Issues and Trends

Jonathan StovallFebruary 26, 2014

A glimpse at the 21st Century Classroom. The only constant in Education is that everything changes. Be flexible, teachable, and a life long learner.

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Mr. Stovall’s Classroom

The Day starts with Student leaders and ends with student leaders. Students have access to a variety of technology tools throughout the day.

Students as presenters-

Example lessons- Music Creation- Divide Musical I-pads Co-teaching and clickers Differentiated instruction through a variety of tools

How we learn is changing.

My students

My own children

My basketball players

Professionals (US)

Infrastructure

Schools and all professional organizations will always rack their heads about how to maintain, maintance, distribute, allocate, service, and utilize the technology tools in their organization. Some issue are as simple as connecting devises or as complicated as bandwidth and allocation of resources.

One to One/BYOD

Many school systems struggle with the idea of having enough computers or devises for students now. Some of the hot topics at district levels are the topic of one-to-one devises in schools or the BYOD policies in these schools. Both approaches have positive and negatives to them.

Social Media

Social Media is an amazing tool for many educators and it is a fearful tool for others. Because our social media sites help to establish and maintain our digital footprint. Many times the first impression individuals have of us or our students is through social media. Is social media bad? Is it good? That depends on how it is used.

E-Learning

Flipped Classroom

Blended Learning

Online Curriculums- Ten Marks

On Line schools- Students able to participate in the classroom setting with out physically being in the class.

Collaborative education- Wiki’s, Blogs, Student run web pages

Digital Portfolio/Digital Footprint

Many of us created a variety of portfolios though our educational experience. We even used many different types of technologies to preform a variety of task. The one thing that we failed to see and that we see now is that we impact our digital footprint when we do anything on line even browse websites. We are telling the world who we are through the materials we create, view, support, and touch virtually.

Assessments/Real-time Feedback

CITTS

STAR

MAPS

Think Link

Edmodo

Student self assessments

PGESProfessional Growth and Effectiveness System

Changing the way we plan, deliver instruction, evaluate, reflect, and basically the reform of education.

Student Voice Surveys-

Planning and preparation

Classroom environment

Instruction

Professional Responsibilities

Student Growth