><br /></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 18pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b>Sign Up for </b><b>Free Email with </b><b>Message Security in </b><b>Google Apps Education Edition for K-12s</b><br />Keep your students safe with <a href="http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/index.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>Google Message Security</u></span></a>, offered free to current and new K12 Google Apps schools that sign up before July of 2010. Customizable inbound and outbound filtering based on content or senders - you make the rules.<br /></span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 18pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b>Set Up </b><b>Sites for Teachers</b><br />Check out the new <a href="https://www.google.com/support/sites/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=153055"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>Sites for Teachers</u></span></a> page to see how teachers, students and administrators are using Google Sites to create their class sites, organize school trips, and run school projects.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 18pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b>Help Students Search Effectively<br /></b>Educators often say that they could use some help to teach better web search skills in the classroom and make sure Google is used well and to its full potential. Google Certified Teachers have develop a set of <a href="http://www.google.com/educators/p_websearch.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>nine modular and practical lessons</u></span></a> to help educators do just that.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 18pt;"><b>Review the </b><a href="http://www.google.com/educators/tools.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b><u>Tools for your classroom</u></b></span></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Become familiar the products that comprise Google tools for educators including staples like </span><a style="font-weight: normal;" href="http://www.google.com/educators/p_blogger.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>Blogger</u></span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">, </span><a style="font-weight: normal;" href="http://www.google.com/educators/p_sketchup.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>SketchUp</u></span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">, </span><a style="font-weight: normal;" href="http://www.google.com/educators/p_docs.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>Docs</u></span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">, </span><a style="font-weight: normal;" href="http://www.google.com/educators/p_booksearch.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>Book Search </u></span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">, and </span><a style="font-weight: normal;" href="http://www.google.com/educators/p_php.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>iGoogle</u></span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> and their incredible newly featured products like the </span><a style="font-weight: normal;" href="http://www.google.com/educators/p_cse.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>Custom Search Engine</u></span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;">. </span><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 18pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b>Take a look at Classroom Activities and Tips Posters</b><br />Be sure to check out some examples of teacher work in the new <a href="http://www.google.com/educators/activities.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>classroom activities</u></span></a> section and check out the handy <a href="http://www.google.com/educators/posters.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>tips posters</u></span></a>, which you can print out and hang in your classrooms, computer labs and libraries. </span></p><p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b>GET SET</b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br />Once you’ve done your homework, it’s time to start connecting with others doing the same work. These will be your best resources to becoming successful using Google Apps for Educators. Here is how you do this.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 18pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span><a href="http://edu.googleapps.com/Home/Community-Map"><span style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139);"><b><u>Get on the</u></b></span><span style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139);"><b> </b></span><span style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139);"><b><u> map</u></b></span></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Find other Google Apps educators & students around the world.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> When you visit the </span><a href="http://edu.googleapps.com/Home/Community-Map"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>Map</u></span></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> you will find schools, along with their url, that are using Google. Figure out the key people at that school. Connect and visit. Here in New York you will find:</span></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></span>Andrew Stillman, Columbia Secondary School, <a href="http://www.columbiasecondary.org/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>www.columbiasecondary.org</u></span></a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Nancy Wong, The School at Columbia University, <a href="http://www.theschool.columbia.edu/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>www.theschool.columbia.edu</u></span></a></span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Jason Levy and Dan Ackerman, CIS 339, <a href="http://schools.nyc.gov/schoolportals/09/x339/default.htm"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>http://schools.nyc.gov/schoolportals/09/x339/default.htm</u></span></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></li></ul><p style="margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 18pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b>Become a Part of the </b><a href="http://www.google.com/educators/community.html"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><b><u>Google Teacher Community<br /></u></b></span></a>Here you will find the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/google-for-educators?lnk=gschg"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>Google for Educators Discussion Group</u></span></a> designed to keep you updated on Google's K-12 Education initiatives. The group has become the home of a vibrant community of educators. In this space educators start discussions with fellow teachers; share ideas about innovation in education; ask questions about where to find teaching resources; tell colleagues about curricula you've created that have worked really well and more. You will also find examples of classroom activities using Google products.</span></p><p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> <b>GO!<br /></b>You are now ready to begin using Google Apps at your school. You will want to introduce this to your colleagues through a meeting or email. When doing this be sure to include your school goals and objects around why you are doing this. Have some simple ways they can get started now. Share some ways you plan to measure success.<br /></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;">You may also want to get started with this video that explains “Why Google Apps for Education.”<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IRYRbPCHTck&hl=en&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IRYRbPCHTck&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></p><p style="margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><b>Celebrate Your Success and Get on The Map<br /></b>Once you launch this work in your school, add yourself to the <a href="http://edu.googleapps.com/Home/Community-Map"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>Google Community M</u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><u>ap</u></span></a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> publicly with your colleagues. Share your success by commenting here. Invite others to your school (physically or virtually) to see the great work you are doing.</span></span></p></div>Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-71914709644319966642009-07-29T17:19:00.000-07:002009-08-10T09:24:45.941-07:00An Innovation Roadmap: Criteria for Innovative Schools in the 21st Century<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.teachingmatters.org/"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363959657177904066" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 153px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SnCc44Odc8I/AAAAAAAABD4/lM-wJtc-bzA/s320/Dimensions+of+21C+Success.png" border="0" /></a>
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<br /><span style="font-family:';color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:';color:black;">What is a 21<sup>st</sup> Century School?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family:';color:black;">Where does my school stand on the continuum of 21<sup>st</sup> century success?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family:';color:black;">Where do I want to be?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li><span style="font-family:';color:black;">How might I plan to get there?<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="font-family:';color:black;">At the conference we will be exploring this concept and looking at this question using a newly created tool called the <a href="http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B_L8_mMf2TzyYmJhNWRlNTMtODdjZi00MzI5LWJhZDMtYzdmYjdkZTkwMzQ1&hl=en">Rubric for School Innovation</a>.<span style="font-size:+0;"> </span>The Rubric provides a guide for thinking about different stages in the development of an innovative school. This tool offers a set of guiding questions and indicators of effectiveness and innovation, especially innovation made possible by technology.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">
<br /><span style="font-family:';color:black;"><span style="font-size:+0;"></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="font-family:';color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><span style="font-family:';color:black;">You can find out where your school sits right now by visiting <a href="http://www.teachingmatters.org/assessment" jquery1249921437952="48">What Level is Your School?</a></span><span style="font-family:';color:black;"> at <a href="http://www.teachingmatters.org/innovativeprincipal">The Innovative Principal </a>area of the Teaching Matters website. Leaders can complete this with their staff, discuss the results, discuss where they want to be and then begin building an action plan for innovation to get there.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">
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<br />Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-9604122699785646142009-07-27T11:22:00.000-07:002009-07-31T11:23:18.803-07:00Suggestions for Administrators Interested in Assessing Innovative Practices at Their Schools<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/Sm4MbAtSbjI/AAAAAAAABDw/JhGuNsPZGXQ/s1600-h/innovative_teacher_light_bulb_head.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5363237864430792242" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 135px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/Sm4MbAtSbjI/AAAAAAAABDw/JhGuNsPZGXQ/s320/innovative_teacher_light_bulb_head.jpg" border="0" /></a>This week I am with leaders of schools in Manhattan at Alan November’s Building Learning Communities conference. During the conference we are reflecting on the question “What am I going to do to become a transformational leader?” To help frame the question conference organizer Alan November has shared these questions for administrators to keep in mind as they are thinking about their schools and how they are assessing the implementation of innovative practices that will build capacity and enrich teaching and learning at their schools.