1) The document discusses trends in educational technology in the Greater Victoria School District, including the use of devices, WiFi, web 2.0 tools, digital citizenship, and social media. 2) It focuses on how technology can be used at Eagle View Elementary School to improve student learning and engagement, with short term goals of providing teachers technology and long term goals of providing students technology. 3) Specific apps that can be used on iPads are discussed, including Popplet, Book Creator, and Educreations, and how they can be used to foster creativity and innovation in grades K-5.

1. Education, Innovation, and
Technology
Jan. 27th 2013!
Greater Victoria SD 61Eagle View Elementary School

2. Dave Shortreed
Coordinator of
Educational Technology!
Greater Victoria SD 61!
@mr_shortreed
www.daveshortreed.com!
!
Tweet to #sd61learn

3. Team Work
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Working_Together_Teamwork_Puzzle_Concept.jpg
Technology Integration

4. Collaboration and Innovation
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Farm_silos.jpg

5. Overarching Goal
What is best for kids?
How do we develop significant and
engaging student learning?
How does it improve student success?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Archery_target.jpg

6. Where is education going?
How is the teacher role changing?
How are we making education student-centered?

8. Sir James Douglas Elementary, 1912

10. What should classrooms as learning spaces look like?!
!
What structure suits innovation and creativity?
What tools fit into your learning space?

12. Trends in technology in GVSD
Devices in GVSD
WIFI
Web 2.0
Digital Citizenship
Social Media

13. Teaching with the
end in mind
http://blog.williamferriter.com/2013/07/11/technology-is-a-tool-not-a-learning-outcome/

14. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Archery_target.jpg

15. Technology at Eagleview
1. Consultation!
2. Tech Plan tied to school
growth plan
3. Short Term Goals -provide
teachers with technology
4. Long Term Goals- provide
students with technology

16. Short term Goals
Teachers with Macbook Pros, document cameras
and projectors
!
So whats next?

17. “how a small suite of apps related to annotating, curation, and image,
audio, and video production that [can] support a diverse student
performances of understanding”
(Daccord, 2013)

18. iPad
Assessment
digital world

19. Apps can’t do everything

20. Evergreen Apps
not tied to content!
limitless instructional possibilities!
integrate to foster creativity and innovation!
creating, annotating, curating!
http://www.eschoolnews.com/2013/05/28/the-evergreen-ipad-
why-all-your-apps-should-fit-on-one-screen/

21. Range of Possibility
K/1 - centres
2/3 - show your understanding
4/5 - Creating

22. K/1
Play
Phonics
Recording apps

23. 2/3
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Popplet (free, 4.99)
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Book Creator (free, 4.99)
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Educreations (free)
!

24. Popplet
Mind-Map
Brainstorming
Connections
Summary
graphic organizer

25. Book Creator
non-fiction report writing
digital storytelling
photo, video, audio, animation,
paint, text

26. Educreations
Show your understanding
Photograph, record stylus and
narrate
Export onto educreations.com

27. Project-based learning
grant to purchase iPad
minis:
!
Goal:
To use technology to
connect with the
environment.
!
$1.99

29. $1.99

30. Free

31. Thank you!
• dshortreed@sd61.bc.ca
• @mr_shortreed
• daveshortreed.com