1. Unit #1 – Why Technology?
SHIFT: What’s all the fuss about?
[Or, why are we here?]
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2. THEME #1: SHIFT HAPPENS
• How has this change impacted the world?
o
Shift Happens
o Discussion:
 What part of the video impressed you most?
 What does it mean for us as teachers and for our students?
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3. THEME #1: SHIFT HAPPENS
• Digital World
• Unprecedented ease of communication
• Unprecedented access to information
• Global everything (The World is Flat)
• Technology is changing whether we like it or not
• The need to be capable to function in and help others
function in whatever world we are shifting into
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4. THEME #2: SHIFT AND STUDENTS
• So, who will your students be?
• We care about technology in this class, but whose technology?
• Mine? Yours? Your teachers? Your students?
• Consider who your students are (not what you are used
to), and go from there?
• Vision for technology in K-12 Education
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5. THEME #3: SHIFT AND ADAPT
• How do we adapt?
• Harrison Central High School: A Commitment to High Tech
(8:55) – High School Example
• Tech Fueled Differentiated Instruction – Elementary
Example
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6. THEME #3: SHIFT AND ADAPT
• Think-Pair Share (3 Minutes – based on the video):
• What about your own technology experiences in your
previous schools?
• Would you rather like to be a student in such a high-tech
school?
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7. Theme #4: Shift… Or else
• The fact is, SHIFT or not, we do not have much of a
choice
• Schools, administrators, parents, students, etc expect us to adapt
• Sometimes, it is the law
• If we do not adapt, others will
(and we risk becoming irrelevant)
• Ex. New Tech High School – Project-Based Learning
and Technology…
• New Tech High – All over Indiana! (Watch until 4:41)
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8. SUMMARY
•
In the weeks ahead, we will expand on each of these
themes
•
As technology (and the world around us) changes, we as
teachers must adapt – not give in, not ignore, but adapt
and make good decisions
•
This course is about navigating all of this SHIFT and
making good decisions as teachers
o And to learn that there are tech tools that can make our
classrooms better and lives easier – but that is your decision to
make
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9. SUMMARY
• This course is divided into three units:
o Unit 1: Focuses on the SHIFTs and expectations we as
teachers must navigate
o Unit 2: Looks at how technology can best facilitate learning,
depending on the task students are doing
o Unit 3: Looks at how technology can or should impact our
jobs as teachers as professions
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