This is the presentation from our 2014 beginning-of-year ed tech professional development on 8/26/14.

1. Seattle Hebrew Academy
Educational Technology
ELIZABETH EBERSOLE
MS L A N G U A G E A R T S A N D S O C I A L S T U D I E S
E D U C A T I O N A L T E C H N O L O G Y C O O R D I N A T O R
BECKY TODD
L I B R A R I A N & ME D I A S P E C I A L I S T
TYLER JAY
T E C H N O L O G Y C O O R D I N A T O R

2. SHA’s Technology Mission Statement
SHA envisions a community of learners – students, teachers, parents and administration – who utilize
technology to further the mission of the school and prepare students for a technology-rich future.
We will equip our learning spaces with tools that will transform both instruction and the way students
encounter the world of information.
Every teacher will be knowledgeable and skilled in the use of technology to support daily instruction.
We will develop an EC-8th grade educational technology curriculum that will influence the scope and
sequence of skills and information to be taught.
All members of the SHA community will use technology as a tool to thoughtfully enhance the educational
environment in order for learners to:
 Access, evaluate, synthesize, create and communicate information
 Pursue meaningful real-world experiences that utilize technology as a means to connect us to
enriched information
 Investigate technology as a field worthy of exploration and curricular study in and of itself
 Deepen our understanding and worldview in the pursuit of Judaic and secular education
 Address academic needs in new and exciting ways
 Connect with the Jewish community in Israel and world-wide

3. Our Process
 Where we were:
 Computer Lab
 Teachers have laptops
 Some classrooms PCs
 Technology Carts (shared)
 Where we are:
 1-to-1 Laptops in Middle School
 Laptop cart in LS
 3 Sharp Boards
 15 iPads
 New server
 Teachers align curriculum with
ISTE Standards
 Tamritz Badge Learning PD for
Teachers
 Tamritz Digital Citizenship
Course for MS
 Educational Technology Team
 Numerous Classroom
Adventures
 Where we’re going:
 Educational Technology
Coordinator & Team
 SAMIS Technology Initiative
 Edublogs as MS “Launchpad”
 Tamritz Digital Citizenship
Course for 6th Grade
 What are you thinking about
or planning?

4. Ramsey Musallam:
Three Rules to Spark Learning

5. Classroom of the Future Today

6. Classroom of Today
 20 Must-See Facts About The 21st Century
Classroom
 How will you take your classroom to the next level?

7. Project Based Learning

8. Project Based Learning Resources
 Buck Institute for Education
 8 Essentials for PBL
 Teacher planning forms for PBL
 Rubrics for PBL
 Student handouts for PBL: Planning to Reflection
 Discovering PBL Resources for the Jewish Classroom

9. How Can You Incorporate PBL?
 Brainstorm how you can shift a unit you already
teach into a PBL experience.
1. How can you use cross-curricular ties?
2. What should students know & be able to do?
3. How will students demonstrate their understanding?
4. How can technology be used to create an end product?
5. How can student work be shared outside of your classroom?
6. How can specialist teachers be involved?

10. Connected Educators

11. How Are You Connected?
 Professionally?
 Organizational membership?
 Conferences?
 Social Networks?
 Facebook?
 Twitter?
 Blogs?
 Pinterest?
 RSS (rich site summary)?
 Family & Friends?
 Social Networks?

12. Connected Educators
 Creating Your Personal Learning Network
 Join professional organizations
 Attend conferences & webinars
 Follow blogs & comment on posts
 The Teach 100 blogroll
 Tech Rav
 Tamritz
 SHA’s Ed Tech Connection
 Tweet! It’s not just for celebrities!
 #jedchat (Wednesday night pow-wow)
 #edchat
 #edtech
 #elemchat
 Tons of topic-based hashtags!
 Follow me: @liztekkie

13. The Future Today for Our Students
 Mrs. Yollis’ 3rd Grade Classroom

14. Connected Learning
 Three educational values
 Equity
 Full Participation
 Social connection
 Three learning principles
 Interest-powered
 Peer-supported
 Academically oriented
 Three design principles
 Shared purpose
 Production-centered
 Openly networked
 Connected Learning: Interest, Peer Culture,
Academics

15. Connected Learning
CC: Connected Learning Research Network and Digital Media & Learning Research Hub

16. The Future Today for Our Students

17. Thank You
Many thanks to Sarah Blattner, Tamritz Digital Badge
Learning Network, for helping me to take my Personal
Learning Environment and my classroom
to the next level.