Jurisdictional Technology Contacts Event (JTCE)
Cheryl Lemke (clemke@metiri.com)

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Education in the Digital Age

• What does it mean to be educated and literate in the digital age;
• How do we set a strategic direction for the use of technology in schools;
• What does the research say about the impact of technology on learning;
• What policies and leadership practices are critical

Slides in PDF

Handout in PDF

Classroom Examples

• WISE - Inquiry Science Units (Frogs)
• High Tech High - San Diego
• SimCalc
• Arapahoe High School: Student Blogging
• Democratization of Knowledge
  • TED - Presentation at TED conference re: Animation of the CELL.
  • Harvard: Cell animation
  • TED - Presentation at TED conference re: Data Visualization (GapMinder)
  • GapMinder software (free)

• Thinkfinity collaborative problem solving by students
• Thinkfinity claymation example: You make the call
• Movie on Problem Solving and Technology: from the George Lucas Foundation Site: EAST -- A Way Forward: Tech Inspires Self-Directed Learning
• I*EARN - global meeting place for international projects for schools
• Classroom 10

• Innocentive: Company that brings problems and problem solvers together

Research

• Newmann, F., & Bryk, A. (2001). Authentic Intellectual Work and Standardized Tests: Conflict or Coexistence?
• Flow: Csikszentmihalyi - Book: Creativity/Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Attribution: Carol Dweck
• Attribution: Adolescent Literacy - U.S. Department of education Practice Guide (very good resource)
• Johnson, David and Johnson, Roger. (2001).  Cooperation and Competition: Theory and Research.  pp. 58-75.
• Networked Expertise:Hakkarainen, K., Palonen, T., Paavola, S., & Lehtinen, E. (2002). Networked expertise: Professional and educational perspectives. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier. Purchase Article

Resources:

• Cisco/Metiri Reports

  Technology in Schools: What the Research Says

• 21st Century Skills
  

• How People Learn-Online Book by National Research Council
• Multimodal Learning: What the Research Says
• Metiri's "Range of Use" for Technology in Schools