<br /><div></div><br /><div>As you read the below suggestions, reflect on what you are doing. Leaders what will you self-prescribe to be a transformational leader? Educators, what would you prescribe for leaders in your school? Is anything missing?<br /><br />• Does technology serve to create new opportunities for teaching and learning that were not available before, or is the computer simply serving as a $1000 pencil merely automating standard assignments?<br />• Are students thinking critically about the information they access online? Are they gathering their content from multiple resources? Are they cross-referencing information and bringing in content that provide opposing or alternative points of view?<br />• Are the boundaries of social discourse being expanded? Is collaboration a point of emphasis? For example, are foreign language students being connected with native speakers, or are science classes connecting with the local crime scene investigation team?<br />• What opportunities are being taken to build school/home/community connections?<br />• Is content being developed and published to authentic audiences or only consumed?<br />• Are students being exposed to a broad range of skills and applications or are teachers focusing too much on too few? Are they being taught to create podcasts, engage in digital storytelling activities, utilize social bookmarks, collaborate with others using VOIP tools, etc.?<br />• Are students providing support to teachers in areas they are familiar with, or is technology use limited only to what the teachers know?<br />• Are faculty development sessions addressing curriculum with as much intensity as the tools being used, or are the tools the sole purpose? Are faculty development sessions being offered online and in different formats to engage teachers at different levels? Is support available to all staff members in an efficient and productive manner?<br />• Are students working in teams and individually to meet the goals and expectations set by themselves and the teachers? Are all team members contributing to meet the goals of the group? In group settings, are these groups mixed in ways for everyone to receive equal opportunities?<br />• Do teachers have the ability to override school filters with a password to utilize appropriate resources that have inadvertently been blocked?<br />• Does the current allocation of technology within the school meet current needs? Are pioneering teachers being encouraged and rewarded for their work? Are these teachers being utilized as role models for those who are still trying to figure out how to leverage it all?<br />• Has your school’s Acceptable Use Policy been reviewed recently? Does it address newer technologies, student safety and ethical considerations? Are students acting in a socially responsible manner, and are they demonstrating respect and appreciation of others? Are students aware of protecting their identity and the identity of others?<br /><br />---------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License<br />Courtesy Alan November. Expanding the boundaries of learning novemberlearning.com</div>Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-6103456002285457112009-07-20T06:24:00.000-07:002009-08-03T08:27:08.488-07:00What Might a 21st Century School Look Like?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SmhcjKThQlI/AAAAAAAABC4/xlrDeOf49dQ/s1600-h/school_20.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 288px; height: 216px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/SmhcjKThQlI/AAAAAAAABC4/xlrDeOf49dQ/s400/school_20.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5361637115515978322" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">As innovative educator Peggy Sheehy’s students recently explained in their video, </span><u><span style="color:blue;"><a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-future-left-behind-peggy-sheehys.html"><span style="font-family:Arial;">No Future Left Behind</span></a></span></u><span style="font-family:Arial;">, “Education really needs an upgrade!” A 21st Century school, unlike other schools wouldn’t be a place </span><u><span style="color:blue;"><a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/03/is-blogging-worth-risk.html"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Rip Van Winkle</span></a></span></u><span style="font-family:Arial;"> would recognize after his 100 year slumber. Sheehy’s students complain, “I can't create <i>my</i> future with the tools of <i>your</i> past.” “The future is trying to get in, but you’ve blocked it.” “Let the future in. We want to talk to the world.” <a id="lha2" title="Marc Prensky of “Engage Me or Enrage Me!" href="http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0553.pdf">Marc Prensky of “Engage Me or Enrage Me!</a> ” fame would applaud these students for so articulately sharing the concerns of others around the world. An evangelist of student-centered instruction and decision making Prensky advises, that we should accept “the students, not the teachers, should be leading the charge with using technology.” As I think about the advice of my personal learning network, what I take from this is that we are moving toward a time when the teacher’s role will become more of a personal learning facilitator who’s role is to help students exist in what Sir Ken Robinson refers to as their “</span><u><span style="color:blue;"><a href="http://www.theelementbook.com/"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Element</span></a></span></u><span style="font-family:Arial;">,” a place where natural talent meets personal passion.<br /></span></span><p class="western" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></p><p class="western" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">So, how does this take place? In </span><u><span style="color:blue;"><a href="http://disruptingclass.mhprofessional.com/apps/ab/"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Disrupting Class</span></a></span></u><span style="font-family:Arial;">, the authors share that 50% of all high school classes will be delivered online by the year 2019. The expansion of this type of alternative delivery of instruction provides unique opportunities not previously available to students. For instance online delivery of instruction could enable students to access less popular or more advanced areas of study then would be possible at a single school campus. It provides opportunities for students who may not be able to participate in school due to illness, familial obligations or pregnancy. It allows students to connect with others in a niche area of study.