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• Utilizing planning periods. • More daily planning time to get things done and experiment and plan. • Increased plan in the daytime for development/experiment/and collaboration. • Take down classroom walls and “time” constraints. • Tech is another thing to do – yes in place of not in addition to. • Built in sharing time. • Sharing resources. • Give teachers time to develop lessons using tech. • Teachers need time to explore the tools and their uses. • Provide time and resources before and after school to let teachers, students and parents explore tech. • Time constraints – dedicated team plan time/PD time built into the day/week. • Tech innovators showcasing ideas/projects. • Common planning “time” with colleagues. • Time for collaboration without missing instruction in classroom or having to make plans. • Peer coaching – modeling from top down. • Release time for collaboration. • More release time for teachers. • Dedicated release time for producing tutorials. • Release time for teachers/experts. • Ask what teachers would be best to provide a quick lesson. • Yearlong schooling. • Extend school year/school day. • Year round school – flexible hours. • Time set aside for students to explore an area of interest and to connect with others around that interest. • Form content level teams and give them planning time everyday. • Elluminate regular staff meetings for all to share ideas. • Less faculty meetings. • Online tutorials. • Flexible scheduling. • Block or flexible scheduling. • Creative use of scheduling, outside resources. • Create large blocks of time for integrated learning. • Year sabbatical to write an “e-book” for our core math courses – content plus 21st century skills. • Release time for collaboration of best practices. • Release time to train teachers and admin. • Provide release time for collaborative planning, co-teaching, etc. • Mentors – drop in and watch. • Release time. • Time to learn. • Allow release time for teachers to work with technology with buddy. • Day or days where teachers can help each other practice 21st century skills – show each other how they use them. • Problem: Time to learn something new. Solution: Release time couples with organized, easy access to information. • Time.
 * Time – 140 dots**

• Teacher exchange programs where you can spend some real time in another environment. • Visit other schools (1:1) to see what they’re doing/utilizing. • Create model classrooms for teachers to visit. • Awareness of what’s available – lots of teachers/students don’t know! • Send teachers to schools around the world to see it in action. • Archive tutorials of things that “work” for future use. • A variety of ways to handle training – online, 1-on-1, face-to-face. • Provide more professional development opportunities for staff to learn new tools. • Provide a model for teachers to learn from. • Follow up professional development – revisiting and building on what has already been learned/tried. • Whole staff to out of district PD days. • PD time to share ideas/tools. In-service days? • Visit or virtually visit schools with 21st century learning in action. Bring people already on board and people not on board yet. • Redo the way in which teachers do professional development growth plans. • Start with a single task to get started. • Start grass roots “movements” which will hopefully engender greater participation. • Allow teachers to learn tools by creating personal projects meaningful to them before attempting classroom use. • Stop other initiatives so staff can learn this – create focus. • In-service time for collaborating. Focus group vs. departments. • More time to work with other teachers – scheduling us so we have free time together. • Technology development for all faculty (in-servicing). • Programming in lunch learn focusing on Web 2.0. • Learning buddies to work on collaboration – show not tell. • Teacher observations: within school district/other schools. • Create opportunities outside of the school day to learn. • Meaningful professional development – more “how-to’s” with practice opportunities. • Better use of our in-service time. Stop doing generic “busy” work and have department time to do “real” work. • Monthly time for content area and tech related professional development without missing class. • Revision to teacher education requirements incorporating a significant review of 21st century skills. • Harness the power of tech buddies! • More technology integration specialists. • More “tech buddies” than just one for entire district. • Technology integration specialist at each school. • Demos of projects using tech to stimulate ideas. • More small group demos for the tech challenged teachers. • Time provided for “experts” to share and help those who would like help. • Model effective ways to utilize tech. • More teacher-led support and PD. • Modeling (PD) for teachers of ways to utilize technology in instruction, being an ongoing process. • More training for teachers. • Bring in a consultant that works with district for a few years. • Tech buddy system. • Training for all teachers. • Online (Moodle) offerings for PD choices. • Perceived barriers – Success breeds success – help someone to have a successful experience. • Give teachers a paid retreat where they are trained in a fun, relaxing environment. • Half day per month release time for PD. • Paid release time to work on/develop tech literacy. • Give teachers more knowledgeable support in-person. • Provide time for learning, then time for practice. • Provide teachers with PD related to own specific curriculum and lessons. • Show teachers how successful they can be. • Broaden PD to include not only technology but also handling change. • Get people excited about using technology. They need to have more exposure to the technologies by watching others use it. • Allow teachers to use PD time outside of the district for their own topics. • All teachers understand and use iChat with screen sharing. Just in time online help. • Teach basics, try (practice), teach more (train).
 * Professional Development – 65 dots**

