This presentation analyzes integrating technology into modern education. It discusses how the current system needs change according to Sir Ken Robinson. It also examines computer-based learning programs like Apex Learning and Achieve 3000, which provides differentiated reading assignments. The presentation notes growth in online learning programs and home schooling. It addresses benefits of technology integration, like real-time data for teachers, but also potential pitfalls like lack of social environment. It argues schools must blend online and traditional learning, and technology is changing the role of teachers to guides. The presentation calls administrators to create urgency around technology integration and provide professional development and resources to facilitate these changes.

1. Integrating Technology Into
Schools
Michael J. Forte

2. Manville High School
• School Type: Public
• Grades: 9-12
• Student Enrollment: 385
• Student Teacher Ratio - 12:1

3. Purpose
The goal of this presentation is
to analyze the integration of
technology into the modern
education system.

4. Outline
• Slide 5 – How and Why Our Current System Needs Change –
Sir Ken Robinson
• Slide 6 – Computer Based Leaning: The Wave of the Future
• Slide 7 - Small Schools Problems
• Slide 8 - Effective Learning Online
• Slide 9 - State Programs
• Slide 10 - Home Schooling
• Slide 11 - Online Enrollment
• Slide 12 - Pitfalls of Online Learning
• Slide 13- Why we still need schools
• Slide 14 - Changing Role of Teachers
• Slide 15 - Obsoleteness of Textbooks
• Slide 16 - Achieve 3000
• Slide 17 - Benefits Five-Step Literacy Routine
• Slide 18 - More Benefits

5. How and Why Our Current System
Needs Change – Sir Ken Robinson
Click on the picture for a video

6. Small Schools Problems
• No Child Left Behind
requires districts to
have “highly
qualified” teachers in
each subject
• Constrains these
schools’ offerings
• Lack of advanced
courses

7. Effective Learning Online
Apex Learning
– In 2003–04: 8,400
enrollments in AP
courses
– In 2006–07: up to
30,200,
• growth rate of over 50
percent.
– Apex has had more
than 1 million
enrollments in over
4,000 school districts.

8. State Programs
• 25+ states have web-based
courses.
• 1/3 of Utah high
school seniors
engaged in online
learning.
• Florida Virtual
School
– Served 52,000
students since 1997
– 92,000 enrolled in
2006–07
• Georgia Virtual
School
– Opened in 2005
– In 2006–07: 4,600
students enrolled

9. Home Schooling
Practice is growing
and working
• 850,000 home-schooled
students in
1999
homeschooling
• Today estimated 2
million students

10. Online Enrollment
• According to the North
American Council for
Online Learning,
– online enrollments in
2000 were 45,000;
– enrollments have grown
22 times to roughly
1,000,000.
• By 2019 about 50
percent of courses will
be delivered online.

11. Pitfalls of Online Learning
• Believed to work best
with motivated students
• Some students feel
alone and unsupported
• No one to impress or
disappoint
• Lack of accountability
and inspiration
• Lack of social
environment

12. Why we still need schools?
• Schools create a
culturally
academic
environment
• Schools must
integrate online
learning into
traditional
learning
• Schools reap
benefits of
traditional and
computer based

13. Changing Role of Teachers
1900s: “Sage on the Stage” 2014: “Guide on the Side”

14. Obsoleteness of Textbooks
Economics of the textbook
business are scale
intensive:
• fixed costs are the same,
selling to 1,000 or 1
million
• textbook companies sell
to large, monolithic
audience
• customization is not
desirable

15. Achieve 3000
• In August of 2014 the Manville
School district ACHIEVE 3000:
Educational Technology Grant
for $58,015
• ACHIEVE 3000
– Provides Associated Press
newspaper articles directly
related to themes in the district’s
curriculum.
– Automatically differentiates
reading instruction. Each article is
differentiated to 12 reading levels
per grade
– student work and progress is
monitored continually by the
computer.
– Eliminates the need to constantly
test students.
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16. Benefits
• Delivers differentiated
assignments at 12
different reading levels
• Reports real-time
diagnostic data to
teachers and
administrators
• The College/Career
Readiness Report
forecasts students'
ability

17. Five-Step Literacy Routine
1. Acquire knowledge from
informational text
2. Develop strong content knowledge,
3. Uses higher order thinking skills
4. Helps students argue effectively with
supporting evidence
5. Helps students communicate
effectively

18. More Benefits
Get parents involved
too:
• Reinforce literacy
skills
• Follow their child's
progress
• Access daily article
topic along guided
questions
• Parent tutorials show
how to work to
increase student
achievement

19. Call to Action
Achieve 3000 is great opportunity for Manville
High School to become more integrated with
educational technology. In order to facilitate this
change school administrators should:
1. Create a sense of urgency to integrate
technology
2. Provide sufficient professional development
3. Develop a strategy to efficiently allocate current
technological resource and acquire more
resources

20. Resources
Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Horn. “How Do We
Transform Our Schools?” Education Next. 2008.
Zimmerman, Judith. “Why Some Teachers Resist Change and
What Principals Can Do About It”. NASSP Bulletin, Vol. 90 No.
3 September 2006 238-249
Achieve 3000
– http://www.achieve3000.com/
Chandler, Adam D. “Learning in Classrooms Versus Online”.
NyTimes. July 20, 2012
HSDLA: Advocates for Homeschooling
– http://www.hslda.org/docs/study/rudner1999/rudner2.asp