WELCOME to the 2nd annual

Institute on Leading Innovation:Implementing Effective 1:1 Computing Programs

Glenn KleimanExecutive Director

Friday Institute for Educational Innovation

Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

NC State University College of Education

Why are we here?

• To work together to figure out how to help create the next generation of schools

North Carolina 1:1 Learning Technology Initiative

• A strategic approach to creating future-ready schools• Goals of

– Engagement – Equity– Economic development

• Creating a new learning ecology in our schools• To prepare future-ready students, we must provide

future-ready environments, tools, learning processes and content

In the world of our students

• All information is instantly available• Distance and time do not matter• Communication via multiple means is free, easy, and instant• Multimedia interactive entertainment is omnipresent• Powerful tools for creative work are taken for granted• Machines have “intelligence”• Change is constant and rapid• Options are abundant• Diversity is assumed• Everything is interactive and collaborative• They have control and autonomy

Eyes on your own work

“Keep your eyes on your own screen.”

“Oh, we finished the basic subtraction. Now we’re designing a series of interrelated transformational geometric comparisons.”

Who is here?

• 21 teams from NC schools and districts• Staff from Friday Institute, NCDPI, New

Schools Project, NCVPS, LEARN NC, MCNC, NC State Faculty and Graduate Students, Cary Academy, New Tech Foundation, Technology companies, Greene County, NCLTI 1-1 Pilot Schools,

NC 1:1 LTI Schools

Who is here? (2)

• Teachers (about 25%)• Instructional technology leaders (about 17%)• Technology directors, network engineers, etc (15%)• Principals (22%)• Superintendents (6%)• Instructional coaches, Special Ed specialists, grant

writers, distance education coordinators and others• And one self-described “nice guy”

Who is here? (3)

• From 1 to 21+ years in K-12 education• 2000+ years in total• From 0 to 5+ years with 1:1 programs• From novice to advance on all users of

technology in our survey

What do we hope to learn and do?

Where are we?

• Friday Institute for Educational Innovation• Located on NC State University’s Centennial Campus• Opened in November, 2007• Our Building of Ideas has spaces and state-of-the art

technology for: – conducting research – teaching both face-to-face and online– developing multi-media educational resources– working collaboratively– convening meetings related to our mission

What’s in the binder?

What will we be doing?

• Presentations and panels• Hands-on experiences• Administrative, Classroom, and Technology

Directors special sessions • Team time with facilitators• Demonstration poster-type sessions• Informal networking, with food• Optional book club-Grown-up Digital• Cross-team sharing

What are the expectations?

• 150 teachers, 150 learners• Engage, explore, ask, share, connect• Seek what you need to know• Help others find what they need to know• Have team members attend different break-

out sessions• Help us stay on schedule• Complete evaluation forms

A Pop Quiz

Fill-in the Blank Quotes about___ Century Skills

(Extra credit for adding who and when)

Quote #1

There is no reason anyone would want a

_______ in their home.

Quote #1

There is no reason anyone would want a

computer in their home. (Ken Olson,

president, chairman and founder of Digital

Equipment Corporation, 1977.)

Quote #2

This ________ has too many shortcomings to

be seriously considered as a means of

communication.

Quote #2

This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings

to be seriously considered as a means of

communication. (Western Union internal

memo, 1876)

Quote #3

I believe that the ______ is destined to

revolutionize our educational system and that

in a few years it will supplant largely, if not

entirely, the use of textbooks.

Quote #3

I believe that the motion picture is destined to

revolutionize our educational system and that

in a few years it will supplant largely, if not

entirely, the use of textbooks. (Thomas A.

Edison, 1922)

Quote #4

[If you allow the use of _______,] … to your

students you give an appearance of wisdom,

not the reality of it... They will appear to know

much when for the most part they know

nothing.

Quote #4

[Writing] will produce forgetfulness in the

souls of those who have learned it, through

lack of practice at using their memory... To

your students you give an appearance of

wisdom, not the reality of it... They will appear

to know much when for the most part they

know nothing... (Socrates in The Phaedrus)

This Institute is made possible by generous support from:

• BB&T: David Weaver, Regional President• The Golden LEAF Foundation, Mark Sorrells,

Senior Vice President