Presentation made by Dr. Voltz to the Jerseyville educational community on April 8, 2011.
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Technologyand
Education
Dr. Richard VoltzAssociate Director
Illinois Association of School Administrators
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The teacher is the most important part of student
academic success!
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My Wife
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I am a teacher
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Our son is a teacher
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Our daughter and son-in-law are teachers
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Our daughter-in-law is a teacher
If you want to feel better about K-12 public education
follow...
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Stop NCLB
Charter Schools Do Not Work
Privatizing public Education Will
Not Work
Leaders need to take into account poverty, parental
support, and other factors when
rating teachers and schools
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2011 Gallop Poll On Education
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What is the best way to improve K-12 public education?
Quality teachers/better educated/more
involvement/caring
What do you remember about
your favorite teacher?
What do you remember about
your favorite “fellow” teacher?
Relationships
Relevance
Rigor
Student Engagement
Application
My visions of the future
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Web 1.0
Websites contained "read-only" material
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Web 2.0
Personal created websites with
interaction such as...
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Save in the cloud
Web 3.0
The final disappearance of the boundary between "life online" and "real life."
Did social media cause the recent Arab uprisings?
Is the web distracting us from living?
Are online friendships as rich as those offline?
A Google vice-president says that credit card companies can predict with 98% accuracy, two years in advance, when a couple is going to divorce, based on spending patterns alone.
Today’s Students Are Wired Differently
Education vs. EverydayAnalog vs. Digital
Tethered vs. Mobile
Isolated vs. Connected
Generic vs. Personal
Consumption vs. Creator
Closed vs. Open
Source: David Wiley, BYU
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Guess what?
Education is changing ...
Engage Students
Dr. Michael WeschFrom Knowledgeable to
Knowledge Able
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Textbooks Online
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The students never had a chance to tune her out – they were constantly being asked to participate one way or another, whether it was working out problems on the whiteboard (not interactive), watching instructional videos on the iPad, or working in groups
Pearson Education Inc. launched what it claims is the nation’s first-ever complete social studies curriculum for the iPad, in partnership with Virginia officials.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co. has also redesigned a classic textbook to take advantage of the iPad. Since early September, around 400 students in California have been learning algebra via a new iPad-only program.
“From what I’ve seen, the iPad is going to be a transformational platform for textbooks,’’ said Anthony Jackson, superintendent of the Henry County Public Schools.
Pearson Education has already converted 3,000 of its textbooks to a proprietary e-book format, and has more than a hundred iPhone apps in the Apple Store, which it promotes as free, or inexpensive, supplements to its textbooks.
Education in Illinois needs to change
due to state financial condition.
$15B deficit
2% Income Tax Increase does NOT
solve all the problems
Public Reaction
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