The Outreach and Technical Assistance Network (OTAN), a California adult education project, explores what technology can do for adult education students. Hear about promising practices, frameworks and mandates regarding the role of technology in the future of education, and learn how to apply new concepts to classroom and distance instruction. Join the discussion about effective integration of content, pedagogy, and technology in preparing adult learners for twenty-first century skills.

1. Technology in the Classroom: Promising
Practices and New Directions
Branka Marceta
OTAN [Outreach and Technical Assistance Network]
bmarceta@otan.us

2. Objectives
 Identify frameworks and mandates
• Rich Higher, America
• The Power of Technology to Transform Adult Learning
• Investigating the Language and Literacy Skills Required for
Independent Online Learning
• National Educational Technology Plan
 Examine promising practices
• Cell phones & other mobiles
• Social media, open source, learning analytics
 Apply new concepts to classroom and distance
education
 Discuss effective integration of content, pedagogy and
technology in preparing adult learners for the 21st
Century Skills
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3. Frameworks and mandates
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4. Reach Higher, America
 Crisis in education
and workforce
 Prison population
 Family literacy
 20 million by 2020
 6/26/08
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5. High School Attainment Graph
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6. Reach Higher, America - Quote
“Technology should be used
in all its forms to make
learning a continuous
process of inquiry and
improvement that keeps
pace with the speed of
change in business and
society.”
June 2008, p.24
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7. Tech to Transform Adult Ed
 Information and
communications
technology skills (ICT
literacy) are essential,
both on and off the job….
Some 70 percent of all
jobs in the U.S. will
require some level of ICT
skills by 2016.
p. iii
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8. Independent Online Learning
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9. New Horizon Report 2011, k-12 Edition, this year
 Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less
• Cloud Computing
• Mobiles
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10. New Horizon Report 2011, k-12, in the future
 Time-to-Adoption: Two to Three Years
• Game-Based Learning
• Open Content
 Time-to-Adoption: Four to Five Years
• Learning Analytics
• Personal Learning Environments
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11. National Ed Tech Plan
Transform the…
professional learning
of educators…by
leveraging technology
to create career-long
personal learning
networks…
p. 11
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12. A Model of Learning, Powered by Technology
From the National Education Technology Plan 2011, US Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology, page 11
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13. Shifts Happening
 From consuming to producing
 From authority to transparency
 From the expert to the facilitator
 From the lecture to the hallway
 From "access to information" to
"access to people”
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14. Shifts Happening – cont.
 From passive to passionate learning
 From presentation to participation
 From publication to conversation
 From formal schooling to lifelong
learning
Steve Hargadon, Educational Shifts, http://web20ineducation.wikispaces.com
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15. TPACK
 Mishra & Koehler, 2006
 …knowledge about
technology cannot be
treated as context-free,
and ...good teaching
requires an
understanding of how
technology relates to the
pedagogy and content.
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16. Promising practices
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17. Mobiles: Cell Phones in the Classroom
 OTAN workshop
developed by Susan
Gaer, Santa Ana
Community College
• Features
• Etiquette
• Question of the Day -
texting
• Call in a Poem - audio
• Create a story around a
photo - camera
Phone On My Phone By Stephanie Krishnan On Flickr
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18. Other Mobile Devices in the Classroom
 “Clickers” –  Tablets
formative and Classroom systems,
summative evaluation personal tablets,
educational tablets,
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19. Digital Textbooks & Open Content
Ck-12 FlexBooks National Repository of
Online Courses
 customizable, standards-aligned,  a growing library of high-quality
free digital textbooks for K-12 online course content for students
and faculty in higher education
and high school
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20. Math Anywhere & Learning Analytics
 Khan Academy Tracking System
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21. PLNs – Social Networking
 Facebook
• PR for adult education programs
• Way to extend learning and communication: stay in touch with
alumni
• Personal PD for teachers and administrators
 Twitter
• Personal PD for teachers and administrators
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22. The only link you need to know
Resource wiki page:
http://webtwopointohinadulted.wikispaces.com/CASAS+2011
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23. Thank you from CASAS!
 We value your feedback!
• Please fill out the evaluation form.
• Return the evaluation to your presenter.
 Visit the Resource & Technology Exhibits
• Golden Foyer
• Tuesday & Wednesday, 8:00 am-5:00 pm
 Attend the Poster Session
• Golden Ballroom
• Thursday, 8:00-9:15 am
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