1. DPI: Working to Connect
the Future of Digital Education
WISElearn and More
WiscNet Future Technologies Conference
April 23. 2013

2. Kurt Kiefer, Asst State Superintendent
Jeff Knutsen, Director Inst Media & Tech
Stu Ciske, Inst Media & Tech Consultant
Janice Mertes, Digital Learning Consultant

3. Today's Meet Back Channel
http://todaysmeet.com/dpifuture
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Working to Connect the Future of Digital Education

4. Why Does Digital Education Need
to be Connected by 2015?
•46 states have adopted the Common Core State
Standards
•shared learning resources
•maximizing efficiency of search
•professional collaboration including virtual
•technical interoperability specifications
•non-device dependent learning standards

5. Agenda 2017
Standards & Instruction
• What and how should kids learn?
• How is digital technology integrated in instruction
and support innovation?
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?

6. Connecting Agenda 2017 to the
Instructional Shifts
Standards and Instruction
• Use digital learning to change and enhance
instruction
Assessment and Data Systems
• Launch statewide student information and data
systems that support districts, streamline
operations, and expand research

7. State Superintendent's Digital Learning
Advisory Council (DLAC)
• Charge - Provide oversight of all aspects of digital
learning in Wisconsin. Develop a comprehensive
strategy for digital learning in Wisconsin. Provide
recommendations to the State Superintendent on
initiatives that promote and advance digital
learning.
• DLAC website

8. Common
Core
Smarter
Assessments
Educator
Effectiveness
In Support of the "Big Three" to
Connect to Wisconsin Accountability Standards
Innovation
&
Emerging
Tech

9. DLAC Action Items
• Implement statewide student information system (SSIS)
and WISEdash statewide data warehouse, dashboard and
reporting system
• Implement statewide learning management system (LMS)
and method for evaluating quality content
• Partner with organizations to design, build and promote a
statewide educational resource portal
• Explore best practices for implementing a common
individual learning plan (ILP) system

10. • Promote best practice guidance on policies and
procedures that advance educator and student access
to digital learning
• Create a seamless operational environment of online
virtual courses that ensure all WI students access
• Establish bandwidth capacity benchmarks to achieve
the digital learning goals
• Establish formalized and working partnerships between
DPI and other stakeholders
DLAC Action Items

11. Leveraging Technology to Meet
the Common Core in Wisconsin
NEW CCSS Implementation Center portal
Read WI featuring resources and Literacy Live webinars
WI DPI virtual Literacy (un) Conference
WI Professional Learning on Demand modules
Building the WI Connected Educators via Twitter
@WisDPICCSS @WisDPILit @WisDPIMath @WisDPITech
@WiDPIwcdlm
Wisconsin Teaching and Learning Collaboratory statewide PLC

12. Open Education Resources
-OER for Digital Education in WI webinar sponsored by
CESA #1--WISElearn and personalized learning
-OER Achieve rubrics to review curriculum and
technical aspects of adoption
-Creative Commons Licensing

13. -DPI partnership with eSchool Network and
CESA #9/Wisconsin Virtual School
-access to affordable content for blended and
virtual course offerings
-working on Common Core aligned content
-built on platform for interoperability
Wisconsin Digital Learning
Collaborative (WDLC)

14. -assisting in tagging process
-CommonLinks project
-website re-design to assist with search
process
-assisting in statewide Common Core
project
Badger Link

15. Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBAC)
New mandated digital assessments drive the
need for technology
• Technology requirements
• Broadband requirements
• WI Connected Technology Google Groups
http://tinyurl.com/wiscsbac1

16. • statewide teams working with Smarter
Balanced to develop assessment items and
curricular resources
built in platform for interoperability
• granular alignment to CCSS
• accessed via WISElearn portal
Smarter Balanced Digital Library

17. Educator Effectiveness: Teachscape
-WI Teachscape site
-on WI Teachscape site: MET Teacher study links use
of Danielson model to increased student
achievement and professional growth
-free demo account for any WI educator on site
-check for DPI Wisconsin Road Show dates in May
- AWSA Quality Educator Conference in June

18. -LSTA 2013-17 Plan
-makerspaces
-collaborate spaces
-inquiry programming
-digitally inclusive communities
-digital media programming
Transformative Library
Spaces and Programs

19. Why Statewide Data Systems?
The WISE series
• Because the technology allows it
(encourages it?) - the "Cloud"
• Eliminates redundant work
• Addresses complicated technology issues
simultaneously for many districts
• Promotes collaboration

20. Early Childhood
Postsecondary
WISElearn
Educator Resource Portal
Assessments
Local, state, national
Educator Licensing Online
Statewide
Student
Information
System
DATA
WAREHOUSE
WISEdash
WISEmaps,
SDPR,
MDAT, SAFE
Academic &
Career Plans
Collaboration
CloudContent Repository
Learning Management
System

