Schools around the country are starting to blend online learning into their instructional design as a means of personalizing students’ learning experiences. But with the myriad options for structuring the combination of online and face-to-face learning, teachers and administrators are faced with tough decisions on how to best implement technology for their students. In this webinar, our guests will explore the different blended-learning models that schools are using to support math instruction. They’ll discuss national trends emerging around blended-learning math programs, as well as take an up-close look at the challenges and successes one school has experienced with the blended math model.
1. THE FUTURE OF
PERSONALIZED LEARNING IN
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
RESULTS FROM THE SPEAK UP 2012 NATIONAL
RESEARCH PROJECT AND PROJECT TOMORROW
Sponsored by DreamBox Learning
2. Presenters:
Julie Evans
Neal Manegold
CEO, Project Tomorrow
Chief Researcher, Speak
Up National Research
Project
www.tomorrow.org/speakup
Curriculum Producer
DreamBox Learning
@NealManegold
3. Speak Up Findings: our discussion
How are elementary students personalizing
learning already, both in school and out of
school?
What are their parents’ aspirations?
How well are today’s elementary schools
meeting the student & parent aspirations?
What is the teacher & principal point of view on
personalized learning with new tech tools?
W does personalized learning really m
hat
ean?
4. “Pe rs o na liz e d le a rning m e a ns to m e tha t
Ia m te a c hing a c hild whe re the y a re a nd
wha t the y ne e d in o rd e r to be
s uc c e s s ful. I m e a ns tha t Ia m no t jus t
t
te a c hing the c urric ulum , but te a c hing a
c hild . ”
Elementary Teacher (NC)
Response to Speak Up 2012 Question
5. Speak Up National Research Project
Annual national research project
Online surveys + focus groups
Open for all K-12 schools and schools of education
Institutions receive free report with their own data
Collect ideas ↔ Stimulate conversations
K-12 Students, Teachers, Parents, Administrators
Pre-Service Teachers in Schools of Education
Inform policies & programs
Analysis and reporting of findings and trends
Consulting services to help transform teaching and learning
+ 3 million surveys since 2003
6. Speak Up survey question themes
Learning & Teaching with Technology
21st Century Skills: Digital Citizenship & Global Awareness
Math and Science Instruction
Students’ Career Interests in STEM
Professional Development / Teacher Preparation
Internet Safety
Administrators’ Challenges
Emerging Technologies both in & out of the Classroom
Mobile Devices, Online Learning, Digital Content, Etextbooks
Educational Games, Social Media tools and applications
Flipped Classroom, Print to Digital, Online Assessments
Designing the 21st Century School
7. National Speak Up 2012 Participation: 466,303
K-12 Students
Teachers & Librarians
Parents (in English & Spanish)
School/
District Administrators
364,233
56,346
39,713
6,011
About the participating schools & districts
o 8,020 schools and 2,431 districts
o 30% urban /43% rural /27% suburban
o All 50 states + DC
Honor Roll of States with highest
participation:
TX, CA, OH, IN, AL, NC, W AZ, FL, PA
I,
8. Speak Up 2012 National Reports
www.tomorrow.org/
speakup
13. How do you use technology and the
Internet at home?
S
tudents in grades 3-5:
Play online and video games
60%
Doing Internet research on things that interest me 47%
Watch TV shows online
42%
Participate in virtual worlds
30%
Text message family and friends
29%
Share photos
27%
Update a personal online profile
22%
Create videos to post online
19%
(c) Project Tomorrow
2013
14. What personal access do you
have to these mobile devices?
(c) Project Tomorrow
2013
15. How often do you access the Internet from
home to help you with your schoolwork?
S
tudents in grades 3-5:
Every day
A few days a week
Thru a mobile device?
17%
54%
71%
19%
(c) Project Tomorrow
2013
16. How do you use technology at school for learning?
S
tudents in grades 3-5:
Play educational games
Do Internet research for assignments
Take tests online
Complete writing assignments
Create presentations
Check grades
Watch online videos
Use online textbooks
Email or text my teacher
42%
34%
32%
20%
14%
(c) Project Tomorrow
2013
61%
58%
39%
13%
17. How important is the use of technology to your
child/student’s future?
