Technology Scenario - Thomas Vanderheusen
Technology Vision Setting Documents: One of the most important steps that principals and building leadership teams can take to support digital change efforts is to articulate a vision for just what effective technology integration looks like in action. Clear statements and scenarios that describe the kinds of behaviors that would be seen in classrooms where technology is being used to move learners forward in meaningful ways provide teachers and learning teams with a better sense for the learning spaces that you are trying to create. The documents below can be used as a guide when developing these statements and scenarios.
Technology Planning Guide - A series of questions designed to elicit school-based instructional priorities.
Technology Vision Statements - A document designed to walk leadership teams through the process of developing a set of technology vision statements.
Additional Resources and Examples of Purpose Driven Learning
Often the greatest challenge of pulling off purpose driven learning experiences is just imagining what's actually possible. The resources below may help you to do just that.
Challenge 20/20 Projects:An initiative led by the National Association of Independent Schools, Challenge 20/20 projects pair interested classes from any K–12 public, charter, or private school together for a targeted study of borderless issues like habitat loss, global warming, intellectual property rights in the digital age, the spread of infectious diseases, or the topic of free education for everyone. Over the course of several months, two to three classes of kids from different countries study the problem together and then make recommendations on solutions that are worth pursuing. Combining opportunities to do work that matters with global partnerships, Challenge 20/20 projects can help any teacher integrate purpose-driven learning into the classroom.
KQED Do Now Prompts:Every Friday, San Francisco public television station KQED publishes a prompt designed to give students opportunities to form opinions and engage in public discourse about controversial issues. Each prompt is drawn from current events and paired with resources that can be used by readers to build background knowledge. Exploring KQED prompts can help you spot a cause your kids will care about. Or consider using KQED prompts as the starting point for regular conversations in your classroom about issues that matter beyond the schoolhouse walls. Doing work that matters starts with awareness, and KQED Do Now prompts are easy ways to build that awareness.
DoSomething:The DoSomething.org team has one simple goal—to help people between the ages of thirteen and twenty-five make social change. Visitors to the site can sign up to participate in projects ranging from collecting jeans for homeless youth to developing digital training sessions for senior citizens. Participants receive ideas and resources to support their efforts and can see examples of similar projects accomplished by students in other cities. While DoSomething.org specifically targets high school students, elementary and middle school teachers can use the site to discover interesting project ideas that can help their students make a difference in the local community.
Crellin Elementary School:For the teachers and students at Crellin Elementary, learning starts by identifying problems worth solving in the local community. "I'm not going to ask them to memorize those multiplication tables because I have nothing else to do," writes principal Dana McCauley. "It's because later on, when we're calculating how big that composter needs to be, they'll need to know the area we're going to be using, and they'll to do it quickly. So it's about applying the knowledge." Learn more about Crellin’s work in this bit on the Edutopia website.
Spread Positivity Projects:For Chase Mielke, one of the primary purposes for public schooling is to give students chances to make an impact on the world around them. “If an end goal of education is to create skilled, altruistic citizens,” he writes,” why wait until after a student's post-secondary training?” To develop these skilled, altruistic citizens, Chase gives the kids in his classroom chances to create Spreading Positivity Projects. Small groups work together to make the world a better place by driving change on the local, national or global level. Learn more about the work Chase is doing in this bit on the Edutopia website.
from Digitally Speaking
http://digitallyspeaking.pbworks.com/Doing%20Work%20that%20Matters%20-%20Rochester%20MN
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