The document outlines a professional development program called Digital Destinations in History for teachers in New York City Community School Districts 24 and 28. The goals of the program are to improve student achievement in English Language Arts by training teachers to integrate technology and project-based learning into the social studies curriculum. Over the three-year program, teachers will learn to use technology as an instructional tool and to develop student projects that reinforce reading, writing, and critical thinking skills. Students will conduct research using various sources and technology and present their findings in multimedia formats.

1. NEW YORK CITY
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Saturday Face-to-Face Educational Technology Joel I. Klein, Chancellor The Office of Educational
Institute Sessions Technology
PARTICIPANT5 MUST ATTEND THE 3 DAY PBL INSTITUTE,
ORIENTATION AND ALL SIX SESSIONS BELOW TO FULFILL
THE GOALS OF THE GRANT.
Enhancing Education through
Participants must attend: Technology (EETT) funded Title
IID Program Digital Destinations
10/15 Orientation
11/15 Livescribe Day I in History
12/3 Livescribe Day II
1/7 Livescribe Day III
1/28 PBL Planning Day
Title IID Program September
2/23-2/24 PBL (participants + teachers in Title IID Queens Office of Educational 2009 through December 2012
participating schools)
4/21 Technology Fair Planning Day Technology 82-01 Rockaway
6/9 Technology Fair Boulevard Ozone Park, NY
*Workshops/dates are subject to change 11416
Optional Webinars:
11/16- Advanced Blogging
12/14 Graphic Novels
2/8 Creating Tutorials with Screenjelly Contact: Winnie Bracco
3/14 Question and Answer Day
Technology Innovation Manager
Optional Mid-winter Recess Institute:
2/20 + 2/21 iPad training Wbracco@schools.nyc.gov
Madeline Taub-Chan
Community Superintendent CSD 24
Jeannette Reed
Community Superintendent CSD 28
* Training Rate paid to participants- subject
to funding
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Goal
The ultimate goal of the DDIH Program is to improve
Digital Destinations in History (DDIH) - is an
academic performance in ELA by enhancing teachers’
intensive professional development program that
abilities to effectively infuse technology into their Social
focuses on improving student achievement in ELA by
Studies instruction. Throughout the three-year cycle,
integrating project based learning and technology into
the DDIH program will train teachers to infuse
the Social Studies curriculum. DDIH serves the goals
technology into authentic, interdisciplinary projects that
of the Enhancing Education Through Technology
develop students’ Social Studies content knowledge and
theme, “Technology Infusion into Instruction through
build critical ELA skills — including reading
Professional Development,” by empowering educa-
comprehension, writing and critical thinking skills. This
tors to engage students in interdisciplinary projects
project will provide to support teachers in all
that develop writing, critical thinking, and problem receive professional development using multi-
environments, to include working with students with
solving skills. The DDIH program aims to train
special needs in an integrated collaborative team teaching
teachers to use technology as both an instructional
(ICTT) environment. For each consecutive year of the
tool for the Social Studies curriculum and as a way to develop and strengthen their collaboration with other
program, it is proposed that 80% of target students will
reinforce fundamentals. Social Studies teachers while integrating
achieve at least one year of growth on their scale score of technology into instruction to advance ELA skills.
the NYS ELA exam.
Twenty four New York City public and twenty incorporate the project-based learning process
non-public schools within Community School Districts 24 within their content area and use technology to
and 28 will be participating. enhance research and writing skills .
collaborate and use a variety of virtual community
District 24
tools, such as email, blogs, wikis, the web portal
and synchronous communications
IS 5, PS 12, PS 14, PS 19, IS 61, IS 73, IS 77, IS 89, PS 91, IS Technology Infusion
93, IS 125, PS 153, Grover Cleveland HS, Newtown HS,
Queens Vocational HS Students will conduct research by reading
literature, historical fiction, biographies and use
District 28 primary sources around selected topics. Through
the use of technology students will incorporate
their non-fiction writing into multimedia
PS 30, PS 54, IS 72, IS 144, IS 157, IS 217, Queens
presentations using graphics, audio files and video.
Academy HS, Forest Hills HS, Jamaica HS
Culminating projects will be collected in
Non-Public Schools e-portfolios with student reflections of the
project-based learning process and their under- The Office of Educational Technology
St. Raphael School, Resurrection Ascension School, Sacred standing of the specific content. OET provides innovative solutions to
Heart School, Razi School, St. John Lutheran School, transform teaching effectiveness,
Redeemer Lutheran School, Martin Luther HS, Bnos Malka
Teachers and school leaders will receive on-going
correlation to core standards, and
Academy, Bais Yaakov Academy, Tiferes Torah Institute, academic rigor.
professional development — face-to-face and online
Machon Academy, Our Lady of Mercy, Al-Mamoor School, and in-school mentoring support. Workshops will
Al-Iman School, Shaaraei Zion Ohel Bracha, Our Lady take place throughout the year to allow for teacher
Sorrows, St. Adalbert, Yesheiva Tifereth Moshe, Yeshivat experimentation and online collaboration using re-
Our Haim, St. Nicholas of Tolentine cently learned content between sessions.