Vision and infrastructure
- 1. What Every Principal Needs to Know about your Technology VISION and Network INFRASTRUCTURE to move your school FORWARD
- 2. Mike Spitz Compunet-Consulting mike@compunet-consulting.com Laurie Yingling Lumen Christi Catholic School (Mequon) St Robert School (Shorewood) Archdiocese of Milwaukee laurieyingling1@me.com
- 3. A VISION for Schools today...
- 4. is to create Student- Centered Learning Environments
- 5. Our world has CHANGED and we need to prepare students TODAY for THEIR TOMORROW
- 6. Learning today should NOT look like learning from the past
- 7. Three Assumptions: 1. Education will soon be ‘digital and mobile’ 2. Create (vs consume) and Publish (vs print) 3. Teachers need to ‘own’ technology
- 8. Career-ready skills: Communication Collaboration Critical Thinking Creativity
- 9. examples
- 10. “We shouldn’t limit our students’ opportunities with technology to what we know how to do as adults.” - Scott McLeod @mcleod
- 11. We must impose a PARADIGM SHIFT in our schools; we need to update how we ‘DO’ school
- 12. Watch: Sir Ken Robinson: “Do Schools Kill Creativity?’’ and “Changing Paradigms in Education” on the convention webpage
- 13. There is no textbook to teach ingenuity; no textbook to teach problem solving; no textbook to teach divergent thinking
- 14. Our children learn by doing Creativity Counts
- 15. Re-Thinking Education JS Online Education Video Series
- 16. Examples of Student- Centered Learning
- 17. Top Ten Topics for Administrators 1. Vision Administrators need to formulate a long-range plan for creating 21st century learning environments in their schools
- 18. Principals need to model the change they want to see in their schools Do you have expectations for your classrooms to be student- centered learning environments? Are you ‘directing’ that change? Rigor and Relevance Do you collaborate with faculty and colleagues using online tools? Setting the example Are you replacing the paper filing cabinet in your office with a Google Apps domain or online mobile Dropbox account? It is POSSIBLE to work more efficiently AND effectively
- 20. Principals need to model the change they want to see in their schools Do you have a personal blog to share all the great stuff and archive what you are reading, seeing, finding, hearing, thinking? Do you have a school website, blog, Facebook and Twitter account? Are you discussing how to use ‘Bloom’s Taxonomy’ (Rigor and Relevance) to create higher-order thinking projects?
- 21. Top Ten Topics for Administrators 2. Network and Infrastructure Your vision can not be realized until your ‘systems’ are in place Administrators need to manage this process Consider your IT staff; for whom do they work?
- 22. Top Ten Topics for Administrators 3. Move Away from the Textbook
- 23. “Nothing in education puts a bigger ceiling on learning than limiting kids to what is in the textbook...
- 24. ...We live in an age of iPads, Google and Skype. To the learner that wants to know more, do more, and explore more, the opportunities are there....
- 25. ...we just have to think OUTSIDE of the Book. - Dangerously Irrelevant Blog ( http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2012/08/think-outside-the-book.html ) Krissy Venosdale via http://venspired.com/?p=3225
- 26. Invest in your teachers...they can write their own textbooks!
- 27. Invest in your students...let them create!
- 28. Top Ten Topics for Administrators 4. Create Student-Centered Learning Environments “Sit down in front” mentality Are you in the way of learning?
- 29. Characteristics of a student-centered classroom Curriculum
- 30. Characteristics of a student-centered classroom Instruction
- 31. Characteristics of a student-centered classroom Assessment
- 32. Top Ten Topics for Administrators 5. Create and Publish Create vs Consume Publish vs Print
- 33. Top Ten Topics for Administrators 6. Go Digital and Mobile! This is the future of education Move away from your network Collaborate online Eliminate printing Got Google Apps for Education?
- 34. In the near future all students will have hand- held mobile devices Will you allow a BYOD program? Will your staff be prepared to use iPads or other tablets?
- 35. Top Ten Topics for Administrators •7. Create PLNs (Personal Learning Networks) for yourself and your staff •Social Media •Personal Learning Networks •ArchMiledu
- 37. Top Ten Topics for Administrators 8. Information Literacy •Are you preparing your students to be information literate? •Is your school library stuck in the past? See the ‘Library Media Resources’ page on Arch convention site
- 38. Top Ten Topics for Administrators 9. How We ‘Do’ School •Is your library the ‘center’ of your school? •Do you have someone in your library teaching students how to be information literate? •Have you shifted the role of the ‘computer lab teacher’ to one that supports all the needs of classroom staff? •Do you still have a computer lab? •Are your classroom teachers integrating technology?
- 39. This generation thinks in pictures, words, still images, and video and is comfortable mixing them all in the same space. - Scott McLeod
- 40. Top Ten Topics for Administrators 10. Online Learning Webinars Moodle Online courses Online conferences Skype an author Blogs
- 41. A Pep Talk by Kid President
- 42. Resources Convention Website ACT 21 Website Archdiocese of Milwaukee Facebook page: (facebook.com/archmiledu) and •Twitter (@ArchMILedu)
- 43. IT Infrastructure for Educational Environments
- 44. Network Components Servers DNS System Switches Wireless Network Firewalls / Routers Client Devices Email System Operating Systems Antivirus/Spyware Inventory Bandwidth System Backup System Inventory Directory Database IT Support
- 45. Servers Multiple servers for redundancy •multiple power supplies •multiple hard drives •RAID system Adequate memory
- 46. Switches 1000/mb speed Managed VLAN segmentation Reduce the number of switches to least possible Do not put switches in classroom
- 47. Firewalls / Routers Content Filtering Logging/History Sizing based on network Security, first line of defense Appliance based vs software based
- 48. Email System Exchange Google Docs for Education
- 49. Antivirus / Spyware / Malware System Server based administration Client based software
- 50. Backup System Onsite Tape Hard Drive Offsite Subscription Service
- 51. Directory Database Active Directory Open Directory LDAP integration One database maintained by multiple servers at different locations
- 52. DNS System Everything ‘talks’ better when DNS is set up correctly login issues printing issues mapping issues Internal domain vs public domain Redundancy
- 53. Wireless Network Stand-alone access points Managed wireless network Security WPA Key WEP Key Radius
- 54. Client Devices Computers - PCs & Macs iPads, Smart Phones Mobile Device Management Apple iOS Apple configurator Manual USB sync MDM Server Wireless sync
- 55. Operating Systems Try to get everyone on the same level Support packs, updates Important to stay current browser support software support
- 56. Internet Bandwidth Wideband Technology Web 2.0 apps and internet technologies are pushing the limits of bandwidth “Publishing” student work online philosophy is putting more importance on upload speeds E-rate funding
- 57. Inventory You need one! Software and hardware Makes IT management easier Saves time
- 58. IT Support Contractual partners vs an hourly break / fix agreement Take ownership of network Regular monitoring and maintenance Advisory role Partner with companies that understand school environments Budgets Educational Pricing Participate in technology committees