Reconceptualizing NCLB
by Dr Chris Moersch
TECSIG 2005 presentation
Refer also to my podcast with Dr Moersch from October 6th, when he also discussed this theme of reconceptualizing NCLB.
assignment: view video clip from 1963
– research project on barbed wire
What impact do these “technology” projects have on student achievement
It’s all about instructional practices
– scene from Ferris Bueller (anyone, anyone…)
NCLB before today meant No Child Left Behind
– we have tracked LOTI for 3 years, this is the first year where the predominant level has gone back to zero
— problem is teachers getting written reprimand from district curriculum office
Technology is being left out of the NCLB curriculum
– May is the official technology integration month
– technology is becoming an after school or summer school program
What does technology leadership require us to do?
New NCLB:
– Non-traditional Assessment Strategies
– Challenging Learning opportunities
– Learner-based curriculum models
–
Non-traditional Assessment Strategies
– here’s an example: prior to balancing the federal budget, outline a minimum of five goal statements that match with your party’s platform
– national budget simulaton website
http://www.nathannewman.org/nbs/
People are not using these because they can’t figure out how this fits into their curriculum
These are non-traditional assessment strategies
– Key social studies TEKS: identify sources of revenu and expenditures of US gov’t and analyze their impact on US economy
Challenging learning opportunities
– clip from Harry Potter with the
4th grade “plant power” project
Chris is advocating whatever we do at the classroom level, we have to tie in both technology TEKS and content
– teachers shouldn’t perceive that technology is just another curriculum topic that they must do
focus should be on higher level thinking
Website using a cell phone with experimental and control group
– http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/viewtopic.php?t=225
Reaction time and car accident simulation
Resources that are high speed and low drag, but focus on higher level thinking
When people say “my kids are doing research”
– that should not be informaton gathering
– research is when students generate
Chris has just hired someone that does nothing but find LotTi level 3 and above resources
video clip: from Ocean’s 11, plan to break into a building
look at these great resources
– experiential-based action model (EBAM)
– enrichment triad model
– 4MAT model
– Five E Model
– Constructivist Learning Model
Chris wants to salvage technology and reconceptualize it so technology becomes an agent
Bloom’s Technology in Action
– clip from
Baby Name Wizard
it is all about complex thinking strategies, inductive and deductive reading skills
http://www.babynamewizard.com/
http://www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html
Force kids to think and reason at least 5 minutes every class period
New NCLB
– extreme technology makeover
– systems thinking
– differentiated staff development
– extreme leadership makeover
All teachers do not need another workshop on blogging and powerpoint
– maybe some teachers need a workshop on questioning strategies, how to develop a challenging task with an authentic assessment
Extreme technology makeover
– rights and responsiblities
– project needs a relevancy injunction, a carved instructional design (EBAM procedure)
This become the project “Grass Made to be Stepped On”
key web links: too fast, couldn’t get these)
See:
http://www.floresville.isd.tenet.edu/staff/LoTi.htm
Floresville is focused on differentiated instruction
Differentiated staff development
Showed Saturday night live: Dukakis spoof
Scene from the matrix
– fight scene is technologist and the teacher
– “I am trying to open your mind, Neo. You are the one that must walk through it.”
http://ww2.ikeepbookmarks.com/lotischools
– these are free instructional resources, no level1 and level2 lessons there that are lower level cognition
– LotI Mentor Certification
– LoTi Texas STaR Chart Survey
– LoTi Lounge
– LoTi Connection
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