Noel Gnadinger – SOHS

Caroline Lesousky - EOMS

Dorenda Neihof – Central Office

Lauren Pfeifer – Camden Station Elementary

Cindy Smith – Goshen Elementary

*Welcome to OCTI!

*What will our future classrooms look like?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ73ZsBkcus

*What is the Digital Generation?

Digital Immigrant“An individual who was born before the existence of digital technology and adopted it to some extent later in life.”

Digital Native “A person who was

born during or after the introduction of digital technologies and through interacting with digital technology from an early age, has a greater understanding of its concepts. This usually describes people born during or after the 2000’s.”

*Technology of tomorrow in your classroom today

For the next 5 minutes, discuss at your tables…

*What technology did you use when you were in high school that was considered “cutting edge”?

*What is cutting edge in your classroom or library today?

*Why Should we use Technology within the

classroom?

“Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.”

- Mark Prensky

*What is the difference?

Mark Prensky (2011)

Digital Natives Prefer:

•Receiving information quickly from multiple sources

•Multi-tasking and parallel processing

•Pictures, sounds and videos before text

•Hyperlinked sources

•Interacting with others in “real-time”

•User generated content (peers)

•Learning that is instant, relevant and fun

Digital Immigrants Prefer:

•Controlled release of information from limited sources (pre-determined)

•Single or “focused” tasks

•Often prefer to get information from a text

•Greater need for private and personal space

•Like information presented linearly, logically and sequentially

*What is the Digital Generation?

As a result, our students (digital natives)…

•Mature earlier. Years earlier than children did even a

couple of generations ago.

•Have spent their entire lives surrounded by and using

computers, videogames, digital music players, video

cams, cell phones and other toys and tools of the digital

age.

•On average have spent less than 5,000 hours of their

lives reading, over 10,000 hours playing video games and

20,000 hours watching TV!

Mark Prensky (2011)

*Today’s Students…

“Today’s generation of students should anticipate having multiple careers in industries that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented yet to solve problems we haven’t even begun to think about yet.”

-Thomas Friedman in The World is Flat

*Our students today learn differently!

•The digital generation processes information differently than the people of the generation before (the way they read).

•They operate at “twitch speed”: they expect instantaneous access to information, goods, and services at the click of a mouse and expect rewards or instant gratification!

•About 95% of students are now either visual or auditory learners with only 5% kinesthetic.

Perdue University (2008)

*Technology as a tool

*Technology is a tool that can change the nature of learning.

*In a technology-rich classroom, students don't "learn" technology. Technology provides the tools to be used for authentic learning.

*Edtech supports but does not replace best practice!

(Lynn Schrum 2005)

*So what exactly is OCTI?

*Dorenda Neihof, Chief Operations Officer

http://prezi.com/ukbm1b42dz2n/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

*What does it look like in schools?

*Cindy Smith – LMS/STC at Goshen Elementary* LMS Perspective

* Facilitator

*Teacher

*Developing Leaders

*Caroline Lesousky – Teacher at East Oldham Middle School

*Gained a new professional learning community

*Realized technology does not have to involve iPads

*Deepened my appreciation for technology as a tool to enhance and extend learning

*Talk at your tables

*What is your journey with OCTI going to be in your building? *Face to face meetings?

*Peer observations?

*Online discussion space? (wiki, blog, Edmodo, etc.)

*Learning new technologies?

*Setting and achieving tech goals?

*Professional development?

*LMS lead conversation for 5-10 minutes

*OCTI on the district level

*What is OCTI like at the district level? *octi@Oldham.kyschools.us

*District website

*Twitter @OldhamEdtech

*A year in the life

*Pre-seminar learning

*Two days away (November 9-10)

*Learning/sharing tech day one

*Observation/reflection day two

*Ongoing meetings in your building

*Reconvene in Spring with levels to reflect on our progress

* https://sites.google.com/site/octi201415/

*Set a goal

*Please set a personal goal for yourself as a teacher and/or member of OCTI in the 2014-2015 school year.

*Share at tables.

*Survey

*http://goo.gl/aSTLff