Vision for Education – 2017

Sarah Stabile

Post University – EDU505

Jennifer Wojcik

Public high school founded in 1958

Mission: “Wolcott High School provides a positive learning environment to engage students in meaningful learning for success in the 21st century.”

• 2012 Wolcott implemented the New Common Core State Standards

• Increased rigor

• Capstone project with career developed pathways

• 2012 Wolcott implemented a modified-block schedule

• In-depth student collaboration projects

• Effective technology used

• Discovery-based learning

Wolcott High School

Technology Used In (and For) the Classroom

• Analytic Learning– Data teams organized by subject

• Compare data to improve student learning– Mimio Software and Clickers

• Tablets– Individualized learning experience

• Apps• Cost effective• Immediate resources

Futuring

Importance in theField of Education

Futuring Techniques

“When people better understand change, they also often see more opportunities

for their lives and ways to better positively influence the future that is being created”

(Groff & Smoker, 1996).

Continues to build the minds of students and questions them about each tomorrow

and what it holds for us

Scenarios/Scanning

Scenarios and Scanning• Scenarios

– Benefits• Opens up the mind to unimaginable possibilities and challenge long-held internal

beliefs of an organization; …compelling its managers to rethink radically” (Mietzner & Reger, 2005, p. 235).

• Newly adapted ideas instead of pre-existing ones; corporations are no longer focusing on "black and white scenarios or the most-likely scenario” (Mietzner & Reger, 2005, p.236).

– Consequences• A surprise event can collapse society’s productivity (Clardy, 2011, p.43). • Data and other sources have to be collected and interpreted making scenario building

time-consuming (Mietzner & Reger, 2005, p. 236). • Scanning

– Benefits • Supports from concrete evidence of how these trends have succeeded or failed

previously, which allows people to slightly modify these trends for a better tomorrow• Learning analytics personalizes education for each student to achieve a measure of

success.– Challenges

• Economics and financial distress• Some of the modern technology does not have many trends to base a premise off of to

predict future behaviors

Technological Trends

Web 2.0 Technologies Mobile, Ubiquitous and Contextual ComputingBoth• Allows people to

communicate with others and share ideas, videos, opinions, and more online

• “Enhances and increased the quality of student work” (Pritchett, Wohleb, & Pritchett, 2013, p. 2)

• Shows “increased motivation and self-directedness, accessibility and portability as a personal learning tool” (Klopfer, Yoon, & Perry, 2005, p. 2).

• Instant access to information which leads to “just-in-time” learning

• Leads to individualized

learning experiences

• Collect Data to better

understand areas of

weakness

• Analytic learning

Budgeting Trends

• Hiring freezes or restrictions, laying off of [full-time and] part-time faculty members, and reducing academic programs (Betts, Hartman, and Oxholm, 2009)

• Learning journeys provide futuristic ways of learning that can be cost effective; yet, provide an eclectic collection of resources. – OER (open educational resources), are free for students to use – “help[s] learners connect with people, resources, and activities

that can propel them along their chosen learning pathways” (Zimmerman, 2011, p. 1)

– Allow students to engage in meaningful learning by making learning connections in and out of the classroom, in the community or online (Zimmerman, 2011)

Demographic Trends

• Immigration students– Legalization may help close the achievement gap– Higher rate of success because of a sense of community

(Hao & Woo, 2012)– Networking and collaboration skills– Tablets may improve learning with one-to-one assistance

• STEM-related jobs– More males than females– More STEM than non-STEM jobs (Milgrim, 2011)– Females involved with technology at a young age may

develop an interest to pursue career at an older age– Females provide a different perspective

5 Ways to Prepare

1. Invest in classroom sets of tablets2. Further research online educational apps,

softwares, and other programs3. Participate in professional development to

learn how to appropriately assist students in content specific areas of virtual learning

4. Budget for new technologies5. Provide more STEM-based elective classes for

students to develop a further interest in these areas

Call to Action• Purchase a set of tablets for students to easily connect to the world around them

and have access to several educational online resources.

• Budget for the purchase of these tablets and apps

• Participate in content specific professional development on how to properly use the technologies that are going to be implemented within a classroom (Davis & Rose, 2007).

• Several apps should be researched – Collaborate online in a discussion forum concerning the pros and cons of

each app or software.

• Collect data from the use of these programs on each tablet.

• Collaborate with their content specific colleagues to discuss teaching methods

• Administration should designate common preps to teachers

References• Betts, K., Hartman, K., & Oxholm III, C. (2009, December). Re-examining

and re-positioning higher education: Twenty economic and demographic factors driving online and blended program enrollments. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 13(4), 3-23. Retrieved from http://sloanconsortium.org/jaln/v13n4/re-examining-amp-repositioning-highereducation-20-economic-and-demographic-factors-drivi

• Clardy, A. (2011) Six Worlds of Tomorrow: Representing the Future to Popular Culture. [Article] World Future Review, 3(2), p.37-48

• Davis, N. & Rose, R. (2007, November). Research committee issues brief: Professional development for virtual schooling and online learning. North American Council for Online Learning. Retrieved from http://www.inacol.org/resources/publications/inacol-reports/2/

• Groff, L. & Smoker, P. (1996). Global Options: Introduction to Future Studies

Topics. Retrieved from http://www.csudh.edu/global_options/IntroFSTopics.HTML#FSMethodols

• Hao, L. & Woo, H. (2012). Distinct trajectories in the transition to adulthood: Are children of immigrants advantaged?. Child Development, 83(5), 1623. DOI: 10.1111/j.146786 24.20 12.01798.x

References cont.• Johnson, L., Adams Becker, S., Cummins, M., Estrada, V., Freeman, A., & Ludgate, H. (2013). NMC Horizon Report:  2013 Higher Education Edition.  Austin, Texas:  The New Media Consortium.

• Klopfer, E., Yoon, S., & Perry, J. (2005, September). Using palm technology in participatory simulations of complex systems. Journal of Science Education & Technology, 14(3), 285-297. doi: 10.1007/s10956-005-7194-0

• Mietzner, D., & Reger, G. (2005). Advantages and disadvantages of scenario approaches for strategic foresight. International Journal of Technology Intelligence and Planning, 1(2), 220-239.Retrieved from http://www.lampsacus.com/documents/stragegicforesight.pdf

• Milgram, D. (2011, November). How to recruit women and girls to the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) classroom. Technology & Engineering Teacher, 71(3), 4-11. Retrieved from http://ehis.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=a2947163-d415-40e2 ae193da80b1e0cd5%40sessionmgr14&vid=5&hid=8&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=67074361

References cont.• Pritchett, C., Wohleb, E., & Pritchett, C. (2013, February). Educator’s perceived importance of Web 2.0 technology applications, Tech Trends, 57(2), 33-38. doi: 10.1007/s11528-013-0643-3

• Zimmerman, G. (2011). Learning journey mentor. KnowledgeWorks. Retrieved from http://www.knowledgeworks.org/learning-in-2025