This presentation was given to the Haddon Township Board of Education by Lara Hill, Supervisor of Technology and Information Services and Steve Chard, District Instructional Technology Facilitator on February 21, 2008. The topics covered include the realities and future that current learners face, challenges of providing educational technology within the district, vision, goals, and accomplishments.

1. Meeting the Needs of 21 st Century Learners The State of Technology in Haddon Township 2007-2008 Lara Hill, Supervisor of Technology and Information Services Haddon Township School District February 2008

3. ShiftHappens Click here to access ShiftHappens video ! ShiftHappens is a presentation created originally by Karl Fisch . Jeff Brenman used Fisch’s information to boost the design of the presentation.

4. Current Technology Challenges

14. Educational Technology Vision and Goals

18. 2007-2008 Accomplishments How are we meeting these challenges?

26. Professional Development Training

30. What did the students learn? "At what cost?" is a question often heard in the world today and will be heard more often as time goes on. It is a question that everyone should consider, but a more important question is: "What am I going to do about it?" - Ray L. When will people realize that in few decades greenhouse gases have increased 60%. When you burn fossil fuels, such as oil, this releases huge amounts of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. It is said that CO2 is the main gas responsible for Global Warming. When will people finally see that we cause Global Warming, but that we can easily stop it? . . . - Devon T.

37. What’s Next!

39. Questions?