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The Role of
Technology in
Schools
Singapore Learning Institute
Lucy Gray
Center for Urban School
Improvement
The University of Chicago
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Greetings! 2
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The Context
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+ The Connected Student
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A World is Flat
We can no longer compete
in the global marketplace as
in the past. Outsourcing is
the economical choice of
corporations.
Ingenuity and creativity will
be valued in tomorrow’s
workforce.
Most of the jobs our
students will have do not
exist today.
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A Whole New Mind
Design – creative,
engaging, beautiful
Story – high-concept, high-
touch
Symphony – synthesis,
big-picture
Empathy – relationships
Play – games, humor, but
still serious
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The 21st Century Student
Connected in innovative and new ways 7
New Connections New Communities New Content
Connected Individuals Virtual Communities Collaborative Communities
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Millennials Want to Learn…
With technology
With one another
Online
In their time
In their place
Doing things that matter
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Transformational Learning 10
Classrooms are using
technologies that are:
Personal
Powerful
Pervasive
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Tools 11
Blogs Google Tools
Wikis Social
Podcasts Networks
Photosharing Simulations
Chat Virtual Reality
Video
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Blogs
individual web-based journals 12
Types Examples
From the The MUS
Cool Cat
Teacher/Admin Principal’s Lower School
Teacher Blog
Desk Blog
Consumer Collaboration
Student Newly Ancient
Math Class Nation
Professional Dangerously
Weblogged ITM
Development Irrelevant
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Wikis
collaborative web pages 13
Type Examples
Educational AWNM 50 Ways to Tell
Teacher/Admin
Wikis Liveblogging A Story
Global
Student 6th Grade CS Flat Classroom
Collaborations
Alabama Best School
Professional Digital Native
Practice Computing
Development Wiki
Center Wiki
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Media Sharing
web-based tools for organizing & publishing 14
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.
Knuffle Bunny K-20 Educators
VoiceThread Gross’s
Stories Exploring SL
Students
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Google
online collaborative software 15
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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Beyond Our Imaginations
Other technologies 17
Groups in Second Quest Atlantis
Life The River City
ISTE Project
Discovery
Education
Second Life Teen
Grid
Skoolaborate
Global Kids
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Participatory Pedagogy
Misc. Programs 18
Digital Youth Network
Science Leadership Academy
Generation YES
Flat Classroom Project
MoLLIE
The School at Columbia
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A Final Thought 19
“... if we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our
children of tomorrow.”
-John Dewey
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School: http://www.usi-schools.org/nkoelem/
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Blog: http://lucygray.org
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