Elementary
Schools
Middle Schools High Schools
Parents
Principals
Parents
Principals
Parents
Principals
Extremely
Important
54%
51%
57%
50%
58% 49%
Important
34%
42%
32%
42%
32% 43%
Somewhat
Important
10%
6%
9%
7%
9%
8%
Not
Important
2%
1%
2%
1%
2%
1%
(c) Project Tomorrow
2013
18. What concerns do you have about technology
use at your child’s school?
P
arents of elem
entary students:
Not enough computers for every child to use
41%
Technology use is too dependent upon individual teachers
31%
Students don’t have access to technology
20%
(c) Project Tomorrow
2013
19. Increased interest in digital learning?
Growth in mobile device access by parents
Cell phone
without Internet
access
Smartphone
Tablet
computer
Parents – 2008
90%
32%
5%
Parents – 2012
35%
73%
49%
(c) Project Tomorrow
2013
20. Use of social media by parents, also.
Communicating via text
messages
Maintaining a social
networking site
Watching online videos
Streaming online TV
shows
Playing online or mobile
app games
Using Twitter
Elementary
School
Parents
86%
Middle
School
Parents
86%
High School
Parents
62%
55%
52%
40%
36%
34%
37%
34%
32%
30%
28%
25%
14%
13%
13%
86%
(c) Project Tomorrow
2013
22. What’s waking up our administrators in the
middle of the night?
(c) Project Tomorrow
2013
23. “Child re n le a rn be s t whe n the y a re e ng a g e d
with the c o nte nt, c a n m a nip ula te it s o tha t the ir
le a rning is fle x ible , a nd whe n le a rning is
s o c ia l- in tha t the y s ha re a nd e x c ha ng e id e a s
a bo ut the ir le a rning within re a l wo rld
a p p lic a tio ns . Te c hno lo g y c a n bring into the
c la s s ro o m the re a l wo rld a nd he lp le a rning
be c o m e a live a nd re a l in tim e . ”
School Principal (NY)
Response to Speak Up 2012 Question
24. What are the benefits of using digital content
within instruction?
E entary school principals say:
lem
Increases student engagement and motivation 69%
Personalizes learning
51%
Improves quality of instructional materials
44%
Increases relevancy of instructional materials
43%
Improves teacher productivity
44%
(c) Project Tomorrow
2013
25. But, why the particular interest in intelligent
adaptive software?
E entary school principals say:
lem
Providing “just right” instruction
67%
Differentiating instruction within large classes
Enabling self-directed learning
66%
65%
Supporting teachers with real time reporting
54%
Increasing the effectiveness of using technology
46%
(c) Project Tomorrow
2013
26. Looking to the future
W experiences/
hat
skills do you think pre-service teachers
should have within their teacher prep program E entary
s? lem
principals say:
How to differentiate instruction using technology
65%
How to source and use digital content tools
58%
How to implement intelligent adaptive software
55%
How to leverage educational games within instruction 41%
(c) Project Tomorrow
2013
27. Teachers’ use of digital content
Type of Digital Content
Elementary Teachers
Videos found online
48%
Games
44%
Real time data
24%
Online curriculum
21%
Online textbooks
19%
Animations
19%
Self-created videos
6%
Intelligent adaptive software
5%
(c) Project Tomorrow
2013
28. Teachers’ use of digital content
Type of Digital Content
Elementary Teachers
Videos found online
48%
Games
44%
Real time data
24%
Online curriculum
21%
Online textbooks
19%
Animations
19%
Self-created videos
6%
Intelligent
adaptive software
5%
Growth of
69% since
2008
(c) Project Tomorrow
2013
29. Teachers’ use of intelligent adaptive software
Am
ongst teachers who are using intelligent adaptive
software, what are their goals?
Collect meaningful assessment data
71%
Create a learning centric classroom
70%
Facilitate student collaborations
69%
Help student visualize difficult concepts
Practice or reinforce skills
69%
68%
Introduction of new concepts
Address different learning styles
Increase student engagement
66%
64%
63%
(c) Project Tomorrow
2013
30. Imagine you are designing the ultimate
school for today’s students,
what digital tools and resources would
have the greatest impact on learning?
