VIRGINIA INITIATIVE
FOR TECHNOLOGY AND
ADMINISTRATIVE
LEADERSHIP
What We Want…
 Connect with your inner 18th century…
Tuck This Thought Away #1
 “I would think my child was being
educationally deprived if they weren’t using
Internet technology often in school…”
Parent, 2007
Tuck This Thought Away #2
 “There’s not really an avenue at school
for me to share, or publish my own stuff,
or especially get feedback from people all
over – that’s really the only reason I rush
home to do MySpace so much.”
High School Honors Student
Lingo Bingo
LET’S SEE HOW WE
COMPARE TO OUR
CONNECTED YOUTH
Today’s Internet Users - Video
 Video – Who’s watching what?
 57%
of total online adults have watched
videos online;
 76% of the 18-29 age bracket consume,
upload, and share video;
 News & comedy for the young adult group
Pew Internet Project, July 2007
Today’s Internet Users – Social Video
 Video – Social video viewing
 57%
of the total surveyed population watch
video with others;
 73% of the young adult group does so.
Pew Internet Project, March 2007
Today’s Internet Users - Social Networking
 66% of Online Teens say their profile is not visible to
everyone
 32% of Online Teens were contacted by strangers,
with 65% of those stating that they ignored the
contact, deleted, or reported it
 “I'm really careful with the whole MySpace
thing...I've heard of employers not hiring people
because of it. I don’t post anything that I can’t show
my mom or grandma.”
Pew Internet Project, April 2007
Decision-making & online resources
 Users asked about internet’s role in eight
types of decisions in 2002 and again in 2005:
 Career
training and/or changes;
 Helping another with (or dealing with ones’ own)
major illness or medical condition;
 Choosing school (for self or child);
 Making major investment/financial decisions;
 Finding a new place to live.
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), May 2007
Growth from 2002 to 2005:
millions of Americans for whom internet played an important role
OECD, May 2007
Information Access
Where people report getting most of their science and news information
Source
All respondents
Home
broadband
Under age 30 &
broadband
Television
41%
33%
32%
Internet
20
34
44
Magazines
14
15
9
Newspapers
14
11
3
Radio
4
4
1
Other
7
3
9
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), May 2007
Cell Phones
 Ya wanna talk about how connected students
are? WE are?
 Pull out your cell phones, and let’s text a
message to this number: 46645
 Message examples:
 movies 23451
 sushi virginia beach
Today’s Users - Information Online
 44% of the 18-29 age group use Wikipedia to look for
information;
 Of all online users surveyed, 50% of those with at least
a college degree consult Wikipedia, compared with
22% of those with only a high school diploma;
Pew Internet Project, April 2007
 Wikipedia is now the top free online educational
reference site;
 5.3 million total entries
Hitwise, March 2007
Students Today – Bottom Line
 Our high schoolers are actually pretty “old”
when it comes to technology;
 Even our first year teachers are pretty old
when it comes to technology;
 Today’s students have incorporated
technology heavily into the social aspects of
their lives;
 We must tap into these wired, social brains!
Workforce Survey
“What Goes On Once They Leave Us?”
Released October 2, 2006, by The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working
Families, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and the Society for Human Resource
Management.
Workforce 2.0
What skills are most important for job success when
hiring a High School graduate?
Work Ethic
80%
Collaboration
75%
Communication
70%
Social Interactions & Responsibility
63%
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
58%
Workforce 2.0
What skills and content areas will be growing in
importance in the next five years?
Critical Thinking
78%
Information Technology
77%
Collaboration
74%
Innovation
74%
Personal Financial Responsibility
72%
Technology Changes and Web 2.0
 Web 2.0 simply means an Internet that
is more:
 Customizable
 Interactive
 User-Centric
 Controllable
 Mobile
 Socially
Motivated
Learner 2.0 Tools
How do we tap into this MySpace
mind, but in the context of an
educational atmosphere that
addresses world -readiness skills?
Wikis
 Strengths:
 Free,
easy access for K-12;
 Immediate Publishing to the World;
 Collective Intelligence;
 Drafts, revisions, final all in one;
 History of edits
Read
 Issues:
 The
Wikipedia “Issues”
 Basic level publishing
Reflect
Write
Blogs
 Strengths:
 Free,
easy access for K-12 – journaling, book clubs;
 Publishes a progression of learning;
 Ongoing collaboration;
 Single and group authorship;
 Easy medium for soliciting feedback;
 Endless opportunities for reflections, revisions, etc.
