1. STaR Chart
How does CMS rate when it comes to
technology?

2. Agenda
• Test your techno know-how
• WOW Quotes to ponder
• CMS rating over the past 3 years
• Student friendly STaR Chart for Target Tech
• Where do we go from here?

3. Do you know these
techno terms?
Odds are…your students do!

4. Ponder this…
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“Learning and teaching should not stand on
opposite banks and just watch the river flow
by; instead, they should embark together on a
journey down the water.”
- Loris Malaguzzi
“But resisting today’s digital technology will be
truly lethal to our children’s education.”
- Mark Prensky

5. STaR Rubric

6. Student Friendly Rubric for
Technology Utopia
• How far away is CMS from Technology Utopia?
Key Area Summary for CMS 2010-2011
Teaching and Learning 16 Advanced Tech
Educator Prep and Dev 12 Developing Tech
Administration Support 15 Advanced Tech
Infrastructure 18 Advanced Tech

7. Rating System: Early Tech, Developing Tech,
Advanced Tech, and Target Tech (Utopia)
• Teaching & Learning:
– I get to work in groups and use technology to help
solve real world problems in all subject areas
– I have access to online materials from anywhere
– My teachers use web-based lessons and
interactive communications in all classes
CMS Rating: Advanced Tech = 8 pts from Utopia

8. • Educator Preparation and Development:
– My teachers create new learning environments
– I learn through guided activities and
inquiry/action research that I care about and
relate to
– My teachers are prepared and knowledgeable
about technology and create new interactive
lessons
CMS Rating: Developing Tech = 12 pts from Utopia

9. • Administration Support:
– My principal supports innovation to help me
succeed
– I have a technology-rich school full of teaching
methods that help me think critically
– Our school works with our community and
communicates using interactive technology
CMS Rating: Developing Tech = 9 pts from Utopia

10. • Infrastructure for Technology:
– I have access to internet-connected multimedia
at all times
– Interactive technology is available and used daily
in my classrooms: tools like streaming, podcasts,
applets, and animation
CMS Rating: Developing Tech = 6 pts from Utopia

11. STaR Chart
• Greatest strength:
Infrastructure
• Greatest weakness:
Educator Preparation and
Development

12. Where do we go from here?
Final thought:
“We cannot, no matter how hard we try or how
smart we are (or think we are), invent the
future education of our children for them.
The only way to move forward effectively is to
combine what they know about technology
with what we know and require about
education.”
-Mark Prensky

13. As a campus, what do we need to get
to Technology Utopia???
• At each table, there are index cards.
• Please write your three greatest
strengths in technology…things you are
comfortable teaching others.
• Next, list three things you want/need to
learn more about to keep up with our
students.