Technology and Learning was the theme of the presentation to the School Board for its December 20, 2010 meeting. Below are some of the documents that were shared during that presentation.
Core Belief, Focused Purpose, International benchmarking, 21st Century Skills
Millbrook High School is a committed community of learners who support the continuous improvement of academic programs and skill building for learning and information literacy, career exploration and global awareness, sustained by integrated technology for instruction and learning.
The International Standards for Technology in Education (ISTE) National Education Technology Standards (NETS) for Students combined with the 21st Century Student Outcomes from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills provide us direction to help students prepare to work, live, and contribute to the social and civic fabric of their communities. The new standards identify several higher-order thinking skills and digital citizenship as critical for students to learn effectively for a lifetime and live productively in our emerging global society. These areas include the ability to:
• Demonstrate creativity and innovation
• Communicate and collaborate
• Conduct research and use information – information, media, technology and communication literacy
• Think critically, solve problems, and make decisions
• Use technology effectively and productively – life and career skills
Purposes/ Drivers
1. Increased ability of students to access communication, improve information gathering and research skills. Increase ability to produce, store, manipulate and move information.
2. Acquire appropriate new skills- new visual mapping, identifying additional learning resources, leveraging networks, making use of dispersed resources, connecting to existing institutions and resources
3. Move from district as part of a desert/oasis model to a shared learning landscape-beta culture, fully supporting classroom instruction. Increase teaching tools, strategies in all content areas as a shared resource.
4. Develop student skills appropriate for career, communication goals including increased awareness of interest and potential careers
5. Implement a shared learning environment for teachers, students and administrators with distributive innovation in the building
6. Provide students with a higher skill level to apply in every content area, intended to increase graduation rate and diversify applied and group learning opportunities
7. Engage students in creating learning opportunities and problem solving, to give students an active role in creating voice and making meaning in classrooms
8. Complement Professional Learning Community /Adaptive Schools model
Application
MAC Lab
Marist, DCC Courses
Learning Center
Coteaching
Nova Net/BASI testing
Naviance
Curriculum Mapping
Thinking Maps
iSAFE Curriculum
School Tools applications
Outcomes/ Strategies
• Properties of message display, meaning, advertising events,etc.
• Video editing and production
• Collaborative connection, a challenging level of teaching
• Interdisciplinary- apply methods to other content areas
• Multidisciplinary- combine multiple content areas
• Department review of new state core content standards
• Expanded electives
• Expands action research
• Increases type, style, and forms of assessment
• Competitive graduates (transcripts) for higher ed
• Assessment and support provided in just-in-time instruction, reteaching
• Graduation planning expanded, including career and interest inventory
• Increase college application planning ability, knowledge
• District, building, department meetings to build diary maps, sharing maps
• BLT meetings, PLC Conversation
• Professional Development consistently supports all efforts