NSTA - sTem

You’ve never seen Student Technology Work Like This Before

Ben Smith and Jared Mader@edtechben @rlmaderjwww.edtechinnovators.com

sTem

About Us

Ben Smith:• Physics Teacher• Keystone Technology

Integrator• Doctoral Student in

Instructional Technology• Making IT Happen Award

Winner• ISTE Board of Directors

Jared Mader:• Director of Technology• Former Chemistry Teacher• Technology Staff

Development Trainer• Keystone Technology

Integrator• Masters in Instructional

Technology• ISTE Consultant

Our Website

www.edtechinnovators.com

• Nonprofit international membership association.

• Focuses on improving teaching and student learning using technology as a tool.

• Connects educators to learn from each other.

• Promotes best practices from the field.

ISTE NETS

2013 Presentations

Thursday• 8:00 – 9:30 AM – Using iPads to

Create Innovative Scientists• 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM - The World of

Google in Science• 1:00 – 2:30 PM – Putting Web 2.0

into the Science Classroom• 3:00 – 4:00 PM – sTem: You’ve

Never Seen Student Technology Work Like This

2013 Presentations

Friday• 8:00 – 9:00 AM – Digitizing the

Learning Experience and Taking IT Mobile

• 9:30 – 10:30 AM – Going Beyond Data Collection: Sharing in a Science Classroom

• 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM – Google Me This: How to Make Collaboration Work in a Wiki World

• 2:00 – 3:00 PM – Tech Talk: A Terabyte of Ideas in an Hour

http://bit.ly/nsta13

2013 Presentations

Saturday• 12:30 – 1:30 PM – Adding a Bit of

Technology to a NASA Educational Project

Webinars

Wednesday, April 24, 2013• 4:00 - 5:00 PM, EST• Transforming the Science Classroom

• http://iste.org/webinars

Special Interest Groups

ISTE 2013

ISTE Conference

Monday, June 24, 2013• 5:30 – 6:45 PM – SIGsci Shareathon

Tuesday, June 25, 2013• 8:30 – 10 AM – The Mobile Classroom: Going

Digital • 4 – 6 PM – Got Data? Let’s Share Our Work

Wednesday, June 26, 2013• 8:30 – 11:30 AM• Every Student Computes in Science

Ben and Jared

Success in the Digital Agefor students

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Marc Prensky - Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants - See Articlehttp://www.iste.org/learn/iste-toolkit.aspx

What is IT?

Why Go Digital?

StEM or sTem

Adding Tech In

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Tech Tools

Student K-U-D…

Know Understand Do

Student K-U-D…

Know Understand Do

standards

Knowing ScienceCONTENT is NOT enough

• Students must be able to • Construct new understandings• Solve problems• Make decisions• Communicate and express themselves• Understand complex issues• Work collaboratively• Set goals and work to a timeline• Make ethical choices

National Educational Technology Standards for Students

Practices

Performance Indicators

Looking for Practices

Google Docs

ICT Profiles

Developing the Practices

Student K-U-D…Know Understand Do

standards

Framework

Increasing Levels of CognitionCurriculum mastery deepens

Increasing Complexity of Technology SkillsTechnology choices become autonomous

ObservingStudents are passive spectators of the technology

Incorporating Students are leveraging technology to increase productivity

ProducingStudents create a product with a single technology

Exploring Students engage in discovery learning prior to formal instruction

CollaboratingStudents interact with peers, instructors, and outside resources

ApplyingStudents are guided to combine and integrate technologies

CreatingStudents are making sound choices about the appropriate synthesis of content and technology into a final product

Leap One

Observing to Incorporating

ObservingStudents are passive spectators of the technology

Observing to Incorporating

Incorporating Students are leveraging technology to increase productivity

Examples

Students use the interactive whiteboard to manipulate pictures in a classification activity

Students narrate a Discovery Streaming video in lieu of the “stock” narration

Using Inspiration to create chemical element cards that can be manipulated toCreate a periodic table

When writing an abstract, students must use the formatting features that are built intoWord to identify claims and substantiating facts

Students create a Diigo or or Delicious page to organize and identify supportingevidence for an experiment or study

Observing to Incorporating

Leap Two

Incorporating to the “Triangle”

Incorporating to the “Triangle”Incorporating Students are leveraging technology to increase productivity

ProducingStudents create a product with a single technology

Exploring Students engage in discovery learning prior to formal instruction

CollaboratingStudents interact with peers, instructors, and outside resources

Examples

Students podcast observations in lieu of a data table

Post a video that displays a scientific principle to Voicethread so that the class can comment and/or predict its law

Design an experiment in Google Docs and complete it with your lab group, online

Make a movie trailer about a chemical reaction, describing its mathematics and propertiesIn a dramatic or comedic way

Students explore the principles of a gas law by engaging in a simulation about thatlaw prior to experimentation

Incorporating to the “Triangle”

Leap Three

The “Triangle” to Creating

The “Triangle”Students are guided to use different tools

The “Triangle” to Creating

CreatingStudents are making sound choices about the appropriate synthesis of content and technology into a final product

Planning Documents

• Year Long Plan• Being Creative• Curriculum Map

• What are 21st century skills?• What are technologies you / your students can use?• What are your current integration activities?

The resources…

Eliciting Practices

Eliciting Skill Development

• Through the curriculum, the students must be provided experiences that will facilitate growth in all areas of the NETS.

• The curriculum mapping document will help…

Extended Thinking…BAM!

Student Practices

Kickin’ it up a Notch

Eliciting Creativity

• Designing activities that ask students to be creative must begin with the end point in mind.

• The “being creative” document will help…

Ensuring Success

• In order to allow students to be successful, we must scaffold our activities from a content perspective as well as a technology one

• The Year Long Plan will help:

Assessing Technology Integrated Projects

• What are the goals / objectives of the project?• Curricular• Skills • Technology

• Develop a rubric• Curriculum Focus should be first• Need a rubric area to deal with technology aspect

• Collaboration• Problem Solving• Communication

Creating rubrics

Questions

• Email: info@edtechinnovators.com• Website: www.edtechinnovators.com

• Ben @edtechben ben@edtechinnovators.com

• Jared @rlmaderj jared@edtechinnovators.com

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