This document summarizes an educational technology conference session about preparing students to be technology proficient for the PARCC assessment. The session compared the skills required by the PARCC to the International Society for Technology in Education standards. Participants analyzed PARCC sample questions, identified the technology skills required, and compared these skills to the ISTE standards. Participants then developed plans to incorporate daily digital learning activities aligned with PARCC requirements and shared their plans in an online document.

1. Tennessee Educational Technology Conference
April 14, 2014; Interest Session 3, 1:15-2:15pm
Room 106B
Julia Osteen
Technology Integration Specialist
Digital Learners ARE PARCC
Ready

2.  Analyze the technology proficiency needed to
successfully participate in the PARCC assessment
 Compare/contrast the skills needed with those
represented in the National Educational Technology
Standards for Students from ISTE
 Identify the types of experiences where digital age
learners thrive and devise a plan for reaching them
on a daily basis.
Session Goals

3.  ISTE Position Statement on the Common Core State
Standards - http://www.iste.org/standards/common-core
 Digital learning plays a central and substantive role
 Helps students meet and exceed the rigorous learning
goals of Common Core State Standards
 “With the advent of the 2014–2015 Common Core Online
Assessments it is imperative that students’ learning takes
place in a robust digital learning environment in order for
them to be successful on these new higher-order thinking
assessments.”
Digital Age Learning

4.  ISTE Standards for Students
 Standards for evaluating skills and knowledge students
need
 “Simply being able to use technology is no longer
enough. Today's students need to be able to use
technology to analyze, learn and explore.”
 Creativity & Innovation, Communication & Collaboration,
Research & Information Fluency, Critical thinking,
Problem Solving & Decision Making, Digital Citizenship,
and Technology Operations and Concepts
Digital Age Learning

5.  ISTE Standards for Students
 Take a look at the Standards
 Highlight the verbs
 Put this aside; we will come back to it.
Digital Age Learning

6.  Sample assessment items -
http://www.parcconline.org/computer-based-
samples
 Drag and drop
 Multiple select
 Text highlighting
 Equation builder
PARCC Tech Components

7.  Sample assessment items -
http://www.parcconline.org/computer-based-samples
 Try items in more than just one grade
 Range of rigor
 Item types and functionalities
 Work through a few items together and make a list of
verbs that represent what students need to be able to do
to be successful
PARCC Tech Components

8.  Look at the list of verbs you created for the PARCC
assessment
 Compare those to the highlights you made in the
ISTE Standards
 Use the Venn Diagram to support your comparison
and contrast
 What do you see?
Compare/Contrast

9.  Take a look at some of the resources
 Come up with a plan for reaching digital age
learners on a daily basis that also “preps” students
for the PARCC Assessment
 Share your plan in the Google doc -
http://tinyurl.com/josteenTETC2014
Design a Plan

10. http://www.schoollibrarymonthly.com/articles/Holzweiss2014-v30n4p13.html

11.  Animated Presentations and Videos - PowToon 4 EDU
http://www.powtoon.com/edu-home/
 Audio Creation and Editing Tools - Voki Classrooms
http://www.voki.com/classroom
 Bookmarking and Curating Tools – Educlipper
http://edutecher.net/educlipper/
 Blogging Tools – Kidblog
http://kidblog.org/home/
Resources to Explore
Share your plan in the Google doc -
http://tinyurl.com/josteenTETC2014

12.  Collaboration Tools – Google Docs
http://docs.google.com
 Digital Poster-Making Tools – Glogster EDU
http://edu.glogster.com/
 Digital Storytelling – Flipsnack EDU
http://flipsnackedu.com/
 Infographics – Piktochart
http://piktochart.com/
Resources to Explore
Share your plan in the Google doc -
http://tinyurl.com/josteenTETC2014

13.  What challenges/obstacles exist that could be barriers
to implementing your plan?
 How will you share what you have learned with your
colleagues?
Closing Reflection
Share your plan in the Google doc -
http://tinyurl.com/josteenTETC2014

14.  Contact Information –
Julia Osteen
julia.osteen@lipscomb.edu
615-066-5095
 Access the plans in the Google doc -
http://tinyurl.com/josteenTETC2014
Thanks for coming!