This document discusses futuristic tools that can be used to engage students in the classroom. It describes how classrooms have transformed from using outdated tools like slide rules and notebooks to using modern technology like iPads, smart boards, and apps. The document advocates providing students access to the latest tools to help them compete globally and prepare for the future. It highlights several tools the author has used in their classroom like touchscreen PCs, laptops, cameras, and a DJ set. The document outlines a process for discovering needs, defining goals, designing lessons, developing skills, and delivering results to inspire students using the most advanced tools.

2. Leadership & Learning

3. Leadership & Learning

5. Leadership & Learning

6. Leadership & Learning

7. Futuristic Tools to Engage
Students
Leadership & Learning
Enrique G. Legaspi, Hollenbeck MS
Teacher, academic artist project
Legaspi.egl@gmail.com

9. Pedagogy
Continuous Improvement
~ Kaisen Blitz ~
pedagogy |ˈpedəˌgäjē; -ˌgōjē|noun ( pl. -gies)
the method and practice of teaching, esp. as an academic subject or
theoretical concept

10. Old Tools vs. New Tools

11. Old Tools vs. New Tools
20th 21st
Century Century
Slide Rules, HP IIc WiFi, PC, iPads
Notebooks/Folders, CD’s iPods, USB Sticks
Lecture Halls Podcasts
Worksheets Apps
White Boards Smart Boards
LAN Cloud Computing

12. Learning
Leadership

13. A Professional Feel,
World Class
• Students of today must have access ~ Make up lost time/Achieve
to the most up-to-date tools to ~ Excel
~ Compete Globally
~ Become/Prepare for the future
• Project Based Learning – Innovation
• Believers – Inspire Kids
• Kids Changing Kids – Empowerment
Learning
Leadership

14. Inspire Kids

15. Inspire Kids

16. Inspire Kids

17. Inspire Kids
Kids Changing Kids

18. INTERNSHIPS
MENTORING

19. N G
R I
T O
S E N
IP M
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I N

21. The Problem: Issue…
• Are students engaged in today’s classroom? And what tools are they
using to advance their expertise and innovation?
You Decide
~ You are the Teacher ~
T H E C O N T E N T E X P E R T

23. How I did it?
• Over the past 7 years my class has transformed from a primitive classroom
to a state-of-the-art environment complete with tremendous technology.
• One Simple Vision: Get the futuristic tools by podcasting, making videos,
doing community events, and networking with businesses and investors.
Discover / Define / Design / Develop / Deliver

25. Scaffolding the Connection:
Global Access
My
world.
Me Local State National International
Using multimedia to get students to build culture,
leadership and achievement.

27. Discover
“It is hard to find a job you
love, it is easier to take what
you love and make it your job”
~ egl

29. Resources
✓ What are my available
resources & solutions
to engage the 21st
Century learner?
✓ The voice of the
Student!

34. Dream BIG: Examples of Powerful Tools
$50 buckeroos ;)
I never let schooling interfere with
my education. ~ Mark Twain

36. ROOM 151

38. ROOM 151
10 touch screen PC’s
27 HP mini-laptops
1 laptop MAC & PC
Printer / Scanner
1 Document Reader
Promethean Smart Board
Howard Zinn, “A Young People’s History”
Junior Scholastic
A DJ set
Speakers
A Mixer w/ Mic
Flip & Kodak Camera
iPad
27 USB drives

40. Define: What do you want?
What tech skills are critical for your students to
compete globally?

41. “It will cultivate a cultural
exchange.”
“If you can walk you can dance, if you
can talk you can sing.”
There is a DJ set for any school’s
Budget
“Every school needs a DJ set.”

42. Tool: Culture
“It will cultivate a cultural
exchange.”
“If you can walk you can dance, if you
can talk you can sing.”
There is a DJ set for any school’s
Budget
“Every school needs a DJ set.”

44. More Cultural & Community
Enrichment Tools

46. The events produced with
these tools:

47. The events produced with
these tools:
Red Cross Blood Drive, a Futuristic Farmers Market, Pep
Rallies, Assemblies, Dances, Awards Breakfast,
community projects (i.e. dog park).

51. I PAD & I PHONE
Futuristic Tools with AWESOME Potential…
Their potential is only evident if there is a
commitment to engage student
learners with technology.

57. 5 D’s
• Discover
• Define, you must achieve
• Design, you trust, believe
• Define, you must succeed
• Deliver, results inspire

61. Backwards Plan: The Goal
Keeping your pedagogy in mind & content standards.
Advanced techniques with the most advanced tools
to support innovation and engagement.
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Research Review Collaborate Review Test
Read Produce Read Produce Share
Inquiry Share Prepare Share Mastery

63. Food Garden

65. Strategies: Best Practices
• S.O.A.P.S.Tone* – Outstanding for Comprehensive Historical Analysis and
Interpretation (Research)
• Chunking: Paces the content and produces learning to mastery. (Produce
results: Read, Prepare, & Review)
• Collaboration to encourage synergy. (Share, Review, & Inquiry)
• Citations, Cornell Notes, Websites, *Multimedia

67. DEVELOP
• The Writing Process
• The Application
• The Mentorships
• The Stories
• The Connection
• The Innovation

69. Use Resources
(non-traditional)
• The sky is the limit when engaging student learners with professional
tools
• Priceless Opportunity to Develop Career Skills
• Embracing technology and living digitally in its applications offers
powerful teaching/lessons
REVIEW: Discover, Define, Design, Develop, and now........
My favorite! DELIVER.

71. Deliver
“Actions speak louder than words”
~ Ben Franklin

72. Conclusion

73. Conclusion