• Have teachers work together to develop and share lessons. • Learn about which tools to use for which projects. • Create a bank of best or exemplary examples for Web 2.0 classroom – use k-12. • Show don’t tell. • Provide more good models of template lessons. • Problem: Curriculum. How does this fit what I teach? Solution: Good modeling, collaboration. • Develop curriculum for science and math that have tech integrated. • Do tier one basics. • A core curriculum in Tier 1 that all students should be able to know and apply. • Develop common voc. in the beginning. • Start with a simple, solid platform – then add/build upon that. • Core group of technology shifts known by all teachers. • As skills increase – applications – add those to core as another level. • Fewer district platforms. • Aligned process skill development. • Have a base that is district-wide on what each staff member should know how to do. • Stop separating different subjects and integrate. • Integrate different age levels for project work. • Rethink curriculum division. • Allocated time for technology use mandated by the state. • Rewriting GCOs to include NETS. • Interdisciplinary approach to teaching curriculum. • Interdisciplinary approach. • Student-based learning drives the use of time during the school day (or at least one hour). • Policy changes to place less emphasis on standardized test driven curriculum. • Make a database (or other collection) of lessons that can be done using tech and the state standards they address. • Negotiate upgraded media with publishers between new textbook cycles (as condition of buying next edition?). • Digital portfolios standards-based. • Embed 21st century teaching/learning during curriculum writing. • Have the teaching of how to use many of the tools take place in ACCESS or comp. lit. • Curricular time to design one or two really good examples for each course offered. • Create curriculum that is outcomes-based not restricted to specific curriculum. • Teachers have the freedom design their curriculum based upon personal and professional knowledge. • Evaluate content units for strengths and weakness, then look for new ways of addressing them. • Curriculum expectations designed with 21st century skills in mind. Clear but loose enough to allow for creativity.
 * Curriculum – 62 dots**

• Open up Internet filters to allow teachers no limitations to developing professional during the workday or accessing teaching tools. • One-to-one laptops for students. • 1:1 computers. • 1:1 tech – every kid needs a computer – level the playing field. • 1:1 computing initiative. • One iPod touch per kid. • 1:1 laptops or class sets. • One to one. • Massive lobbying effort to get federal legislation passed for tech upgrades, etc., similar to science push in 60s and 50s. • Facebook/Flickr, etc. unblocked at school. • One computer per student. • 1:1 computer. • Laptop for every student. • 1:1 computer. • Laptops/computers for all students. • Buy one CPU per student. • More computers available to use in school. • Give every U.S. student a laptop. • Laptop, video camera, digital camera, per kid. • One to one ratio of computers to students for school and home use. • Outlets everywhere :) • Find a grant for more computers. • Cart of laptops per classroom with necessary add-ons. • Increased access to technology. • More computers and equipment. • Internet access at home for all. • Internet access at home for all students. • One computing (green) especially targeting homes. • Network the community. • Create learning pods where classroom movement is freer. • Tools – Interactive whiteboards, doc cams. • A group of computers available in each classroom regardless of subjects. • More equipment for teachers in all rooms. • More access to tools. • Students have access any time to tools such as computers, mp3s, webcams, etc. • Consistent access to technology. • Put the technology in the classroom – no floaters. • Devote more technological resources so that teachers aren’t lacking equipment. • Wireless campers.
 * Access to Technology – 52 dots**

