1. NJASA Techspo 2013
Twitter Hashtag #Techspo
Connected Educators
leading the
Connected Generation
Presented by:
Edward Aguiles- Director of Curriculum/Instruction
Sandra Paul-Director of Technology
Sayreville Public Schools, NJ
2. Agenda
How is the present generation
connected?
What does it mean to be a Connected
Educator?
Why is it necessary to be a Connected
Educator?
How is your community connected?
How do you become a Connected
Educator?
7. By 2020, America will once again
have the highest proportion of
college graduates in the world.”
—President Barack Obama, Address to Congress, February 24, 2009
8.
9. What does it mean to be a
Connected Educator?
Image credit: http://mswaughsclass.blogspot.com/2011/04/21st-century-classroom.html
10. A Connected Educator is:
A connected learner
Knowledgeable about Web 2.0
Willing to Join a Social Media Network
Willing to become a blogger
Reflective and reaches out
11. The National Education Technology Plan,
Transforming American Education: Learning
Powered by Technology,
calls for applying the advanced
technologies used in our daily personal and
professional lives to our entire education
system to improve student learning,
accelerate and scale up the adoption of
effective practices, and use data and
information for continuous improvement.
12. It presents five goals with
recommendations for states, districts,
the federal government, and other
stakeholders.
13. Each goal addresses one of the five
essential components of learning
powered by technology:
Learning –
Assessment –
Teaching –
Infrastructure –
Productivity –
14. Learning
The model of 21st century learning described in this plan
calls for engaging and empowering learning experiences for
all learners. The model asks that we focus what and how we
teach to match what people need to know, how they learn,
where and when they will learn, and who needs to learn. It
brings state-of-the art technology into learning to
enable, motivate, and inspire all students, regardless
of background, languages, or disabilities, to achieve. It
leverages the power of technology to provide
personalized learning instead of a one-size-fits-all
curriculum, pace of teaching, and instructional
practices.
15. Assessment
The model of 21st century learning requires new and
better ways to measure what matters, diagnose
strengths and weaknesses in the course of learning
when there is still time to improve student performance,
and involve multiple stakeholders in the process of
designing, conducting, and using assessment. In all these
activities, technology-based assessments can provide
data to drive decisions on the basis of what is best
for each and every student and that in aggregate
will lead to continuous improvement across our
entire education system.
16. Teaching
Just as leveraging technology can help us improve
learning and assessment, the model of 21st
century learning calls for using technology to help
build the capacity of educators by enabling a shift
to a model of connected teaching. In such a
teaching model, teams of connected educators
replace solo practitioners and classrooms are
fully connected to provide educators with 24/7
access to data and analytic tools as well as to
resources that help them act on the insights the
data provide.
17. Infrastructure
An essential component of the 21st century learning
model is a comprehensive infrastructure for learning that
provides every student, educator, and level of our
education system with the resources they need when
and where they are needed. The underlying principle
is that infrastructure includes people, processes,
learning resources, policies, and sustainable
models for continuous improvement in addition
to broadband connectivity, servers, software,
management systems, and administration tools.
Building this infrastructure is a far-reaching project that
will demand concerted and coordinated effort.
18. Productivity
To achieve our goal of transforming American education, we
must rethink basic assumptions and redesign our education
system. We must apply technology to implement personalized
learning and ensure that students are making appropriate
progress through our K-16 system so they graduate. These
and other initiatives require investment, but tight economic
times and basic fiscal responsibility demand that we get
more out of each dollar we spend. We must leverage
technology to plan, manage, monitor, and report spending to
provide decision-makers with a reliable, accurate, and
complete view of the financial performance of our education
system at all levels. Such visibility is essential to meeting our
goals for educational attainment within the budgets we can
afford.
20. Pew Internet surveys since 2005
have consistently found that:
Roughly 1 in 10 online adults maintain a
personal online journal or blog.
72% of online 18-29 year olds use social
networking websites, nearly identical to
the rate among teens
By comparison only 39% of internet users
ages 30 and older use these sites.
21. Social Capital
Adults are increasingly fragmenting their social
networking experience.
52% who use social networking sites say they
have two or more different profiles. That is up
from 42% who had multiple profiles in May 2008.
Among adults profile owners:
◦ 73% have a profile on Facebook
◦ 48% have a profile on MySpace
◦ 14% have a LinkedIn profile.
22. Cellphones Have Changed the
Connectivity Landscape
Cell phone ownership is nearly universal
among teens and young adults,
75% of teens own cell phones
58% of 12-year olds now own a cell
phone, up from just 18% of such teens as
recently as 2004.
93% of adults ages 18-29 own a cell
phone
23. Who’s Online?
93% of teens ages 12-17
93% of young adults ages 18-29.
74% of all adults ages 18 and older go online.
