HSD 2025 and Technology

HSD 2025 and Technology  

On our December 11th Late Start, we are going to revisit our enduring understanding

Preparing learners for a changing world requires responsive shifts in teaching and learning.

Our essential questions are:

What do learners need to prepare for our changing world?

What shifts can we make in our practices to prepare our students (and ourselves) for our changing world?

We will continue our journey to UPGRADE our lessons, assessments, and activities utilizing technology.

We are not using technology for technology itself, but to upgrade understanding and learning.  

Heidi Hayes- Jacobs continues to inspire us to upgrade our work.  I recently emailed her sharing 

the progress here in Hudson and she said it made her day.  Here is one example of our students work.    Tellagami Example    
Her goal is to inspire and challenge educators

to upgrade our work.  Don't forget to visit  Curriculum 21 Clearinghouse for great resources.  

I would like to thank you all of the volunteers who are taking a risk and sharing what they know about technology.  Thank you to Jodi, Mary Beth, and Maija for facilitating sessions.

We will be meeting at River crest with our laptops.  Each session is designed for a 15 minute mini lesson with
30 minutes to apply your learning for something to use in your class,
8-8:45- Choice Session 1
8:50-9:35- Choice Session 2
9:40-10- Technology Overview with Nancy Dressel

I would like to encourage you to think about how technology can be used to help our students in reaching our 
Graduate Learner Outcomes:

• Global Literacy
• Technology Literacy
• Entrepreneurial Learning
• Environmental Sustainability
• Thinking
• Life Skills

Websites to check out include

 "Integration Matrix".  

Technology Matrix

I hope you find the collection of videos on the site showing technology being used in education to be helpful.  The videos are grouped according to the level of technology integration as well as the characteristics of the learning environment as defined below: (Our goal is to move toward the green!)

Levels of Technology Integration into the Curriculum

• Entry-The teacher begins to use technology tools to deliver curriculum content to students.
• Adoption – The teacher directs students in the conventional and procedural use of technology tools.
• Transformation-The teacher encourages the innovative use of technology tools.  Technology tools are used to facilitate higher order learning activities that may not have been possible without the use of technology.

Characteristics of the Learning Environment:

• Active-Students are actively engaged in using technology as a tool rather than passively receiving information from technology.
• Collaboration-Students use technology tools to collaborate with others rather than working individually at all times.
• Constructive-Students use technology tools to connect new information to the prior knowledge rather than to passively receive information.
• Authentic-Students use technology tools to link learning activities to the world beyond the instructional setting rather than working on assignments that are not relevant.
• Goal Directed-Students use technology tools to set goals, plan activities, monitor progress, and evaluate results rather than simply completing assignments without reflection.