Often, we only get 3 minutes with administrators to share our ideas about the important relationship between technology and student learning. Discuss and discover current research and surveys demonstrating the need for technology integration in K-12 schools.

1. Technology
Elevator
Speeches
Using Research
Data
and Student
Learning Surveys
to Advocate for
Technology
Integration

2. Karen Bauer
Media Specialist
Hubert Olson Middle School
Bloomington Public Schools
Presented October 2, 2009
MEMO Annual Conference

3. What is an elevator
speech?
An elevator speech is an overview of an
idea for a product, service, or project.
The name reflects the fact that an
elevator pitch can be delivered in the
time span of an elevator ride.

4. Components of an
Elevator Speech
* What the product, service, or project is.
* What it does for the buyer, investor, or
sponsor (e.g. the benefits).
* Who you are and why you will be
successful.

5. Here’s
Mine!

6. What is Web 2.0?
"The Web will be understood not as
screenfuls of text and graphics but
as a transport mechanism, the ether
through which interactivity
happens.” -DiNucci

7. An Understanding of
Web 2.0
The Machine is Us/ing Us

8. Primary Source of
Information
Solomon, G. & Schrum, L. (2007).
Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools.
Washington, DC: International
Society for Technology in Education.

9. Why should we care?

10. Why should we care?
"Today's education system faces
irrelevance unless we bridge the
gap between how students live
and how they learn.” - Partnership for
21st Century Skills.
Download PDF
Visit Website

11. Why should we care?
"To be literate today involves acquiring
new skills, including those of using
technology, understanding science,
having global awareness, and most
important, having the ability to keep
learning.” - Solomon, G. & Schrum, L.

12. Why should we care?
A Vision of K-12 Students Today -Video
A Brave New World-Wide-Web - Video

13. Why should we care?
Because today's students:
- Are no longer the people our educational
system was designed to teach
- Have not just changed incrementally
from those of the past . . . our students
have changed radically.

14. Why should we care?
Because today's students:
- Represent the first generations to grow
up with this new technology
- Think and process information
fundamentally differently from their
predecessors

15. Why should we care?
Because today's students:
- Are all "native speakers" of the digital
language of computers, video games and
the Internet - Prensky, M.
Download PDF
Visit Website

16. Prensky’s on
to something!
Look at what our
students are already
doing. . .

17. Project Tomorrow © Project Tomorrow 2009
Speak Up Survey - National Findings 2008

18. Project
Tomorrow
Speak Up Survey
National Findings
2008
© Project Tomorrow 2009

19. Project Tomorrow © Project Tomorrow 2009
Speak Up Survey - National Findings 2008

20. Project Tomorrow
“Speak Up is a national initiative of Project
Tomorrow (formerly known as NetDay),
the nation’s leading education nonprofit
organization dedicated to ensuring that
today’s students are well prepared to be
tomorrow’s innovators, leaders and
engaged citizens of the world.” - Project
Tomorrow
Download PDF
Visit Website

21. Should students “power down”
when they come to school?
"For the most part, students' educational use
of the Web occurs occurs outside of the
school day. Many schools and teachers
have not yet recognized - much less
responded to - the new ways students
communicate and access information over
the Internet.” - Levin & Arafeh (Pew Internet &
American Life Project)
Download PDF
Visit Website

22. Look at what they’re doing!
Americans age 13-24 now spend
more time online than watching TV. -
Sloan & Kaihla
Read Article

23. Look at what they’re doing!
65% of American students, grades
6-12, use email and/or instant
messenger every day. - Project Tomorrow
Download PDF

24. Look at what they’re doing!
In Grades 6-12, 51% percent of students
use graphic, design, photo, video editing,
or music editing software.
47% conduct personal research.
43% shop online. - Project Tomorrow
Download PDF

25. Look at what they’re doing!
Preschool are one of the fastest growing
groups online. - Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Download PDF

26. What do they want?
Increased in-school access!
AND
To learn technology in a variety of
ways! - Farris-Berg, B., & Calandra, B.
Download PDF

27. We need to remember . . .
"Having digital technology at
their fingertips all the time
means that students think,
work, and play differently
from previous generations."
Soloman & Schrum

28. Bibliography
Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (2003). Connected to the future: A report on
children's Internet use. Retrieved June 12, 2009 from
http://www.cpb.org/stations/reports/connected/
connected_report.pdf
DiNucci, D. (1999). "Fragmented future". Print 53 (4): 32.
Elevator pitch. (2009, September 28). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved
September 28, 2009, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/
w/index.php?title=Elevator_pitch&oldid=316735369
Farris-Berg, B., & Calandra, B. (2005). Listening to student voices on technology: Today's
tech-savvy students are stuck in text-dominated schools. Retrieved on June 10,
2009 from http://www.educationevolving.org/pdf/tech_savy_students.pdf

29. Bibliography
Levin, D. & Arafeh, S. (2002). The digital disconnect: The widening gap between
Internet- savvy students and their schools. Washington, DC: Pew Internet & American Life
Project. Retrieved June 12, 2009, from http://
www.pewinternet.org/%7E/media//Files/Reports/2002/PIP_Schools_Internet_Report.pdf.pdf
Nesbitt, B. (2009). “A vision of K-12 students today”. Online video. Retrieved September
9, 2009, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vihWBiEaJ6Y
Partnership for 21st Century Skills. (2004). Learning for the 21st century. Retrieved June
14, 2009.
Prensky M. (2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants. Retrieved June 12, 2009 from
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/images/stories/otherdocs/p21up_Report.pdf
Project Tomorrow. (2009). “Selected national findings: speak up 2008”. Retrieved
September 29, 2009, from
http://
www.tomorrow.org/Speakup/speakup_reports.html

30. Bibliography
Sloan & Kaihla. (2006). Blogging for Dollars. Business 2.0 Magazine. Retrieved June 12,
2009, from http://money.cnn.com/magazines/
business2/business2_archive/2006/09/01/8384325/
Solomon, G. & Schrum, L. (2007). Web 2.0: new tools, new schools. Washington,
DC: International Society for Technology in Education
Truss, D. (2008). “ A brave new world wide web”. Online video. Retrieved September 9,
2009 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyPQ4Qr8xks
Wesch, M. (2007). “The machine is us/ing us. Online video. Retrieved September 24, 2009
from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
Images from http://morguefile.com