21. WISEdash is…
• Statewide dashboard and reporting system
• Data model enables easy, intuitive & smart
reporting
• Public & secured reporting allows diverse users
to fill diverse data needs

23. • connecting standards, instruction, resources
and assessment for collaboration
• collaboration with national Race to the Top
states to leverage technology research
WISElearn

24. WISElearn (Educator Resource Portal)
Portal – the “gateway” to the tools and functions
Collaboration
Cloud
Teacher - student,
teacher - teacher,
student - student,
teacher - parent
Content
Repository
Customized PBS
LearningMedia-
System
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

25. 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

26. WISElearn creates...
• Online and blended learning platform for ALL WI students -
relationship with WDLC
• Efficient search tool for quality content
• Crowdsourcing- teacher voice for quality, e.g., Yelp, Trip
Advisor, etc.
• A platform for digital “textbooks”
• Professional learning communities and events calendar
• “Big data” for instructional feedback algorithms
• Partnerships across WI ed orgs
• Prototype WI Center for Digital Learning and Media (WCDLM)

27. Academic and Career Plans
Individual Learning Plans---competency based opportunities
• 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 SIS
• Governor recommended in budget, FY15

28. - GIM-CCSS
• - LRMI
• - Learning Registry
• - CEDS 3.0
• - inBloom (SLC/SLI)
• - LTI, Common Cartridge
National Initiatives on
Interoperability

30. How Broadband "Healthy" Are We?

31. Browser-based software
• Student information system (SIS)
• Data Warehouse
• Learning management system (LMS)
• Portals and content repositories
• Individual learner plans
• Apps
Virtual professional learning
• Professional learnign
networks and communities
• Online courses
• Webinars
Content
• "E-Textbooks"
• Video!
• Open Education Resources
Instructional modes
• Blended
• Flipped classroom
• Personalized (Kahn-like)
• Fully virtual, including MOOCs
• Mobile
• Virtual "visits"
Scale
• 1 to 1 computing
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
• 24/7/365 learning
Digital Assessment
• SBAC summative
• Benchmark
• ACPs
• Formative observation apps
• Blogs
• Project wikis
• E-portfolios
Is There a Broadband Need?

32. Broadband Initiatives to Connect WI
• Broadband planning led by State CIO and
UW-Madison CIO
• K-12 and Libraries are priorities
• BCN contract expires in 2016
• PSC LinkWisconsin
• Data and stories

34. Link Wisconsin
• Broadband Symposium
• Playbook
• Maps
• Cost models
• Demand surveys

35. CoSN State Chapter
Connect State Technology Leaders by 2014
• professional learning community to collaborate about
best practices and solutions by connect WI technology
leaders
• DPI partnership to support
• resources, advocacy networks and professional
development opportunities
• CoSN Certified Education Technology Certification
Program for professional growth and PLC work

36. Connecting to the K-12
Horizon Report 2013
CoSN Horizon Report preview event Tuesday, May 21.
2013
Report released in June
Connecting the Horizon Report to DLAC and Wisconsin
digital education...look for a Blackboard collaborate
session at the end of June with leading state technology
leaders

37. What Else?
• Project 24 - Leadership for the Digital Age
• Speak UP - Digital Assessment
• Connect2Compete - 24/7 Digital Learning

38. Additional Resources
Nation's School's are Stepping Up to Higher Standards (role of
technology is essential)
Culture Shift: Teaching in a Learner Centered Environment Powered
by Digital Technology
EdTech Cheat Sheet
SETDA Broadband Imperative: Recommendations to Address K-12
Infrastructure Needs
Re-Engineering Information Technology: Design Considerations for
Competency Education

39. Questions

40. More districts begin SSIS
Additional data & dashboards into
WISEdash
More districts begin
SSIS
Addil data &
dashboards into
WISEdash
All districts on SSIS
Additional data &
dashboards into
WISEdash
2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18
Implementation Timeline – IT Projects
WISEdash rolled out to districts in
phases
Contract signed with SSIS vendor
WISElearn funding proposal in
2013-15 budget request
ELO vendor contract signed;
implementation begins
ELO PDP verification goes fully
electronic
Early Childhood feasibility study
concludes. Build begins
Postsecondary: contract with Natl.
Student Clearinghouse to obtain
their enrollment data at state level
Single security tool (ASM) used for
access to all DPI software
Districts begin SSIS
Early Childhood build continues
-- dashboards and reports
Additional data & dashboards into
WISEdash
ASM rolled out across more
applications
WISEdash goes public
SBAC assessment
live
More districts begin
SSIS