Shelee King George Puget Sound Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology

What’s your invention? Think of an invention that you use regularly that would impact your life greatly if you had to live without it.

Table Connections Introduce yourself to your table mates. Share your name and where you live and work Your current job The invention you use regularly

Pleased to meet you!  My past  My present  My belief in education

In this session…  Change  Tomorrow’s workforce  Innovation vs. invention  Technology in the classroom  REAL learning tasks Beyond today – Take action on at least two ideas to promote innovation in the classroom.

Change What are some big elements of change occurring in the past 30 years? Table talk Share

Our Dreams As Educators What skills do our students need to cope with change?

21 st Century Skills: US  Critical Thinking/Problem Solving  Written and Oral Communications  Teamwork/Collaboration  Diversity  Information Technology Application  Leadership

Real World Example Bellingham, WA Radio Ad: FM Wanted: Traffic Reporter Assistant Must have skill with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and graphic manipulation Also, must be able to multi-task and prioritize in a fast paced office environment

Dreams to Reality  Explore the kind of learning needed to prepare students with these skills…. skills

Reaching Our Dreams What skills and knowledge do TEACHERS need to offer this type of learning to their students?

Teachers Need To (ISTE):  Inspire student learning and creativity  Design, develop digital age learning expectations and assessments  Model Digital age work and learning  Promote and model digital age citizenship  Engage in professional growth and leadership

Innovation vs. Invention 1. Read the 4 discussions comparing innovation to invention. 2. Which one helps you clarify the comparison the best?

While I was completing my Masters Degree in Instructional Technology, I was convinced that by helping teachers integrate technology into their lessons (doing the same thing…just with technology) would make the difference. Langwitches Blog: about-technology-time-to-focus-on-learning/

As a Technology Integration Facilitator … I was convinced that by co-teaching with classroom teachers, we would give students the opportunity to work with different media to extract/ share information and express themselves while not adding to the teacher work load of doing “one more thing”. We used technology tools to engage students and activate THEIR way of thinking and learning while teaching the CURRENT curriculum and that would make the difference. technology-time-to-focus-on-learning /

It Never Was About the Technology Now, I have arrived at a point in the process where I believe that it is not (never was) about technology. To make a difference, it has always been about good teaching, reflecting and focusing on (relevant?) student learning. time-to-focus-on-learning /

Technology Carousel  Think about the ways students work and the types of activities you include in your lessons.  How can technology add value to or make the work easier for the following learning tasks? Communication Collaboration Gathering Information Organization of Information Expression

The Learning Activity Checklist  Overview  Filter through which we can look at lessons

A REAL Task  REAL Audience  REAL Problem  REAL Product  REALTask or not? REALTask or not

Innovate a Traditional Task  Groups of 3-4  Choose a recorder  Task Template Task Template  Revise an existing traditional task so that it meets the 3REALS of engaging tasks.  Post your paper for viewing when done

Wows and Wonders Gallery Walk  View and travel as a team  Sticky Notes to leave your comments: Wows for insights gained Wonders for questions you have  Wait for the music signal to move to the next station

Head- Heart- Foot  Personal reflection  Share if time Shelee King George

Thank you  Shelee King George 