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Inside an Innovative Classroom: A Day in the Life of Today’s Students and Teachers Bbworld 2014TRANSCRIPT
Inside an Innovative Classroom: A Day in the Life of Today’s Students and Teachers
Julie Evans, Project Tomorrow CEO
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A big thank you to:
www.blackboard.com/K12
Today’s Discussion:
About Speak Up 2013
Selected national findings from the
research
Panel discussion
Your comments, questions or
thoughtsSpeak Up 2013 National Research Project: Views of K-12 Students, Parents & Educators
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Meet our Panel of Experts
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Students: School/District/State
Brandon, 3rd grader Lawrence Public Schools, Kansas
Scout, 6th grader Lawrence Public Schools, Kansas
Anna, 8th grader Lawrence Public Schools, Kansas
Frances, 9th grader Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Public Schools
Neri, 11th grader Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Public Schools
Educators:
James Bell North Carolina Virtual Public Schools
Shannon Conley Medina City School District, Ohio
Stacy McGowen Pennsylvania Virtual School
Project Tomorrow, a national education nonprofit
organization Programs:
• Research & evaluation studies
• STEM education programs• Advocacy for digital learning
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Mission: To ensure that today’s students are prepared to become
tomorrow’s leaders, innovators and engaged citizens of the world.
Annual national research project Using online surveys + focus groups Surveys for: K-12 Students, Teachers, Parents,
Administrators, Community Members Special: Pre-Service Teachers in Schools of Education Open for all K-12 schools and schools of education Schools, districts & colleges receive free report with
their own data
Inform policies, plans & programs Local: your stakeholder data State: state level data Federal: national findings
Speak Up National Research Project
+ 3.4 million surveys
since 2003
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K-12 Students 325,279
Teachers & Librarians 32,151
Parents (in English & Spanish)
39,986
School/District Administrators 4,530
Community Members (new this year!) 1,346
About the participating schools & districtso 9,005 schools and 2,710 districtso 90% public schools – 10% private/parochial/charter/othero 32% urban / 31% rural / 37% suburbano 30% school wide Title 1; 43% majority minority school o All 50 states + DC + Guam + DODEA schools
National Speak Up 2013 Participation: 403,292
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Speak Up 2013 National Reports
www.tomorrow.org
Students function as a “Digital Advance Team”
Students regularly adopt and adapt emerging
technologies for learning
Students’ frustrations focus on the unsophisticated
use of technologies within education
Persistent digital disconnect between students
and adults
Learning is a 24/7 enterprise; school time is only a
small part of the learning day
Students want a more personalized learning
environment – both in and out of school
What have we learned over the past 11 years?
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Social–based learning
Un–tethered learning
Digitally–rich learning
Students & Digital Learning
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Student Vision for Digital Learning
Personalized
learning
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“When students are using digital
resources, building multi-media
projects, collaborating and
connecting online and conducting
online research, they are more
interested in school work today,
and feel more connected to what
their future holds tomorrow.”
Dr. Mark Edwards, SuperintendentMooresville Graded School District, North Carolina
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Why is this discussion about innovative classroom models important today?
Common Core State Standards
Focus on college, career and civic
readiness
Educators’ increased familiarity with
digital tools
Emergence of the new digital parent -
with new demands for digital learning
New student expectations for different
types of learning processes
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Key findings include:
Students have a clear idea of the value of digital learning within various innovative classroom models with high interest in:
social media to provide opportunities for them to connect and collaborate with peers and experts,
mobile devices that enable untethered learning experiences, and
online, blended, and flipped classes that that marry digitally rich content with real-world relevance.
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Audience poll:
Which of these digital solutions is having the greatest impact on transforming teaching and learning at your school right now?
A.Blended learning
B.Digital content
C.Games
D.Flipped learning
E.Tablets and other mobile devices
F.Fully online/virtual classes
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According to school principals:
Which of these digital solutions is having the greatest impact on transforming teaching and learning at your school right now?
A.Blended learning 22%
B.Digital content 46%C.Games 35%
D.Flipped learning 17%
E.Tablets and other mobile devices 41%
F.Fully online/virtual classes 16%
Meet our Panel of Experts
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Students: School/District/State
Brandon, 3rd grader Lawrence Public Schools, Kansas
Scout, 6th grader Lawrence Public Schools, Kansas
Anna, 8th grader Lawrence Public Schools, Kansas
Frances, 9th grader Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Public Schools
Neri, 11th grader Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Public Schools
Educators:
James Bell North Carolina Virtual Public Schools
Shannon Conley Medina City School District, Ohio
Stacy McGowen Pennsylvania Virtual School
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Meet our Panel of Experts
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Students: School/District/State
Brandon, 3rd grader Lawrence Public Schools, Kansas
Scout, 6th grader Lawrence Public Schools, Kansas
Anna, 8th grader Lawrence Public Schools, Kansas
Frances, 9th grader Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Public Schools
Neri, 11th grader Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Public Schools
Educators:
James Bell North Carolina Virtual Public Schools
Shannon Conley Medina City School District, Ohio
Stacy McGowen Pennsylvania Virtual School
“Imagine you are designing the
ultimate school for today’s
students, what technologies would
have the greatest impact on
learning?”
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Favorite Speak Up Question: Superintendents & School Boards
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Do we have a shared vision around the digital tools in our ultimate school?
Meet our Panel of Experts
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Students: School/District/State
Brandon, 3rd grader Lawrence Public Schools, Kansas
Scout, 6th grader Lawrence Public Schools, Kansas
Anna, 8th grader Lawrence Public Schools, Kansas
Frances, 9th grader Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Public Schools
Neri, 11th grader Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Public Schools
Educators:
James Bell North Carolina Virtual Public Schools
Shannon Conley Medina City School District, Ohio
Stacy McGowen Pennsylvania Virtual School
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Your thoughts,
comments, questions
National Speak Up Findings and reports
Targeted and thematic reportsDigital learning trendsMobile learning & social mediaPrint to digital migrationSocial learning Intelligent adaptive softwareDigital parent series
Presentations, podcasts and webinars
Services: consulting, workshops, evaluation and efficacy studies
Speak Up 2014 opens on October 6
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More Speak Up? www.tomorrow.org
Thank you.
Let’s continue this conversation.
Julie EvansProject Tomorrow
Twitter: JulieEvans_PTSpeakUpEd
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