• Probd. doc. cam…1:1 in every room. • More hardware such as interactive white boards. • Invest in hardware, smartboards, cameras. • Provide incentives for reluctant teachers to use tech. • Provide laptops for each student. • Grant-writing for additional hardware. • Sponsors fund technology tools in school. • Pass levies so we have money to keep teachers and buy more stuff. • Fundraise or approach community businesses to secure money – PTA. • Pass our levy! • Change the way schools are funded in Ohio. • Spend more money on tech. • Year-round schools (more days) maybe even four days a week. • Fifteen or less kids/teacher ratio. • Technology set-ups in every room (smartboards, speakers, LCDs). • Make it easier…Macs? They are easier. • Free subscriptions to any and all software. • Fix state funding. • Eliminate paper from the budget. • Reallocation of textbook funding into technology spending. • Allocate more money for PC labs and less for other projects. • Lobby for a new direction in educational policy.
 * Money – 47 dots**

• Administrative PD. • Give people permission to fail – celebrate failure! • Administrative buy-in and support. • More trust/autonomy in using Web-based tools/sites. • Learn to focus. • Educate administration about the value of 21st century teaching and learning. • Administrators “walk the talk” and use technology to infuse and inspire teaching staff. • Send administrators to PLP. • Provide training for administration for better buy-in. • Problem: Administrative priorities other than tech. Solution: Board/admin education. Union tech committee. • Motivation. • Meet with school district administrators to make sure they are supportive of this shift…if not, get them there! • More modeling…practice what we preach. • Required PD for admin, principals, superintendent, etc. They have to learn/use 21st century skills. • Administrators attend technology PD to understand implications in classroom. • More direct and frequent tech support. • Change the teacher evaluation process. • Assign a tech coach for every school. • Designate tech buddies or coaches. • Tech coaches. • Pair people up – level one knowledge with level two or three. • Have technology integration interview potential people to allow for many like her, to assist. • Districts put on tech workshops for community members. • Tech integration time in school outside of planning time. • Present research documentation to administrators providing worth and value of Web 2.0 tools. • Use in-service days for collaborating not presenting new topics. • Ask administration to model a new idea – blog the weekly news to parents. • Have teachers model/teach administrators.
 * Administration – 31 dots**

• Team planning time to share/develop grade level projects and share new knowledge. • Communication between groups. • Model technology and show how you have grown as an adult learning. • Spend more time cooperatively integrating tech in department/team. • Use our wiki. • Having a central location to find other teachers/classes to cooperate/collaborate with similar goals. • Continued conversations, training, communication on this topic. • Introduce directly concept of 21st century learning to students – personal learning, responsible education, purpose of tool. • Teacher collaboration (break down fig. walls) would be the standard. • Creating a source like “TechBytes” to provide info for those who might be unsure or have questions but are afraid to ask. • Share what works with what content area – no need to reinvent the wheel. • Using Google groups docs for planning ideas. • Document successes in the class to show others.
 * Communications – 22 dots**

• Change state standards to reflect process goals not product goals. • Have national ed people rewrite National and State standards to infuse 21st century skills. • Meet with members of the state and national government to push for national reform of state and national school standards. • Fewer standards so there is time to do authentic problem-based inquiry. • More autonomy for teachers to branch out and try new tech projects.
 * Standards – 18 dots**

• Have “lab teachers” who can create lessons for teachers to share/model. • Older student tech buddies for younger students (k-1 kids who are still learning to read and write). • Involve student tech leaders who can help! • Hire an educational technology director. • Better support for Google products which students can access at home. • Provide a “one stop shop” place for lessons for tea. • Provide a “tech buddy” or tech coach for every grade level. • Rewards for teachers – encourage tenured teachers to change. • District strategic plan outlining priorities. • Clearly laid out expectations for teachers – connected to their evaluations. • Administrators modeling. • Admin encouragement. • District support. • District credit for tech courses. District credit for implementing tech project. • Fewer initiatives so we can focus on the essential. • Encourage dialogue between teachers so there’s an opportunity to show and tell. • Integrating more technology in lower grades so students can use those skills in older grades. • Team teaching so teachers can collaborate. • Tech fair – see what’s going on with other classrooms. • Teach coaching for 1:1 help. • Lack of expertise – tech buddies! • Continue to “buddy” for ideas. • Tech buddy transformation system. • Tech buddies. • Educate administrators, teachers, and parents that 21st century skills are necessary and valuable. • More instructional tech teachers (one per school). • More teacher support, recognition of efforts, etc. • Teaching staff about “what’s available” to them. • Make sure to have a “tech” person present at curriculum meetings to show how it can be “tweaked.”
 * Support – 16 dots**

