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- 3. Hillside High School is 62% State Average is 92% Graduation Rates
- 5. District vs. State Spending Why are our students continuing to struggle?
- 6. Limited Student Engagement A recent staff survey identified limited engagement as the main factor impacting achievement (even more than behavior)
- 7. Is Technology… Our Biggest Problem Our Best Solution
- 8. Chromebooks will… • Not Cost any additional Money (We already have them) • We spent $257 for each Chromebook plus a $30 management fee. • We have approximately 2500 Chromebooks in district.
- 9. • Will Not Cost any additional Money (We already have them) • Through budgeting and a technology grant from the state of NJ… EVERY CLASSROOM in the district now has a SMART Board! Hippopota-Math • Say “Hi Mark!” • Mark Loves the SMART Board • Math-phobic • SMART technology helped us help Mark find and use his strengths. • No additional costs • Only additional options
- 10. Results?
- 11. Online textbooks are underutilized • District received grant money for online textbooks • Signed a 3 year service contract with Holt McDougal • However, we utilize the online resources or explain them to the parent
- 12. Classpages are rudimentary & do not offer students additional resources
- 13. Online Reources like Google Docs are not utilized Neither are Resources like the OneDrive and/or Outlook
- 14. Many teachers suffer from a condition called… What is the Problem? Technophobia
- 15. What’s So Scary? Cognitive errors It is not what happens to us that results in our emotional response or behavior. Rather, it is what we tell ourselves about what has happened that controls our emotions and behavioral responses (Ellis, 1995).
- 16. • Some teachers fear experimenting with technology “What if I break it?” • Others feel it is a passing fad • Others may have had a bad experience with tech in the past. • Teachers fear taking risks • They want administration, the Dept. of Ed, the state of NJ to give them the answer • They are looking outside for the answers when actually, the real solutions lie within. What we tell ourselves about technology is what really scares We are the authors of our own discontent (Ellis, 1995)
- 17. Fear vs. Reality That is Just Fear of the Unfamiliar
- 18. • Use the resources • Encourage integrating technology in new ways • Have a vision for ways to bring our school into the 21st century. • Inspire teachers to try new things • ENCOURAGE TEACHERS TO TAKE RISKS!!! • Don’t Blame – Find a Solution Together Paradigm Shift
- 19. Don’t Kill Creativity Creativity has led to many innovations in science and technology, music, literature, and art. In the knowledge-driven economy, the “creative class” is at the top of the economic value chain and the driving force of economic and social development (Zhao, 2007).
- 20. For the answer to that question I need to call on several experts in creativity. Please welcome Kyree Covington and the Hillside High School Drama Department. Kyree directed this short film which won 1st place for Comedy at the NJ High School Film Challenge. Click Picture for Video
- 21. I am Ready for My Future You have the tools I have the Talent Now, all we need is the training Can you help?
Editor's Notes
- Click through the bullets… Then say: But, more importantly than that…. (click) Please take a moment to say “Hi” to Mark. Say… “Hi Mark” (click) Mark loves him some SMART Board. (click) Mark also spent a lot of September suffering from Math-phobia. Mark became so afraid of math that he would cry when asked to do classwork or homework. Marks difficulty in math made him very anxious. He never participated during math lessons and he often put his head down to avoid being called on. Does anyone see what lesson Mark is participating in and leading in front of all of his classmates? (click) That’s right it is a Hippopota-Math lesson. Using the SMART Board allowed Mark to use his other Intelligences and areas of strength to overcome his fear (Gardner, 1993). His teacher didn’t buy anything or require additional funding or training… She just thought “How do I pull Mark into the Math lesson?” An the SMART Board was the answer.
- Say: So what was the end result of all the money spent? Are we effectively integrating technology? Not Really (Click 1) - Laptops and chromebook sit piled up in technology resource centers, classroom closets, and locked laptop carts. Why? Well because we will need them for the PARCC so we need to secure them till then. (Click 2) – Teachers continue to use $1500 SMART Boards the same way they would have used a $50 white board 20 years ago or a chalkboard 40 years ago. This is not instilling curiosity in the students. Just the tax payers. (Click 3) – We don’t build lessons around using the Chromebooks so they sit in charging stations like this one for months on end. Occasionally, a student will ask about the Chromebooks or actually go over and touch one. Teachers need to prepare for these types of events. Thisteacher did so by putting “Do Not Touch” signs on the charging station. Nothing like building a fear of technology into curious students. However, My favorite example of integrating technology goes to the following teacher. (Click 4) – This teacher is actually using the SMART Board to count down the minutes to the end of science class. This is using technology to build task avoidance.
- If we are the authors of our own discontent, then logic would dictate that we also hold the power to end it. We do this through disputing. When we are talking about technology, we are not talking about… (Click 1): The Master Control Program from Tron (Click 2): Glados from Portal (Click 3): HAL the homicidal computer from 2001 (Click 4): Or the new Baddie Ultron from The Avengers Saga (Click 5): That is just fear of the unfamiliar. We are not talking about any megalomaniacal form of Artificial Intelligence bent on world domination… (Click 6) We are just talking about a Chromebook?!? And that’s REALITY!
- References Covington, K. (2014). Erased. Retrieved March 28, 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch/7hs5UdVPDzI Ellis, A. (2005). The myth of self-esteem: How rational emotive behavior therapy can change your life forever. Amherst: Prometheus Books. Ellis, A., & Ellis, D. (2011). Rational emotive behavioral therapy. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). (2009). National educational technology standards for administrators. Washington, DC. Retrieved March 2, 2015, from http://www.iste.org/docs/pdfs/20-14_ISTE_Standards-A_PDF.pdf Zhao, Y. (2007). Education in the flat world: Implications of globalization on education. Edge: The Latest Information for the Education Practitioner, 2,4, 3-19.