The Intersection of Technology & Equity:
Addressing the New Digital DivideDr. Ann Lee Flynn, NSBA
Director, Education Technology
September 30, 2016
Miami, Florida
Old Terms - New Meaning
Digital Divide
Homework GapDigital “Use” Divide
CoSN’s Digital Equity Toolkit
Do You Remember?
50 Things We No Longer Do Because of Technology Advancements
http://www.bitrebels.com/technology/50-things-we-no-longer-do/
Manual Labor
Communication
Information
Navigation
Shopping & E-Commerce
51% of purchases made online in 2015;$23.1 Trillion in consumer spending - with non-cash
Key Drivers
TransformationAcceleration
SpecializationDigitizationInnovation
From Jim Carroll
1960’s Science Fiction is 2016 Reality
From the Saturday morning cartoon, The Jetsons
George Jetson talking with his boss via video phone (like today’s Facetime or Video Conferencing)
Getting his news electronically, like today’s Internet that can be accessed even in a watch!
From Star Trek
Spock using the 23rd century Tricorder to diagnosis illness
Today the Qualcomm Foundation has an X-Prize competition in the final stages of development to test such a device – NOW!
65% of today’s students will have jobs that don’t yet exist.
ISTE Student Technology Standards
1998 Learning to Use Technology
2007Using Technology
2016 Transformative Learning w/ Technology
Connections Across Initiatives to Deepen & Extend Learning
Common Core State Standards
Next Generation Science Standards National Education Technology Plan Future Ready Framework and ConnectEd
Open Educational Resources SAMR model
Substitute, Augment, Modify, Redefine
What it Means to be a Digital Age Learner
Digital Citizen
Knowledge Constructor
Innovative Designer
Computational Thinker
Creative Communicator
Global Collaborator
Empowered Learner
2016
Empowered Learners
Digital Citizen
Knowledge Constructor
Innovative Designer
Computational Thinkers
Creative Communicator
Global Collaborators
What do Blackberry, Blockbuster and Radio Shack have in Common?
“Slipped into irrelevance or became obsolete due to their inability to quickly adapt to a fast-changing external business environment”
Susan Jacobs, SmartMeetings, Sept 2016
“Technology is not just an industry, it’s changing industries,”
C-TEC, 2016
2016 New Horizons Report
Short Term:Coding as a LiteracyStudents as Creators
Mid-Term:Collaborative LearningDeeper Learning Approaches
Long-Term:Redesigning Learning SpacesRethinking How Schools Work
“The right approach to dealing with incoming change is to change before you have to versus change because you have to”
Authors, Shane Gragun & Kate Sweetman
Join me in Coachella Valley USDOctober 19-21, 2016
https://youtu.be/8ZYREEdzhQ8www.nsba.org/tlnsitevisits
Miami–Dade County Public Schools
Mr. Paul Smith, District Director,
Data Security & Tech Services
Mr. Richard Benvenuti, District Director,
Instructional Technology
29P a g e
2.01.0
Teacher Desktops
8,000 11ELA, US History
7Civics
7ELA*
35,000Mobile Devices
6US History
6ELA*
900IWB
* Selected Schools
Civic, Economics, and Geography (7)World History and Geography (9)Traditions and Encounters (AP World History)Discovering Our Past: A History of the United States – Early Years (8)Miller & Levine BiologyPearson ChemistryCPO Science Foundations of Physical Science
11,620
8
7Civics
6ELA*
9
10ELATeacher Trainings**
35,790
World History
Mobile Device Deployments:Special Programs
DIGITAL CONVERGENCE
104,000 Mobile Device Deployments: Grade Levels & Subject Areas
Technology needs/upgrades (K-12) Elementary Take Home Model* Senior Academies (e.g., iPrep) Special Programs (e.g., iPrep Math) Laptop cart(s) for all ES and K-8 Ctrs Middle Grades Self-Contained Autism
units Intensive Math (Middle Grades)
Digital ContentUS History, Algebra I
Physical Science*
Interactive Whiteboards
(IWB)
Mobile Devices
** Not number of unique teachers Page 27-A
Digital Convergence Dashboard
Page 27-B
Discussing Digital Equity
https://nationalschoolboardsassociationstplusl.eduvision.tv/default.aspx?q=CT1wecDsedC%2fr37ZACkAQA%3d%3d#.V-RsYNVH15Q
2016 “20 to Watch” Video