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Creative Approaches to Digital Content
Presenters: Barbara Fardell, Education Technology Manager, Michigan Dr. Tammy McGraw, Director of Educational Technology, Virginia Lan Neugent, Assistant Superintendent for Technology and Career Education, Virginia
Removing the barriers to online instruction is the goal of the EETT Michigan Learns Online Grant. After identifying cost as the number one reason for the slow expansion of online learning in Michigan, the grant purchased and is giving away the digital content for a complete high school curriculum. Supporting this statewide EETT grant is professional development for both teachers and administrators to assist with various levels of virtual learning implementation. Virginia has recently applied two creative approaches to developing digital content. The Apps Challenge is based upon the premise that iPhone/iPod touch applications can help students learn critical information that might prove too difficult in regular instruction. Another digital content initiative is the Physics Flexbook. This project provides Virginia schools with an electronic text featuring regularly updated resources and information that can be changed continually as scientific advances occur.
Best Practices in STEM Education
Presenters: Shannon Parks, Education Administrator, Alabama Dr. Melinda Maddox, State Technology Director, Alabama Nancy Carey, Maryland Jayne Moore, Maryland
Alabama’s Girls Engaged in Math and Science University, GEMS-U, project-based learning concept was created to deeply engage girls in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics through 21st Century Technology tools and pedagogies. The Alabama Learning Exchange, ALEX, a 2009 winner of the Center for Digital Education’s “Best of the Web,” in collaboration with state and national partners, including Apple iTunes U, is creating a robust learning community full of podcasts and exciting learning resources designed to motivate girls to envision themselves as powerful contributors to 21st Century thought and paradigms. The project will culminate in girls building projects using technology to research and express STEM key concepts. Maryland will highlight projects that combine funding to maximize effective technology integration in their Math-Science Partnership Grants. The Maryland model for STEM builds upon a priority to refine the math, science, and technology curricula, allowing for a trans disciplinary approach that incorporates the latest technology. This includes the Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) at Chesapeake High School in Baltimore County and cost-effective technology solutions for teacher professional development.
Technology's Role in Disaster Relief (MI, LA)
Presenters: Kumar A Garg, White House, Margo Murphy, Lousiana, Bruce Umpstead, Michigan, Beth Cortolillo, eTech Ohio
Technology: Central to Turning Around Title I Schools
Prsenters: Sue Bachmann, Anne Arundel County Schools, MD, Jennifer Barrett, ASCD, Rich Long, NASTID, Carla Wade, OR
Panel Discussion and Recommendations to the New Administration
In this panel discussion, representatives from four educational organizations, ASCD, CCSO, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and SETDA provide their receommendations for the new administration. Presentations are followed by discussion and questions.
Professional Development for Administrators
Presenters: Rowland Baker, Director of the TICAL Project, Arkansas, Mike Kozak, Co-Administrator - Curriculum, Instruction and Innovation, Nebraska, Brent Gaswick, Technology Integration Specialist, Nebraska, and Carla Wade, Technology Education and Title I Specialist, Oregon
Arkansas's Technology Information Center for Administrative Leadership (TICAL) is a statewide project consisting of three components: a portal of hundreds of resources to assist administrators in running their schools and districts, a group of practicing administrators that help populate the portal and provide professional development, and an annual conference. In this presentation, Nebraska highlighted the planning and facilitation of their first annual Educational Administrators Technology Conference and plans for additional professional development opportunities for Nebraska's school administrators. The session included tips on how to organize an administrator's ed tech conference on a minimal budget and video clips from some of the key sessions. The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) is working in partnership with the Confederation of Oregon School Administrators (COSA) to offer professional development for administrators on 21st Century Learning. Starting this fall, Oregon will hold T4: Third Tuesday Technology Talks; 30 minute webinars and podcasts with experts sharing "hot topic" strategies.
Luncheon with Judy Jeffrey and Iowa Students
Judy Jeffrey, State Superintendent from Iowa, provided the keynote address emphasizing the critical need for technology integration and shared examples from Iowa of how education technology has helped to close the achievement gap, increase access for all students, and help to increase student achievement. Principal Rex Kozak, principal from East Marshall School District and students Brodie Beadle, Trent Harem, and Frank Scaglione shared highlights of their technology-infused project-based learning initiatives and how the integration of technology into their core curriculum has helped to increase student engagement and achievement.
