Presentation by Kurt Kiefer Ass't State Superintendent - Division of Libraries and Technology at Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. UW-Extension Broadband & E-commerce Education Center "High Speed Bits" program.

1. Digital Learning and Information
Systems Moving Forward Statewide
Kurt Kiefer
Assistant State Superintendent
WI Department of Public Instruction

2. • Standards & Instruction
• What and how should kids learn?
• How do we support innovation
learning?
• How are digital technologies integrated
into learning?
• Assessments and Data Systems
• How do we know if they learned it?
• School and Educator Effectiveness
• How do we ensure that students have
highly effective teachers and schools?
• School Finance Reform
• How should we pay for schools?
Wisconsin State Superintendent Tony Evers:
Agenda 2017

3. Wisconsin Statewide Digital
Learning Strategic Plan

4. DLAC Action Items
Implement statewide systems:
• WISEdata open data collection system
• WISEdash data warehouse/dashboard
• WISE Learn Educational resource portal, content
repository, Learning management system (LMS)
with high quality content, and virtual PLCs
• Individual learning plan (ILP) system - being
implemented as Academic & Career Plans (ACPs)
• WDLC - Online, virtual and blended learning

5. Early Childhood
Postsecondary
Assessments
Local, state, national
Educator Licensing
OnlineAcademic &
Career Plans
Collaboration
Cloud
Content RepositoryLearning
Management
System

6. • The largest 26 of the total 445 districts (6%)
represent 40% of the total state student enrollment
• The smallest 335 of the total 445 districts (75%)
represent 40% of the total state student enrollment
• The median sized district (half of the 445 districts
are above the median and half are below the
median) is 902 students
• Bottom line: Wisconsin has a large number of
small school districts

7. WISEdash is
and will…
• Statewide dashboard and reporting system
• Public & secured reporting
• Allow any SIS vendor to interoperate
• Reduce operational costs

8. Resources to Guide Data Inquiry
with WISE Tools

9. Academic and Career Plans
Individual Learning Plans
• Endorsed by Governor’s task force
• Focus on students’ personalized learning and
career pathways “Where are you headed?
What learning will get you there?”
• Tools to work on career interest inventories,
resumes, applications, etc.
• Connect students with workplace & employers
• Build a body of evidence -- an e-portfolio
• Integrate with open data collection system
• Funded in recent state budget beginning FY14

10. Personalized Learning
CESA #1 The Institute
CCSSO Innovative Lab Network

11. Builds on Two
Concepts
• Social networks - places where educators
collaborate, share, and learn from and
with each other, professional learning
communities (PLCs)
• Resource portals - places where educators
find content for their instructional work

12. The “gateway” to the tools and functions
Collaboration
Cloud
Teacher - student,
teacher - teacher,
student - student,
teacher - parent
Content
Repository
e.g., Customized
PBS
LearningMedia
Video, web sites,
documents, audio,
assessments, etc.
Learning
Management
System
Shared courses,
units and lessons;
by Common Core
and more
Curriculum Content Development & Technical Support

13. WISE Learn creates...
• Online and blended learning platform for ALL WI
students
• Efficient tool for searching for quality content
• A platform for digital “textbooks”
• Professional learning communities, events
calendar
• Crowdsourcing option where teachers rating
quality of content, e.g., Yelp, Trip Advisor, etc.
• Creates instructional feedback loops when
combined with algorithms
• Partnerships across WI ed organizations

14. Digital
Learning
Collaborative
Supplemental
Local Control and
System Hub
Communications
/Quality

15. Wisconsin Statewide Digital
Learning Strategic Plan

16. Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC)
Readiness - Online testing
▪ SBAC says schools will need 10-20 kbps / student on average and
50kbps/student for peaks.
✓ Critical to handle peak loads without latency/response delays in a
high stakes testing environment
✓ SBAC readiness is defined as 50 kbps/student or greater
Digital Learning Readiness - Driven by 1:1 Devices
▪ SETDA recommends 100 kbps/student to be digital learning
ready today
✓ SBAC clearly states that the bandwidth standards for the
assessment alone (above) will not be sufficient for digital learning
Two Levels of Digital Ready

17. SBAC Readiness
School Speed Tests (Fall 2012)
▪ 33% of schools are SBAC ready (>50 kbps/student)
▪ 29% of schools are on the fence (10-20 to 50 kbps/student)
▪ 37% of schools are below SBAC minimums (<10-20 kbps)

18. Digital Learning Readiness
School Speed Tests (Fall 2012)