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 * I apologize if this is the wrong place to drop this. If I misrepresented any of our conversations, feel free to edit :-)
 * I apologize if this is the wrong place to drop this. If I misrepresented any of our conversations, feel free to edit :-)
 * I apologize if this is the wrong place to drop this. If I misrepresented any of our conversations, feel free to edit :-)
 * I apologize if this is the wrong place to drop this. If I misrepresented any of our conversations, feel free to edit :-)
 * I apologize if this is the wrong place to drop this. If I misrepresented any of our conversations, feel free to edit :-)
 * I apologize if this is the wrong place to drop this. If I misrepresented any of our conversations, feel free to edit :-)

Questions for Students and Other Stakeholders ( as generated at the January 13th meeting):

1. As a student, how would you like to demonstrate your learning? 2. What does the ideal school schedule look like? (for parents and students) 3. What are your needs, fears, and obstacles regarding instructional technologies? (parents and students) 4. How do you as students feel about a shift towards e-books (textbooks)? 5. As teachers, what professional development is needed to make a successful shift towards 21st Century teaching practices? 6. As a student, how much technology is too much technology? 7. As students, what skills do you need to be where you want to be at age 25? What do you need from educators? 8. Would you be willing as student to mentor a teacher?

This group also had discussion around 3 major points regarding these questions:


 * 1) When asking these questions we need to spread out the sample population (tech at home/no tech./ grade levels)
 * 2) There is an existing generation gap in school already.Implement at elementary and make it part of the culture rather than top down implementation.
 * 3) Look at how we deliver professional development (on-demand, tiered at levels, understanding of direction, need, and globalization is necessary before throwing this at them).

Contributing members: Sean Michael Scott Gwen Jen

Jan 20 -Melissa, Joan, Dave S, Melissa S, Julie Foster, Robert C, Vince, Brenda L, Gwen

How do teachers generally use technology in their teaching and what percentage of teaching relies on technology? 2 parts. Teachers don't trust right now that technology will work and they can fix. I does depend on types of technology...yes to computer and document camera. Not as trusting with "higher new types." Why is that education can function w/o technology? In commercial world, there is a standard image. In education, we rely on textbooks and do not lock down internet as businesses do. Robert shared idea of installing java and some software not running due to the new install. Is there an expectation that teachers use technology? Does lesson rely on the technology? Cloud approach may allow teachers to rely on technology due to not having to load apps, software, etc. Julie says time is so tight, and planning differently... 30 kids to teach - there is lack of time to deliver and plan for technology. Joan mentioned higher order thinking in a technology environment. Need to get away from knowledge based vs higher critical thinking Vince says we rely on it for delivery of content. How does tech facilitate collaboration and problem-solving? We took computers in classrooms and made labs....we could have started using 5 computers and help differentiate instruction. ====•What are the learning gains for pupils that result from the teachers’ use of technology? ==== ====•How has the use of technology changed the way that teachers teach? No, we took technology and made it work for the way we teach - direct instruction with presentation. ====

•How do teachers share resources?
====•What proportion of planning is electronic and does it include live links to resources needed for each lesson? We need to develop a central area of storage for putting elec lesson plans. We have EASY, websites, S and R Drives. But do need a central place. A list of criteria has been created, but not sent out to all teachers yet. ==== ====•What percentage of work is graded electronically (audio or text)? ==== ====•Are there a variety of technologies used for lesson delivery? Vince says we turn off cell phones instead of trying to figure out how to utilize for learning. Joan says control is prevalent in teaching. We need to define a successful implementation of technology on a Friday aft really looks like. ==== ====•To what extent do teachers collaborate with: Other teachers within a school, D11 teachers, nationally? ==== ====•Are existing teaching technologies giving a good ROI (return on investment)? D11 does not realize what 21st cent learning is...teacher needs to be facilitator and kids need to be working collaboratively. David mentioned learning gains on using technology...English schools did discussions on this but one measure used was attendance and attitudes to be in school. Julie says hard to measure with creating projects. ====

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">David says are we preparing kids for working? preparing for what business want? robert says they have said the skills they want.
====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Technology could help us track students where they go and what they do for employability. CDE has started with being able to track in last 2 years. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Technology in workplace has created environment where technology and expecations are changing frequently. Could we spearhead on tracking students to employment? Social networking sites could help with this possibly. Possibly use Linked in to help with this. ==== ====<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">Mindset change is needed. How do we make lessons better with technology? How do we move teachers to change? Teachers may think - self-judgement instead of change for better. ====

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 * How do we improve communication with children, parents, teachers, other staff, wider community at both a District and school level? No disclaimers at a district wide level. Do parents have emails? We have 39000 contacts and 6677 emails for parents. Schools do not put email addresses into Zangle. Some schools have moved newletter to electronic but have less usage. Relatrix has been cumbersome, but improvements have been made. Readership seems to have gone down since paper newsletter was eliminated. Internally schools use email. If Robert sends out to all 6000, get 150 returns/bounces. Gmail lets you keep all emails forever, but D11 email has a limit. We have to clean out emails, so is that a reason that staff do not trust our email? Email may be one of the worst implemented technologies due to lack of training,,,,huge potential to be more effective. How do we as a district make it more effective for learning?
 * Robert says define....example 48 emails / chats...separate with appropriate vehicles. IT newsletter has email protocols. Calendar invites would be worthwhile for us to be more effective. Project managment - task management with Outlook would help too. D11 has mixed usage...set out protocols for use...communicate through online, videos, etc. What is reasonable? Students can contact teachers through email...what is expectation for timeliness to answer? It changes my nature of communication about student work. Visual Thesaurus - some schools got on board. Vince sent emails directly to students about using Visual Thesaurus - by passing teachers since some may not want to use VT. Vince got an email from student about how to log on....this is an initial contact to ask why student wrote inappropriate font, words, etc. Then he asked for help on how to write. Connections were made with kids w/o them seeing Vince face-to-face. Kids are better networking electronically. Next year, all students will have email once we decide on product.
 * Who would be good to get word out for guidance for learning? Video clips for PD - time is an issue.Utilize schools and students and parents to help develop and plan for what we need.
 * Vince mentioned using wikis, ning...yet usage falls off. How to get buyin for usage?
 * Sustainability - in using wiki for differentiation. Need PD on usage. Time is an issue.
 * Melissa records online PD meetings - the ones that missed it usually do this. You have to want to be involved in wiki vs it is a good idea to use wiki.
 * Robert mentioned to do workflow reminder that is automatic.
 * Do we use new technologies because it is the new thing to do ...or do we really think of what technology works better to communciate or teach for learning?
 * Example of learning to cook...using recipe...have a flowcahrt on what works better. Marsha S is putting together list of who does what and when to do it.. We throw it out now and see what sticks.
 * We need to focus on learning....determine what to learn first and then determine the best resource/tools to use.
 * Project based learning might help with this...students choose tools. Technology has helped...goals and work become achievable if all kids have their own or group owned technology. Writing - worked at Rudy for project based learning...more unit learning. Vince laid out clearer plans for this to help teachers.



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 * How can we reduce the workload associated with learning and teaching, resource building, storage, access, sharing, usage and development?
 * Reporting, how might this change? Consider the idea that a parent/teacher meeting should be 90% plan forward and not a report on where the child is to date. How do we achieve this?

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 * Using technology, how could the following change: Grading student work (is this a localized task in the 21st century), storage of student work, types of student response and delivery methods?
 * List possible short medium and long term goals for achieving a paperless environment﻿ at District and school level.