Thinking Outside the Book: How Digital Texts Can Transform Teaching and Learning

Thinking Outside the Book

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

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Texas
SECTIONA1.AA, Subchapter A, Chapter 31, Education Code,
is amended by adding Section 31.004 to read as follows:

…the district provides each student with textbooks,
electronic textbooks, or instructional materials that cover
all elements of the essential knowledge and skills adopted
by the State Board of Education for that subject and grade
level.

Florida
1082 (1) DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD —The district school board has
1083 the duty to provide adequate instructional materials for all
1084 students in accordance with the requirements of this part. The
1085 term “adequate instructional materials” means a sufficient
1086 number of textbooks or sets of materials that are available in
1087 bound, unbound, kit, or package form and may consist of hard
1088 backed or soft-backed textbooks, consumables, learning
1089 laboratories, manipulatives, electronic media, and computer
1090 courseware or software that serve as the basis for
1091 instruction for each student in the core courses…


Where’s the book?
What if the in
ternet goes d
own?
rt ELL?
ppo
it su
D oe s

It’s digital?
So, no hands-on
What if our activities?
teachers aren’t
ready for this
kind of change?

What
abou
t liter
acy?
ts
l my studen
What if al r?
a compute
don’t have Seriously, where’s the book?


28 states/provinces
1,400 schools
400,000+ students
23,000 teachers


http://www.onlineeducation.net/digital-textbooks

Why?


Why?

What is it?


Why?

What is it?
(What do you want it to be?)


Why?

What is it?
(What do you want it to be?)

How do we make it work?


R U havN trouble rEDN
DIS? iz it makin U :-||,
^set, Grr? DIS iz d way
kds TLK. CreslE. It iz EZ
4 dem. dey luv it. dey
luv it mo wen U spk thR
lngwij. @ lEst a ltl bit.


Are you having trouble
reading this? Is it making
you mad, upset, angry?
This is the way kids talk.
Seriously. It is easy for
them. They love it. They
love it more when you
speak their language. At
least a little bit.


"The inventor or introducer of the system deserves to be ranked
among the best contributors to learning and science,
if not among the greatest benefactors of mankind."


1809

Without my SMART board
I am a boring teacher.


What is text?


http://thankstextbooks.tumblr.com

Context embedded Context reduced

Cognitively undemanding Cognitively undemanding

Talking on the playground Talking on the phone

Context embedded Context reduced

Cognitively demanding Cognitively demanding

Using manipulatives to Lectures about abstract
solve a word problem concepts

Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) vs. Cognitive Academic Language Proﬁciency (CALP) (Jim Cummins)


What do you want it to be?


Or...


Platform agnostic


Platform agnostic

Cost effective


Platform agnostic

Cost effective

Works with any
technology set up


Accessible
24/7


Support different
learning styles


Current


Embedded
assessment

Hands-On
Digital


Meets students where
they are ready to learn


Professional
Development


Changes the paradigm

The Shift
Informational larger than literature
50% of text read should be
informational by 4th grade
55% by 8th grade
70% by 11th grade

Career and college ready

Writing, Reading, Media and
Arguments


At the Core

Getting to Know
Complex texts
eBooks
Range of disciplines
Reading Passages

Wide-ranging
Interactive glossary
vocabulary

Self-directed Assignments

Seeking out resources
Student Center
to assist them


Engage

Elaborate Evaluate Explore

Explain


Parent advocates

Franklin Community
Schools, IN
Grades 1-8
116 teachers
3,036 students

Parent decision for adoption
Custer of computers in each
classroom

Parent advocates

Not a technology initiative



Center Grove, IN
Grades 3-8
83 teachers
3,586 students

Pilot in 2010 - teachers drove decision
CG went against board’s decision to purchase
1:1 in grades 3-5 and have laptop carts in 6-8
PD is focused on instructional strategy



Center Grove, IN
Grades 3-8
83 teachers
3,586 students

Pilot in 2010 - teachers drove decision
CG went against board’s decision to purchase
1:1 in grades 3-5 and have laptop carts in 6-8
PD is focused on instructional strategy

Ridgeﬁeld, CT
Grades 6-8
15 teachers
1324 students

BYOD


Community

Mansﬁeld, TX

Grades 5-8
9,942 students
107 teachers

Collier, FL

K-8
30 ES
11 MS
29,641 students
1,130 teachers

Community

DiscoveryEducation.com
http://tinyurl.com/BeyondTT
lance_rougeux@discovery.com


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