Intel Leadership Forum - AU

Essential Question:

How can educational leaders support teacher effectiveness to improve student achievement?

Forum Goals:

Through this forum participants will:

• Examine the critical role educational leaders play in promoting, modeling, and supporting effective integration of ICT

• Identify, access, and use available resources and technology tools to support

  professional development, educator practice, and student learning

• Create a prioritized list of specific leadership behaviors that promote the integration of ICT as a tool to improve student learning

• Review, analyze, and apply the standards for each state and become familar with the International Society for Education (ISTE) standards for leaders, teachers and students.

• Synthesize understanding and begin to develop an action plan to implement in your school.

Getting Started (30 minutes)

• Activity 1: Introductions

• Activity 2: Essential Question and Forum Goals
• Activity 3: Previewing the Action Plan
  • Action Plan Template
    •  Action_Plan_Template.doc
    •  Action_Plan_Template_alternative.doc

Module 1: Examining Leadership Behaviors and Standards (70 minutes)

• Activity 1: Review State and International Standards
  • Review State Standards
  • Review International Standards
    • Leaders -  NETS for Administrators.pdf
    • Students -  NETS_for_Students_2007.pdf
    • Teachers-  NETS_T_Standards_Final.pdf

• Identify and Review Essential Conditions to Effectively Leverage ICT for Learning
  • Using the Essential Conditions Checklist Template (below) and the scale provided, indicate your level of progress.
    •  Essential_Conditions_Activity_Template_AU.doc
• Activity 2: Learning Through Ranking
  • Rank order the Essential Conditions from Activity 1 based on those that you believe have the "greatest priority" to work on in your school.
  • Visual Ranking Tool - Demo
  • Visual Ranking Log-in for Students/Participants
    • Teacher Login: danmorris
    • Team ID:   au01, au02, au03
    • Password; au01, au02, au03
  • Rank Essential Conditions using the Visual Ranking Thinking Tool
  • Compare your ranking with other participants and discuss how your rankings are different than those around you.

• Activity 3: Effectively Leveraging Technology
  • Step 1: Reviewing the Questions
    • How can you shift priorities and time to support integration of technology into instruction?
    • What evidence will you accept that integration is occurring, keeping in mind that use and integration are separate?
    • What helps a leader move to higher levels of comfort and knowledge relative to technology integration?
  • Step 2: Discussing the Questions
    • In your group, discuss the assigned question for your group and assign a scribe to go to the online worksheet below and record your groups response
    • Google online worksheet
      • http://tinyurl.com/6q7cft
  • Step 3: Sharing your response and viewing the responses from other groups.
    • Also describe the experience of using this collaborative Web tool.

Module 2: Exploring Best Practices (60 minutes)

• Activity 1: Understanding the Intel Teach Program - http://www.intel.com/education/au
  • Overview of Programs
  • Program Research
• Activity 2: Web Resources for Technology Integration
  • Step 1: Intel Education Web Site
    • Intel Education Site - http://www.intel.com/education/au
      • Intel Teach Program - http://www.intel.com/education/teach
      • Intel Programs - http://www.intel.com/education/teach/portfolio
    • Intel Thinking Tools - http://www.intel.com/education/tools
    • Intel Teaching Resources - http://www.intel.com/education/resources
    • Intel Science and Maths - http://www.intel.com/education/sciencemath
  • Exploring Highlighted Resources
  • Step 2: Innovation Odyssey - http://educate.intel.com/odyssey
  • Step 3: Designing Effective Projects - http://educate.intel.com/au/Projectdesign

Module 3: Introducing Web 2.0 and New Technologies (50 minutes)

• Activity 1: Understanding Web 2.0
  • What is Web 2.0?
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web2.0
  • Blogs
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs
    • More Information
      • Blogging: It's Elementary, My Dear Watson
      • Blogging Basics: Creating Student Journals on the Web
  • Wikis
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikis
  • Collaborative Web Sites
    • More Information
      • A Paradigm Shift for School Software
      • Type and Travel: Web-based Word Processors
  • Social Bookmarking
    • http://www.diigo.com/
    • http://delicious.com/
  • Media Storage and Sharing Sites
    • http://www.flickr.com/
    • http://picasa.google.com/
  • Podcasts
    • http://www.epnweb.org/
    • http://www.gcast.com/

• Activity 2: Exploring Web 2.0 Tools
  • Explore various Web 2.0 "tools" and new technologies
    • Web 2.0 and New Technologies   Web2.0andNewTechnologies.doc
    • The following are additional resources added by Dan Morris and model how the Forum can be "localized" as needed and appropriate
      • Recommended Applications to explore - these are "targeted" applications for exploration
      • Web2-0 - This page contains a number of links to explore including the "top ten" free Web 2.0 tools teachers are using.
      • Professional Development Sites - a few sites with some professional ideas and resources (some district samples included)
      • A History of Web 2.0 and Digital Natives - an interactive timeline that includes training videos on a number of Web 2.0 "tools"
  • After exploring some of the Web 2.0 tools above work in small groups and add you reflections in an Online Collaborative Tools spreadsheet
    • Describe how educators might use the tools you reviewed.
      • http://tinyurl.com/5d52jj

Module 4: Developing Your Action Plan (30 minutes)

• Activity 1: Creating Your Action Plan
  • Identify 2-3 "next steps" - use either of the following templates or ne provided by your facilitator
    •  Action_Plan_Template.doc
    •  Action_Plan_Template_alternative.doc
• Activity 2: Sharing Your Action Plan
• Activity 3: Concluding the Forum
• Activity 4: Evaluating Your Forum Experience