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High Leverage Skills for a Digital Age
1:1 Pilot – Brewster Public Schools
Jonathan P. Costa, Sr.
May 4th, 2015http://digitallearningforallnow.com
http://www.slideshare.net/jpcostasr
Jonathan P. Costa
Our Mission
To prepare
EVERY student
for learning, life,
and work
in the 21st century.
Our world has changed…
1. It is digital, flat, open and pluralistic.
2. It is unpredictable andvolatile.
3. It is increasingly unforgiving to those who are unskilled.
Less
paper,
more
pixels.
In lessthanONEgeneration:
From going out of your way tocommunicate..
...to going out of your way not to.
From making an effort to get into theinformation stream…
In lessthanONEgeneration:
…to having to make an effort to get out of it.
Job ONEis gettingto
1:1
Until everyone can have the same thing, no one can have anything.
Equitably deficient.
Less about
what device
you have,
more
about what
you do with it.
Your browseris the equalizer.
The cloud
is a liberator.
Adequate preparation
for a higher order thinking digital environment requires one-one access by staff and students.
It Takes Access
Consider the Shift from Retrofit to Rethink
Retrofit
“Read the part of Chapter 6 in the online text that describes the Boston Massacre and
be prepared to answer the review questions.”
Rethink
1. Team One find 5 historical narratives by different authors
2. Team Two find 5 primary source documents from the trial
3. Team Three find 5 British history references and opinions
4. Team Four find 5contemporaneous editorials.
What Are The Shifts Involved?Retrofit
1. What are the goals of this lesson (student learning)?
2. How would you measure its success?
3. What is happening in the learning environment where this work is being completed?
– What are the students doing – what skills do they need to be successful?
– What is the teacher doing – what skills does he/she need to be successful?
Rethink1. What are the goals of this lesson (student learning)?
2. How would you measure its success?
3. What is happening in the learning environment where this work is being completed?
– What are the students doing – what skills do they need to be successful?
– What is the teacher doing – what skills does he/she need to be successful?
High Leverage Focus on Student Learning
Critical and Creative
Problem Solving
“Making the Main Thing the Main Thing”
Construct and/or Analyze
Arguments Based on Evidence
Meaningful and Fluent
Communication
Digital and Informational
Literacy
The More You DO,The More You Learn
Passive
Superficial
Active Involvement
Engaged & Empowered
*Adapted from National Training Laboratories, Bethel, Maine
Align Your Systems With Your Goals for Learning
Type of Assessment
Required
Subject Area Responsibilities
Everyone’s Responsibility
Content(Declarative)
Facts
Content Skills(Procedural)
Discrete Skills
CC/21st Cent. Skills(Contextual)
Applied Understandings
Type of Knowledge
Desired
Type of InstructionRequired
Lecture, video, films, assigned readings and
memory activities.
Classroom or textbook problems, experiments, discussions, practice and
repetition.
Complex projects,real time explorations,authentic and relevant
skill applications.
Amount of Time
Required
Discrete units,spiraled and predictable.
Ongoing, systemic and without a finite
or predictable end.
Discrete units,spiraled and predictable.
Recall & recognitionbased quizzes, tests,
and activities. Multiplechoice, matching, etc.
(SAT/AP/Exams)
Checklists, analytic rubrics,
or other agreed upon skill standards
(AP/SB/CAPT/Exams)
Holistic and, analytic rubrics,
or other agreed upon standards of rigor
(Portfolios, Exhibitions, SB)
Basic Goals of the Pilot Classrooms
Engage and Empower – bring digital tools to every learner so they can find their own voice.
Prepare and Connect – use internet connectivity to help connect every student
and teacher to resources that support their goals.
Access and Enable – ensure that the infrastructure of the school and classroom
can support all of these strategies.
More Specifically, For Students:
• Continually demonstrate goals in ever richer and surprising ways.
• Become increasingly self-directed and take ownership of their learning.
• Learn by doing and creating.
• Experience school as engaging, challenging, and authentic.
• Connect to their learning communities and resources any time, any place.
• Master the principles of digital citizenship and model those attributes for others.
• Academic achievement and mastery of key 21st
century skills continually improves.
More Specifically, For Teachers:• Managing and navigating a digital learning environment
where students have ready access to their own digital learning devices.
• Experiment with a variety of instructional approaches and evolve their practice.
• Model self-directed learning in their own professional development.
• Model authentic creation by developing content & resources specific to their courses and students.
• Model 21st century work environments by participating in and developing professional learning communities inside and outside their building (with other pilot teachers in district and with others outside the district as well) and improving their practice together.
• Experience school as engaging, challenging and modeling authentic learning beyond the classroom.
What is the plan?
• Recruit and select participating teachers.
• Bring participating teachers and their administrators together for a Learn21 Professional Learning Summit to prepare teachers for success.
• Identify which primary strategy each teacher will pursue for the upcoming school year.
• Enhance existing curriculum with digital resources
• Reframe or transition from primarily textbook or paper resources to digital resources. Teachers taking this approach will use a supporting strategy to work through the major issues related to making this shift.
Three Domains, Three Levels
G = Goals P = Practices M= Measures
Mission
Every child
successful in life,
learning and work.
Theory of Action
Focus
Measure
Connect
Goals for
Learning
Assessment
& Measurement
Policy and
Regulation
Community
Engagement
Instructional
Practices
Resource
Deployment
Leadership
Focus
Supporting Systems