1. Matt McLain 10-Minute Tech Tips www.chewelah.k12.wa.us/mmclain/wala

2. 10-Minute Tech TipsMatt McLain 10-Minute Tech Tips Has it come to this?

3. Ten-Minute Tech Tips Grew out of the need for a way to provide professional development in a meaningful, cost-effective, nonthreatening way.

4. We have to adapt due to lack of funding, a diversity of challenges and the charge to serve the unique abilities of our students. ALE Challenges

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8. Stanford’s Horizon’s Report available since 2002Horizon’s Report The research behind the NMC Horizon Report: 2012 Higher Education Edition is jointly conducted by the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE Program.

9. Tablet Computing-1 year According to a recent study from comScore, the iPad now accounts for 97% of all tablet- based web traffic in the U.S. and 46.8% of all mobile web traffic. Similar statistics show tablets are increasingly the device of choice not just for web browsing, but also social networking and reading news.

10. Game-based learning 2-3 years out gaming was named as an ideal method of assessing student knowledge comprehension, citing the ability of games to provide immediate performance feedback to the players. Value added to the classroom: collaboration, problem solving, communication, critical thinking, and digital literacy

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12. National Education Technology Plan sees value in game-based learning the feeling of working toward a goal The possibility of attaining spectacular successes the ability to problem solve, collaborate with others, and socialize

13. Learning Analytics- Two to Three Years The goal of learning analytics is to enable teachers and schools to tailor educational opportunities to each student’s level of need and ability in close-to-real time (p.25).

14. Examples of Learning analytics AIMs RBA/MBA-Riverside Publishing Aleks Math (RTI strategic interventions) Writing analytics-Odysseyware, Waypoint

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16. Gesture-Based Computing Four to Five Years Gesture-based computing allows users to engage in virtual activities with motions and movements similar to what they would use in the real world, manipulating content intuitively (29).

17. Internet of Things- 4-5 years The advent of IPv6 has extended the Internet address space significantly, thus providing an avenue for any object to use the Internet to transmit and receive data and information from an object or piece of equipment

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23. Free advice for when evaluating tech tools Not all technologies are created equal Don’t take the vendor’s word. You are the practitioner. Take advice from practitioners. 33 Stay practical, relevant, and purposeful Make sure your adoption procedures are part of your Technology Plan for your Building, Program, or District.Technology Plan 2 1

24. We must ask these questions when adopting new technology for the 21 st century classroom. Technology Evaluation Tools What is the cost to the District, School/Program, Individual? Is this consistent with goals, plans, and policies of District? How will I measure successful use of the application? What do I want this tool to effectively accomplish? How will the tool add to classroom instruction? How will we know if it works? Will this tool make me a better practitioner of what I teach? ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 11 22 33 44 55 66 77

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