National+Educational+Technology+Plan

Presentation by Barbara Means and Linda Roberts: SLIDES to be uploaded upon receipt from Barbara

Recommendations from Table Groups:

Table #1: (Texas, Georgia, Alabama, Illinois, Oregon and SETDA) SETDA will develop general agenda and discussion questions for states to use to solicit input through on-line and in-person meetings/discussions.
 * Goals: **
 * Develop equitable access to 21st Century Learning Environments (home and school) for ALL students
 * Provide individualized, cross-curricular, relevant education for students
 * Ensure students are prepared for the 21st Century global economy
 * Transform role of teachers to be learning coaches or facilitators of learning
 * Develop on-going assessment and data that are embedded in learning and provide measures of progress
 * Ensure that leaders have knowledge of organizational change, reform implementation, and resource reallocation
 * Areas of Focus: **
 * Access/Broadband
 * Professional Development
 * Virtual Learning
 * Digital Content
 * Standards, Assessment, and Data

Discussion at Back Middle Table (NY, NH, VT, MD, USDOE)**
 * __Table #2:__

How can a plan help?
 * It will provide direction and help define the data elements for Title IID data collection
 * Provides vision
 * Lends authority and credibility to our work
 * Helps us get "unstuck" and go beyond a 20th century model of teaching and learning
 * Helps articulate that ed tech is much more than an assessment tool
 * Helps us go beyond our borders

We discussed broader topics and important/critical themes:
 * Why technology? What for? Human element - digital citizenship is so important
 * Also global environment is key theme to consider - beyond borders
 * Abundance of resources results in questions of value added
 * Changes in pedagogy important!
 * How to engage kids in modern environment -- look at models like High Tech High, etc.
 * Internet policies are critical -- lock down doesn't help
 * High stakes testing can be counter productive
 * Online learning will drive the change

Reminded of books to reference:
 * Distracted (Maggie Jackson)
 * Global Achievement Gap (Tony Wagner)

__Table #3:__ Notes from front table (FL, Montana, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Geof Fletcher)
Remove any of the politics Big ideas How a plan can help our students in learning How can it help our students, parents, and teachers, How can technology personalize learning and use the community The potential of how technology can transform education Need to know more about technology use and transformative Technology disappears - how do we transform teaching

Tool that the state can use and districts
 * - plan needs to align or compliment with the law
 * setting the minimum conditions for success
 * under what conditions is technology is most effective
 * conditions for learning and how technology supports
 * Efficiency for the use of technology - administrative portion
 * Plan for true reform and innovation in schools evidence and data that supports the change
 * Opportunity to connect the pots of money
 * This plan needs to fit into the national standards movement
 * Teaching an learning could not happen without the technology
 * The plan must be written to not just be about technology
 * Arrow that moves us forward

How do we involve the community - need to have the parents involved the learning process is both formal and informal

Overarching plan must address the students, teachers, parents, school boards, administrative leaders,
 * The goals need to be the type of learning environment we want for students
 * Need to focus on the career readiness for students - next generation of learners
 * It needs to have visionary leadership
 * involve the community for support
 * transparency of the plan that is communicated to parents, teachers, community
 * an expectation for all students to have this type of learning environment
 * needs to be written for the higher education system
 * there needs to be a strong marketing plan
 * focus groups
 * student voices through podcasting
 * use speak up survey
 * measurable outcomes/indicators at given point in times to show success


 * __Table #4:__**

 Your Input: How a Plan Can Help How have you used past plans? - How could you use this one? –    What makes a National Educational Technology Plan more or less useful from your perspective?<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Your Input: Themes/Goals<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> What are the most important goals?<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> What are the areas where technology can make the largest contribution? **What has your state learned about technology implementation and evaluation?** <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> What policies and practices should the plan promote?<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> How can you mobilize your state to provide input to the process?<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> What key constituents do you want to involve?<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Connect E2T2, IDEA, Title I, GPRA, EDFacts  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Could help to inform align update of state plans  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Reference standards and tie outcomes back to those standards  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Allows states to understand national direction and goals  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Gives framework for designing state plans  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Improve Student Achievement and Career and Workplace Technology  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Equity of Access to Technology  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Appropriate Systems of Support (Federal, State, and Local) for ALL  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Integration of Technology in student thinking and learning  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Common language, expectations, standards, access and availability around  **
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> technology vary so greatly   **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Establish common language, expectations, standards, access and availability  **
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Your Input: In your State   **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Web 2.0 tools and send out to students, teachers and parents (rather than us be the  **
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> filters)   **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Reach out to statewide tech teacher organizations – aware of conference dates,  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Webinars  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> All educational agencies beyond the traditional SEAs (US Teritories, B. of Indian  **
 * <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Affairs, etc.)   **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Affiliate State Organizations  **

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Your Input: Providing good examples<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> For the themes or goals you have identified, where could we find the desired practice<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> implemented well?<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Maine – 7/8 one to one computing  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Georgia – One to one computing  **

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> What data or research supports this practice?<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Who are the foremost experts including students, teachers, state folks?<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Learning Technology Centers in Ill.  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ISTE  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> SETDA  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> One to One Institute  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> NECC –  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> ISTE State Affiliates  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> MIT  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> NASA  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Career and Tech PD groups  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> AALF  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Problem Based Learning  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> Horizon Project  **
 * • <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"> CoSN  **

