The LCSC Technology Conference details a program initiated three years ago for high school teachers, aiming to enhance teaching through technology with training and resource support. The program has expanded to 44 teachers and focuses on developing crucial skills in creativity, critical thinking, and digital citizenship. Feedback from participating teachers highlights improvements in student engagement and the effectiveness of integrating technology into learning.

1. LCSC Technology Conference
Jeanne Reed & Don Clausen
3/16/10

2.  Program started three years ago with six
high school teachers via a competitive grant
program.
 Teachers received an initial 32 hours of
staff development training over the course
of a year.
 The program has expanded in four phases
to 44 teachers in grades seven through 12.
 Upon completion of first 16 hours of
training, teachers received their equipment.

3.  Rationale (Urgency)
 Pedagogy
 Electronic Applications
 Hardware

4. http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=254&Itemid=119

5.  Creativity and Innovation
 Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
 Communications and Collaboration
 Information Literacy **
 Media Literacy **
 ICT Literacy **
 Life and Career Skills **
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=254&Itemid=119

6.  Creativity and Innovation
 Communications and Collaboration
 Research and Information Fluency
 Critical Thinking, Problem Solving and
Decision Making
 Digital Citizenship
 Technology Operations and Concepts
http://www.iste.org/Content/NavigationMenu/NETS/ForStudents/2007Standards/NETS_for_Students_2007.htm

7.  Entry Level
 Adoption Level
 Adaptation Level
 Appropriation Level
 Invention Level
 http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/00
00019b/80/19/e7/b3.pdf

8. Entry Level:
Teachers typically learn the
fundamental aspects of using new
technology, including the basics of
configuring hardware and software.

9.  Adoption Level:
Teachers concern themselves with
ways to use the technology to support
traditional instruction.

10.  Adaptation Level:
Teachers integrate technology into
existing classroom activities. The
emphasis is productivity. Students use
word processors, databases, and some
graphics programs to create familiar
products of instruction.

11.  Appropriation:
Teachers begin to develop new approaches to
teaching and learning that make the most of
the technology available to them. A teacher's
mastery and skill level has developed to allow
the creation of new learning activities not
possible without the technology.

12.  Innovation:
Teachers no longer try to adapt instruction to
technology but adjust their fundamental
perceptions of instruction. Teachers who
reach this stage reflect on the actual craft of
teaching, and their fundamental teaching
approach may shift. (Dwyer, Ringstaff, and
Sandholtz, 1991)

13. http://www.comicstriparchive.com/Zits/

14.  Creating
 Evaluating
 Analyzing
 Applying
 Understanding
 Remembering
http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/index.php?title=Bloom%27s_Taxonomy

15.  Identifying similarities and differences
 Summarizing and note taking
 Reinforcing effort and providing recognition
 Homework and practice
 Nonlinguistic representations
 Cooperative learning
 Setting goals and providing feedback
 Generating and testing hypotheses
 Cues, questions, and advanced organizers
http://www.middleweb.com/MWLresources/marzchat1.html

16.  Linguistic intelligence
 Logical-mathematical intelligence
 Musical intelligence
 Bodily-kinesthetic intelligence
 Spatial intelligence
 Interpersonal intelligence
 Intrapersonal intelligence
http://www.businessballs.com/howardgardnermultipleintelligences.htm

17.  Identify Desired Results
◦ “What do we want students to know?”
 Determine Acceptable Evidence
◦ “How will we know when they know?”
 Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction
◦ “How will they learn?”
http://iearn.org/civics/may2003workshop/Understanding%20by%20Design%20Teaching%20Ellen%20Meier%20CTSC.pdf
©1998 Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe

18. http://kmhs.typepad.com/rigor_relevance/2009/10/index.html
Dr. Mimi Dyer

19. http://wwwstatic.kern.org/gems/cue/Lemke.pdf

20.  Cornell Note Template
 WebQuests (Word and PowerPoint)
 Note Cards
 Graphic Organizers (SmartArt)
 KWHL Form
 Inverted T Chart
 Community Clips
 Tables in Word
 Everything in Excel

21.  NGS Simulation
 Intel (Student)
 WebQuests
 Wordle
 Garrison Site
 California Learning Resource Network

22.  Moodle
 Ning In Education
 Schoolwires

23.  Coaching Availability
 Classroom Visits with Follow Up Discussion
 Research Support
 Equipment and Application Troubleshooting

25.  The Competition
◦ Mninfinity
◦ IQ Academy
◦ Charter Factor
◦ ATC
◦ Post Secondary

26.  On November 17, 2009, twenty-one
Classroom of the Future teachers
completed an open-ended response
survey indicating what they like most
and least about the Classroom of the
Future program.

27. “It has been awesome to get
students on computers and
connect real life applications
to class material.”

28. “Students have improved their
ability to interact with both the
spoken word and written word. I
am moving out of the front of the
classroom to helping students be
the active participates in their
learning.”

29. “[What I like best is] my ability to
reflect and rethink my practice in
the classroom. My lessons have
been richer by integrating online
digital content.”

30. “Being able to empower
students with technology tools
that give them options to
explore the world, communicate
with the world, and discover
their own interests and
passions.”

31. http://www.wordle.net/