Sticky+Notes-+Ontario

=PLC (4 dots)=

- For PLC`s (started by individuals) - Weekly PD sessions for teachers. Teachers with experts, admin with experts, admin with admin, admin with teachers - PLC time - Model tech relevance during PD - What can individuals do? Experiment, dedicate a small amount of time to play in order to learn. You can not teach what you do not own

=Student Voice (16 dots)=

- Flexible curriculum, perhaps more open-ended - Mandate student choice, voice, and clarity of knowledge, expectations, instruction, strengths, etc by students - Student generated curriculum (within parameters) - Have students in-service teachers and admin on where they see education going - Survey student ideas - Empowering kids (students) with the technology/tools to teach others (teachers) - Get the students to advocate for the change

=Culture (13 dots)=

- Try new things - Whats working? Vision, acceptance, ideas - Structure school days differently - Give people explicit permission to take risks - Allow students to study their interests - Technology focused high school gets established as a pilot school - Stop thinking of computers as a subject area.. integrate - Speak up! agree to share whats working in your classroom - Blended elearning and face to face classes - Be an advocate for change - Team teaching so all teachers dont have to know it all - Getting rid of competition - Onward! No whining! Positive attitudes - Start small the "just do it attitude"

=Collaboration (11 dots)=

- Give innovators the opportunity/time in the school day to share great ideas - Teachers can model and share with their colleagues. Prove success - More team teaching collaboration. Teachers teaching and watching one another - Teachers collaborating from all over the world not just being on own in classroom with the door closed (facial networking) - Working now? Allowing this process to occur in the first place, Encouraging collaboration for extending learning process for kds - Teachers must demonstrate the power of collaborative learning networks for themselves and their students - Forums to share and interact directly with other districts - Share your passions with your peers ib a daily basis

=Reverse Mentorship (8 dots)=

- Showcase the kids and let them show you - Teaching teachers to be facilitators - Ask kids what they think will help - Give the tools to the students, they will teach it to you - Students bring own prior knowledge and ability to learn tech quickly

=Assessment (4 dots)=

- Mandatory course on digital citizenship for kids at elementary/middle/high school levels - Getting rid of marks - Create pilot programs to illustrate the possibilities

=Parents (3 dots)=

- Parent education and buy in - Post lessons online. Let parents into classroom - Educate selves, play around at home, what can individuals do? - Have sessions for parents on the importance of technology in the classroom and have examples - Parents need sessions to understand ed. shifts/need for shifts in educations

=Filter (0 dots)=

- Unblock internet at all schools - Teach safety - Work around the sites that are blocked - Show the educational usages and teach students how to use for school/educate - Move forward, just do it! - Overcome barriers

=Mentors (9 dots)=

- Individuals can share their learning with others using the technology we all have access to - Continue to share what I do, try to ignite the passion in others - Mentoring and modeling - Leading by example - Be encouraged to experiment/take risks - Sign up for twitter and developed PLN - "Maven" to help staff learn tools - Relationship building - Individuals need to advocate for change by showing positive examples of learning in action - Provide and "expert" in each school to act as the tech support

=Publishing Communication (1 dot)=

- Eliminate textbooks - Publish success stories in professional magazines - Educate community through local media on the desire to shift methods of teaching. - Take principals to schools that are using tech in an innovative 21st century way to help get them to spend money - Celebrating the teachers who are working for change by having/encouraging them to be more transparent

=1-1 ( 13 dots)=

- 1:1 tech access and networks capable of supporters - Purchase hardware to connect all students - One ipad to take home/child/teachers - One laptop per child/teacher - 1:1 laptop

=Time (29 dots)=

- Google the work week. 1 day per week is allocated to a personal project - Sections to overcome barriers. Ask for time and resources - Give teachers release time during school day to learn new technologies - Individuals should be leaders and want to share best practices to as many people as possible

