The 21st Century Classroom

Teaching and Learning in a Digital World

Technology has Changed our Lives

FaceBook

Twitter

Delicious

Glogster

LinkedIn

Most Profound Change for Schools

• Move from print information to digital, multimedia, hyperlinked information

Images

Simulations

Games

Audio Files

Videos

3D Graphics

Multimedia Resources

Our Children’s Perspective

How We Learn – Neuro Science

Students match materials (text, video, graphs, audio) with preferred learning modalities

Students engage with resources and in learning

Greater accuracy of information

Teachers and students create their own instructional resource repositories

Makes immediate feedback possible

Enables better management of the inventory of resources

Advantages of Using Digital Content

Enter: Interactive Whiteboards

How Does Instruction Look Different

Peek into a fourth grade Language Arts lesson with teacher Tricia Smith.

Word Processing/ Desktop Publishing Webpage Publishing Video Creation Graph and Table Creation Animation and Simulation Creation Blogging Wiki Building Mapping

Enter: Authoring Applications

How Does Instruction Look Different

Peek into the world of GIS here in LCPS with Mike Wagner, GIS Science teacher and see how taking the next step of creating products.

Geospatial Technology geographic information system (GIS)…

• Uses computers and software to organize, develop, and communicate geographic knowledge.

• GIS takes the numbers and words from the rows and columns in databases and spreadsheets and puts them on a map.

GIS is about visualizing information!

Going Loco with GIS

•Whale shark that migrates from Mexico to Australia

• Students use existing data (sea-surface temperatures, currents, etc) to predict the best migration route.

Ball’s Bluff Elementary – Stream Monitoring Project

Cattail Creek

Geospatial Technology Course• Full-year, dual-enrollment course through James Madison University• Use ESRI ArcGIS Suite and ArcGIS Online• Developed in 2006• Currently taught in 5 of 13 high schools by highly trained teachers• Projected to be taught in 10 of 13 high schools in 2013-2014• Students engage in multiple projects through the year• Develop enough skills to be employed directly out of high school

ArcGIS SuiteArcGIS Online

Geospatial Technology Course

Original 1759 Map

Enter: The Virtual Classroom

Let’s peek into a high school teachers virtual English classroom with Mr. Nick

Grzeda’s.

Let’s break down the walls of the school and facilitate connections to experts and other students and teachers across the world.

Power of Everyone

Enter: World Connections

Next Steps: Mobile Device for Each Student

• Provide access to and interaction with a world of multimedia and people resources

• Create/publish a variety of products to show learning

• Do all of this in an anytime, anywhere world.

Mobile device for every student with authoring and communications tools that…

This is Derrick - 11th Grade Student

1st Period – German III 2nd Period- AP U. S. History 3rd Period – American Literature 4th Period – Pre-Calculus 5th Period – Drama 6th Period – Biology 7th Period – Psychology

Derrick’s Class Schedule

German III $130.00 AP U.S. History $145.00 (two books) American Literature $120.00 (two books) Pre-Calculus $100.00 Drama $120.00 (two books) Biology $185.00 (two books) Psychology $80.00 (two books)

Total Cost $880.00 Consumables $55.00 Total Weight 47.6 lbs.

Derrick’s Textbook Costs

This is Derrick - 11th Grade Student

In last year, percent of Americans ages 16+ who read an eBook jumped from 16% to 23%.

Between 2008 and 2009 there was a 40% increase in digital textbook sales.

Publishers predict that by year 2016, 80% of textbooks will be digital as print media is phased out.

VDOE has begun allowing textbook funds to be used for digital content.

Final Facts…

It is really not about digital, hyperlinked text but it is about

• giving teachers and students access to multimedia resources, games, and simulations,

• providing them with the authoring tools to transform these resources into products that show their learning in a

• Facilitate it all happening in a collaborative virtual space that is open to the world.

Final summarizing Thoughts…

Questions

1:1 schools employing key implementation factors outperform all schools and all other 1:1 schools.

A 1:1 student/computer ratio has a higher impact on student outcomes and financial benefits than other ratios.

In general, schools with a 1:1 student/computer ratio outperform non-1:1 schools on both academic and financial measures. The lower the student/computer ratio, the better the student outcomes.

Project RED Findings