1. EDUC W200 Week 2
SOURCES OF CONFLICT

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Teachers experience…
• A need to accommodate the changing learning styles of
the digital natives
• A need to create innovative learning experiences—
often discussed in association with technology.
• A need to assure that students are learning to the
expectation (in other words, the academic standards)
o Indiana Academic Standards vs. Common Core State Standards
o Push from the top: NCLB / RTTT

3. EDUC W200 Week 2
Let’s look at some details…
(Things you may want to know, even remember…)

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ACADEMIC STANDARDS
COMMON CORE STANDARDS
Recall from Week 1
How to search for or read
standards?

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WHY COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS?
•the standards prepare students to be college- and
career- ready upon completion of high school.Preparation
•the standards are internationally benchmarked to
help ensure our students are globally competitive.Competition
•Expectations are consistent for all – and not
dependent on a student’s zip code.Equity
•the standards are focused, coherent, and clear.
Clearer standards help student (and parents and
teachers) understand what is expected of them.
Clarity
• the standards permit unprecedented
opportunities for collaboration across states and
districts.
Collaboration

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NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND (NCLB)

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KEY ELEMENTS OF NCLB
States must develop their own
accountability systems (largely
standardized tests).
Schools must make “adequate
yearly progress” in
standardized test scores.
•Those that don’t are put on a
published list of “failing schools,”
and parents can transfer their
students to another school.
All teachers must be “highly
qualified” (by 2005).
Schools must use
“scientifically based” practices
and methods.
Students must be
“technology-literate” by
eighth grade.

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NCLB & ACADEMIC STANDARDS
• Main reasons for academic standards …
• To make sure students are learning what they’re supposed
to learn at a particular level
• To clearly measure student outcomes
o “The standards-based education reform, setting high
standards and establishing measurable goals will improve
students’ outcomes”
o “Whatever each state decides students will learn, each
school must prove that students are learning it.”

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OBAMA AND NCLB
• The greater push is to hold schools accountable for
student test scores
o Assessing student performance
• Indiana granted NCLB Waiver (May 2012)
• What does this mean for Indiana?

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Interactive
Map: 2012
ISTEP+
Results By
Grade &
Corporation

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TECHNOLOGY IN
STANDARDS-BASED EDUCATION
• Administrators, parents and students have
expectations about technology use in the classroom
• Your students need to meet state standards
• It is important for you to know how to integrate
technology into your classroom based on the
standards
• This is what w200 is all about!

13. EDUC W200 Week 2
Get Ready to Assess your Technological Skills
• Sign up for a Profiler Pro Account
• www.profilerpro.com
– JOIN A GROUP, and search for "w200”
– The password for joining this group is “w200”
• Follow steps in Class Prep #3