=Gov. Policy (28 dots)=

- Need to actually state support for teachers who use this - I would like to use schools not constrained by bells or set periods - A unit in technology to address proper use of computers and other interactive technology - Revise curriculums and the way we think about them - No race to the top - No MEAP, ACT, NAEP - No NCLB - Protection from litigation - Teachers need to be freed from the shackles of the institution. Freed to take risks without fear of reprisal - Dont be handcuffed by MOE - Scrap standardized testing and curriculum passion-based learning for all! - Curriculum needs revision to incorporate this along with PD to support it. PD in terms of community support - Integrate technological standards into teacher evaluation - No AYP - The fact that this is a grassroots movement suggests that it should meet with a more positive reception than the top down approach - Infiltrate teacher education with appropriate pedagogy (one that includes tech. content) - Curriculum change: developing a "digital citizen" from primary grades through high school - Major government initiation to digitalize curriculum, classroom, and teachers

=Resources (43 dots)=

- Money invested in technology training - Make netbooks available to members of the faculty- running properly on the network - Enough equipment to support initiatives - Allow students to bring their laptops to heir wireless schools - Money - Need to purchase more equipment - Seek alternative funding source (ie-grants, corporate affiliations) - Boards spending money on technology - Provide resources in school to implement technology and make it easily accessible - Allow data plan phones in with the code of conduct - Schools/boards can spend money on wireless infrastructures to allow students to bring in their own devices - Have smart board in my room permanently. - Easy access to technology - Make sure the people with the purse strings see how these changes enhance learning - Systems could pull money resources from multiple portfolios to fund technology integration. (ie- 10% of budget from SPED, curric., IT, etc to build in tech!) - Break the current HS brick and mortar model. Grade 11-12 project based collaborative with university industry - Sharing of lesson plans/ideas/re web 2.0 ongoing - Provide students in HS with digital devices on Sept 1- on loan- from school library - Provide each student with one piece of technology (iPod touch, iPhone, notepad, laptop- for sharing and collaborating) - Get rid of all paper based texts, resources, lesson plans, and markbooks - Variety of technology to experiment within classroom

=Vision (26 dots)=

- Buy in from administration to the PLP concept is working now - Shared vision and communication. Greatest impact on student learning and achievement - Bottom up development of priorities not top down - Change will occur more quickly with a bottom-up demand rather than a top down command - Need to educate decision makers - The people making the decision need to know what the possibilities are - Integrate teacher education programs with local school systems - Barriers: no DI for PD sessions. Collaborative inquiry model of PD/PLC - Focus on student work - change needs to be aggressive - Set clear expectations and timelines - Working: integrated teams. - Monitor implementation

=Partnering/Networking/Community (17 dots)=

- Educate parents, school boards, community - Utilize the champions in the district. Listening to someone talk passionately at something powerful - Get Best Buy to create an Air Miles Plan for cheap education tools - Team teaching. combines subject specific curriculum expectations using web 2.0 tools - Board works collaboratively with all departments to implement the goal - The board crates a common vision that all departments agree with and follow - It is used consistently - Allow sharing to become viral - Working now: Collaborating and sharing - Provide one on one instruction and learning - Partner and network teachers and students in teaching and learning - Universities need to partner with schools to create better teacher preparation - having "real world" people get involved to share new skills like innovation and creativity are key for future employers

=Access (25 dots)=

- Ensure every teacher/student has access to technology -24 hr access to technology for all students - All students had noteboooks or iphones that are provided to them - More and more smart boards being purchased - All classrooms had wireless - Wireless access available - Board wide wireless network - More IT staff to make things happen! - In-focus projector mounted in every classroom - Increase access to technology. - Encourage students to bring devices to school and use them regularly - Teachers are given the latest technology to explore and expand their own learning. This would promote teachers to work on their own time - Using technology and eliminate all textbooks so students are using the latest best resources - Re-format the way we communicate into one place so that time is saved by only visiting one environment - Affordable, easily upgradeable technology for all learners - Classrooms in kindergarten are hands-on with technology not waiting until intermediate

