What the Best U.S. Principals do to Support Education Technology

Changing Cultures: How U.S. School Leaders Support ICT Justin Reich EdTechTeacher.org Co-Director Harvard Graduate School of Education Doctoral Researcher Berkman Center for Internet and Society Fellow

Four Strategies for School Leaders
Answer the Why Change question?
Be the change you want to see
Empower teachers as Edupreneurs
Create the vision, Immerse teachers as learners
BONUS!!: Two specific suggestions for guiding teachers

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U.S. Ed Policy, PD, and ICT – 14,000 independent school districts – 50 sets of state standards – Teacher education curriculum unique to every university. – Professional development unique to every district – Technology investments devoid of learning goals.

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Collaborative Learning

Self-Directed Learning Collaborative Learning

Technical Change vs. Adaptive Change Does promoting SDL and CoL require the application of well-established procedures and technical skills? Or does it require a paradigm shift in culture, values and mindset (along with a shift in procedures and technical skills)? Ron Heifetz, The Work of Leadership , http://mowgli.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/laurie-jump-off-balcony-leadership.pdf

Why Change?

Wave #1: Computers and the Labor Market

Skills for 21 st Century Work and Life: The New Division of Labor Richard J. Murnane Harvard Graduate School of Education

Computerizing Routine Tasks: Self-Service Check-In

Types of Tasks Computers Do Not Well
Tasks that cannot be described well as a series of if-then-do steps because:
The boundaries of the problem are ill-defined
Solving the problem requires imagining novel solutions
We learn to define the task and accomplish it through social interactions

Economy-Wide Measures of Routine and Non-Routine Task Input: 1969-1998 (1969=0)

Changes in Task Mix Within Occupations: Example: Secretary
1970 description of a secretary’s job:
“ Secretaries relieve their employers of routine duties so they can work on more important matters. . . .”
2000 description of a secretary’s job:
“ . . . Office automation and organizational restructuring have led secretaries to assume a wide range of new responsibilities once reserved for managerial and professional staff. Many secretaries now provide training and orientation to new staff, conduct research on the Internet, and learn to operate new office technologies.”
Source: U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Handbook

A Homework Question
Examine the homework that teachers in your school typically assign:
Does the homework push students to develop expert thinking skills (non-routine problem solving)
What about communication skills?
Or does the homework ask students to do the kind of rules-based tasks that computers can be programmed to do?
The answer may tell you a lot about the types of jobs your school is preparing students to do.

It’s the hardest work I ever undertaken in my career. We’re trying to effect change in scale, and we have to “play on two playing fields” at once. We’re still being judged by the criteria for “Adequate Yearly Progress” and state accountability standards, while we are holding ourselves to a much higher standard. We have to succeed at both. It’s hard work, but it’s the right work to be doing. - Jim Merrill, Superintendent of Virginia Beach Public Schools (in Wagner, Global Achievement Gap)

Be the Change you Wish to See in the World

I’m talking to the Man in the Mirror, I’m asking him to make that change.

http://pwoessner.com/2008/12/15/21st-century-literacy-network-literacy/

Are you connected?

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Expert Structured / Guided Participant Structured / Unguided Formal Online Courses/ Programs: ICT Mentors WIDE World PBS Teacherline Personal Learning Networks Facilitated Individual Classroom 2.0 NCSS Network Ning ETT Webinars ISTE Webinars “ Self-catered” Twitter chats Blogging RSS Readers

Twitter Chats
#edchat- Education broadly
#ntchat- New teachers chat
#cpchat- Connected Principals
#sschat- History and social studies
http://cybraryman.com/chats.html
The ultimate guide to twitter chats

Diigo- Social Bookmarking

Diigo Groups

Ning Social Networks
EdTechTeacher
Classroom 2.0
English Companion
Making Curriculum Pop
NCSS Network Ning

Webinars
EdTechTeacher Webinar Series
ISTE Webinar Series
Powerful Learning Practice Webinar Series

Empower your teachers as Edupreneurs

Cycle of Experiment and Experience Fear - Growth + Institutional Capacity + Experiment Review (Experience) Plan

Nurturing Eduprenuers
Provide access to hardware
Provide time for planning and co-planning
Provide motivation for experimentation
Provide protection from the consequences of mistakes and failures
Celebrating and showcasing successful projects and lessons

Create the Vision, Immerse your Faculty

Sharing Practice
Lesson Observations
Lesson Study
Lesson Plan Sharing
Video Evaluation

Teaching for the 21 st century program Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. April. May. Face to Face : Skills Focus Face to Face : Reflection Focus Face to Face : Leadership Focus Asynchronous Online Course: Free tools for collaboration and media production Asynchronous Online Course: Idea Garden: Exemplars of 21 st Century Learning T-21 Webinar T-21 Webinar EdTechTeacher Webinar Series

EdTechTeacher.org

Teaching History with Technology THWT.org

BONUS ROUND!

Important to Understand Difficult to Teach and Learn Technology Provides Advantage Focus Technology on a Target of Difficulty

ICT in Lessons vs. ICT in Units/Project

Leadership
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