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Connected Leadership:

The Vision, Skills, and


Strategies to Lead Our
Schools
Jason Borgen
Program Coordinator, Technology
Information Center for Administrative
Leadership (TICAL)
Santa Cruz County Office of Education

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"Change is the law of life. Those
who look only to the past or present
are certain to miss the future."

John F. Kennedy

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Backchannel Discussion
„ Supports active
learning
„ Address
questions
„ Can discuss your
own experiences

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“Those of us who are committed to school
improvement should understand that the processes
involved in school improvement are analogous to
‘farming’. We must plant the seeds of school
improvement, cultivate, nurture, and care for them.
We must practice patience and celebrate the
unfolding of each blossom.”

Richard DuFour
and
Robert Eaker

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Getting to Know You…
„ Have a computer at home?

„ Have High Speed Internet at home?

„ Have an IPod or MP3 Player?

„ Know what a Wiki is?


ICT Literacy is defined as using digital
„ Have done a blog? technology, communications tools,
and/or networks to access, manage,
integrate, evaluate and create
„ Have a page on Facebook? information in order to function in a
knowledge society.

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School Achievement
„ Why schools in rural
areas flourish and
others flounder
„ Leadership
„ What’s needed to lead
our schools in the 21st
Century?

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From Vicki Davis

http://cuebc.ca/moodle/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=39

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Being an Educational Leader…

Wikipedia:
Articulating visions,
embodying values and
creating an environment
for the things that can be
accomplished.

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How have students changed?

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How have students changed?

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Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants
By Marc Prensky
From On the Horizon (MCB University Press, Vol. 9 No. 5, October 2001)

„ Today’s students are no longer the people our educational


system was designed to teach
„ Today’s students think and process information
fundamentally differently
„ “Legacy” content includes reading, writing, arithmetic, logical
thinking, understanding the writings and ideas of the past
„ “Future” includes software, hardware, robotics,
nanotechnology, genomics, as well as the ethics, politics,
sociology, languages and other things that go with them
„ we need to be thinking about how to teach both Legacy and
Future content in the language of the Digital Natives

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Bloom’s Taxonomy

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Speak Up Survey
facilitated annually by Project Tomorrow (http://tomorrow.org)

National Participation
K-12 Students 299,677
Teachers 38,642
Parents (in English and Spanish) 26,312
School/District Administrators 3,947

All 50 States
Top Ten States: TX, CA, AZ, AL, IL, MD, FL, NC, NE, WI

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Speak Up Survey
facilitated annually by Project Tomorrow

Schools that participated in the survey:


• 95% public, 3% private

• 35% urban, 32% suburban, 33% rural (from


2008)

• 45% title 1 eligible (from 2008)

• 34% majority-minority student population


(from 2008)

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Speak Up Survey
facilitated annually by Project Tomorrow

Three essential elements of a students’ Vision

„ Social-based learning

„ Untethered Learning

„ Digitally-rich learning

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Students:
What do you regularly do with
technology?
„ Communication and collaboration tools for learning
„ Middle School
„ 51% collaborate with peers
„ 28% to collaborate with teachers
„ High School
„ 60% collaborate with peers
„ 40% collaborate with of teachers
„ Digital Resources
„ Over 30% of 6-12 students use digital resources to take tests
„ Over 60% of 6-12 use digital resources on writing assignments
„ Over 50% 3-5 use digital tools to play educational games
„ Over 50% 3-5 use digital tools to create slide shows, videos, etc

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Students:
What do you regularly do with
technology?
„ Communication and collaboration tools
for personal use
„ Middle School
„ 65% use IM, SMS, and email
„ 65% upload/download videos, music, etc.
„ High School
„ 72% use IM, SMS, and email
„ 60% upload/download videos, music, etc
„ Elementary School
„ 30 % use IM, SMS, and email
„ 65% play online games
„ 40% participate in virtual worlds

