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T201: Educational Knowledge Leadership: Models to Integrate New Technologies in School (Spotlight Session)
Essential Skills: Education and Training
Many children use Web 2.0 technologies in their leisure time. Informal learning is the way most children learn to use these new technologies. For most children there is a significant gap between children’s use of Web 2.0 technologies in school versus leisure time, and also the way they learn inside school and outside school. The challenge for school leaders is to investigate the learning potential of Web 2.0 technologies and to integrate this informal learning within formal learning. How can schools benefit from students ICT competencies? In a research and development project supported by the Danish Ministry of Education and the Municipality of Gentofte (Denmark), models of educational knowledge leadership are developed in collaboration with teachers. The models are employed in classes and the research shows successful models to integrate new Web 2.0 technologies in the school and to amalgamate informal and formal learning.
- Professor Birgitte Holm Sørensen, PhD, Professor and Director of Research Program on Media and ICT in a Learning Perspective, School of Education, University of Aarhus, Denmark
T202: Pushing the Frontier With Internet2 in K-12 Classrooms
Essential Skills: Information Management, Education and Training
K–12 students and teachers across the nation are joining the Internet2 community, which uses the powerful network built exclusively for education and research. This session will focus not only on how to get connected, but also on how to acquire content, create partnerships, and build collaborations with national and international classrooms, higher education, and informal education.
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- Bill Giddings, Director, Education and Library Programs, MORENet (Moderator)
- Lawrence Gallery, Manager, Membership Development, Internet2 K20 and NYSERNet, Inc.
- Heather Weisse, Applications Coordinator, MAGPI, University of Pennsylvania
T203: Copyright Law and Ed Tech: Friends or Foes?
Essential Skills: Ethics and Policies
Policy-makers and educators are struggling to apply copyright law to the use of digital content in the traditional and virtual classrooms. This presentation will focus on certain basics of the law that carry copyright-related legal and ethical implications for education technology and information professionals. Presenters will briefly review key provisions of the fair use doctrine, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and the TEACH Act. We will then examine these provisions in the context of (1) recently released principles for the incorporation of user-generated content (such as YouTube videos) in education, and (2) district-level or school-level copyright compliance policies. This examination will include the controversy surrounding the potential use of filters to keep copyrighted e-content out of the classroom. Our central question is whether these principles, policies, and technologies serve to support or thwart the goal of copyright law to promote learning and social progress.
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- Glen Secor, Esq., Director, Publications and Business Development, TERC
T204: What Can K-12 Learn from Higher Education About Interoperability
Essential Skills: Leadership and Vision
Interoperability is a concern throughout both K–12 and higher education. Do the answers to interoperability challenges and identify management challenges that were developed for higher education have a role to play in K–12? Shibboleth is standards-based, open source middleware software that provides Web Single SignOn (SSO) across or within organizational boundaries. It allows sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access of protected online resources in a privacy-preserving manner. IMS GLC is a global, nonprofit, member association that provides leadership in shaping and growing the learning and educational technology industries through collaborative support of standards, innovation, best practice, and recognition of superior learning impact. Hear about the latest IMS work, including Common Cartridge, which enables interoperability for digital content, Web learning applications, and learning outcomes reporting.
- Marla Davenport, Director, Learning & Technology, TIES (Moderator)
- Rob Abel, EdD, Chief Executive Officer, IMS Global Learning Consortium, Inc.
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- Charlie Leonhardt, Principal Technologist, University Information Services, Georgetown University
T205: Building and Sustaining Community Support for Technology
Essential Skills: Leadership and Vision, Communication Systems
In spite of advocacy efforts to increase state and federal support for technology, most districts rely heavily on local funding to support their technology efforts. Building and maintaining strong voter support shouldn't start with a PR blitz just before a bond or tax vote. To build lasting support, districts must engage in ongoing communications, relationship building, and delivering value to parents and other voters. Blue Valley Schools (KS) has a history of strong community support for technology, as evidenced by more than $80 million in voter approved bonds in the past decade, in addition to successful sales tax and capital outlay levies, which have provided more than $50 million in additional funding. Learn how Blue Valley has managed to pass these votes by ever increasing margins. While Ladue School District (MO) was always very strong academically, it lacked leadership in its communication about the district’s focus on technology. But now, through new visionary leadership, the district sees technology as a key to future success. Ladue School District has implemented a deliberate communications strategy to earn voter support, including a successful bond issue for technology improvements. Learn about an intriguing Blue Valley–Ladue connection that demonstrates the importance of strong district-level leadership in building and maintaining community support for technology.
