Breakout Sessions for Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSION II

W201: Horizon K-12 Report (Spotlight Session)
ESSENTIAL SKILLS: Information Management and Leadership & Vision
SALON D

What’s on the Horizon for K12 Technology? If you know the Horizon Project for higher ed, published by New Media Consurtium (NMC) and EDUCAUSE, you will be eager to learn about the newK12 version released by the NMC and CoSN.Education and technology contributors fromaround the globe identified emerging technologies for three different time horizons aswell as the unique challenges and trends related to technology in K12. Learn about the results from participants in the process and seewhatmay be coming soon to your school district.

W202: Technology Partnerships for Success
ESSENTIAL SKILLS: Information Management and Leadership & Vision
SALON E

Teaming technology with district and community stakeholders can provide rich dividends for technology implementation and use in the district.North Kansas City School District has partneredwith boardmembers,community,staff, and students. District members will outline strategies and ideas for success. Seewhy North Kansas City Schoolswon the 2009 CoSN Team Award

W203: Creating a Statewide Culture of Innovation and Accountability
ESSENTIAL SKILLS: Information Management and Leadership & Vision
MR406

Attend this presentation to discover how West Virginia  integrated technology experiences to drive innovative classroom practice in which students address core subject content in a 21st century context and how that effort was assessed.  It’s been said that the way to affect systemic change in education is to change what is assessed. The Federal mandate that student technology proficiency be reported supports this premise as states and districts are now moving quickly to secure equitable technology learning experiences and outcomes for their students. To achieve the requisite change in classroom culture, practice, and student engagement, employing the right balance of assessment methods is equally important.  The authentic application of skills increases validity by generating tangible evidence of information and technology proficiencies which are recorded and reported through individual student technology literacy profiles.  This presentation reports the results of analyses of state-level data using the NAEP Data Explorer on student computer use across multiple time periods.

W204: Building a Visionary IT Organization:  Best Practices
ESSENTIAL SKILLS: Leadership & Vision and Systems Management
MR409

Web 2.0 tools provide students opportunities to creatively express their knowledge and collaborate with the global community. Students have made online communications part of their daily lives. Shouldn’t schools be embracing, instructing and incorporating

W205: New Skills for the New Century: Manor New Tech Students Tell How their School Helps Them Get 21st Century Skills
ESSENTIAL SKILLS: Education and Training
MR410

Come see award-winning Manor New Tech student videos about their school and then ask a panel of Manor New Tech Students how they learn and how they are assessed to help them get and master 21st Century Skills. Manor New Tech is a Texas T-STEM Academy and one of 40 schools in the national Network of New Technology High Schools.

W206: Emerging IT Trends
MR412

This session will provide examples and demonstrations of two cutting edge technologies by two nationally recognized school districts.

A Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the single answer to a half dozen major problems that IT departments are currently working to solve; single sign on, SIF and data integration, identity management, presenting data and applications on the internet to your staff, students and parents securely. A handful of districts around the country are either looking into building a SOA, or have already begun this work. The private sector has been using this technology for half dozen years. If you've been to Amazon or most travel sites you have used a SOA. The SOA allows disparate applications and databases to work together in a seamless, user friendly way. There is no navigation through multiple websites with multiple sign ins to find the information your users are seeking. Attendees will see one of the first working school district SOA's in the nation. This will change the way your district does business. It will provide opportunities that previously were impossible to accomplish. Whether you are a small, medium or large district, this technology is something you will want.

Cloud Computing provides individual software tools or whole computer desktops that are delivered via remote services and managed by provisioning and scheduling tools, essentially turning the computer desktop into a cloud computing service. The Virtual Computer Lab (VCL) was developed at North Carolina State University as a DaaS tool to address the increased technology and human resources needed to manage instructional computer labs across campus. The second half of the session will talk about lessons learned from the VCL pilot project concerning requirements for successfully implementing SaaS or DaaS in your school system. The VCL pilot also points to the general potential and issues to be concerned with as cloud computing tools and architectures such as SOA and DaaS become more prevalent.

W207: ICT in Education Strategies in S.E.: Malaysia & Singapore
Essential Skills: Leadership & Vision
MR400

Learn about Singapore’s Master Plan for ICT which has just been updated. Hear about the outgoing Second Master Plan and incoming third Master Plan, focusing in the direction learning points and approaches. The presenter will also describe how the new Master Plan will support innovative school projects. And, learn about the latest from Malaysia and their innovative efforts around multimedia in education.

W208: Cell Phones for Mobile Learning: Examples from Around the World
ESSENTIAL SKILLS: Leadership & Vision and Ethics & Policies
MR408

Mobile, cellular technologies are the future computing devices for K-12. See the future today. We present a panel of educators from Singapore, UK and US who are using mobile, cellular technologies today in real classrooms for curricular purposes. The pros/cons, strengths/weaknesses of using this fast emerging technology will be discussed.

W209: Redefining your Learning Environment
ESSENTIAL SKILLS: Leadership & Vision and Ethics & Policies
SALON D

Mobile, cellular technologies are the future computing devices for K-12. See the future today. We present a panel of educators from Singapore, UK and US who are using mobile, cellular technologies today in real classrooms for curricular purposes. The pros/cons, strengths/weaknesses of using this fast emerging technology will be discussed.

W210: Leveraging the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to Build the Education 3.0 System of Tomorrow—Today!
ESSENTIAL SKILLS: Leadership & Vision and Ethics & Policies
SALON B

What is Education 3.0 and why is it important? How can you best use American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds to drive change in your district?

Educators know that our school systems urgently need to prepare students for the fast-moving demands of this century. This presentation will discuss the Education 3.0 vision and help you understand where your system currently falls on the journey of transformation. It will also help you to begin preparing now for the ARRA tidal wave of change and its three pressure points on education.

The first pressure point involves strategic planning. The presentation will help you understand how to build a strategic plan to move your system ahead rapidly and ensure a teacher-focused, student-centric, cost-effective learning environment.

The second involves results. ARRA brings the single largest one-time investment in education in US history, and with it comes the obligation to make sensible investments with long-term benefits. The performance rewards portion of the funding means that results will count, and your district will want to show that the stimulus program has been a worthwhile investment.

The third involves building a successful partner ecosystem to drive system-wide change and enable results.

We will discuss why the Education 3.0 vision and strategy are important for your system, how to build an Education 3.0 strategic plan with the help of the ARRA, and how to construct the partnership ecosystem you need to make successful use of ARRA funds.

W210A: Superintendent’s Perspective on Systemizing Effective Learning Through Web 2.0
ESSENTIAL SKILLS: Leadership & Vision and Ethics & Policies
SALON F

Dr. Mike Mattingly, Assistant Superintendent Denton ISD Texas, will outline how his district has implemented a safe, systemized, scalable framework for effective Web 2.0 based learning. Dr. Mattingly will speak to the district’s inspiring vision and goals for learners, and how the implementation of their Web 2.0 collaborative learning environment supports these goals, without compromising student safety and security. Dr. Mattingly will outline how staff was supported; the impact on, and opportunities for new, pedagogies; community response; outcomes for learners and teachers; nature of the ISD’s partnership with their service provider, and the plans for the future. Live examples of authentic, rigorous student learning and teacher innovation will be presented, including examples of local and global collaborative learning. This session is a ‘must see’ for district and state leaders trying to work out whether and how Web 2.0 belongs in their school district, and how it can be harnessed for powerful system-wide improvements in learning outcomes and approaches.