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Online Textbooks

„ Interest to students
„ Interactivity
„ Relevancy of content
„ Foster collaborative learning
„ Personalizing the learning process
„ Links to real-time data, simulations, videos,
etc.
„ Parents
„ 93% like the idea
„ 47% would be a great investment to improve
student achievement

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Explosion of access to mobile
devices (from 2008)
„ Cell Phones
„ 78% in gr 9-12
„ 63% in gr 6-8
„ 38% in gr 3-5
„ 20% in K-2

„ MP3 Players
„ 84% in gr 9-12
„ 80% in gr 6-8
„ 50% in gr 3-5
„ 30% in K-2

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Explosion of access to mobile
devices:

„ Smart Phones
„ 28% in gr 9-12
„ 24% in gr 6-8
„ 16% in gr 3-5
„ 20% in K-2

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Online Classes (From 2008)
„ Students: Are you interested
in taking a online class?
YES!
„ 40% of high school students
„ 35% of middle school students
„ 15% of 3-5 students
„ 34% increase from last year

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How have schools changed?

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How have schools changed?
School

Library
Classroom

Teachers/Lit
Classmates

Information

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How have schools changed?
School WWW

Library Any location


Classroom

Teachers/Lit Millions of
Classmates Sources

Information Information

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How have schools changed?

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Obstacles for students
Top responses:
„ School filters and firewalls block
websites I need (from 2008)

„ Teachers limit our technology use

„ Too many rules


„ Cannot use my own devices
„ Cannot access my communication tools
„ Rules that limit use of my school’s
technology

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Ideal situation for student
Top responses:
„ Let me use my own laptop, cell
phone or mobile devise

„ Give me unlimited Internet


access

„ Let me access my school


projects from any computer-
home or school

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How have schools changed?

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„ 80 educators and leaders from around the
world met in The Hague, Netherlands

„ 10 educators selected from the United


States

„ “Under what conditions does technology have a


positive impact on teaching and learning?”

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„ Professor Ron Anderson, University of
Minnesota:

„ Survival to the 22nd Century will depend most


upon our students’ learning of ethics and values,
especially as related to the use of technology

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„ Professor Chris Dede, Harvard University:
„ Every theory of learning is right at some time, for
some students

„ Also means, every theory of learning is not right


at some time, for some students

„ Schools are still a “One Size Fits All”

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Professor Chris Dede, Harvard
University:

„ Ifwe were to redesign our schools


today, how much of our historical
model would we keep?

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„ Singapore- Redoes its curriculum every 5
years
„ South Korea- Taking education very
seriously
„ Working to obtain high band width to all schools
and homes
„ They see it as tied to economic development

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„ Findings:
„ Need to establish International e-learning
pedagogies
„ We need to have new assessments and
instruments
„ International standards of skills needed in the
21st Century
„ Use a broader measurement to gauge success
of students

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Are They Really Ready to Work?

Among the most important skills cited by


employers:
• Professionalism/Work Ethic
• Oral and Written Communications
• Teamwork/Collaboration
• Critical Thinking/Problem Solving

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Are They Really Ready to Work?

While the “three R’s” are still very


fundamental to ability to do the job;

Skills like Teamwork/Collaboration and


Critical Thinking/Problem Solving are very
important to success at work

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National Education Technology
Standards
„ Developed by ISTE (International Society for
Technology in Education)
„ Most recognized set of technology standards
„ Individualized for each group:
„ Students NETS-S
„ Teachers NETS-T
„ Administrators NETS-A

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NETS

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NETS

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NETS

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NETS-A

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Standards
ISTE NETS for Administrators
„ Inspire and lead development of a shared vision of
technology integration to promote excellence.

„ Establish a dynamic digital-age learning culture.

„ Advance excellence in Professional Practice.

„ Systemic Improvement by providing digital-age leadership


and management.

„ Model and facilitate Digital Citizenship.

