10-Minute Tech Tips
Matt McLain
www.chewelah.k12.wa.us/mmclain/wala
10-Minute Tech Tips
Has it come to this?
10-Minute Tech Tips
Matt McLain
Ten-Minute Tech Tips
Grew out of the need for a way to
provide professional development
in a meaningful, cost-effective,
nonthreatening way.
ALE Challenges
We have to adapt due to lack of funding, a
diversity of challenges and the charge to
serve the unique abilities of our students.
Activity
Stanford’s Horizon’s Report
available since 2002
• The research behind the NMC Horizon Report:
2012 Higher Education
• Edition is jointly conducted by the New Media
Consortium (NMC) and
• the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an
EDUCAUSE Program.
Tablet Computing-1 year
• According to a recent study from comScore,
the iPad now accounts for 97% of all tabletbased web traffic in the U.S. and 46.8% of all
mobile web traffic.
• Similar statistics show tablets are increasingly
the device of choice not just for web browsing,
but also social networking and reading news.
Game-based learning 2-3 years out
• gaming was named as an ideal method of
assessing student knowledge comprehension, citing
the ability of games to provide immediate
performance feedback to the players.
• Value added to the classroom: collaboration,
problem solving, communication, critical thinking,
and digital literacy
Game-based learning examples
National Education Technology Plan
sees value in game-based learning
• the feeling of working toward a goal
• The possibility of attaining spectacular successes
• the ability to problem solve, collaborate with others,
and socialize
Learning Analytics-Two to Three Years
The goal of learning analytics is to enable
teachers and schools to tailor educational
opportunities to each student’s level of need
and ability in close-to-real time (p.25).
Examples of Learning analytics
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AIMs
RBA/MBA-Riverside Publishing
Aleks Math (RTI strategic interventions)
Writing analytics-Odysseyware, Waypoint
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Gesture-Based Computing
Four to Five Years
• Gesture-based computing allows users to engage in
virtual activities with motions and movements similar
to what they would use in the real world, manipulating
content intuitively (29).
Internet of Things- 4-5 years
• The advent of IPv6 has extended the Internet
address space significantly, thus providing an
avenue for any object to use the Internet to
transmit and receive data and information from
an object or piece of equipment
Social Media
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Organizing your digital world
Google Docs
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Googledocs – Form+
Free advice for when evaluating tech tools
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Not all technologies are created equal
Make sure your adoption procedures are part
of your Technology Plan for your Building,
Program, or District.
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Don’t take the vendor’s word. You
are the practitioner. Take advice
from practitioners.
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Stay practical,
purposeful
relevant,
and
Technology Evaluation Tools
We must ask these questions when
adopting new technology for the 21st
century classroom.
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What is the cost to the District, School/Program, Individual?
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How will the tool add to classroom instruction?
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How will I measure successful use of the application?
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How will we know if it works?
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What do I want this tool to effectively accomplish?
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Will this tool make me a better practitioner of what I teach?
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Is this consistent with goals, plans, and policies of District?
Educational Technology
Resource Evaluation Form
Evaluation form
Individual Activity
Cost saving sites
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