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Digital Professional Learning Network

Connecting Teachers with best Practice instructional tools

Professional Development Description

The Digital Professional Learning Network (DPLN) is designed to create a systemic professional development experience, focus on job-embedded instructional practices and reduce teacher/administration Common Core workloads. The Digital PLN Time Saver Bundle: 1. Common Core Implementation 2. Teachers and Administration Evaluation 3. Student Assessments 4. Professional Development Key Benefits: Reduce costs and increase time on task

Teachers will create authentic, purposeful and deep-rooted connections in their school’s collaborative Digital Professional Learning Network.

Digital Professional Learning Deliverables

• Common Core Aligned Assessments

• Common Core Rigorous Learning

• Teacher Evaluation Portfolio

• Differentiated Instruction and Technology

• Common Core Instructional Strategies

• Classroom Engagement • Building Culture and

Climate For Learning • Creating a Professional

Learning Network • Data Analysis of Student

Performance

www.DigitalPLN.com

Contact: [email protected] Cell (614) 323-4521

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Purpose of DPLN

Measurable and job-embedded

Enhance Student Learning Outcomes-

• Improved student assessments

• Improved student grades

Enhance Student Affective Outcomes-

• Increase student motivation

• Student learning tasks are goal oriented

Enhance Student Academic Success Outcomes-

• Decrease student retention rates

• Increase academic matriculation and persistence in college and career-readiness courses

• Increase student graduation rates

Enhance Systems Outcomes-

• Increase teacher retention rate

• Scale of operation • Interactive engagement

for ALL stakeholders • Increase the rate of

learning

The goal of DPLN is to launch and assist schools in the implementation of innovative, research-based, field-tested, and sustainable digital instructional practices by teachers. We believe that knowledgeable and experienced teachers integrating digital technology are the key to providing the essential knowledge, skills, and practices that enable students to develop 21st century learning outcomes. The transfer of professional development to classroom instruction is an essential attribute of the continuous learning process. DPLN provides a platform that engages an entire staff with the school’s identified continuous improvement plan and goals. Schools will be able to include all faculty members in the systemic implementation of effective practices. Therefore, these practices will be measurable, job-embedded and outcomes driven.


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DPLN Deliverables

DPLN Deliverables

• Common Core learning strategies • Differentiated instruction with

technology (coaching, knowledge management and performance support)

• Digital literacy process and application • Building a culture and climate for

learning • Integration of STEM • Cross-curricular problem based learning

design • Asynchronous blended learning

Professional Development Sessions

• Two or three professional development modules (21 days each)

• In-person training sessions • Local level choice of professional

development modules • Organizing best practice strategies

with learning design models • Digital tools to supplement innovation

and social learning • Web-based learning • Digital collaboration and community • Digital blended learning lab


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Integrating Technology For Learning


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Targeted Professional Development

1. Reading Literature a. Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures;

determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

b. Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text.

c. Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table).

2. Reading Informational Text a. Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas

or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.

b. Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).

3. Writing a. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using

effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. b. Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an

event sequence that unfolds naturally. 4. Speaking and Listening

a. Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.

b. Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.

5. Language a. Choose words and phrases for effect. b. Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general

academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships.


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Integrating Technology For Learning

Common Core Use Of Technology a. With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to

produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. b. Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama,

drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).

c. With some guidance and support from adults, use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to interact and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of one page in a single sitting.

d. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea.

e. Integrate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) in order to make informed decisions and solve problems, evaluating the credibility and accuracy of each source and noting any discrepancies among the data.

f. Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.


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Measurable Professional Development


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Focus on

classroom

Practices

Classroom practices must be the focal point of the Digital Professional Learning Network. When teachers provide students with rigorous and engaging instructional tasks, the students will produce amazing and meaningful performance-based products.


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1. Check the course homepage, calendar, assignment page, your course message section, and the course discussion board several times a week.

2. Post discussion comments and at least two responses per discussion each week/session.

3. Keep up with your reading assignments, study guides, and assignments. Assignments must be finished by midnight Monday of the week in which they are assigned.

4. Participate actively in class discussions including applying the knowledge you have learned and posting to the discussion board.

5. Be polite and respectful in your postings (no "Flaming" or posting / sending negative, hurtful comments to others); use good grammar and correct spelling; don't write in all caps (it feels like you're shouting) or exotic fonts (they may not show up on everyone's computer). Just be yourself, have fun and learn from each other.

6. The course will be graded on Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (S/U) scale. User interaction, participation and completion of assignments are critical components of the course grade.

Digital Professional Learning Network Participation expectations

Continuous Learning


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Continuous Learning


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Course Certificate of Completion

Learners will receive an electronic certificate of completion based on user’s logged in time, participation in discussions and completing of job-embedded assignments/homework. A certificate of completion can be used for CEU application with your local state department of education, upon the successful completion of the course. Users will also be able to add the DPLN certificate of completion to their CV or digital portfolio.

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Professional Development Content Competencies

1. Learners will examine a wide variety of learning tools, resources and blended learning models.

2. Learners will create digital learning designs through the application of multiple digital tools, resources and performance-based assessments.

3. Learners will analyze and synthesis their platform of delivering academic content with the digital tools discussed in the course.

4. The learners will demonstrate knowledge of core content by creating innovative digital storyboards and provide descriptive feedback to other course learners.

Objectives:

Objective 1: Improve student learning through technology driven instructional tasks. Objective 2: Improve technology knowledge and skills to integrate technology instruction and platforms into the student learning process. Objective 3: Improve decision-making, productivity, engagement and efficiency in the classroom through the use of technology integration and application. Objective 4: Improve equitable access to appropriate technologies among all stakeholders. Objective 5: Improve the instructional uses of technology through the application of students' research and evaluation of academic content.

This course meets and exceeds the National Educational Technology Standards. More so, the rigor of the course demonstrates the fundamental application and task of the Common Core State Standards. More teachers and schools are engaging their learning network with the DPLN format because of the convenience and job-embedded application of the professional development content.

Engaging Teachers in 11 Countries and 13 States


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National Educational Technology Standards:

1. Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity. 2. Design and develop digital age learning experiences and assessments. 3. Model digital age work and learning. 4. Promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility. 5. Engage in professional growth and leadership.

http://www.iste.org/docs/pdfs/nets-t-standards.pdf?sfvrsn=2

Research Based Framework:

Digital Transformation A Framework for ICT Literacy: A Report of the International ICT Literacy Panel http://www.ets.org/Media/Tests/Information_and_Communication_Technology_Literacy/ictreport.pdf Understanding the Implications of Online Learning and Productivity http://ctl.sri.com/news/ImplicationsOnlineLearning2.pdf

Copyright, 2013 Digital Professional Learning Network

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