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In a 21st Century Learning Environment, what tools are needed?

Bucks IU's Answers

Category: not sure what was meant

• Teacher / Admin need CAN BE PROVIDED
• Online training
• Students need Easily assessable
• Hard tools and soft tools are needed
• Communication, collaboration, information, ipods, cell phone, video, chat,
• Communication, keep informed, share, explore
• Video conferencing, Internet 2
• Student needs CAN BE PROVIDED
• Video conferencing

Category: directly related to how assessment and evaluation of learning and teaching can occur, and impacts on the ways it can occur

• Teacher / Admin need Clear expectations
• Teacher / Admin need Research

Category: directly related the information that students need to learn

• Students - Critical thinking skills. Responsibility. Accountability
• Students need Critical & Higher level thinking
• Students need Ability to analyze information
• need a way to get the higher order thinking and the curriculum connections- too much low level training within the classroom- create a framework that allows for higher order thinking
• information literacy skills- teaching kids to decipher true vs. fiction
• Equity – The ability to discern the purpose and relevance of a set of information
• Encourage explorers
• Online learning options, virtual high school programs, and other distance learning options would expand the content and learning options for kids---
• Work with kids to develop the independent learning, internal motivation, perseverance
• Self-direction skills, taking ownership of their learning

Category: directly related to the responsibilities of higher education to support needs in education

• as pre-service training changes, teachers will come into the profession ready to use technology

Category: Change in methodology

• Fluidity – Anytime, anywhere tools…
• Tools meet needs…
• All available tools will be integrated into instruction
• As tools evolve, we develop better ways to utilize them; as needs become apparent there will be tools developed to meet those needs.
• Incorporate instructional strategies that permit/encourage the use of new tools
• Online textbooks resources

Category: changes to the roles/responsibilities of professionals involved in education

• Teachers - The skills needed to integrate this technology, and the time to recreate lessons using the technology.
• Teachers - Ability to create an environment in their classroom to teach interactive, motivational lessons. Projection devices, internet connectivity in the classroom,
• Admin - $$$ for laptops
• Teacher / Admin need TRAINING
• Teacher / Admin need Open mind
• Teacher / Admin need Time
• Teacher / Admin need May see job shift
• Teacher / Admin need MENTORING--scaffold
• IT needs to Plan with curriculum supervisors
• Ways to keep up with new tools: change in job expectation / research and development—summer
• teachers ned to be allowed to take risks- not have the perfect lesson the first time
• pilot programs that are allowed to blossom- doing give up so quickly- don't abandon too quickly
• Time to collaborate
• Time to talk
• Time to Analyze
• Time to Synthesize
• Time to Plan
• Time to Reflect – Learn from one’s prior experiences…
• Time for Ongoing training – there’ll always be something new…
• Fluidity – Constant flow of resources and information regardless of format… I.e. – internet access, etc…
• Admin and education leaders need to understand tools, embrace change, model and monitor use
• The norm is “change”
• Close alignment between tech support and what the teachers are doing
• Administrators needs to be tech users

Category: directly related to the impact of interaction between students and the people with whom they interact as students and members of the community, including parents

• Parents - Staff development for parents.
• Students - Internet access, home computers.
• Parents - Internet access, home computers. A device that students can carry to and from school.
• Teacher / Admin need OPEN MINED BOARD
• Social Skills – Netiquette
• Social Skills – Safety – Personal, others
• Business partnerships
• Education can no longer afford to be the last place that new technologies appear

Category: Educational Governance, including PDE and school boards. Directly related to the support of education by society and the impact of education on society.

• Budget needs to be identified – a continuous line item---
• Mandates ingest the money—the must-haves, vs the need to haves—the things to effect practice.
• Teacher / Admin need Funding
• money!!!!!!!!
• pressure for online classes vs. traditional programs where students leave the home so that parents can go to work
• parents paying to send students- “private enterprise” aspect of education
• Equity—technology and access at home—bandwidth and hardware

Category: directly related to the technology available and/or support for the technology

• Tech support - Communication.
• Tech support - Knowledge of all types new technology.
• Internet connectivity
• IT needs Support
• tools for collaboration- shared workspace
• Equity – Transferable skills – skills that help on all tech tools…
• Hard tools – Carefully choose tools that will have the potential for longer lived relevancy
• Connectivity- wireless, anytime/anywhere
• Tools will be developed to meet perceived needs
• Tools will continue to evolve as technology becomes available
• Implementation/development cycle will be streamlined, shortened
• On demand, readily available tech support and troubleshooting
• Bandwidth, bandwidth, bandwidth
• Move to more open source software to manage budget

Category: Training needed

• tech support and training to get the teachers to buy into the technology
• need a teacher facilitating a program
• Think about ways to keep up with new tools-
• Training, training, training,

Capital IU's Answers

Category: not sure what was meant

• Classroom of the future

Category: directly related the information that students need to learn

• Content
• Standardized tools - related to textbook w/software
• Not just equipment? Soft vs. Hard Tools
• knowledge / management of info
• Internet2 connections to other resources

Category: directly related to the responsibilities of higher education to support needs in education

