Integrating technology into schools
- 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. Click Below for video
- 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
Editor's Notes
- #3: http://high-schools.com/directory/nj/cities/manville/manville-high-school/340963005238/
- #6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
- #9: http://education-portal.com/articles/Support_Grows_for_K-12_Online_Learning.html
- #10: http://www.hslda.org/docs/study/rudner1999/rudner2.asp
- #12: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/opinion/learning-in-classrooms-versus-online.html?_r=0