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Pivot points for technology integration

Joan E. Hughes, Ph.D.The University of Texas at Austin

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Initiation of an innovation idea

Implementation

Institutionalization

Teaching and learning with technology is not rocket

science!

It’s actually harder than rocket science.

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Why is teaching and learning harder than rocket science?

#tltechlive

“The Black Box of the Classroom”

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“…a complex, dynamic, and very messy multilevel system”

“…a tangled maze of structures, events, and

relationships”

Cuban, 2013, p. 163

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Research-based SUCCESS Factorsclassroom-based

school-based

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#1 Technology Leadership

What leadership practices matter for technology

integration?#tltechlive

✓ Technology Leadership✓ Students per computer✗ Internet✗ Hardware $/student✗ Software $/studentAnderson & Dexter, 2005

48 of 50 states

NO technology preparation for future

school leaders

Schrum, Galizio, & Ledesma, 2011

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Distributed technology leadership

Schrum & Levin, 2013

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Hughes, De Zeeuw, & Ok, in press

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Johnston, 2012Farmer, 2013

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✓ Supportive principal✓ Collaborative teachers✓ Professional organizations✗ Competitive instructional technologist✗ Unsupportive principal✗ Uncollaborative teachers

#2 Technology Vision

What’s your technology vision?

#tltechlive

“Superintendents have been pressed to purchase new hardware and software, in the belief that if technology were introduced to the classroom, it would be used, and if it were used, it would transform schooling.”

Cuban, 2001; 2013Zhao & Conway, 2001

✓ Learner-focused✓ Curricular-focused✓ Pre-planned

Dexter, 2011Hughes, De Zeeuw, & Ok, in press

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Students are a constituent group that is often neglected, ignored, or forgotten.

Photo: Wesley Fryer Fullan, 2007

Warschauer, Zheng, Niiya, Cotton, and Farkas, 2014

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Anderson & Dexter, 2000Schrum & Levin, 2013Hughes et al., in press

Top-down

Bottom-up

DEAD or

ALIVE?

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#3 Technology Professional

Learning

What are the keys to professional learning that lead

to successful technology integration?#tltechlive

Meaningful Change

(transforming student learning)

Change in mater

ials

Change in

teacher

practices

Change in

teacher

beliefs

adoption of innovations

Rogers, 2003

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✓ Technology specialists✓ Learning opportunities✓ Teacher bonuses✓ Early release days✓ Substitutes

Lin & Chiou, 2008Dexter, 2011Schrum & Levin, 2013Photo: Jericho

✗ One-shot workshops✗ Tool focus “50 apps…”

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General tech =“replacement” pedagogy

Dexter, 2011Lawless & Pellegrino, 2007Lin & Chiou, 2008Schrum & Levin, 2013

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Hughes, 2003; 2004; 2005Hughes, Kerr, & Ooms, 2005Hughes & Ooms, 2004

POPs + Tech =Transformative learning

✓ Content-specificity✓ Ongoing, long-term

Schrum, Galizio, & Ledesma, 2011

“[Leaders] uniformly stressed that the role of the school leader is essential in helping teachers establish a culture that values risk taking, promotes exploration, and celebrates innovation.”

grammar of schooling

Selwyn, 2011

a school’s engrained

educational format and goals

Selwyn, 2011

grammar of schooling:

“…we [math team] all need to do the same because everybody needs to have the same thing and equal and all the same time.

If you don’t do that material and you don’t give them that quiz and that test, well that’s not fair. Your kids are making some frilly little project they’re going to get an “A” on, and my kids have to factor something which is hell.…”

✓ Include leaders in prof learning✓ Drive change w/ librarians ✓ Enact tiered visioning✓ Nurture content-specific tech PLCs✓ Support real risk-taking

Top 5 Pivots!

Questions, Comments, Ideas

joanh@austin.utexas.edu | @techedges

Joan E. Hughes, Ph.D.The University of Texas at Austin

Work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.