Technology in the Classroom: Promising Practices and New Directions

Branka Marceta OTAN [Outreach and Technical Assistance Network] bmarceta@otan.us

Objectives
 Identify frameworks and mandates
Rich Higher, America The Power of Technology to Transform Adult Learning Investigating the Language and Literacy Skills Required for Independent Online Learning National Educational Technology Plan

 Examine promising practices

Cell phones & other mobiles Social media, open source, learning analytics

 Apply new concepts to classroom and distance education  Discuss effective integration of content, pedagogy and technology in preparing adult learners for the 21st Century Skills
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Frameworks and mandates

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Reach Higher, America

 Crisis in education and workforce  Prison population  Family literacy  20 million by 2020
 6/26/08

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High School Attainment Graph

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Reach Higher, America - Quote

Technology should be used in all its forms to make learning a continuous process of inquiry and improvement that keeps pace with the speed of change in business and society.
June 2008, p.24

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Tech to Transform Adult Ed

 Information and communications technology skills (ICT literacy) are essential, both on and off the job. Some 70 percent of all jobs in the U.S. will require some level of ICT skills by 2016. p. iii

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Independent Online Learning

 Adults across the literacy and language spectrum show strong motivation to gain computer literacy skills, perceived as key to work advancement. p. iv
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New Horizon Report 2011, k-12 Edition, this year

 Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less

Cloud Computing Mobiles

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New Horizon Report 2011, k-12, in the future

 Time-to-Adoption: Two to Three Years

Game-Based Learning Open Content

 Time-to-Adoption: Four to Five Years

Learning Analytics Personal Learning Environments

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National Ed Tech Plan

Transform the professional learning of educatorsby leveraging technology to create career-long personal learning networks
p. 11
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A Model of Learning, Powered by Technology

From the National Education Technology Plan 2011, US Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology, page 11

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Shits Happening

 From consuming to producing  From authority to transparency  From the expert to the facilitator  From the lecture to the hallway  From "access to information" to "access to people

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Shifts Happening cont.

 From passive to passionate learning  From presentation to participation  From publication to conversation  From formal schooling to lifelong learning
Steve Hargadon, Educational Shifts, http://web20ineducation.wikispaces.com

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TPACK

 Mishra & Koehler, 2006  knowledge about technology cannot be treated as context-free, and ...good teaching requires an understanding of how technology relates to the pedagogy and content.

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Promising practices

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Mobiles: Cell Phones in the Classroom

 OTAN workshop developed by Susan Gaer, Santa Ana Community College

Features Etiquette Question of the Day - texting Call in a Poem - audio Create a story around a photo - camera
Phone On My Phone By Stephanie Krishnan On Flickr

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Other Mobile Devices in the Classroom

 Clickers formative and summative evaluation

 Tablets
Classroom systems, personal tablets, educational tablets,

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Digital Textbooks & Open Content

Ck-12 FlexBooks
 customizable, standards-aligned, free digital textbooks for K-12

National Repository of Online Courses

 a growing library of high-quality online course content for students and faculty in higher education and high school

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Math Anywhere & Learning Analytics

 Khan Academy Tracking System

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PLNs Social Networking

 Facebook
PR for adult education programs Way to extend learning and communication: stay in touch with alumni Personal PD for teachers and administrators

 Twitter
Personal PD for teachers and administrators

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The only link you need to know Resource wiki page:

http://webtwopointohinadulted.wikispaces.com/CASAS+2011

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Thank you from CASAS!

 We value your feedback!
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Golden Foyer Tuesday & Wednesday, 8:00 am-5:00 pm

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Golden Ballroom Thursday, 8:00-9:15 am

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