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Literacy—What is it?

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Literacy-Contemporary
„ Literacy' is the ability to identify,
understand, interpret, create, communicate,
compute and use printed and written
materials associated with varying contexts -
United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

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eliteracy
„ Refers to the awarenesses, skills,
understandings, and reflective approaches
necessary for an individual to operate
comfortably in information-rich and IT-
enabled environments- United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO)

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Some good websites
„ Site 1: http://tinyurl.com/ipod-control
„ Site 2: http://tinyurl.com/tree-oct
„ Site 3: http://tinyurl.com/beard-cat
„ Site 4: http://www.martinlutherking.org/

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5 Steps to Evaluating Web Sites
1. Accuracy of Web Documents „ 3. Objectivity of Web Documents
• Who wrote the page and can you contact • What goals/objectives does this page
him or her? meet?
• What is the purpose of the document and • How detailed is the information?
why was it produced? • What opinions (if any) are expressed by
• Is this person qualified to write this the author?
document? „ 4. Currency of Web Documents
• When was it produced?
„ 2. Authority of Web Documents • When was it updated'
• Who published the document and is it • How up-to-date are the links (if any)?
separate from the "Webmaster?" „ 5. Coverage of the Web Documents
• Check the domain of the document, what • Are the links (if any) evaluated and do
institution publishes this document? they complement the documents' theme?
• Does the publisher list his or her • Is it all images or a balance of text and
qualifications? images?
• Is the information presented cited
correctly?

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Eliteracy
Creative
fluency

Learning a
Multimodal new
grammar

Can
Interactive
transform
communic
the way we
ation
learn

Use media
to
evoke
emotions

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Eliteracy
„ Being self directed to find answers
„ Laws
„ Codes
„ Policies

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Visionary Educator from Arkansas

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How to Diminish Random Acts of
Technology

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Marzano’s Nine Essential Instructional
Strategies
1. Identifying similarities and differences
2. Summarizing and note taking
3. Reinforcing effort and providing recognition
4. Homework and practice
5. Nonlinguistic representations
6. Cooperative learning
7. Setting objectives and providing feedback
8. Generating and testing hypotheses
9. Cues, questions, and advance organizers

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Web 2.0 Tools Used Successfully in
Schools
„ Podcasting (Strategy 1, 2, 3, 7)
„ Blogs (Strategy 2, 3, 4, 7, 9)
„ Chat rooms/ Social Networks (Strategy 2,
3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9)
„ Digital Storytelling (Strategy 2, 3, 5, 6)
„ Collaborative writing (Strategy 1, 2, 4, 5,
6, 8, 9)
„ Video Conferencing (Strategy 1,3,6,8,9)

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CoSN Study
http://www.cosn.org/web20/
„ Leadership for Web 2.0 in Education: Promise and
Reality Report
„ Funded through the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation, and with cooperation from
ASCD and Common Sense Media, CoSN
commissioned the Metiri Group to conduct the
study.

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CoSN Study
„ To investigate the beliefs, perspectives and
experiences of district level administrators
(superintendents, district curriculum directors and
technology directors) pertaining to the implication
of Web 2.0 for teaching and learning in our
schools.

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CoSN Study

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CoSN Study

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CoSN Study

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CoSN Study

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CoSN Study

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CoSN Study

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CoSN Study (con’t)
„ Ranked National Priorities for Web 2.0

„ Extend learning beyond the school day


„ Prepare students to be lifelong learners
„ Prepare students to be thoughtful, ethical, and
informed participants online
„ Increase students’ global awareness
„ Connect students in our schools with students in
other locations

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Web 2.0 Tools Used Successfully in
Schools
„ Podcasting (Strategy 1, 2, 3, 7)
„ Blogs (Strategy 2, 3, 4, 7, 9)
„ Chat rooms/ Social Networks (Strategy 2,
3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9)
„ Digital Storytelling (Strategy 2, 3, 5, 6)
„ Collaborative writing (Strategy 1, 2, 4, 5,
6, 8, 9)
„ Video Conferencing (Strategy 1,3,6,8,9)

