Purposeful Powerful Pedagogy
Technology Infused Classroom
Who’s in the room?
Dr. Nadia Hilman
Executive Director Elementary Education
Santa Ana Unified School District
Serving the instructional needs of
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55,000 students
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2300 teachers
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56 schools
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95% Free and reduced lunch
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84% English Learners
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Student interest and aspiration.
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Former principal and teacher
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Always an educator
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Differentiated Learning for
Teachers
Coaches
Administrators
Students
66%
Learning is a goal directed activity
For Students
For instructional leaders in the classroom
For instructional leaders outside
the classroom
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Students build agency and meta-cognitive capacities to be
lifelong learners in a global society
Collaboration
How are we providing frequent opportunities to
collaborate around complex tasks to promote deep
thinking?
Language & Cultural Context
How are we valuing and building on student's languages
and experience to promote deep understanding?
Personalized Learning
How are we personalizing learning to meet the needs of
diverse learners?
Academic Rigor
How are we sustaining academic rigor to prepare
students for college and career?
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Technology Infused Classroom
Breakout Boxes, Google classroom, Zaption, Student response systems, Virtual Reality Simulations, Blogs, Facebook,
Twitter, Discovery Education, Khan Academy, Makerspace, ST Math, Accelerated Reader, MyOn Reader, Canvas,
Robotics, Project Based Learning, Screencastify, Canvas, Gooru, Genius Hour, 1:1 Devices, BYOD, YouTube, BrainPop,
Minecraft, Socrative, Kahoot, Movenote, Adobe Slate, Wikispaces
Where do you start?
Start with
Purpose
And don’t forget what you know
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Pedagogy
Teacher as Activator of Learning
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Making Connections
21st Century Skills
TPACK
SAMR
ISTE Standards
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ISTE
Standards
for Students
Digital citizens
Computational
thinkers
Knowledge
constructors
Innovative
designers
Creative
communicators
Global
collaborators
Empowered
learners
Technology Infused Learning Environments
Start with the why?
All students
What’s the big idea?
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Theory of Action
If the instructional model integrates technology with specified purpose, then
students will be prepared to authentically engage in the digital environments
of college and career and apply their learning to new settings.
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Apply on the fly
Examples to consider or choose from your own context
English Language Arts
Understanding irony.
Why do people have different
perspectives of the same event?
History
Who contributed to the changes
that resulted in a new nation and
what were they?.
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Science
What is the impact of climate
change on an ecosystem over
time?
Math
How many boxes are needed to
move a family’s belongings from
one house to another?
Collaboration
1. To promote collaboration
with others in the school,
community or globally
2. To assist teachers and
students to communicate
creatively
Language & Cultural Context
3. To motivate students to
engage in their learning
4. To assist students in
creating digital projects
which reflect student voice
and choice
Personalized Learning
5. To provide timely feedback.
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That improves/accelerates learning
The informs instruction through
formative assessment
That includes feedback from students
and adults outside the classroom
6. To differentiate and personalize
learning with multiple access points
that reflects student voice, choice and
needs.
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7.
Extensions
Scaffolds for EL, SPED or below
grade level students
To support goal setting.
Academic Rigor
8. To access and utilize real world and current
data sets for research and problem solving.
9. To identify and explore authentic problems
and to act upon real world solutions.
10. To construct a new body of knowledge (for
self and others).
11. To utilize or build models to solve problems.
Purposeful Use of Technology
Pedagogy First
Determine Purposes
Make the transition
Coaching and
collaboration
Reflection
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Device and app agnostic
Worked examples
Interactive practice with current lesson plans
Maximize the time with the teacher
Feedback loop
Supporting priorities and expansion of technology
Communicating “Look For” in the classroom
Bias for action, iterate
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QUESTION
TIME