a session given to parents on current trends in technology used for learning and teaching, examples shared from classrooms through video, demos of powerful free learning tools, anticipation of the future, gathered feedback on a new idea Parent Spaces, etc.

1. District Parent Advisory Council – Feb.15, 2011 Technology Past – Present - Future Brian Kuhn Manager of Information Services School District 43 (Coquitlam) www.sd43.bc.ca bkuhn@sd43.bc.ca http://twitter.com/bkuhn http://www.shift2future.com/ istockphoto.com #8508482 istockphoto.com # 12522602

2. K/1’s learning about the number ’10’

3. 3.6 B people on earth First computer chess tournament 0 (yes zero) personal computers sold 0 e-mails sent 0 blog posts 0 Facebook users BG (before Google) 1970 http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1970 istockphoto.com # 1563122

4. Nov. 6, 2010 around 12:13pm 6.88 B people on the earth 242,487,125 personal computers sold this year 337,700 TVs sold today 1,759,192 cell phones sold today 2,015,767,932 internet users on earth 145,102,286,923 e-mail messages sent today 303,902 blog posts today 500,000,000 Facebook users 1,549,823,201 Google searches today http://www.worldometers.info/ istockphoto.com # 7611212

5. Things have changed in our world… http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=9545884

6. Things have changed in our world… http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=9545884

7. http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=8573353 The connected home!

8. Connect anywhere! http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=2079663

9. Maillard Middle – We Value…

10. Devices are small, powerful, and everywhere Kindle istockphoto.com # 3654579

11. Devices are small, powerful, and everywhere Internet… wireless everywhere… just like oxygen being connected is not optional just like breathing… Kindle istockphoto.com # 3654579

13. When I was a student…

14. Becomes Expensive “expert only” knowledge has evolved into free collaboratively created knowledge… When I was a student…

15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/langwitches/4211065057/

16. Learning with Technology Strategy from 2005-6 Learning, teaching and leading is enhanced through effective and meaningful use of technology Exemplars Learning Staff Development Equitable Access istockphoto.com # 5373874

17. The District Network School District 43 (Coquitlam) istockphoto.com # 11412469

18. Today… our future? MOE msn skype e-mail Virus attack msn e-mail e-mail e-mail Virus attack Virus attack e-mail e-mail e-mail www e-mail www www video stream video stream youtube DL bcesis picture blog video stream DL DL bcesis google bcesis bcesis google IT Services IT Services wikipedia bcesis bcesis bcesis bcesis youtube 1701 DL bcesis IT Services DL picture google 1701 portal IT Services portal wikipedia google 1701 portal portal Internet Board Office 1701 1701 portal portal class size class size class size Home

19. 3 Investments are Essential School District 43 Network Bandwidth Tools & Staffing Digital Responsibility

20. 3 Investments are Essential School District 43 Network Tools & Staffing Bandwidth Digital Responsibility

22. Guiding our Teaching

23. Index to relevant law and policy

24. Quick reference and scenarios(photo courtesy of http://www.flickr.com/photos/langwitches/5141256792/) Digital Responsibility  Footprints…

25. istockphoto.com # 5373874 Technology Powered Learning + Teaching

26. Grade 1’s Reading @ Mountain Meadows

27. Grade 1’s Reading @ Mountain Meadows Demo – click image

28. Student Learning Supported by my43

29. Powerful Knowledge Tools

30. “We want to provide every student with the tools they need to succeed and thrive in a world that is more connected and more reliant on technology, a world where communication is instantaneous and a world that demands creativity and flexibility” BC Minister of Education Oct. 29, 2010

31. Student Learning Tools

32. The Future… District – School – Teacher – Student – Parent Web Spaces Public Internet District Intranet my43 District Website School Intranet my43 School Website Virtual Classrooms my43 Teacher Website Student Space my43 Parent Space my43

34. For their own web presence / site within my43 – students can customize the look, add web parts / tools, etc.

35. For class announcements

36. To organize their online contacts

37. To work on / upload / track / organize assignments (documents)

38. To create/use wikis to collaborate with other students, teachers

39. To blog securely, possibly with ability to have the blog accessible publicly to the Internet

40. To bring together (aggregate) into one place all other online learning the student may have out on the public Internet

41. To create online discussion boards and invite other students, teachers to participate

42. To create online surveys to gather input from other students, teachers

43. Where teachers, the principal, and eventually the student’s parents can go to and see / participate in the students learning activities

45. From your Parent Space, what types of information would you want have access to, how would you like to access it (e.g., website, email alert, mobile phone app), and why?

46. List up to five concerns or issues you see with the idea of a Parent Space?

48. Create / use video

49. Take digital pictures (every cell phone is a digital camera field trip data collection device)

50. Tell digital stories

51. Students can do all of this if we give them access to the tools…http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup.php?id=4066060 Students need access to digital tools

52. Calculator Labs? http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp41.htm

56. What kinds of technology tools do you feel are most helpful for supporting student learning and why?

57. How do you feel about digital learning devices eventually becoming school suppliesand why?

59. Learning Windows in Classrooms?

60. and supportive Parents…