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PODCASTING

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PODCASTING
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CLASSROOMS ADMINISTRATORS
„ Class reviews
„ School
„ Weekly study
messages announcements
„ Study guides „ Parent information
„ Lectures „ Teacher evaluations
„ Book narration
„ Radio shows

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BLOGS

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BLOGS

CLASSROOMS ADMINISTRATORS
„ Class discussions „ Interaction with
„ Reflections/ community
summarizing „ Motivate staff
„ Writing skills and „ Parent information
prompts

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SOCIAL NETWORKS

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SOCIAL NETWORKS
socialnetworksined.wikispaces.com
CLASSROOMS ADMINISTRATORS
„ Collaboration on „ Resource sharing
projects
„ Build school
„ Clarifying questions
community
„ Continuation of class
discussions „ Asynchronous staff
„ Non-confrontational discussions
discussions

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DIGITIAL STORYTELLING

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DIGITAL STORYTELLING
voicethread.com
CLASSROOMS ADMINISTRATORS
„ Writing/reading „ Ability to provide
practice information while not
„ Promotes present
creativity „ Use class examples
„ Speaking in presentations, web
languages site, etc.

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Collaborative
Writing Online
„ CLASSROOMS ADMINISTRATORS
„ Cooperative stories „ Lesson plan
„ Project collaboration collaboration
„ Cooperative data „ Meeting norms
collection collaboration
„ Classroom rules „ Student information
brainstorm from class to class
(i.e. restroom visits)
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VIDEO CONFERENCING

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VIDEO CONFERNCING
www.skype.com
CLASSROOMS ADMINISTRATORS
„ Language „ Virtual meetings
practice „ Research and
„ Cultural communicate with a
acceptance variety of Model schools
„ Virtual „ Cost-effective staff
collaboration professional
development

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TICAL
The Technology Information Center for
Administrative Leadership
A Gateway to Digital Leadership

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TICAL’s mission

To help K-12 administrators provide


informed and effective leadership in the
use of technology to improve education.

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TICAL is really three things
„ A statewide cadre of school leaders
„ An Internet portal
„ An annual statewide leadership conference in
California

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TICAL Cadre: Role
„ Advise on portal design and content
„ Review resources
„ Provide face-to-face orientation
„ Serve as mentors & models of good practice
„ Answer questions in Forum

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The TICAL Community
„ Professional Social Network
„ Interact with colleagues around the world
„ Share resources/best practices

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Popular TICAL Items
„ Interactive Polls
„ Blogs by practicing
administrators that
accepts comments
„ Quick Takes
„ TICALevision—Video
Podcasts– Accepting
Comments!

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The Conference
„ Leadership 3.0
„ Collaborative effort of ACSA, CUE, and TICAL
„ April 14-16, 2011 Southern California TBA
„ lead3.org
„ TICAL Conference
„ Collaborative effort of AAEA, ADE, and TICAL
„ February 22-24 Little Rock, AR
„ Ticalconference.org

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Mind Set, Skill Set, and Tool Set

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Mind Set, Skill Set, and Tool Set
„ Students learn very differently
„ Students are “free agent” learners
„ We are not necessarily the experts anymore
„ Our school buildings need to accommodate new ideas for
learning
„ We need to foster collaboration, communication, and
professionalism
„ We need to model and help develop specific skills related to
digital-age media (NETS)
„ Teachers and schools are using collaborative online tools
already for their own productivity
„ Integrating relevant, web-based tools into schools and
assessment can engage students and community, but needs
to be done systemically

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“If you don't create
change, change will
create you.”
Author is anonymous

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Thank you!
„Jason Borgen
„jborgen@portical.org
„Admin20.org
„www.portical.org

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