CTAP October BARC meeting

BARC Meeting on Tuesday 10/23/07
(Bay Area Regional CTAP Meeting)
(California Technology Assistance Project)

These are the notes from the first BARC meeting of the year, involving the implementation of technology standards (NETS) and technology in the classroom.

www.ctap4.org

There are many new low cost or free workshops involving technology.
There is a new partnership between Calisphere and CTAP- they are looking for district teams grade 4,8,11 history to create content in California history.
Team needs to submit one mini media project.
CTAP will look at the application, the media used, the makeup of the team.
Around 10 teams will be accepted.
Need teachers plus a media specialist. 3-4 people per team.

Go to upcoming events on the CTAP page for many more events. Flyer is in the calendar section.

For information on upcoming grants, the k12 voucher program, and EETT funding opportunities is on the CTAP website under the grants/tech plans tab.

BARC meetings this year will focus on integrating digital citizenship, and the 21st century learner.

Upcoming CUE events:
Both on 2/2/08
Silicon Valley CUE- 10th Annual technology conference on web enhanced learning
East Bay CUE- Cool tools for learning

BARC meetings this year:
10/23/07 NETS and supporting 21st century students,
1/29/08 Framework for 21st century learning,
4/29/08 Digital Citizenship for global learning

Dr. Kathy Hayden, featured speaker:
http://cnets.iste.org/

What has changed and what do we need to pay attention to as we move forward within each district?
As you may know, over the last year iste has been looking at what needs to be changed and these are the results of those meetings.

The order of the standards has changed:
1. Creativity and Information:
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.

2. Communication and Collaboration:
Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.
3. Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.
4. Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.
5. Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues relating to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.
6. Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems, and operations.

Focusing on Creativity and innovation. Research is showing that students who are using technology in the classroom (such as video creation, etc.) score higher on math tests.

Sometimes in our standards based world we forget that it takes some art to get kids involved.
Escondido elementary school district has many examples of technology integration.

http://www.eusd4kids.org/#
Great resource.

Digital citizenship:
The power to communicate with other people in other countries. Not only kids but experts. We do not want to avoid the use of digital media because we are afraid of student use and safety. Instead we need to think about digital citizenship and ethics and how to help our students move forward in these areas.

It is hard to get teachers to be facilitators when they have major technological barriers and differences between schools and districts. Also, teachers feel afraid to step into waters that they are unfamiliar with, or will have to rework their current projects.

Barriers:
No money, no time, no coaches
Teachers need much more help integrating technology
Administrators are very nervous about technology, which makes tech have to work that much harder to get it into the schools.
Things need to be done from a student’s point of view, not the teachers or the adult point of view.

Example of technology integration:
Candidate watch (this is for teachers): http://tinyurl.com/3ycdc5
Integrating technology and Google earth to track the candidates in this year’s election.


Thanks ACOE!