55% of 18-29 year olds have accessed the
internet wirelessly on a laptop or on a cell
phone
28% of 18-29 year-olds have accessed the
internet wirelessly on another device such as an
e-book reader or gaming device
28. Why?
Communications
Professional Development PLN including
extension of education,
Blended/Virtual learning
MOOC (massive open online courses), online
degrees and courses
Resources for planning, implementation, research
data
Development of curricula, instruction, evaluation;
Global connections to other cultures, subject
matter experts,
Innovation,
Creativity
39. Thank you
Contact info:
◦ Edward Aguiles –
edward.aguiles@sayrevillek12.net
◦ Twitter:@EdAguiles
◦ Sandra Paul – sandra.paul@sayrevillek12.net
Twitter: @spaul6414
◦ LinkedIn: sandra.paul
◦ Facebook: spaul6414
◦ Skype: spaul6414
40. Resources
Getting Started with Web 2.0
Getting Started with Social Bookmarking
Introduction to Social Media in Education
What is a MOOC?
How to Start a Blog? –A Complete Guide to
Setting up a Blog
PLN for Educators
NETS – A National Education Technology Standards
for Administrators
Pintrest
Delicious
41. Resources
Evolving Education – Scott Rocco
Learning in Burlington – Patrick Larkin
Poker Principal – Edward Aguiles
Principal’s Page, the blog - Michael Smith
Editor's Notes
At present many of our students, parents, community members, etc. are connected via any number of devices and do communicate digitally. As this trend grows, there will be a need to “connect” to the stakeholders of your school and district. The change in education is happening but many teachers, administrators and board members see the “lawsuit” waiting to happen rather than the positive aspects of being connected to the students, parents and the community at large.
Today we will be exploring how several districts are connecting to their communities to disseminate information about their schools, their teachers, etc. Being connected will include Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, Vodcasting, Podcasting BackChanneling, Google Hangout, Skype, social bookmarking, video streaming, professional development, globalization, etc. and how these can be used in the classroom, school or district.
Experience with 2 year old niece calling me on Skype on 1/21/13.
Pew Internet surveys since 2005 have consistently found that:Roughly 1 in 10 online adults maintain a personal online journal or blog. 72% of online 18-29 year olds use social networking websites, nearly identical to the rate among teensBy comparison only 39% of internet users ages 30 and older use these sites.52% who use social networking sites say they have two or more different profiles.That is up from 42% who had multiple profiles in May 2008. Among adults profile owners: 73% have a profile on Facebook 48% have a profile on MySpace 14% have a LinkedIn profile.
Community Communication- Township, Borough – services for Police, Fire, etc. Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Nixle.com – texting for townships, police/fire departments, etc., Tumblr. Experience during Hurricane Sandy, District Websites, School TV channels, School Administrator Twitter accounts on the opening of schools or where to report, School Administrator Facebook pages for same information, etc. Positive message about your school/district.
The devices that we use to make connections, the access via wifi, 3G, 4G, hard wiring. Internet service providers. The mobility of our connections and ubiquitous technology. Usability and assistive technology for everyone. 1 to 1 in education, BYOD in education and in business. Anytime, Anywhere learning for administrators, teachers, students, parents, etc.
The Internet has delivered an explosion of learning opportunities for today’s students, creating an abundance of information, knowledge, and teachers as well as a starkly different landscape from the one in which our ideas about school were born. Traditional educators, classrooms, and brick-and-mortar schools are no longer necessary to access information. Instead, things like blogs and wikis, as well as remote collaborations and an emphasis on critical thinking skills are the coins of the realm in this new kingdom”.
Same as previous slide on connectivity.
Online courses that can be taken at no cost to the student completely online. My personal experience. Rutgers in talks with canvas.net to being MOOC from the Camden campus.
Using Twitter; You can develop a twitter account and luUsing Twitter: Can setup a twitter account and begin lurking. Lurking is the spying on people online. Then can begin to participate in Twitter chat usually at night or over the weekends. The hashtag symbol # is a metadata tag for microbloggling and social media. Recommendations include #satchat, #edchat, #21stchat, #suptchat, #ptchat.
New Milford High School, NJ. Chester School District, NJ. Morris School District, NJ. Princeton Public School, NJ. Joplin School District, MO. School District of Philadelphia, Pa. Sayreville Schools does not have Facebook page.
Patrick Larkin-High School, Burlington, Ma. Scott Rocco, NJ Michael Smith-High Principal, Poker Principal-Ed Aguiles, this is the place to get you positive message out about your school, teachers and students. Also, can be used to explain new initiatives for the school/district, or for professional commentary, etc.
In Google + can create circles, communities, Hangout - Video chat with up to nine people at once, face-to-face-to-face.
Delicious,Diig, Reddit, Pinrest – these bookmarks are collaborative and are contributed by those you follow for your PLN. Or can share your bookmarks with others in your PLN or selective persons.
How then do we teach Generation C? Floating University Youtube
CollaborationCultural Exchange
VIDEO: A vision of seamless connectivity in the future.For communications; professional development PLN including extension of education, blended/virtual learning, MOOC (massive open online courses), online degrees and courses; resources for planning, implementation, research data; development of curricula, instruction, evaluation; global connections to other cultures, subject matter experts, innovation, creativity, etc.
