1. Vision for Education – 2017 Sarah Stabile Post University – EDU505
Jennifer Wojcik

2. Wolcott High School Public high school founded in 1958
Mission: “Wolcott High School provides a positive learning environment to engage students in meaningful learning for success in the 21st century.”
2012 Wolcott implemented the New Common Core State Standards
Increased rigor
Capstone project with career developed pathways
2012 Wolcott implemented a modified-block schedule
In-depth student collaboration projects
Effective technology used
Discovery-based learning

3. Technology Used In (and For) the Classroom
Analytic Learning
Data teams organized by subject
Compare data to improve student learning
Mimio Software and Clickers
Tablets
Individualized learning experience
Apps
Cost effective
Immediate resources

5. Scenarios and Scanning
Benefits
Opens up the mind to unimaginable possibilities and challenge long-held internal beliefs of an organization; …compelling its managers to rethink radically” (Mietzner & Reger, 2005, p. 235).
Newly adapted ideas instead of pre-existing ones; corporations are no longer focusing on "black and white scenarios or the most-likely scenario” (Mietzner & Reger, 2005, p.236).
Consequences
A surprise event can collapse society’s productivity (Clardy, 2011, p.43).
Data and other sources have to be collected and interpreted making scenario building time-consuming (Mietzner & Reger, 2005, p. 236).
Scanning
Supports from concrete evidence of how these trends have succeeded or failed previously, which allows people to slightly modify these trends for a better tomorrow
Learning analytics personalizes education for each student to achieve a measure of success.
Challenges
Economics and financial distress
Some of the modern technology does not have many trends to base a premise off of to predict future behaviors

6. Mobile, Ubiquitous and Contextual Computing
Technological Trends
Web 2.0 Technologies
Mobile, Ubiquitous and Contextual Computing
Both
Allows people to communicate with others and share ideas, videos, opinions, and more online
“Enhances and increased the quality of student work” (Pritchett, Wohleb, & Pritchett, 2013, p. 2)
Leads to individualized learning experiences
Collect Data to better understand areas of weakness
Analytic learning
Shows “increased motivation and self-directedness, accessibility and portability as a personal learning tool” (Klopfer, Yoon, & Perry, 2005, p. 2).
Instant access to information which leads to “just-in-time” learning

7. Budgeting Trends
Hiring freezes or restrictions, laying off of [full-time and] part-time faculty members, and reducing academic programs (Betts, Hartman, and Oxholm, 2009)
Learning journeys provide futuristic ways of learning that can be cost effective; yet, provide an eclectic collection of resources.
OER (open educational resources), are free for students to use
“help[s] learners connect with people, resources, and activities that can propel them along their chosen learning pathways” (Zimmerman, 2011, p. 1)
Allow students to engage in meaningful learning by making learning connections in and out of the classroom, in the community or online (Zimmerman, 2011)

8. Demographic Trends Immigration students STEM-related jobs
Legalization may help close the achievement gap
Higher rate of success because of a sense of community (Hao & Woo, 2012)
Networking and collaboration skills
Tablets may improve learning with one-to-one assistance
STEM-related jobs
More males than females
More STEM than non-STEM jobs (Milgrim, 2011)
Females involved with technology at a young age may develop an interest to pursue career at an older age
Females provide a different perspective

9. 5 Ways to Prepare Invest in classroom sets of tablets
Further research online educational apps, softwares, and other programs
Participate in professional development to learn how to appropriately assist students in content specific areas of virtual learning
Budget for new technologies
Provide more STEM-based elective classes for students to develop a further interest in these areas

10. Call to Action
Purchase a set of tablets for students to easily connect to the world around them and have access to several educational online resources.
Budget for the purchase of these tablets and apps
Participate in content specific professional development on how to properly use the technologies that are going to be implemented within a classroom (Davis & Rose, 2007).
Several apps should be researched
Collaborate online in a discussion forum concerning the pros and cons of each app or software.
Collect data from the use of these programs on each tablet.
Collaborate with their content specific colleagues to discuss teaching methods
Administration should designate common preps to teachers

11. References
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12. References cont.
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13. References cont.
Pritchett, C., Wohleb, E., & Pritchett, C. (2013, February). Educator’s
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Zimmerman, G. (2011). Learning journey mentor. KnowledgeWorks.
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