Do we have a shared vision?
32. For more Speak Up data and reports
Targeted and thematic reports
Online learning trends
Mobile learning & social media
Print to digital migration
Social learning
Intelligent adaptive software
New digital parent series
Presentations, podcasts and webinars
Research reports: digital content, mobile learning, 21st century skill development,
professional development
(c) Project Tomorrow 2013
33. “If I was a teacher, I would make learning fun
with smartphones, tablets, and websites by
letting everyone bring their own to school. In my
class, we would have textbooks on tablets so
there would be no cutting down trees. Kids in
my class would have everything on their
smartphones, tablets, and they could download
apps for science, math and reading. It would be
a lot of fun if there were smartphones, tablets,
and websites at school. The kids in my class
would really love it.”
Fifth Grade Boy (PA)
Response to Speak Up 2012 Question
34. Thank you.
Let’s continue this conversation.
Julie Evans
Project Tomorrow
jevans@tomorrow.org
949-609-4660 x15
Twitter: JulieEvans_PT
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35. One View of Personalization
•
Content Delivery: Making recommendations
for lessons, videos, readings, or
assignments to do next (often “crowdsourced” & using “big data”)
39. Future of Personalization
“In the Moment”
Track, Analyze & Respond to Everything
Answers
Strategies
Specific Mistakes
Interactions, Investigations
Lessons Built Specifically to be Adaptive
Responding Similar to How a Professional
Educator would in a 1-1 situation
41. Goal: Improved Learning
Personalization
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
o
A strategy to achieve learning goals for all
students
Honor each student’s ideas
Enable sense-making
Support transfer of learning
Levels of achievable challenge
Curriculum matters
Pedagogy matters
Enhanced by technology
47. Formative, Personalized Feedback
What incorrect answers would we expect on 29 + 62
=?
19 Student adds all four digits
33 Student believes this is a subtraction problem
81 Student does not regroup to the tens place
92 Arithmetic error in ones place
811 Student adds each column independently
2962 Student combines digits
Teachers don’t treat 81 and 2962 the same.
Software shouldn’t either.
52. Curriculum & Pedagogy Matter
Prescription
Single Linear Sequence
Learning Objectives
Personalization
Narrow, Behavioral
Isolated Knowledge
Low-Level Skills
“Giving” Understandings
Students as Listeners
Weak Progressions
Lacking Connections
Millions of Pathways
Learning Objectives
Big Ideas, Sense-Making
Conceptual Frameworks
Strategic Skills
Authentic Conceptions
Students as Doers
Consistent Progressions
Coherent Connections
53. What Are Students Doing?
Acquire Knowledge
Make Meaning
Watching & Listening
Practicing (problems like the examples they just
saw)
Manipulating, Exploring
Testing Ideas
Transfer Independently
Strategizing amidst Complexity
Solving Open Ended Problems with no
Scaffolding
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At dreambox we have designed our program to allow How do we improve learning and teaching through the personalization of strategies, tools, and supports for students?
Many of you are familiar with “Formative Assessment”. DreamBox has designed our program around the idea of “Formative Instruction”—every lesson within our program utilizes virtual manipulatives that allow students to show their thinking—through rich, interactive and open ended problem solving lessons—and allows DreamBox to capture every decision a student makes including response time, strategy used, types of mistakes, how they learn and more.
Based on this data, about a student and how they learn, DreamBox responds to students with immediate, personalized assistance, adjusts the level of difficulty, scaffolding, sequencing, number of hints, and the pacing of problems based each student’s unique needs—And provides teachers with real-time, actionable data to increase their effectiveness in tailoring instruction.
At dreambox we have designed our program to allow How do we improve learning and teaching through the personalization of strategies, tools, and supports for students?
Many of you are familiar with “Formative Assessment”. DreamBox has designed our program around the idea of “Formative Instruction”—every lesson within our program utilizes virtual manipulatives that allow students to show their thinking—through rich, interactive and open ended problem solving lessons—and allows DreamBox to capture every decision a student makes including response time, strategy used, types of mistakes, how they learn and more.