 Issues:
 Highly filtered in schools;
 Be wary of the ‘blogging just for blog’s sake’
Students and Blogging
 A 5th grader, when asked about her blogging
experience:
 “My teacher measured the readability of my posts
from the beginning of the year until now. I went
from lower 2nd grade to 5th grade this year. What
did I learn? Well, I pretty much found out that the
more detailed descriptions I used in my post, the
more comments I got back. I loved that part. Now I
just can’t find enough time to write as much as I
want!”
Show of hands…?
Do students in your
school(s) use Blogging as
a learning tool in the
classroom?
Other Online Publishing
 Video & audio podcasts
 Capitalizes
on the high interest of publishing;
 Allows teachers to use some “Learner 2.0” tools
inside an educational context;
 Pushes the concept of ongoing learning and global
interaction;
 Provides a nice “mashup” between teacherdirected classroom goals, and student-driven
learning opportunities;
 Lots of fun
Connecting 2.0
 More of this…
From The World is Flat, by Tom Friedman…
But this moment in the mid- to late 1990s was when
people first started to feel that something was
changing in a big way. There was suddenly
available a platform for collaboration that all kinds
of people from around the globe could now plug and
play, compete and connect on--in order to share
work, exchange knowledge, start companies, and
invent and sell goods and services.
They couldn’t always quite describe what was
happening, but by 2000 they sensed that they were
 in touch with people they’d never been in
touch with before,
 were being challenged by people who had
never challenged them before,
 were competing with people with whom they
had never competed before,
 were collaborating with people with whom
they had never collaborated before, and
 were doing things as individuals they had
never dreamt of doing before.
The Flatteners
 11/9/89
 8/9/95
 Work
Flow Software
 Uploading (aka Open
Sourcing)
 Outsourcing
 Offshoring
 Supply-Chaining
 Insourcing
 In-forming
The Steroids
•Digital
•Mobile
•Personal
•Virtual
From Tom Friedman, The World is Flat, 2005
globalization
1.0
1492-1800
Concern for
Country
2.0
1800-2000
Concern for
Companies
3.0
2000Concern for
Individuals
 Most jobs are not lost to outsourcing to India or China--
most lost jobs are outsourced to the past.
BUT…Google “online tutoring India” to see how
education IS being outsourced
Being Untouchable
Leading on the edge of the flat world
• Know thyself
• Know the faculty
•
Think, Pair, Share (Untouchable Exercise)
The Educational Convergence
The Flat World
21st Century Skills
Millenials
The Millennials Meet Globalization
QuickTime™ and a
H.264 decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
 Science and math
•
•
•
•
•
emphasis
Learn how to learn
CQ + PQ > IQ
Learn to like people
Nurture more of your
right brain
Model of
employability
 Information,
communication, and
media literacy
• Thinking and
problem solving
• Interpersonal and
self-directional skills
Skill Sets and Attitudes
 Friedman:
• Science and math emphasis
• Learn how to learn
 21st Century:
•
• CQ + PQ > IQ
• Learn to like people
• Nurture more of your right brain
• Model of employability
•
•
Information,
communication, and
media literacy
Thinking and problem
solving
Interpersonal and selfdirectional skills
Leadership ala Warren Bennis
 The vision thing
 Passion
 Curiosity
 Daring
 A distinctive voice
 Integrity
 Adaptive Capacity: learn
and re-learn
Information Literacy
Multimedia Literacy
Computer Literacy
Media Literacy
Digital Literacy
21st Century Literacy
ICT Literacy
Visual Literacy
Critical
Consumers
of
Information
Critical
Creators
of
Knowledge
The only way we are going to keep our standard of living rising is to
build a society that produces people who can keep inventing the
future (p. 390).
The GeoLiteracy Project
Essential Conditions
 Shared Vision
 Student-Centered Teaching
 Skilled Personnel
 Internal Equitable Access
 Prof. Development Access
 Community Support
 Technical Assistance
 Support Policies
ISTE
Essential Conditions Activity
Using the Essential Conditions handout, mark
where you feel your school is along each
continuum;
2. Could you choose one issue on which to focus this
year?
3. Which would you choose? Why?
4. How might your teachers answer regarding your
school?
1.
Essential Conditions Vision Activity
 Posters around the room
 DOTS!
 Red
= most urgent, needs attention now
 Yellow/orange = next most urgent, second in
line
 Green = celebrate/analyze how well we’ve
done with this
YOU
 Admins Pushing It…
THANK YOU
See you next time!