Slideshow on technology in the curriculum

1. Nowhere is Tech More
Important Than in a
Curriculum: Here’s Why
Source: eschoolnews.com
Author: Eric Westendorf
Published: August 9, 2017
https://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/08/09/tech-important-
curriculum/

2. Textbooks versus Personalized Learning
● Is it possible for technology to provide a more even
playing field for learning experiences than traditional
textbooks?
● The general model for education involves using the
physical textbook to provide a base for the curriculum
● New technology allows additions like PDF, digital
materials, and graphic options

3. Evergreen
● Evergreen Public Schools are using technology to provide
a more consistent learning experience
● They have changed how to look at and create a curriculum
● Quality education needs tools that work with their
curricular goals and their technological investments
● New one-to-one technology investment

4. In this curriculum…
Quality education through technology means the tool needs to:
● Be easily communicated and distributed to schools, teachers, and students
● Be quickly accessed across devices
● Provide an adaptive and flexible resource that can change with needs of
students
● Support students and teachers in a variety of classroom settings
● Help measure learning to empower teachers and school leaders to track
success and adjust accordingly

5. Limitations with the Traditional Textbook
● Might not always capture the particular needs of a
district
○ Customization could be helpful, but textbook does not allow this
● Teachers might not always use the textbook to plan their
instruction
● It may not speak to the needs of every child in the
classroom

6. Curriculum as a Service (CaaS)
● CaaS changes curriculum from a static, paper-based
product to an adaptable, cloud-based service
● Powered by technology and human expertise rather than
strictly static materials like textbooks
○ And their correlated worksheets, questions, recommendations,
assessments etc.
● Provides a better tool for consistency

7. CaaS
Perks of CaaS include a combination of:
● A cloud-based platform that enables districts to edit, author, curate and
publish dynamic and adaptive instructional materials and track their
impact
● Digital content that provides districts with a starting point of high-
quality materials
● Professional services that provide guidance on how to strategically manage
classrooms, guide student learning, and track impact

8. Brazil Using CaaS
● Brazil is adding new national standards of 21st century
knowledge
● Teachers all over the country have access to materials
through support from Nova Escola and Google
● Makes high quality materials available to all teachers

9. Highlights
● Textbooks do not provide the resources that technology
can
● Schools in Evergreen and Brazil embrace CaaS
● CaaS changes curriculum from a static, paper-based
product to an adaptable, cloud-based service
● This allows more flexible learning for different kinds of
teachers and students

10. Pitfalls
● Online learning has to avoid one size fits all
ramifications
● Students need to be able to understand hard book
resources and be able to read and understand novels off
the screen

11. My Opinion
● Technology can provide lots of new options to help
students with different learning needs
● 21st century knowledge and technology capability is
important
● However, we have to avoid evolving to one size fits all
technology capability in the classroom
● I still believe in integrating hard book sources

12. Questions for the Audience
● What is your opinion on integrating technology into the
curriculum?
● What benefits do you see to integrating one to one
education through technology?
● What problems do you see with integrating said
technology?