4. How To Vote via Texting EXAMPLE Standard texting rates only (worst case US $0.20) We have no access to your phone number Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling do TIPS
5. How To Vote via Twitter EXAMPLE Capitalization doesn’t matter, but spaces and spelling do Since @poll is the first word, your followers will not receive this tweet TIPS
6. What are Schools Doing? How is Technology Integrated into Your Curriculum? Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.
7. What are Schools Doing? How is Technology Integrated into Your Curriculum?
8. Paradigm Shift Paradigm is a shared set of assumptions that explain the world to us and help us predict the future Educators are clinging to a set of concepts that are quickly loosing all value The notion that knowledge is education is far from the truth and can no longer serve as an organizer for curriculum
11. Learning will not be linear but convergent – putting together existing knowledge for personal and impermanent reasons
12. Focus on the characteristics of new technology and ask “What can we do with this that we could not do before?” and “If there were no schools, how would learning occur?”
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15. Must prepare students for an unknown destination that will be technological and different from today
17. Focus on the use of technology not the equipment
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19. What are Schools Doing? How is Technology Integrated into Your Curriculum? Don’t forget: You can copy-paste this slide into other presentations, and move or resize the poll.
20. What are Schools Doing Regularly reported items on various studies: Email Gathering data from internet for project Using websites to expand on subject of study Monitoring an online project or trip Reading works of other students Taking a virtual field trip
21. What are Schools Doing New strategies reported by advanced schools: Digital textbooks – allows quick searches Text to speech software – converts digital text to speech Talking word processors – teaches editing skills to student writers Search engines – unlock data from billions of webpages Blogging – facilitates specialty information exchange around study topics Twitter/Facebook
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23. Valued skills – systems thinking, collaboration, technical learning, contracting, and technical fluency
29. Decline, Attack, Defection Four Positions illustrating range of dissatisfaction with public schools Right wing entrepreneurs using existing political process to shift allocation of resources - the 65% solution (Patrick Byrne) Far right - those who feel schools should be reformed or privatized due to low performance – motivation is not education but economics
30. How Public Education is Responding Not very well – need to address 3 critical areas: Education labor force Relationship with parents Acknowledge new technologies and use them to enhance teaching
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32. Where and how do educators begin to assess educational alternatives?
33. Can the future be influenced by our actions or is it largely predetermined?
34. Where do we as planners gain the value structure to plan for the future?
NOTES:Explain what’s going on“Now I’m going to ask for your opinion. You’ll use your phones to respond just like on American Idol. So please take out your cell phones, but remember to leave them on silent.”“You’ll participate by sending a text message. If you don’t know how to do that, just ask your kids! Or have your neighbor help you figure it out.”Address their concerns“This is a just standard rate text message, so it may be free for you, or up to twenty cents on some carriers if you do not have a text messaging plan.”“The service we are using is serious about privacy. We cannot see your phone numbers, and you’ll never receive follow-up text messages outside this presentation. There’s only one thing worse than email spam – and that’s text message spam because you have to pay to receive it!”Use a demo or practice pollFor example, a Free Text Poll like “Let’s Practice: Text in your first name!”Always test your polls in your presentation before your event using the computer that will be projecting your presentation, especially if that computer is not the one you’re currently using.
This slide is for display to the audience to show them how they will vote on your polls in your presentation. You can remove this slide if you like or if the audience is already comfortable with texting and/or voting with Poll Everywhere.Sample Oral Instructions:Ladies and gentlemen, throughout today’s meeting we’re going to engage in some audience polling to find out what you’re thinking, what you’re up to and what you know. Now I’m going to ask for your opinion. We’re going to use your phones to do some audience voting just like on American Idol.So please take out your cell phones, but remember to leave them on silent. You can participate by sending a text message.This is a just standard rate text message, so it may be free for you, or up to twenty cents on some carriers if you do not have a text messaging plan. The service we are using is serious about privacy. I cannot see your phone numbers, and you’ll never receive follow-up text messages outside this presentation. There’s only one thing worse than email spam – and that’s text message spam because you have to pay to receive it!
This slide is for display to the audience to show them how they will vote on your polls in your presentation. You can remove this slide if you like or if the audience is already comfortable with texting and/or voting with Poll Everywhere.Sample Oral Instructions:Ladies and gentlemen, throughout today’s meeting we’re going to engage in some audience polling to find out what you’re thinking, what you’re up to and what you know. Now I’m going to ask for your opinion. We’re going to use Twitter to do some audience voting.So please take out your cell phones or laptops, but remember to leave them on silent. The way you will be able to participate is by tweeting a response to @poll. Your followers won’t be bothered by this message.
Press F5 or enter presentation mode to view the poll\r\nIn an emergency during your presentation, if the poll isn't showing, navigate to this link in your web browser:\r\nhttp://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/LTM1OTIxNDU1OAIf you like, you can use this slide as a template for your own voting slides. You might use a slide like this if you feel your audience would benefit from the picture showing a text message on a phone.
KathyDuring our class discussions, we’ve echoed the phrase “hasn’t changed much” Technology is driving change
Kathy“Learned how to learn” analogy to CPA (Can’t pass again, cutting pasting, attaching) – I always told people that passing the CPA exam meant that I know how to learn.“Powerless” analogy to driving on Interstate 270 – I’m doing 65 in the right lane and getting passed up by everyone else. But every once in awhile,
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KathyUse of technology – equipment – equity issues
Kathy“Show me the money” – these tasks will take massive amounts of moneyA 2000 NEA facility study estimated a $322 billion price tag to repair, renovate and install modern technology in existing schools
Press F5 or enter presentation mode to view the poll\r\nIn an emergency during your presentation, if the poll isn't showing, navigate to this link in your web browser:\r\nhttp://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/LTM1OTIxNDU1OAIf you like, you can use this slide as a template for your own voting slides. You might use a slide like this if you feel your audience would benefit from the picture showing a text message on a phone.
MerleneNon-interactive / student still passive recipient of some source of knowledgeProblems: many computers sill in labs inhibiting widespread use, lack of staff development opportunities to learn about new tech, lack of bandwidthPorche without a key
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MerleneChanging population: Minorities – 41% in 2003ELL low socioeconomic status – F&R – 2009 = 31.3 million children out of estimated 56 million
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KathyWhat these 4 positions have in common is the desire to restructure schools as we know them and the pressures and current criticisms are unlikely to decrease in the future
KathyLabor force – teachers are leaving the classroom due to high stakes testing and not finding personal satisfaction that comes from feeling like a partnerParents – will not pay for schools they are not using unless forced to and will find ways to free themselves from the fiscal burden