**__Table #5: (__ New Mexico, South Dakota, Alaska, North Dakota) 1st Table in the middle front to report out.**
1. How will a national technology plan help us? However, it should possibly be called a different name: Perhaps "National 21st Century Educational Plan" 2. What are essential themes or goals 3. What are some examples?
 * It will provide guidance on a national level and help provide a central focus for c ontinuity.
 * It will help to create greater alignment and create common language
 * it will help refocus or enhance the title ii part d program. It may help to create nationwide definitions and targets
 * the plan needs to have action steps, timelines, person's responible, evaluation methods. Essentially it should follow the guidelines of the ed tech state tech plan requirements. There are about 12 elements that are robust and to model should also follow a similar outline.
 * It should be reflective of all stake holders including the students past and present. If a website is going to be created for the plan, it should have a social networking presence such as facebook, my space, linkin, and bebo. It should have a presence on both professional and non professional sites. This area would target the teen -twenty somthing demographic subset which have just graduated in our classrooms and know what they would have liked related to technology. It is a way to spread the word. For example if it is linked to my facebook then my friends will go in and look at it and if one links it to there site, it exponentially grows.
 * Additionally, there needs to be a presence of a wiki or blog for younger students to contribute. This might be promoted as a class activity across the k-8 demographic. All stake holders should have input.
 * Iste did a great job gaining input for their standards, perhaps sri could work with or model some input based on the iste methods
 * Shift the focus from it being about technology to it being learning with technology
 * a national goals to have every person-teacher and students-pre-service and others experience a distance learning opportunity. Maybe it could be a part of recertification.
 * 21st century classroom example. What it looks like and how to instruct in it. We need to move from automation with technology to infomation. Allan November has a great video and presentation about moving beyond automation with technology. We need to understand that technology is tool to get smarter rather than a tool to save time. For example. If you could put technology to a toliet seat what might you do. Many will answer this question with automated technology like self cleaning, raise and lower seat, warm seat, self flushing. However, very few people will suggest data anaylsis of urine to determine a persons health. Or relaying that data to a health care provider. This is innovation, taking information and using it to improve rather than automate.
 * Lots of professional development needs embedded (this is an element of the 12 elements of the ii-d technology plan so if it is followed then it will be addressed.
 * We need to change teacher practices systemically
 * Draw from the trends report to share examples for each goal once determined.
 * develop an evaluation configuration so we can know what progress toward the goal looks like on a local, state and national level. What will it look like when the country obtains the goals?

__Table #6:__

·  The National Educational Technology Plan is important because it serves as a framework. ·  The plan should internationally benchmark key educational technology indicators. ·  The plan should focus on translating teacher technology skills outside the classroom into use in the classroom (professional preparation, professional development, tools, etc.). ·  The Tech Plan should make recommendations that take students deeper into technology (i.e., application development, computer operations, cloud computing, etc.) beyond just using technology in an integrated classroom environment. Relates to knowledge economy jobs that are currently going unfilled. ·  The nation needs a clear articulation of bandwidth and technology access expectations supported by research and international benchmarks. ·  A call should be made for a shift to inquiry, experience, and project based methods of instruction that necessitate the use of technology, placing dynamic teaching and learning to “pulling” technology into the classroom (vs. the “push” approach ed techies have been facing). ·  The plan should raise standards, both in terms of content knowledge and technical skills, and not lower them. ·  The examples given should offer research-based methods / models of instruction that use technology as examples of effective technology integration. ·  There should be a shift in focus to student outcomes benchmarks (i.e., demonstrated knowledge/skill) and not rely on traditional technology metrics (i.e., computer-to-student ratio). ·  Emphasis should be placed on the “T” in STEM by sponsoring bio-tech academies, FIRST robotics academies, and different areas based on regional business needs (apprenticeship systems). ·  The plan should dvocate for research-based models of instruction that assist at-risk students in diploma completing, college- and work-ready programs (i.e., Not School in the U.K.— [|www.NotSchool.net] ; Michigan has an 180-student implementation of this if you want to see it. [] ). ·  Please share examples of how higher education / higher skills are needed to compete and collaborate in the global economy as rationale for recommendations/goals of the plan. __Table #7:__ How a plan can help – adds meat to lower level plans…..give alignment Important themes/goals- provide guidance at the us level for cipa….web 2.0 example….equal access to great tools that are blocked. The plan drives other programs

Guidance to help us all move forward and use the funds we have effectively Alignment between GPRA indicators and tech plan goals/objectives Ongoing Sustainable professional development Find more ways to quantify the effectiveness – beyond things like AR, etc….lifelong learning Coordinating and collaborating between entities – adult ed, special ed, pre-school- mesh and trade info…funds… Collaboration between programs, coordination of plans Ubiquitous Access – let kids use their cell phones, etc…..but integrate it into daily instruction…. Harness the Power of Crowdsourcing (i.e. Tweeting….) Good examples of those themes/goals

21st Century Skills for a global econom Workforce skills

__Table #8:__ What do we need to the plan to do? -Justify and align state priorities with federal requirements Important Themes: Examples of Themes/Goals:
 * Coordinate a message so that states can advocate on your behalf
 * Technology for learning sake not technology for technology sake
 * Collaboration - think outside the box
 * Provide definitions, give examples
 * Be flexible, technology is a moving target
 * Make global connections
 * Find examples of 21st Century Classrooms
 * Provide virtual plans, people need to see themselves in the plan
 * Provide testimonials from students (how they have benefited)
 * Get stakeholder buy-in
 * Ongoing evaluation
 * Give an opportunity to provide feedback

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