<br /></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></p><p class="western" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Teachers at a 21st Century school would all have laptops, projectors, and video recorders and would engage in innovative practices like </span><u><span style="color:blue;"><a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/03/facebook-find-youtube-university.html"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Richard Buckland</span></a></span></u><span style="font-family:Arial;"> who teachers a regular class to students, but also tapes all of his classes and allows students who are not physically present to receive credit upon watching the video and completing assignments. His students have the added bonus of being able to rate and comment on his lectures giving their teacher and each other feedback that is currently not existent in most classrooms. They can also watch segments of the class over if there is something they missed or skip past information they already know. This addresses an area </span><u><span style="color:blue;"><a href="http://thirteencelebration.org/blog/bios/sir-kenneth-robinson/495/"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Sir Kenneth Robinson</span></a></span></u> <span style="font-family:Arial;">recently spoke about when he asked, “If everyone agrees we learn at different paces, why in school are we expected to teach everyone at the same pace?” He adds, “Why is the date of manufacture the single most important thing educators think kids have in common?” Digital learning opportunities could allow students who are having difficulty in a subject to spend more time in areas of need, and those who are advanced to continue on. The students mentioned above in </span><u><span style="color:blue;"><a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/03/facebook-find-youtube-university.html"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Richard Buckland</span></a></span></u><span style="font-family:Arial;">’s college class by the way are high school students hungry for more challenging coursework not available to them at their school site. That said, it should be a given that students attending a 21st Century school would have the basic technology necessary to succeed in the social or professional connected world in which they live which includes having a reliable internet connection, a keyboard enabled device in which to access it, and an onsite </span><u><span style="color:blue;"><a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2008/05/big-x-and-o-for-olpcs-xos.html"><span style="font-family:Arial;">student support team</span></a></span></u><span style="font-family:Arial;"> to ensure it’s effective and efficient use.</span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></p><p class="western" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Peggy Sheehy’s students also hit upon another important ingredient lacking in many schools when they complained, “You don’t know me. You don’t trust me. You don’t believe in me.” The 21st Century school would be created as an environment for personal success. Every student in a 21st Century school would have a personal learning profile and plan for student success using tools like the </span><u><span style="color:blue;"><a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2008/07/using-renzulli-learning-system-to.html"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Renzulli Learning System and Personal Success Plan</span></a></span></u><span style="font-family:Arial;">. At many schools teachers don’t really know the whole child, so it is difficult to teach the whole child and nearly impossible to group students for instruction or provide truly customized, personalized instruction. If all students are profiled, they become more than just a name but rather teachers can instantly find out information like the following and align the work they do to their unique interests, learning styles, abilities, and expression styles.</span></span> </p><p class="western" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></p><p class="western" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Here is an excerpt from my learning profile:</span></span> </p><p class="western" style="margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153);font-family:Arial;" ><br />Lisa has specific preferred instructional styles. Learning or instructional styles are the ways students like to learn and the strategies parents and teachers use to help them learn. Lisa has very clearly defined learning preferences. Her <b>preferred instructional style is through</b> <b>technology. Her second choice of learning style is discussions</b> that happen when two or more students talk with their teacher or in small groups about issues and topics by discussing facts and opinions and discussing them. Lisa <b>also enjoys</b> <b>learning games</b> that enable her to learn content by playing games or participating in activities with cards, board games, or even electronic games.</span></span> </p><p class="western" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></p><p class="western" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">If only my teachers had let me learn based on this information, education would have been a much more valuable experience for me. However, it is not only important to be in touch with students interests while they are students in the 21st Century school. As </span><u><span style="color:blue;"><a href="http://thirteencelebration.org/blog/bios/geoffrey-canada/466/"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Geoffrey Canada</span></a></span></u><span style="font-family:Arial;"> founder of the renowned Harlem Children’s Zone recently shared, “I refuse to let kids disappear into the abyss after they leave me.” This would not be a possibility for 21st Century school students who would be involved not only in the school’s instructional online network, but would also have the opportunity to stay in touch with their 21st Century school teachers and classmates through the Facebook accounts and groups they safely, appropriately, and responsibly participated in with their teachers. It is through these types of connected learning environments that educators and classmates would continue to support and share successes with one another.