June+24+2015

Wednesday, June 24
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

// Educational Administrators create, promote, and sustain a dynamic, digital-age learning culture that provides a rigorous, relevant, and engaging education for all students. //
 * Topic: Digital Age Learning Culture **
 * 1) Ensure instructional innovation focused on continuous improvement of digital-age learning
 * 2) Model and promote the frequent and effective use of technology for learning
 * 3) Provide learner-centered environments equipped with technology and learning resources to meet the individual, diverse needs of all learners
 * 4) Ensure effective practice in the study of technology and its infusion across the curriculum
 * 5) Promote and participate in local, national, and global learning communities that stimulate innovation, creativity, and digital age collaboration


 * Wednesday POA **

Part I: Learning in the Digital Age
1. Social media/blogs check-ins 2. "Goodnight, gadgets everywhere." 3. The Networked Student

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//[|Digital Natives, Yet Strangers to the Web]// 4 . [|What the Internet is doing to our brains] 5. Pay attention! [|Attention] on Prezi by Howard Rheingold //[|Attention, and other 21st Century Social Media Literacies] // the work of Howard Rheingold

6. //[|6 Channels of 21st Century Learning]// and // [|9 Characteristics of 21st Century Learning] //



7. ISTE Standards for Students and curricular frameworks - how are we ensuring our students demonstrate proficiency in these areas?

Part II: Preparing and Supporting Our Teachers
[|ISTE Standards for Teachers] Examples to use for goal setting/portfolio building: [|Elanco Spartan Digital Competencies] and [|self-assessment]

[|ISTE NETS Implementation Wiki]

[|Partnership for 21st Century Skills]

[|Tech integration matrix from McLeod]

[|Elanco rotational learning walkthrough forms]

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 * What is TPACK and what are its components?
 * Why should I know about TPACK and how will it influence my work as an administrator?
 * How can this model be useful when working to develop teachers' skills with technology integration?


 * [|Developing TPACK with teachers]
 * [|7 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers Who Use Technology]
 * [|Technology integration matrix] from the Florida Center for Instructional Technology and [|Arizona Matrix]
 * [|Eight Stages in the Teacher Technology Journey]
 * [|Innovative Professional Development]-how can we adjust our professional learning frameworks to best meet the needs of all teachers?

8. Small group explorations -more technology integration topics- **[|create a group presentation here]** [|(Last year's example)]
 * "The 4 Cs"
 * [|The 21st century classroom: where the 3 Rs meet the 4 Cs]
 * [|The 4 Cs]
 * [|Teaching the 4Cs in BYOT]
 * [|The 4Cs, project-based learning and technology]
 * [|An educator's guide to the 4Cs]
 * [|SAMR Model]
 * [|The SAMR model] - one educator's experience using it
 * [|Examples of use]
 * [|SAMR model explained for teacher]s (in 120 seconds!)
 * [|SAMR Swimming Pool Model]
 * [|The trouble with SAMR]
 * Design Thinking in Schools
 * [|Design Thinking in Schools] from Edutopia
 * [|Design Thinking for Educators]-toolkit from IDEO
 * [|Design thinking won't save your school]
 * Project-Based Learning (PBL) and Innovation
 * [|A Crash Course in Innovation] Suzie Boss
 * [|What is PBL, Really?] by Peter Skillen
 * [|The Buck Institute]
 * [|Could PBL be the solution to education reform?]
 * [|PBL Diigo bookmarks]
 * [|Project-based learning from start to finish]
 * Other topics to consider: Blended learning, cyber/charter schools, AAL, BYOD/BYOT, your choice of interest

**Part III: Guest Speaker**

 * [|Kyle Pace], Instructional Technology Specialist, Missouri - [|resources he shared here]

Part II: The Administrator as Creator and Curator
How can you as the school leader celebrate, publish, and share the wonderful things happening in your school? Think creativity! How can you as the admin collect and share meaningful resources for your teachers and parents? Think curation!

Multimedia tools to explore Curation tools to explore: Feedly, Pocket, Paper.li, Twitter hashtags, Google+ communities, Pinterest, Storify


 * Quickfire Challenge - TBA **

Wednesday's Assignments
// Locate an article or blog post online written about the importance of digital citizenship, including perhaps a topic of controversy surrounding the use of technology in schools. Your blog post should include: // // 1. Summary of the article/post content, include author/publication/blog information. // // 2. Key points of the article, how the article/post influences your thinking about your future role as an ed leader, how you will be able to use the information shared in your future role, what further information you will seek as a result of reading the article/post. // // 3. Include a hyperlink to the article/post in your blog post. //
 * ** Assignment Description ** ||  || ** Due Date ** ||
 * ** Blog Assignment -Article/Blog Post Review **

Bonus: Tweet the article and post as well as your reflective post using the #edg646 hashtag. ||  || Thursday 6/25 by 8:30 AM ||
 * **Blog Commenting** - Provide thoughtful comments on at least **two** of your classmates' blog posts submitted earlier in the week. ||  || Thursday, 6/25 by 12 PM ||
 * Continue project work ||  || Presentations during Friday's class ||
 * Continue web tools Demo Slam research ||  || Share during Friday's class ||