1. Julie Evans, Project Tomorrow
Mary Ann Wolf, Friday Institute
June 29, 2014
Measuring teachers’ readiness
to leverage digital content:
are you ready?
2. 1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Overview of the NSF Grant
3. Digital Readiness Spectrum
4. Interactive Simulations
5. Lessons Learned
6. Wrap Up
Today's session
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District administrators’ views: what has
greatest potential to impact student success?
1. Enhancing teacher effectiveness
2. Integrating 21st century skills into curriculum
3. Leveraging technology more effectively
Digital content
Blended learning
Tablets and other mobile devices
1:1 programs
Online textbooks
Flipped learning models
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Teachers’ use of digital content in the
classroom
14%
52%
32%
32%
21%
63%
12%
18%
13%
39%
23%
42%
8%
17%
14%
24%
15%
46%
Videos that I create
Animations
Real time data
Online textbooks
Game environments
Videos that I find online
English teachers Math teachers Science teachers
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Teachers’ use of digital content in the
classroom
“Use of digital content helps students
develop critical thinking and
problem solving skills”
2009: 27% of classroom teachers
2013: 38% of classroom teachers
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Digital content in the classroom
Challenges?
Only 25% of technology leaders say they have
enough bandwidth to support digital content
usage in the classroom
55% of principals say that there are not enough
computers to support student use
And 41% of principals say that it is hard to
understand the role of digital content within
Common Core
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Digital content in the classroom
Challenges?
1/3 of principals say that their teachers are
inadequately trained to use digital content within
instruction
45% identify effective teacher PD as one of their
greatest challenges right now
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Professional Development
Wish List
1st year 1-3 4-10 11-15 16+
How to differentiate
instruction using technology
51% 48% 44% 44% 46%
Identifying digital content 39% 33% 33% 34% 35%
Identifying mobile apps 39% 37% 36% 36% 35%
Using games 37% 29% 26% 24% 26%
Using tablets 32% 31% 31% 30% 31%
Implementing a blended
classroom
27% 24% 23% 23% 22%
Teachers’ wish list for professional
development in technology use
Years of experience
13. Develop tools to assess teachers’ digital readiness.
Understand the efficacy of interventions and identify
strategies for facilitating teachers’ growth along the
“Digital Readiness Spectrum.”
Identify digital resources that advance teachers’ growth
along the “Digital Readiness Spectrum.”
Inform teacher preparation programs.
Grant goals
14. Assumptions re: digital content
implementation and teacher professional
development
“Build it and they will come” & “Promote it and they
will use it”
“Good for one, good for all professional development
model”
“Younger teachers who are digital natives are more
likely to use digital resources in their classroom”
16. Approximately 40 middle school math and science
teachers from a school district in rural North Carolina
4 instructional technology coaches to support the
teachers
Professional development interventions Spring 2012
through June 2014
Data collection Spring 2012 through June 2014
Comprehensive report to be published in August 2014
Methodology
18. 1. Be intensive, ongoing, job-embedded, and
connected to practice.
2. Focus on student learning and address the
teaching of specific curriculum content.
3. Align with school improvement priorities
and goals.
4. Build strong working relationships among
teachers.
(Darling-Hammond, et. al., 2009)
Elements of effective teacher professional
development
22. Digital Readiness
Technology readiness: “the behavior process behind
the adoption of technological products and services.”
Four main components: Optimism, Innovativeness,
Discomfort and Insecurity.
(Van der Rhee et al., 2007)
Digital content: multimedia or online information
(social media, videos, blogging, wikis, etc.)
Digital Readiness Spectrum:
A teacher’s level of use of digital content will vary
as a teacher becomes more comfortable with the
technology
Defining digital readiness
23. Many different models, broad literature
base.
◦ CBAM
◦ ADL Model of ICT Uptake
◦ Technology Maturity Model (TMM)
◦ NETS
◦ Blooms Digital Taxonomy
Most models not designed to give
feedback to teachers
Background for the digital readiness
spectrum
32. National Speak Up Findings and reports
Targeted and thematic reports
Online learning trends
Mobile learning & social media
Print to digital migration
Social learning
Intelligent adaptive software
Digital parent series
Presentations, podcasts and webinars
Services: consulting, workshops, evaluation and efficacy
studies
Speak Up 2014 opens on October 6
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33. Thank you.
Let’s continue this conversation.
Julie Evans
Project Tomorrow
jevans@tomorrow.org
949-609-4660 x15
Twitter: JulieEvans_PT
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