• Students wouldn’t need to sneakily work around stringent filters. • Less blocking on Internet. • Sonic walls that don’t block positive Web 2.0 sites. • Remove filters. • Virtualization of network. • Unblock. • Allow students access to the “real” world wide web. Stop filtering. • Allow access to YouTube for instructional needs.
 * Filtering – 13 dots**

• Student activist Google sites. • Get teachers collaborating online via Google Docs – for team action plans or committee. • Administrative support for summer curriculum projects. • Positive group dynamics. • Shift in culture…before/after school times to work/learn. • Engaged students interested in outside world so that collective action could take place. • Getting rid of grades – rethinking assessment. • After school tech coaching for kids, for faculty. • Have faith. • Reinvent the wheel. • Online dialogues. • Engaged staff. • Continued sharing of what people are doing in their rooms. • Classroom wiki. • Shift the paradigm of education to problem-based learning. • All staff agrees to do project-based learning/teaching. • Create new schools that have a 21st century focus. • Continue to make changes despite beliefs of others. • Share between buildings, teachers, grade levels. • Comfy, less sterile feeling learning environments.
 * Culture – 13 dots**

• Community ed. • Bring parents into the mix. • Parent education – do parents understand value of and can use same tools as kids. • Help people – purchase district wide wifi and netbooks for every family so that parents and students have access at home. • Give the students a voice. We should learn from them about how they learn. • Parental involvement – Get on board at beginning of year and meet the teacher night – Ning, wiki? • Bring in business world to show needs for change in learning. • Parent awareness programs (internet safety, etc.). • PTO adopt a “tech funding” opportunity each school year. • Parents engaged by tools/willingness to participate. • Have a parent information session to educate. • Build own professional learning network. • Encourage all educators to join professional online community/networks. • Parent awareness support. • Educate parents and community. • Publicize move to community. • Be nice. • Dig deeper – do one thing well – teach our kids this. • Whole community connected by technology. • Parent workshops/classes. • Community of learners.
 * Community/Parents – 12 dots**

• Set a personal goal to try one technology and be free to fail. • Share ideas despite fear or not wanting to change. • Get buy-in from teachers unions – talk to OSA! • Tech ethics and understanding of it.
 * Fear – 8 dots**

• Bonus stipend for tech coaching. • Teachers are paid for an extra three hours a week for training time. • Problem: I just can’t teach this because I’m not creative. Solution: Yes you are – you’re a teacher! • Reward teachers in some way for their technology successes…likewise, reward students (incentives). • Priority scheduling of computers/labs for teachers actually using 21st century. • Free period (no duty) for teachers. • Incentive of way nicer computer, bi-yearly new computer upgraded tools for teachers who join OOTO and past 21st century projects.
 * Lack of Incentives – 7 dots**

• State tests don’t count for “as much” – still needed but maybe less? • State “tests” online – year round “benchmarks” throughout the year. • Change NCLB from National to Local assessments. • Design assessments to align to 21st skills to demonstrate learning (and lose ISAT).
 * Assessment – 7 dots**

• Class periods were longer – fewer rushes to finish before the bell rings. • Switch to Mac. • Access to equipment could be improved with addition of labs and communication capacity (internet capacity/bandwidth). • Switch to a Mac school. • Bandwidth – less down time. • Appropriate infrastructure. • Laptops/computers per student. • Laptops assigned to each student. • One laptop per student. • Convert the “old” TV studio into a school-wide “tech project room” that can be booked – training/doing, minimum 20 laptops, iPod touches, Flip/DVR cameras, high-speed Internet access. • Wireless district wifi.
 * Infrastructure – 7 dots**