Hilton Garden Inn - Downtown
May 10, 2007 – THURSDAY
0900 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
• Angus King, Former Governor of Maine
• Introductions at tables among participants
Outcomes for conference:
• Identify strategies for building a 1:1 program that is financially and pedagogically sustainable
• Exchange ideas among participants from Sweden, Canada, and Maine
0930 Quick (W/L) ACTIVITY: generate what participants Want to learn when they visit King Middle School, and what they Learned after the visit (to be completed upon return-see 1315 below).
0945 SITE VISIT – King Middle School, Portland, Maine. Hosted by Principal Mike McCarthy and Technology Integrator David Grant – Visitors to take W/L forms with them for reference/note taking during visit.
1230 RETURN TO CONFERENCE SITE –LUNCH ONSITE
1315 SMALL TABLE GROUPS
• Complete WL activity in small table groups (Fill in and discuss the “L”column)
• Add more questions (W) that arose as a result of the school visits that can be used in later discussions
1330 PANEL PRESENTATION questions and discussion (Bette Manchester, Chris Toy, Lisa Hogan, David Grant) various perspectives on the following prompt:
• What are some key considerations in managing change and innovation with 1:1 computing?
• What has Maine learned about the impact of 1:1 computing on curriculum frameworks and assessments that might have implications for other countries’ education initiatives?
1415 SMALL TABLE BREAKOUTS – DISCUSSION ON CHANGES IN CLASSROOM PRACTICE
• What needs to happen at each of the “levels” to ensure successful change: City/Building/Team/Department/ Classroom?
• Table Hosts to Facilitate and Record are Bette Manchester & Jeff Mao. Table guests from Maine’s Middle Schools are David Grant & Lisa Hogan. Table Leaders from Sweden are xxxx; xxxx; xxxx.
• Tables will create strategies to ensure that technology investment will lead to improved classroom practice. Examples of strategies under discussion include professional development, curriculum guidance, specialized software, family and community support, etc.
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1445 GALLERY WALK
• Groups will visit other tables and annotate (write on charts) and take notes on other tables’ ideas. Looking for similarities, differences, agreements, “ah-has”, questions etc.) (5 tables)
• Return to home tables. Table leaders facilitate conversation about feedback and questions written during the Gallery Walk.
• Tables report out to the large group on conversations. Retain large charts to reduce to documents.
1540 BREAK
1600 TRACKING CHANGE – A RESEARCH AGENDA DIRECTED AT CLASSROOM IMPROVEMENT
• Discussion led by Dr. David Silvernail, Center for Education Policy and Applied Research, University of Southern Maine.
• Dr. Silvernail will outline the research agenda that accompanied the MLTI as well as other technology efforts.
• Discussion to focus on assessing 21st century skills. Specifically, what are the implications for how traditional assessment needs to change in light of 1:1 learning?
1630 TABLE DISCUSSION FOLLOW-UP Table leaders will facilitate processing of David’s discussion and the day’s activities using graphic organizer (Here’s What, So What, Now What)
1700 3, 2, 1 FEEDBACK SLIPS ( 3 things I learned today, 2 questions I have about integrating technology in a cost effective and sustainable manner*, 1 thing that was confirmed for me) and Adjourn
*These questions will be used for panel conversation on 2nd day
May 11, 2007 – FRIDAY
0900 WELCOME BACK – Jill and Chris
0915 DISCUSSION/PANEL (Questions come from 3,2,1 activity) MAKING TECHNOLOGY WORK FOR EDUCATION – Discussion led by Shaun Meredith, Infobridge; Jeff Mao, Director of Education Technology, State of Maine; Rick Barter, MLTI teacher, & Bette Manchester (Chris and Jill will chart and summarize discussion)
1000 SMALL TABLE BREAKOUTS—Two strands
STRAND 1: MAKING TECHNOLOGY WORK FOR EDUCATION-- IMPLEMENTATION STRAND – Table Hosts to Facilitate and Record are Bette Manchester, Chris Toy, Jeff Mao. Table guests from Maine’s Middle Schools are David Grant, Rick Barter. Table Leaders from Sweden are xxxx; xxxx; xxxx.
• Tables will create strategies to ensure that technology investment will be cost effective and driven by classroom needs. Examples may include hardware needs, software, wireless networks, server strategies (local or hosted), private sector partnerships, staffing levels, professional development for teachers around management and integration with learning, and timely technical support.
• Using post it notes, tables will brainstorm strategies/activities then place them on a grid showing cost effectiveness and meeting implementation needs
STRAND 2: MAKING TECHNOLOGY WORK FOR EDUCATION -- STANDARDS AND CURRICULUM STRAND
Dr. David Silvernail from the Center on Education Policy and Applied Research and Evaluation
1115 GALLERY WALK and discussion of grids and post-it notes – (participants will make notes of questions, observations, comments, etc) then return to table groups for conversation among themselves.
1100 WHOLE GROUP SHARING about each table’s conversation. (Jill and Chris will facilitate and chart biggies)
11:50 Table leaders will place post-it notes onto a large common grid that will be reduced to a document.
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1200 WORKING LUNCH – Guest Speakers –
• Commissioner Susan Gendron, Maine Department of Education
• Fredrik Hoper: Falkenberg, Sweden project.
1315 DISCUSSION – Angus King and Duke Albanese: policy and public support
1345 BREAK
1415 TEAM PLANNING TIME Developing next steps for implementing or sustaining 1:1 learning. Working groups will convene for this segment. Other attendees will sit in on to consult with working groups as plans are worked on. Tables will discuss learnings over the past two days and develop action plans for moving ahead on an implementation plan.
1630 REPORT OUT Working groups report out
1700 PARTING WORDS – HOST COMMITTEE
• Closing thoughts
• Next Steps
• Evaluations
ADJOURN
2 comments:
Looks great Chris!
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I agree!
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