</span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br /></p><p class="western" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">-------------------------</span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Note: This post was originally published in <a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/03/what-21st-century-school-might-look.html">The Innovative Educator</a> blog<br /></span></span></p>Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-21605646128564506352009-07-12T06:25:00.000-07:002009-07-31T11:26:43.515-07:00An Opportunity to Support Leaders Interested in Realizing the Promise of the 21st Century School<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/Sj2zn9i5nLI/AAAAAAAABAY/5hiAp_WWS9Q/s1600-h/TMI+Leadership+Forum.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349629431503232178" style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; width: 320px; height: 99px;" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DFrMr4DymwY/Sj2zn9i5nLI/AAAAAAAABAY/5hiAp_WWS9Q/s320/TMI+Leadership+Forum.bmp" border="0" /></a>Innovative educators will often share that one of the best ways to discover and implement innovative practices is by learning from others who are doing this work. Hearing about and seeing promising practices from those who are engaged in them is powerful. School leaders interested in hearing from others who are on the path to Realizing the Promise of the 21st Century School are encouraged to attend Teaching Matters annual school leader forum: A Roadmap for Innovation which takes place Wednesday, July 15, 2009 from 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm at 475 Riverside Drive with a special breakout session for Manhattan Title 2D principals from 4:00 - 5:00.<br /><br />At the forum they’ll be asking, What is a 21st century school? For the most part technology is radically changing every sector of our society, yet schools remain largely unchanged. However, there are schools that are breaking the mold and engaging in innovative practices to engage learners and prepare them for the world in which they live. The forum will provide participants with the opportunity to hear from a panel of innovative NYC school leaders on the vanguard of rethinking urban education. They will speak about their experiences regarding what is important, the challenges and what's possible! Featured guests include:<br />• Alisa Berger: Principal, NYC iSchool<br />• Sarah Scrogin: Principal, East Bronx Academy for the Future<br />• Gregg Korrol: Principal, PS 101<br />• Julian Cohen: Director, New School Development<br /><br />Teaching Matters will also provide a new and simple assessment tool for gauging where your school lies on a continuum of the 21st century school outcomes. It will help you evaluate your school's readiness and offer a roadmap of ideas for innovation in those areas you deem most critical.<br /><br />This event is free to school leaders who can attend by rsvping to lmorris@teachingmatters.org or calling 2128703505. Wine and cheese will be served and all principals who attend will be eligible to enter a raffle to jump-start a 21st century classroom with: 15 FREE Flip Video Cameras or 5 FREE Netbooks.<br /><br />To get an idea of what happens at these 21st century schools, check out the students at PS 5 in the Port Morris section of the Bronx and their amazing documentary about the history and impact of Nicholas Negroponte’s ground breaking XO pilot project in their school.<br /><br /><object height="339" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x9mj1k"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x9mj1k" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="339" width="420"></embed></object><br /><b><a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x9mj1k">XO Project Documentary - Class 501 - Port Morris School</a></b><br /><i>by <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/jelbin">jelbin</a></i><br /><br />You can read about some innovative schools I’ve had the pleasure of visiting below.<br /><a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2008/05/big-x-and-o-for-olpcs-xos.html">X's & O's for the OLPC XO - A View from the Classroom</a><br /><a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/03/immunization-for-uninteresting.html">Immunization for an Uninteresting Curriculum Found at the iSchool</a><br /><a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2008/06/power-of-21st-century-teaching-and.html">The Power of 21st Century Teaching and Learning Brought to Life at Bronx Middle School CIS 339’s Open House</a><a name="2235955647796956807"></a><br /><a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2008/12/you-can-get-dalton-education-at-nyc.html">You Can Get a Dalton Education at a NYC Public School</a><br /><a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2009/02/bridging-digital-divide-in-nyc.html">Bridging The Digital Divide in NYC</a>, <a href="http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2008/05/science-leadership-academy-lessons.html">Science Leadership Academy – Lessons Learned</a>Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4212335629813774180.post-12369132251252452372009-06-30T22:01:00.000-07:002009-08-03T08:26:11.245-07:00Welcome to Transforming Education for the 21st CenturyThis blog will serve as a forum for 21st century educators to share thoughts, ideas, reflection and feedback on topics of interest to others around the globe who are working to effectively prepare students for the 21st century. If you want to join our core group of New York City Leaders, just comment here and we'll add you as an contributor.Lisa Nielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07759123507185453030noreply@blogger.com1