John Lake has been working on technology integration projects over the past 3 years. The document discusses three orders of change related to technology integration: literacy, adapting, and transforming. It emphasizes the importance of focusing on student learning outcomes and using technology to support higher-order thinking. Challenges to technology integration are addressed, as well as tools that can be used and next steps to continue progressing integration efforts.

1. John Lake’s
Technology/
Project Journey
Over 3 years

2. Realtime Board
http://realtimeboard.com/app
Libguide:
http://elementarylibguides.sps
d.sk.ca/johnlake

3. Points to Consider around
Technology
There are 3 Orders of Change
 First Order Change – LITERACY - Efforts, Doing,
Optional, Volunteerism, Quantitative
 This is the WHATEVER phase – do anything, just
DO something!
Consider:
 If we had something, what would we have?
 If we did have stuff, what would we measure?

4. Second Order Change
ADAPTING
 Second order Change – Results geared,
Learning Targets evident, Pervasive,
Everyone GOES!!
 Projects are connected to learning but
with broad goals

5. Are we
doing
the
same
thing
but with
a
different
tool??

7. Third Order Change
TRANSFORMING
 Third order – Hard to achieve, and MUST
be data driven
 Technology is INTEGRATED across the
curriculum
What level do you feel you are at?
What level is your current staff at?
What could you do in your current position
to help others move forward?

8. Technology is only
technology if it is
new….

9. The ‘smart’ kids today are the ones that are able
to sift/process information quickly and make
meaning from it - - not the kids that can repeat it

10. What to Consider When
Forming Essential Questions to
Drive Inquiry Based Projects?
 Need to create specific, measurable
outcomes from curriculum around LEARNING
Consider:
 What do you want the student to be able to
do/show you?
 Are you creating efforts goals or results goals?
 What would you measure? Are you counting
the doings or considering the RESULT of the
doing?

11. Key Ideas
 Remember the HEAT (Higher order thinking,
Engaged Students, Authentic Tasks,
Technology Uses)
 Must be outcome driven
 We need to ask ourselves what we expect
students to learn/show us/be able to do from
these outcomes
 Always consider LAT (LITERACY, ADAPTING
AND TRANSFORMING) and how it relates to
HEAT

12. HEAT RUBRIC
http://slitech.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/are-you-
turning-up-the-h-e-a-t-in-your-classroom/
http://coachingheat.wikispaces.com/home

13. Four Main Goal Categories
 Technology Efforts (counting the doings)
 Techology Results (what’s going to
happen)
 Learning Efforts
 Learning Results
KEYWORDS: LEARNING and STUDENTS

14. Trend - 2010
 Our goals around technology (in our
system) – 80% tech efforts, 10% tech
results, 10% learning efforts
 Shift towards – 67% Learning Results – 19%
Tech Efforts, 14% Tech results
 Where is your levels at?
 What about your school/staff?

15. Multiple Intelligences
Premise: All students can learn and achieve
outcomes - - just may need a different path and
TECHNOLOGY can assist with that
DI – Differentiated
Instruction
The person doing the most is learning the most

17. Challenges
 Allstaff on board and open to change
 Survey of self and classroom needs
 Wish lists
 TIME
 Technology not working
 Difficulties with support

18. Direction
 Learning Driven goals/outcomes - -
choose to have our students be meaning
makers THEN media makers
 Students are Producers not simply
consumers

19. Consider…
 Everyone is at a different starting point - -
honour that point and do our best to
support them to move to next level
 Take their strengths and move forward
with those in mind
 Everyone completes one project
(minimum) that has a strong essential
question driving work

20. Wallwisher,
Permissions, pirate pad,
best place todays meet,
to show, is anchor charts,
the learning Inspiration,
shown, bubble.us
blogs
Databases,
advanced search,
digital footprint,
copyright, skype,
various cited
sources
Feedback tools
(pmi chart), self-
assessments,
checklists
Word, google docs,
Spellchecker, word storyboards,
tools, check ins, organizers
feedback

21. Projects
 Weather around the world
 Healthy Living, Good choices PSA’s
 Book Trailers
 Digital Stories
 Infographics
 Puppet projects
 Counting Books
**The project is transformational/ technology is
useful l if something is being created/displayed
that CAN’T be done otherwise**

22. Tools used to reach outcomes
in Projects
 PSA’s – i-movie, windows movie maker,
animoto
 Infographics -
 Explaining thinking – audacity, educreations,
podcasts, videos
 Explaining learning – slideshare, prezi, comic
life, glogster
 Today’s Meets, wallwisher, organizers
 Various online tools (bubble.us)
 MANY MORE

23. Blogs
 http://elementarylibguides.spsd.sk.ca/johnlake
Grade K-2 – Main Page –
Theresa Dolgopol’s blog
Grade 6-8 – Main Page – Mitch Lowe’s
Blog

24. Biggest challenges:
Choosing best tool for the
purpose
Feeling comfortable to open
projects up for students to use
more than one tool
TIME

25. Next Steps - Discoveries
 We get tired of using technology - -
balance needed
 Continue to focus on covering outcomes
with technology integrated
 Explore best uses of our technology
 Collaborate more with other groups
outside of our school/board
 BLOGS (wider audience)

26. You never know
how far you’ve
travelled until you
stop, turn around,
and take a look
back.