=Support (hardware/software) (17 dots)=

- Get students to bring in technology - Wireless and notebooks in the classroom so lots of access - Equipment maintenance - Share laptops and lab time - Tech team leaders that are accessible, who have been teachers - Access to expert IT people who know how to facilitate - Human resources. -board level -building level - Every school with wireless access - Every school have a portable netbook or iPad lab - Innovative ideas: Schools just seem to need the technology to be reliable "field of dreams" if you build it, rocks will come - Actions to overcome: Make technology a priority at senior admin level

=Professional Development (38 dots)=

- Self-directed personalized PD plan (facilitated by administration) - Flexible choice of medium and time for PD. (independent, after school, district wide, small group, large group) - Develop 21st century teacher training curriculum - Embedding technology into all curriculum from administrative and school levels

=Professional Learning (38 dots)=

- Creating PD teams to improve skills/knowledge - Whats working now is the grassroots revolution of people like us. We just need to spread the revolution - Give administrators the opportunity to experience what can be done with these tools - Technology is happening but its pace is slow. Allocate more PD for training - PD sessions for 2010-2011 all address some aspect of web 2.0 - Embedded professional development- time for technology coordinator to make regular visit to teach teachers or use the technology in the clssroom - PD training on programs and how they can use them in their specific subject areas and grades - Time- people need more time to learn and more direction - Teachers are given PD and time to implement initiative/ideas/new technology - Create time in PD or staff meeting agendas - Daily time to do PD - On going PD time set aside per week - PD for staff - All staff involved in PLP type training - It can be individualized to meet the learning styles and needs of all - Weekly PD time instead of periodic whole day sessions - Time now, less time later - Teachers provided consecutive days to immerse themselves (with others) in the technology. Experience and see potential for students - Give every teacher a netbook preloaded with the best web 2.0 tools - Tech integrated into other initiatives eg support staff trained and embed in own PD - Integrate benefits of technology in all PD - Programs that can support PD - Train literacy coaches to implement into schools (tech piece) a few key strategies ex- podcasts, blogs, wikis - PD can be individualized to meet the learning styles and needs of all - Provide PD in use of a suite of tools and application to address specific learning needs - Support for learning how to use technology effectively - Required/mandatory intense teacher technology development with a pay raise of course! - Baby steps for the rocks - Multiple PD days in now to learn and create - Working: Giving PD to teachers to collaborate on technology ideas such as PLP - Individual PD sessions with teachers - More specific PD with activities that could be used immediately - We need to allow teachers to do passion-based PD. Gie them the time to learn and implement - Individuals can: team up, work together. There seems to be much more power in numbers - PD small focused self created PD groups (much like PLP groups) with release time (google time) - Personal PD training out of school time for "late adapters" - Personalized PD - Give teachers self-directed PD oppertunities - PLP, PD from Carole Scott - Job embedded PD practices can be established - Senior administrators attend regional PLP meetings - PD with curriclum ties.. sample lessons/classroom - PD must focus on thinking/learning not "click, light, bell" tied to learning - PD for admin to show advantages/uses of tech - Educate administrators (web 2.0, social media, etc) - More teacher-led, collaborative PD - Practice solutions: expand PLP membership to 2 teachers/school - Educate themselves. Inquire/explore - Authentic learning/ PD for educators to meet their individual needs/learning styles - PD show and tell them vs now- see how passion based learning changed my classroom - Provide clear examples and models of effective practice with opportunities for coaching - New idea: PD new teacher- mentor model for 21st century skill - PD opportunities to teach digital citizenship for teachers afraid of behavior issues - Offer workshops for colleagues - Target (teacher training programs) have 21st century learning part of that teaching - Over come barriers. Spend more time on technology in the facility of ed - integrated into core subjects - Choice - Change- teacher readiness for the "new world" - Build it into PD thats already happening - Involve teachers in PD planning - PD that meets the needs of the individual not the group - Better use of PD to overcome teacher fear, teacher reluctance