• Get the tools through college preparation
• To get the tools, teaching in college has to mirror integrating technology into the Curriculum

Category: changes to the roles/responsibilities of professionals involved in education

• information that is authoritative yet meets new learning styles (hypertext)
• IT needs training, security, manpower, training
• Teachers need training, reliable equipment, more sharing of ideas, more time
• teacher is a resource or “tool” more important than any technology
• Get the tools through innovative funding
• Get the tools through grants
• Get the tools through Technology Mentor
• Get the tools through hiring requirements for teachers
• Teachers and admins need the same plus ability to monitor and to make informed decisions from data

Category: directly related to the impact of interaction between students and the people with whom they interact as students and members of the community, including parents

• Parents: internet connections

Category: Educational Governance, including PDE and school boards. Directly related to the support of education by society and the impact of education on society.

• Get the tools through certification requirements for teachers

Category: directly related to the technology available and/or support for the technology

• Ubiquitous computing
• Multiple computers in multiple places
• In all areas - Tools needed – infrastructure that supports real-time information
• Wireless (secure)
• User-friendly tools that are nearly transparent and readily available
• Futuristic technology
• Bandwidth
• Hardware
• Software to create, collaborate, communicate and publish
• IT needs to be able to have resources to provide safe learning environment
• Centralized management tools
• Availability for students to access the technology without it impeding the learning process (computer lab versus “anytime” access)
• Big Idea: We want user-friendly tools that are readily available

Edinboro's Answers

Category: not sure what was meant

• Equity
• Needs: Not every teacher needs to teach everything to students – need to have an understanding
• Needs: Difficult to determine which aspects are the essential and what they need
• Needs: Some may know aspects but cannot relay info well
• Needs: Community mentors as well – ethics

Category: Change in methodology

• Needs: When students find relevance for the information – they will use it. If you tell them how to do something it means nothing.

Category: changes to the roles/responsibilities of professionals involved in education

• Time is needed to implement revisions to curriculum to adapt it to technology.
• Parent involvement and teaching nights to show them how and why to use technology
• More consistency across the board in all areas
• Needs: Mentoring, listening, find strengths/weaknesses – guide them – don’t just tell them how to do it.
• Needs: Passionate teachers – want to learn new tech. skills (are working towards that).

Category: Educational Governance, including PDE and school boards. Directly related to the support of education by society and the impact of education on society.

• How to get tools: New hope with each election
• How to get tools: Grant writing
• How to get tools: Corporate partnerships – takes time to develop these relationships
• How to get tools: Parent trainings and classes for the community
• Grants, proper budgeting for technology, and demonstrating proof that the technology is being effective, thus making the expense worthwhile.
• Parents need to be involved-Parents now or in future will be more tech savvy.
• Needs: Power – have to have power to run these tools – how will we plug them in? What about power failures

Category: directly related to the technology available and/or support for the technology

• Tools need to be more accessible and durable.
• If technology tools are available then they will be used more regularly.
• Projectors in each classroom, a complete package is needed to use the technology easily
• Education literate technology support staff are needed to help apply programming and technology to needs.
• First time usage is difficult without much practice with the application of new technology.
• Ideal: All tools needed, supportive infrastructure, time to train and implement
• Infrastructure: In place and works well
• Infrastructure: Technical support and maintenance
• Satellites for high-speed access for everyone
• Real time data collecting equipment
• Universal access
• Real time communication accessible by all parties, students, teachers, administrators, parents, and anyone else involved. This will help everyone stay on the same page and involved in the educational process.
• Some schools would be happy with just some new computers and hardware to get the ball rolling.
• Kids at home expect the same level of technology at school as they have at home. They do not realize the cost factor.
• The biggest focus for tools will be proper tech support and professional development.
• Technology – eventually everyone is going to have a laptop – no more vcr, tvs,
• May need “corner tech support shops” vs. corner store use to walk to.
• Need a device with one place, cameras, music, graphic calculator. Getting there – tv plugged into cable, computer, tv, vcr, dvd. This will make it easier for all – teachers, students, parents
• Right tool for the right job: Mp3 for music
• Right tool for the right job: Cell phone

Category: Training needed

• Systematic training methods must be in place to keep people updated with use and application.
• Infrastructure: Professional development
• Infrastructure: Catch teachers up to speed with kids (thinking creatively)
• More education and professional development for the teachers and administrators will be required.
• Can have hard tools, but need to teach the teachers…if you have to equipment, it will sit there if we don’t know how to use it.
• Needs: Who will teach the teachers about these tools?

Kings College's Answers

Category: not sure what was meant

• Classroom-based

Category: directly related to how assessment and evaluation of learning and teaching can occur, and impacts on the ways it can occur

• Follow up and expectations and monitoring of training

Category: changes to the roles/responsibilities of professionals involved in education

• Administrators also need to be tech users and leaders
• Educators need to be informed consumers of tech tools; can’t afford to spend limited funds on tools and resources that aren’t needed/wanted/used
• Accountability!

Category: Educational Governance, including PDE and school boards. Directly related to the support of education by society and the impact of education on society.