- Marsha Chappelow, PhD, Assistant Superintendent Human Resources & Communications, Ladue Schools, MO
- Bob Moore, Executive Director, Information Technology, Blue Valley USD #229, KS
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T206: Creating Environments that Support Learning: The Role of ICT
Essential Skills: Leadership and Vision, Education and Training, Ethics and Policies
In the past the “learning environment” was simply the classroom, and maybe sometimes the school yard. In this traditional view, the learning space was largely cut off from the outside world. Nowadays we take a broader view and learning environments are seen from many different perspectives. One reason of course is the internet but that is not the only reason. Listen to global leaders from Finland and India describe their unique perspectives. Learn about a new series of pedagogical interventions for learning science in India titled “Lab in a Bag,” using a MIL (Mobility, Investigation, and Literacy) approach. The project aims to deliver high value, contextual learning in science to young children from poor urban communities in India. From Finland, hear how learning environments are being seen as a model where new ways of teaching and learning are sought. This new philosophy means many changes at school, including a move away from the traditional ways of teaching and traditional learning environments. ICT (computers, mobile phones, digital cameras, etc) has a very important role in these new environments as tools that support teaching and learning, but usually they are not in the central focus. Attend this session and hear these contrasting global views and compelling visions.
- Mark Neiker, President and Executive Director, Pearson Foundation (Moderator)
- Geetha Narayanan, Founder/Director, Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, India
- Kaisa Vähähyyppä, Head of Unit, Finnish Ministry of Education
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T207: Innovative Planning Resources for District Technology Leaders
Essential Skills: Business Leadership
The U.S. Department of Education, with support from SRI International, has created a collection of resources, called the eToolkit to support district technology leaders in effective planning and implementation of educational technologies. The eToolkit provides a variety of tools and resources designed to encourage a systemic, community-wide approach to K–12 technology planning. This session will provide an overview of the eToolkit, which includes a bandwidth planner, an interactive map, and a district-leader resource organizer. The bandwidth planner has a tool to estimate current and future bandwidth needs and a set of case studies that show how other districts have addressed their bandwidth needs. The interactive map is designed to help district technology leaders explain to school-based stakeholders the potential of educational technologies. The personal resource organizer is aligned to CoSN CTO standards and can help CTOs and other technology leaders reflect on their practice and identify resources of likely interest. Together, these features provide the eToolkit with a rich set of resources to help district technology leaders plan and implement educational technologies more effectively.
- Tim Magner, Director, Office of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education
T208: Using 21st Century Technology and a Media Rich Environment to Leverage Learning
Essential Skills: Leadership and Vision, Education and Training
Spotlight Session Hosted By :
With ever-growing ESL populations, struggling special education students, strong pressure to raise high-stakes assessment scores, and students more interested in podcasts and YouTube than in teachers and class, is it really possible for technology to make a difference in teaching and learning in our classrooms?
One way it can is through the use of media, which when integrated into the curriculum and instruction is not only more engaging, but is also a direct route to improved learning and retention as studies have proven.
The technologies are here. The big question is how we should use them to leverage learning—text literacy, basic numeracy and beyond, the sciences, new language acquisition, music, art that engages and excites students. This session will share some simple but effective strategies used by teachers in Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia to integrate the use of video-on-demand, interactive whiteboards, and classroom response systems to provide engaging instruction.
- Lynn McNally, Technology Resource Supervisor, Loudoun County Public Schools, VA
T209: Pre-Kindergarten to 20 Continuum: A view of Leveraging Data Beyond K-12
(Spotlight Session Hosted by IBM)
Essential Skills: Information Management
Connecting K-12, Higher Education, and Workforce Development through Data: Many education organizations (districts and state departments of education) collect student level data to assess student performance and manage school district and state education operations. However, policy makers are beginning to look at ways to leverage K-12 data in a larger educational, social service, and workforce context. This session will focus on the information system building blocks that educational organizations, particularly states, are putting in place to build a framework that supports the integration of educational data with state and other agency data to develop an integrated view of student outcomes and workforce development.
- Kirsten Schroeder, Partner, K12 Education, IBM Global Business Services, IBM
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