Week+3+Summary

//How can administrators support the growing need to prepare students with the necessary 21st century skills to be successful digital citizens?
 * Week 3 Summary**
 * Please add any comments to the summary below in a different color ink, and initial your response.**
 * **Topics** || **21st century skills:**

How can school administrators more closely align local curriculum goals and objectives to state educational technology standards or NETS for Students?

How do you see the three sets of NETS working together?

As a school leader, how would you motivate teachers to use and become proficient in the NETS?// || **web 2.0 tools:** //How can Web: 2.0 tools in general be used to support curriculum goals and deliver curriculum?

What are some benefits and potential challenges to using these applications in curriculum delivery and implementation?// || · All 3 NETs have a positive cause/effect relationship · Inservices framed around learning outcomes rather than how to use a new tech tool is wanted · Use tech tools to aid in collaboration and cooperative learning · Technology and NETS are often resisted due to a fear of not understanding and of losing control · The three NETS work together by establishing a digital learning community/culture in schools. · Student knowledge of technology surpasses that of teachers, parents · Keeping updated equipment can be a problem in schools · Too many NETs to focus on, best to choose a few at a time and do them well · 21st century skills are not just tech skills · Write one set of standards that include NETs but does not identify them as such · When administrators demonstrate that they are lifelong learners and willing to take risks, staff are more encouraged to follow suit. Administrators must support professional development for teachers to assist them with shifting their teaching practices to be more student centered. · incorporating the NETS for students through performance-based assessments in content areas= positive effects || · Web 2.0 tools should not be restricted to instruction: the integration of technology into the professional development, teacher communication, and community collaboration plans will also indirectly improve curriculum delivery. · Challenge: lack of appropriate or enough technology in every class to be effective, the resistance of those to adopt and use various digital tools, and the lack of time to truly integrate Web 2.0 tools · If we are following the NETs, web 2.0 tools are more likely to be used · PD needed · Proper authorization needed to use certain 2.0 tools in content areas · Benefits: collaboration with teachers, more communication globally, cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures, better to solve problems and ways to analyze and evaluate materials and lesson plans. Reports would be better and easier to access. · 2.0 tools can be used to post assignments, act as a place for collaboration among students and teachers for feedback, edits, recommendations; they are good for the environment · Require work be turned in via Google docs · Challenges: -Teacher buy-in and PD -Parental control - teaching transferable tech skills rather than specific tools · 2.0 tools allow for expression of self · Increase students’ communication skills, allow for collaboration, support critical thinking, increase problem solving efforts and **//can be used to teach ethical behavior.//** · Some sites may disappear or their content is no longer supported · Web 2.0 is fundamentally built upon interaction. That is what distinguishes it from Web 1.0. · Students crave technology · Use a WIKI for teachers to collaborate on how to use web 2.0 tools · Less threatening environment for students to collaborate · Using texting when students do not have Internet access || · How can we know students are working on what they are supposed, how can we insure students are using the tools as they are instructed, how can we give students a sense of self-leadership and responsibility without giving up some of that ourselves? · Did we learn 21st century skills in school or on our own, somehow? · I wonder if awareness of technology and the NETS are components of an interview when and administrator is hired? Is it a focus of a school district when they are looking for a strong leader? ||  || Suggested Literacy adoption cycle (B Grey): @http://bengrey.com/blog/literacymodelexample.jpg
 * ** Key points ** || · Need to increase awareness in schools by changing dialogue
 * ** Unanswered questions ** || · From parents (unasked questions): "how are your students using technology to learn?" and, "how are the students at your school connecting to the world?"
 * ** Other support ** || **Digital Lit Link:** [|http://www.newliteracies.uconn.edu]

Wordle (M Krill): @http://img.skitch.com/20100123-ktywe6i2epyfjb2k9a53594gcs.jpg || http://www.spellingcity.com (B Burke)

(Developing Digital Learning Spaces: From Vision to Reality) (M Krill)

Big Huge Labs (flickr)

@http://bengrey.com/blog/2009/06/web-20-a-synthetically-organic-nomenclature/ (B Grey) || · What is your definition of digital literacy? · Do you believe there are any skills specific to the 21st century (i.e. ones that did not exist in the 20th century)? · Sh/Could NETS-T be part of a teacher’s evaluation? · Aligning NETs to curriculum=engaged students. Don’t let 2nd grade students surpass the technology use of HS students! · How often do we teach PowerPoint for the sake of teaching PPT? We should look at books like Presentation Zen and teach students specific skills of communication and allow PPT to be but the conduit. · “21st century skills” are actually timeless skills; many see the title as disingenuous. · Applying a part versus a whole is a historical problem in education and ed discourse. Both Joseph Schwab and John Dewey were upset to see their principles applied in a fragmented fashion. I think this often the case with Bloom's Taxonomy and the newer Bloom's Digital Taxonomy · Lisa B: “I almost always start PD workshops with a Wordle. I have used it for vision statements, team norms, and introduction to RtI. How else have you (pl.) used Wordle? Or how do you envision using it in the future?” || * quality control and potential liabilities issues
 * **Additional “think abouts”** || · "imagine if parents came to talk to admin about Web 2.0 as much as they did for standardized tests"
 * “We don't want to create a future of isolated people living their lives in front of computers without having shared social, cultural, and career related experiences.” (S Spissu)
 * “1st grade students using a wiki for their vocabulary work by creating a class glossary of terms where the students add images to represent a word. They also add to a list of phoneme themes together and with the help of parents at home. We've also had 3rd grade students create podcasts and post them on a teacher's page in the past.” (B Grey)


 * “…we have middle school students that want to use their own equipment (iPod Touch), but we don't allow them access to the wireless.” (M Krill) ||
 * //I sound like Lisa, but I learned so much from you all while completing this assignment, and your posts are just further proof that you are so smart and passionate about your work and ideas. Thank you for being such awesome classmates!! –T Diehl//**

Ha ha ha! How funny, I was thinking the same thing while I was reading this! This is, indeed, an incredible group of talented professionals. Please know that I really do try to combine my candor with kindness when providing feedback. I may upset you from time to time, but please know that my intention is always to make the program practical and useful beyond the cohort years. I wanted to provide you a link to my old spelling city page since Beth pointed it out above... this is truly a terrific tool for literacy. I was introduced to math tv at the Google Teacher Academy and would like to pass it along to you. [] - check this out if you teach math! [] If you click on the lesson, you can see the resources available. In the past, I used this site with my Etymology students, and I kept it "live" for the Etymology teacher this year. Thank you all for such a wonderful week! Teresa, this is an excellent summary. Thank you so much :) Have a great day, Lisa