Digital Innovation in Schools: Case Studies of 10 Schools for 21st Century discusses technology integration in education. It describes 10 schools that have successfully implemented digital technologies and transformed their pedagogical approaches. The schools employ strategies like project-based learning, personalized learning, BYOD programs, and digital curricula. They aim to equip students with 21st century skills by enhancing the learning process through technology, redesigning teaching methods, and empowering students as producers and managers of their own learning.

1. Digital Innovation in Schools:
Case Studies of 10 Schools for 21st Century
Mart Laanpere
Senior researcher
Centre for Educational Technology,
Tallinn University

2. 50 years of digital hopes in education
• 1990: My first computer club
• 1993: Online CSCL projects
• 1994: Male, female, e-mail
• 1999: Teachers NetGate
• 2003: online learning platform IVA, DigiDidactics
• Prof. Betty Collis: after 50 years of research, no
clear evidence of impact of technology in education
• Technology is the answer! But what was the
question?

3. Technology in school: what for?
• The 7 metaphors for the impact of technology:
– Soap: getting used to basic everyday digital hygiene
– Painkillers: quick relief (edutainment)
– Surgery: radical intervention (plagiarism detector)
– Vaccine: long-term effect (saving money, ROI)
– Vitamin: strengthens your body (catalyst for change)
– Viagra: a temporary boost to your performance (VR)
– Genetic engineering: radical evolution of species (BCI)
– Placebo: it might help if you believe it helps

4. Menti.com (code 34 72 4)
• What is the main reason to use the digital
technology in your school today?
A. to equip students with required skills for their
future social and vocational life
B. to improve student learning, understanding and
retention
C. to motivate and engage students in learning
activities
D. to monitor students and manage organisational
processes in school and class

5. Diffusion of innovations (Rogers, 1969)
Phases of adoption:
Knowledge > Persuasion > Decision > Implementation > Confirmation

6. Technology generation shifts
InshopInschool
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7. Menti.com (code 34 72 4)
• What could be the most important aspects of
Digital Turn in your school? Give 3 keywords

8. What do we mean by Digital Turn?
• Shift to 1:1 computing model, use of personal
digital devices (smart phone, tablet, laptop)
• Online and mobile learning platforms, tools
• Change in pedagogy: towards active,
collaborative, creative, innovative learning
• Digital textbooks, e-exams, e-portfolios
• Learning analytics, big data
• Changes in physical learning environment
• Redefining the digital competence

9. Implementing the change
Successful educational innovation requires
combination of three forces on the school level:
SCHOOL
Technology
Pedagogy
Change management
M.Fullan (2013) Stratosphere:
Integrating Technology, Pedagogy
and Change Knowledge

10. The concept of this course
• Diffusion of digital innovation (1:1 computing,
BYOD, robotics, coding, digital textbooks) on
the meso level (school level)
• Course is structured according to Fullan’s
model:
– Tuesday: pedagogical innovation, monitoring
– Wednesday: change management
– Thursday: engaging the stakeholders
– Friday: integration

11. 5 Empower
Redefinition &
innovative use
o Technology supports new learning services that go beyond institutional
boundaries.
o Mobile and locative technologies support ‘agile’ teaching and learning .
o Learner as co-designer of the learning journey, supported by intelligent
content and analytics.
4 Extend
Network redesign &
embedding
o Ubiquitous, integrated, seamlessly connected technologies support learner
choice and personalisation beyond the classroom.
o Teaching and learning distributed, connected and organised around the
learner.
o Learners take control of learning using technology to manage own learning.
3 Enhance
Process redesign
o Teaching and learning ‘redesigned ‘ to incorporate technology, building on
research in learning and cognition.
o Institutionally -embedded technology supports the flow of content and data,
providing an integrated approach to teaching, learning and assessment.
o Learner as ‘producer ‘ using networked technologies to model and make.
2 Enrich
Internal Coordination
o Technology used interactively to make differentiated provision within the
classroom.
o Technology supports a variety of routes to learning.
o Learner as ‘user’ of technology tools and resources.
1 Exchange
Localised use
o Technology used within current teaching approaches.
o Learning is teacher-directed and classroom-located.
o Learner as ‘consumer’ of learning content and resources
Innovation Maturity Model

12. Ten schools for the 21st century
• High Tech High, San Diego, US: project-based
learning (SD Bay Field Guide)
• Quest2Learn, NY: curriculum is based on designing
the games, systems thinking
• Ørestad Gymnasium: curriculum is built around
‘real-world’ case studies, digital media
• M.Moss High School, UK: project-based learning
(My World), self-directed learning
• Kunskapsskolan, Sweden: personalised curriculum,
smart online learning environment
http://www.innovationunit.org/resources/10-schools-21st-century

13. Ten schools for the 21st century
• Maaslandcollege: ELO, open learning centres for
high school, iPads and e-textbooks in primary
• Oak Hill school district: BYOD, re-use of existing
educational software through virtualisation
• Union County schools: 100% ChromeBook,
Google Apps for Education
• Valga Priimetsa School: digital CLIL
• Pärnu Vanalinna School: total BYOD, classic
boardgames during breaks