Based on this data, about a student and how they learn, DreamBox responds to students with immediate, personalized assistance, adjusts the level of difficulty, scaffolding, sequencing, number of hints, and the pacing of problems based each student’s unique needs—And provides teachers with real-time, actionable data to increase their effectiveness in tailoring instruction.
At dreambox we have designed our program to allow How do we improve learning and teaching through the personalization of strategies, tools, and supports for students?
Many of you are familiar with “Formative Assessment”. DreamBox has designed our program around the idea of “Formative Instruction”—every lesson within our program utilizes virtual manipulatives that allow students to show their thinking—through rich, interactive and open ended problem solving lessons—and allows DreamBox to capture every decision a student makes including response time, strategy used, types of mistakes, how they learn and more.
Based on this data, about a student and how they learn, DreamBox responds to students with immediate, personalized assistance, adjusts the level of difficulty, scaffolding, sequencing, number of hints, and the pacing of problems based each student’s unique needs—And provides teachers with real-time, actionable data to increase their effectiveness in tailoring instruction.
The first key component of effective personalized learning environments is ensuring that real-time data about individual students informs customized instruction.
As you all know, data collection is not new. Technology has long allowed us to collect massive amounts of information to spot patterns in learning and help validate effective teaching approaches. However, educators are not able to sift through mountains of data in real-time to inform instructional decisions.
Today new technology is able to analyze data that gives us an incredibly deep view of exactly what students are thinking—and use that information to instantly inform instructional decisions.
Many of you are familiar with “Formative Assessment”. DreamBox has designed our program around the idea of “Formative Instruction”—every lesson within our program utilizes virtual manipulatives that allow students to show their thinking—through rich, interactive and open ended problem solving lessons—and allows DreamBox to capture every decision a student makes including response time, strategy used, types of mistakes, how they learn and more.
Based on this data, about a student and how they learn, DreamBox responds to students with immediate, personalized assistance, adjusts the level of difficulty, scaffolding, sequencing, number of hints, and the pacing of problems based each student’s unique needs—And provides teachers with real-time, actionable data to increase their effectiveness in tailoring instruction.
The first key component of effective personalized learning environments is ensuring that real-time data about individual students informs customized instruction.
As you all know, data collection is not new. Technology has long allowed us to collect massive amounts of information to spot patterns in learning and help validate effective teaching approaches. However, educators are not able to sift through mountains of data in real-time to inform instructional decisions.
Today new technology is able to analyze data that gives us an incredibly deep view of exactly what students are thinking—and use that information to instantly inform instructional decisions.
Many of you are familiar with “Formative Assessment”. DreamBox has designed our program around the idea of “Formative Instruction”—every lesson within our program utilizes virtual manipulatives that allow students to show their thinking—through rich, interactive and open ended problem solving lessons—and allows DreamBox to capture every decision a student makes including response time, strategy used, types of mistakes, how they learn and more.
Based on this data, about a student and how they learn, DreamBox responds to students with immediate, personalized assistance, adjusts the level of difficulty, scaffolding, sequencing, number of hints, and the pacing of problems based each student’s unique needs—And provides teachers with real-time, actionable data to increase their effectiveness in tailoring instruction.
The third key component of creating a personalized learning environment is ensuring that instruction for each individual student is being optimizes as it is being delivered—that students have intelligent adaptive learning paths that are based on competency-based progression and student-driven learning.
As a single student works within DreamBox for one hour, our technology tracks, processes and responds to over 48,000 pieces of information and adjusts the student’s lessons and learning path in real-time.
With intelligent, adaptive learning paths struggling students can move backwards, to reinforce instruction as needed and advanced students can move forward…
Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ delivers instruction and support that students needs, when they need it. Allowing students to work in an environment where the level of instruction, support, tools available and encouragement and rewards are personalized and responsive to each student’s level of mathematical proficiency.
This new class of intelligent adaptive learning technology learns the learner as the learner learns—it is a true game-changer in education.