• District-provided, grant money, federal funding
• MONEY; the tools are not an expense, but an investment; investment is not an option; today’s schools and classrooms need the new tools.
• How will they get these tools? – Funding!!! Partnerships!!

Category: directly related to the technology available and/or support for the technology

• Portal environment- user defined repository of information (one stop shop for data and resources)
• Internet-based database
• Connectivity be the same to all partners in data sharing
• Internet access is the biggest too
• Equality of access to tools and resources
• Communication among all stakeholders who need/use the tools/resources
• Tools need to be interchangeable, combined seamlessly
• Avoid “shotgun” approach to tech purchases; need to have a comprehensive master plan of where we want to go, how to get there, what are the steps, and how are we going to afford and support it.
• Monitoring tools for teachers to know what children are doing
• Laptops
• Data warehousing – Performance Tracker
• Network security
• More durable tools – laptops etc.
• Imaging stations / parts depot
• Help Desk support

Category: Training needed

• TRAINING; ongoing, structured, practical
• Time for training
• On-going staff development for all stakeholders

Mansfield's Answers

Category: not sure what was meant

• tools for 50 years from now don’t necessarily exist yet
• Kutztown cases in which students take tools and turn tables on administration and monitor/spy on teachers/administrators
• Disposal society.
• no need to upgrade district owned areas--i.e. textbooks become outdated, but still able to use the basic structure

Category: directly related the information that students need to learn

• student need: ability to discern what is and what is not real

Category: Change in methodology

• Need hands-on / apprenticeship centers (wood, metal, auto shops)
• Use of power point for interactive uses.
• Teachers need to be facilitators.
• position roles changing--screening/using email, voice mails
• Webquests

Category: changes to the roles/responsibilities of professionals involved in education

• Humans (Instructor/Facilitator)
• Shift funding from textbooks to electronic devices
• Funding follows student
• administration--data analysis
• principals should be one of the first to be trained as change takes place rather than the last
• ethics become critical
• adaptability; ability to adjust to change
• year-round school with a week’s worth of instruction between marking periods
• Information literacy
• Team work to build multi media
• Move from the text base to digital.
• Comfort zone is paper based. Change the comfort zone.

Seton Hill's Answers

Category: not sure what was meant

• Reliability/support staff
• more staff development (professional support)

Category: directly related to the responsibilities of higher education to support needs in education

• teachers should come from the universities with the training that they need

Category: changes to the roles/responsibilities of professionals involved in education

• Technology facilitators
• time is the biggest problem that teachers have

Category: Educational Governance, including PDE and school boards. Directly related to the support of education by society and the impact of education on society.

• Funding for technology-book companies, tech companies, etc. May take 20-30 years, but in time, there will be a line-item in all school district budgets that carries equal weight as transportation
• Level playing field for all if technology is going to work-any income level has the same opportunities.
• recommendation - more money and support for the initiatives

Category: directly related to the technology available and/or support for the technology

• Reliable tools-they must always work, or teachers will not use them-they will do one lesson plan based on no technology
• The best tool in the world is worthless if it’s broken.
• Keep compatibility (software) within school system, and rest of the state organizations (PDE) of all technology.
• more tech support
• tools needed - projector
• tools needed - computer
• tools needed - smartboard
• not enough equipment
• more software
• recommendation - give tools to groups- if not enough for everyone

Category: Training needed

• Continuous training for all staff members in school system-from secretarial staff to administration.
• frequent trainings either in-house or brought in

Support for professional development--be ongoing, integrated (view teachers real time and then offer su's Answers

Category: changes to the roles/responsibilities of professionals involved in education

• Support for professional development--be ongoing, integrated (view teachers real time and then offer suggestions of integrating technology)

Category: Educational Governance, including PDE and school boards. Directly related to the support of education by society and the impact of education on society.

• New funding sources.
• Different taxing methods.
• Fewer grants are available
• Infrastructure Foundation

Category: directly related to the technology available and/or support for the technology

• Personal Computing Device
• High Speed Internet Access and Content Access
• Wireless Access – Everywhere
• Video Conferencing for Instruction
• Support Center / Help Desk
• communication trends tend to be personalized; education will be personalized; tools will be embedded; all in one learning tool such as a Blackberry with Internet access; screen
• voice recognition
• IT--more tools for better resources to track and control
• data warehousiing
• digital content
• communication highway needs to be open to all players involved
• Software Applications
• district owned blogs
• district owned pods
• Websites for teachers--provide course content, communications, etc.

Category: Training needed

• training should be seen as a tool and needs to be a critical tool for efficiency
• virtual training for staff is essential--anytime, anywhere
• all stakeholders need training; training may be from a different perspective for each group, but training needs to occur for all groups
• as technology changes,flash drives can serve as a boot device; a 1gb flash drive may be a 20 gb drive or more with all software stored on the tlash drive
• extensive software tools with training
• all teachers will need some basic hardware knowledge
• teachers schedule needs to change for adequate training; the traditional in-service day model is going to need to change
• a traditional model of a few days of inservice is not adequate
• are we doing learning a service by removing the teacher from the classroom for training and leaving the students behind

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