Presentation for the NEASC Model School Showcase

1. What is your mission?
NEASC Model Schools Showcase
October 12, 2011

2. Massachusetts Board of
Elementary and Secondary Education
Mission Statement
If we continue to block sites like Facebook, YouTube, and
Twitter what parts of this need to be modified?
The mission of the Massachusetts Board
of Elementary and Secondary Education
is to strengthen the Commonwealth's
public education system so that every
student is prepared to succeed in
postsecondary education, compete in the
global economy, and understand the
rights and responsibilities of American
citizens, and in so doing, to close all
proficiency gaps.

3. Burlington High School Mission Statement

4. Some questions for you
• Why is it important for students to use
social media to “connect”?
• What impact will it have on their school?
• What impact will it have on their futures?
• What impact will it have on all of our
futures?

5. If we truly believed these mission
statements we would...
• show students how to edit their privacy settings and use groups
in Facebook instead of banning online social networks because
they’re ‘dangerous’ and/or ‘frivolous’
• teach students to understand and contribute to the online
information commons rather than ‘just saying no’ to Wikipedia
• put a robust digital learning device into every student’s hands
(or let them bring and use their own) instead of pretending that
we live in a pencil notebook paper and ring binder world
Click here for the complete list from Scott McLeod’s Big Think Blog

7. Why do we need to embrace Social Media?
"Students in the 21st century should have experience with and
develop skills around technological tools used in the classroom
and the world around them. Through this they will learn about
technology and learn through technology. In addition, they must be
able to select the most appropriate tools to address particular
needs."
From NCTE's Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment 2007

8. Why do we need to embrace Social Media?
“Just as media and technology are integrated in school and life in
the twenty-first century, skills related to media use (both critical
analysis and production of media) are integrated throughout the
standards.."
(From Common Core State Standards) 2011

9. Why do we need to embrace Social Media?
“To promote student learning through the use of mobile learning
devices and social media in instruction that further prepares
students to be active, constructive participants in the highly
connected world in which they already live and will soon work.."
(From NASSP Position Statement on Using Mobile and Social Technologies
in school) 2011

10. Watch
History
As It
Happens

11. Watch
History
As It
Happens

12. The School That Launched
1,000 iPads - Google Doc

13. Questions????

14. Contact Information:
Patrick Larkin - Principal, Burlington High School
e-mail - larkin@bpsk12.org
blog - Burlinton High School Principal’s Blog
twitter - @bhsprincipal
cell - 339 234-1673
Andrew Marcinek - BHS Instructional Technology
e-mail - amarcinek@bpsk12.org
blog - andrewmarcinek.com
twitter - @andycinek
cell - 570 259-1114