Warlick's CoLearners
Presentation:
Administrators have asked for you to speak on the following:
- Provide us with a picture of what instruction in a 21st Century Classroom looks like. How does it compare to our current classrooms, and how do we measure this change? How do we know it improves learning in our classrooms?
- Cracking the 'native' information experience
- Measuring?
- Talk to the kids, "What are you working on?
- Is there evidence that children are talking about "class work" outside of class?
- What do you see on the walls? What do you see on the teachers' web sites?
- Pick out four (arbitrary) students who are reluctant learners, and watch their engagement, contribution, interaction with other children, grades for improvement.
- Build us a Measuring stick or a check list – To measure, assess, and determine our growth in applying technology as an instructional tool. What evidence are we looking for?
- Evidence of teacher work with networked, digital, and abundant information that they can hand you on a thumb drive
- Evidence of student work with networked, digital, and abundant information, that can be handed to you on a thumb drive
- Give us practical applications for the role of the principal, vice principal and technology coach to help us move our teachers forward with their understanding of technology as an instructional tool, their reflection upon and assessment of their use of technology as an instructional strategy to improve the student learning in their classrooms.
- How do we incorporate technology as an instructional tool into yearly school plans. What are the most effective instructional strategies incorporating technology that are used to improve classroom instruction and student learning in the 21st Century classroom?
- What should classroom instruction include when a school opens up their wireless system to IPads, IPhones, IPods, student laptops, etc? How do we incorporate these devices effectively into student learning environments?
- Opportunity to converse and ask questions directly to David.