NCSEA Meeting
The Winds of Change:
Emergent Technologies
in Education
Lucy Gray
The Center for Urban School Improvement
The University of Chicago
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Today’s Agenda
10:45-11:00 AM Welcome & Introductions
11:00-12:00 Learning 2.0: Emergent Technology
Examples
12:00-12:30 Table Questions & Call Outs
12:30-1:30 Break for Lunch
1:30-2:30 The Digital Divide & Table Discussions
2:30-3:15 Implications Discussion & Sharing Out
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What do you think?
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“... if we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our
children of tomorrow.”
-John Dewey
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Trends, Hotspots, &
Dilemmas
Gen Y Attributes
Unbundled Education
Participatory Pedagogy
Personal Digital Media
Media-Savvy Youth
Technologies of Cooperation
Media Rich Pervasive Learning
Integrating Digital Natives and
Digital Immigrants
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Learning 2.0
Society Today: Influential Buzz Words
Attributes of Today’s Kids
Emergent Technologies: Technologies of
Cooperation and Collaboration
Digital Schools and Programs: Participatory
Pedagogy
Policy for Tomorrow
The Digital Divide
Critical Questions
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Influential Buzz Words
The World is Flat
A Whole New Mind
NCLB
Web 2.0
21st Century Skills
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
American Association of Librarians
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Evidence
Pew Internet & American Life Project
NetDay Speak Up Day
NSBA Report: Creating and
Connecting
Grunwald Associates: Kids’ Social
Networking Study - more detailed
than NSBA; available for purchase
SETDA - Maximizing the Impact
Report
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Summary of Pew Findings
93% of 12 to 17 year olds use the
internet
87% of parents are online
73% of families have high-speed
internet access
89% of online teens have access at
home
75% have internet access at school
51% of online teens go online every
day
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Summary of Pew Findings
75% have internet access at school
51% of online teens go online every
day
94% of online kids use the internet
for school research
41% of online students use email or
instant messaging to talk to teachers
and classmates about school work
18% of online students know
someone who has cheated
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Today’s Teen - Born 1990
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First Grade - 1996
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Fourth Grade - 1999
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Middle School - 2001-2003
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High School - 2004
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Sophomore year - 2005
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Junior Year - 2005-2006
More than 100 million accounts
created
Third most popular site in the U.S
after Yahoo and Google
55% of online teens use social
networking sites
55% of these kids have posted a
profile
Of those who use social networking
sites, 48% visit these sites at least
once a day
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Senior Year - 2007
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Pew did not include...
Twitter
Pownce
Gaming
Email
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According to the Pew
Report...
4 Key Teen Realities:
Teens are technology-rich and enveloped by a
wired world.
Mobile gadgets allow them to enjoy media and
communicate anywhere
Teens know that ordinary citizens can be
publishers, movie makers, artists, song creators,
and story tellers
Teens are multimedia multi-taskers.
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NetDay SpeakUp Survey
Known as Project Tomorrow-NetDay
Top devices for K-12 students: computers, cell
phones and video game players
Top concerns: spam, digital access equity, online
cheating
Students want schools to relax rules about
email, IM, cellphone and online use and to
consider laptops for home and school use.
54% of middle schoolers have outside online
friends and most have never met face-to-face
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NetDay - Parents
Over 50% of parents are 2/3 of the parents are not
satisfied with the amount of satisfied with the priority
technology at their child’s placed on technology use at
school and the online safety their school, the amount of
protections in place time their child spends using
technology at school and how
A majority of parents (52%)
well technology is integrated
do not believe that their
into core academic subjects.
child’s school is doing a good
job of preparing their child to
compete for jobs and careers
of the 21st century
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NetDay - Teachers
Over 50% say technology Teachers use computers for
affects the quality of housekeeping tasks
teaching, lesson planning and Only 28% has used email as a
student engagement regular communication tool
75% say the use of with students, but 79% have
technology has increased communicated electronically
student achievement and with parents.
performance 47% of teachers believe that
Time is the biggest obstacle their school is doing a good
to tech integration job of preparing students for
the 21st century
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Technologies of
Cooperation
Web 2.0 is....
