Leadership Academy Presentation

Technology is Good, but people are better!!

1. Technology does not make students learn better!

• What we (teachers and students) DO with the technology is more important than the technology we use!
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• The hope is that teachers will harness the technology to do things in the classroom that better connect them to their student's learning!
• STUDENT LEARNING IS KEY!!
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Story of Rich Wilmesherr: 8th Grade Science Teacher at West Middle School. Rich was selected by his principal to participate in Differentiated Instruction with Technology added to his classroom. After 2 weeks, Rich was determined to try at least 1 piece of technology with the differentiated strategies he had learned. Several weeks after school started, I was in WMS to work with some teachers in the 8th Grade pod. I saw Rich in the hallway. He grabbed me by the arm and looked me square in the eye and proceeded to tell me that I was dead meat if I ever made him go back to teaching without the equipment we put in his classroom.

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Think-Pair-Share: HOW HAVE YOU HAD TO ADJUST WHEN USING TECHNOLOGY?? INSTANT FEEDBACK.... Is that a problem??





Story of Tina Mulvihill:
Mrs. Mulvihill teaches math at East Middle School. She was not a user of technology nor a proponent of using technology with her students. She had the same training that Rich received. Tina walked cautiously into using Diff and the use of technology. Throughout the year, Tina walked carefully into differentiating her instruction by taking 1 section of pre-algebra and adding student choice. She eventually used all of the technology available to her in different ways and the students did as well. Tina wrote on the ning to share what her year was like:
TINA'S NING POST



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Think-Pair-Share: What have you experienced in your classrooms when trying to do things with technology that you couldn't do before?






Gwen Brewster:
Project Based learning with same training as the Rich and Tina:
Gwen Teaches Language Arts -





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Forester's students after 30 minutes with the board...
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Jayse talking about why he likes Mrs. Foresters class!
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Jane Warren Story:
Mrs. Warren taught the gauntlet last year, from English 1 (every student in one section had their own computer) to English 4 and AP English.
A VERY stressful year, but some of the work students did was INCREDIBLE!


Metamorphosis Video
The PingNguyens sing "Take AP!"TAke AP english video

LOOKING AHEAD -

• How will students having email effect your teaching? students learning?
• Would you use social media to connect your classroom more effectively with students?
• Using Pinnacle Analytics INSIGHT - How will you use this REAL-TIME data to direct your instruction?
• What one piece of classroom technology would push you into differentiating instruction more effectively?

RESOURCES!!
The Internet

Garrison Sites

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Brain Pop

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