Personal
Powerful
Pervasive
Web 2.0... The Machine is Using Us
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Tools
Blogs Google Tools
Wikis Social
Networks
Podcasts
Simulations
Photosharing
Virtual Reality
Chat
Video
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Blogs
usually an individual journal
Types Examples
Cool Cat From the The MUS Lower
Teacher/Admin
Teacher Blog Principal’s Desk School Blog
Consumer Math Collaboration
Student Newly Ancient
Class Nation
Professional Dangerously
Weblogged ITM
Development Irrelevant
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Cool Cat Teacher
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The Infinite Thinking Machine
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Weblogged
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Wikis
used for collaborative work
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Wiki Examples
Type Examples
Educational 50 Ways to Tell A
Teacher/Admin Shift Happens
Wikis Story
6th Grade
Global
Student Computer Flat Classroom
Collaborations
Science
Alabama Best
Professional Digital Native School
Practice
Development Wiki Computing Wiki
Center
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Media Sharing
web-based tools for organizing & publishing
Audio
(podcasts)
Photos
Videos
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Media Sharing Examples
Tools Examples
iTunes iTunes U Coulee Kids Room 208
Map of Best Word Merode
Flickr
Migrations Book Ever Altarpiece
YouTube Did You Know? TEDTalks Women in Art
Poems by Ms. K-20
Knuffle Bunny
VoiceThread Gross’s Educators
Stories
Students Exploring SL
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Did You Know?
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Chat
communicating with audio, video, and text
Sightspeed Skype
Twitter Flashmeeting
eCamm software
uStream.tv
iChat AV Many other tools....
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Google
online collaborative software
Tools Examples
Summer Teacher Google Lit
Google Earth
Tomatoes Project Trips
Docs & Scavenger Palo Alto High Alex Ragone’s
Spreadsheets Hunt School Skype Preso
Mrs. Gray’s Elementary
Custom Search Global Voices
Sites Language Arts
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Simulations & Virtual
Reality
Second Life
ISTE
Discovery Education
Global Kids
Second Life Teen Grid
Skoolaborate
Quest Atlantis
The River City
Project
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MySpace
Facebook
Ning
Orkut
Club Penguin
Imbee
Webkinz
Whyville
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Social Networks
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Social Networking - Pew
Web pages where people post information about
themselves, connect with others and share media
55% of online teens using social networking site
Older girls are more likely to engage in these
sites
Teens are increasingly savvy about privacy issues
32% of teens say that they have been contacted
by strangers - 23% of these were uncomfortable
32% report have experienced cyberbullying
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NSBA/Grunwald
Associates Report
9 to 17 year olds spend just about the same
amount of time on SN as on TV
96% have accessed some sort of SN
technologies; 71% use it weekly
School is a frequent topic of conversation despite
schools banning SN
“Explosive growth” in student authoring
Schools have extensive rules against social
networking and are leery of the label.
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NSBA, continued
Nonconformists are student leaders, producers
of content, and users of new media.
Families report few problems with unwelcome
encounters and cyberbullying than “school fears
and policies seem to imply.”
There’s a discrepancy in perceptions. 52% of
districts say their students have a problem with
providing personal info; 3% of kids report ever
giving out personal info to strangers
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Participatory Pedagogy
Rethinking Bloom’s Taxonomy
Schools & Programs
Digital Youth Network
Science Leadership Academy
Generation YES
Flat Classroom Project
MoLLIE
The School at Columbia
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Digital Youth Network
MacArthur funded intiative
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THE
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Benefits & Pitfalls
Personalized learning
Ubiquitous computing
OLPC
Censorship
Teacher Asssesment
Research
What else can you think of?
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Implications for the Future
How do you assess 21st Century Skills?
How can we prepare our students for 21st
Century life if our teachers are not ready
themselves?
How do we craft an “elevator pitch” for
administrators to bring to constituents?
How do we protect students without
censorship?
How do we address digital citizenship in schools?
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For Discussion
What surprised you?
What challenged your thinking?
What new connections are you making?
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The Digital Divide
Digital Immigrants vs. Digital Natives
Teachers & Students
Research & Implications
Solutions
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Eszter Hargittai
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For Discussion
What are the implications for our advocacy
work? (i.e. teacher quality, accountability, student
achievement, GAPS)
What are the implications for our teaching and
learning working?
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Final Reflections
In the context of what you have heard and
discussed, and looking to the future, how does
your state association maintain and increase its
relevancy and effectiveness for our members?
In the context of what you have heard and
discussed, and looking to the future, how does
the NEA maintain and increase its relevancy and
effectiveness for our members?
What are the implications for how we work with
various stakeholders and partners? (media,
parents, community groups, decision makers etc.)
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“Fifty years hence we may
well conclude that there
was no ‘crisis in education’
in the closing of the 20th
century-- there was only a
growing incongruence
between the way 20th
century schools taught and
the way 21st century
children learned.”
-Peter Drucker
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