Tech & School Improvement 3

STANDARD 5. COMMUNITY OF CARE AND SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS & STANDARD 3. EQUITY AND CULTURAL RESPONSIVENESS

Discuss as a group what policies and processes are in place in your district to ensure legal, ethical use, and equitable access to technology are operational within your building.  Are they effective?  Are they actively promoting and enforcing privacy, security, online safety, and copyright laws?  What needs to be done to further develop, communicate, and enforce social, legal, and ethical practices to promote responsible use of technology? 

Common Sense Media Curriculum

• Additional Digital Citizenship Resources:

  • Google's Resources

    • • Google's Be Internet Awesome!

      • Google Digital Skills Curriculum 

      • Google Certification for STUDENTS! 

      • WorkBench Education

  • CSM's Digital Passport

  • Microsoft's Own Your Space

  • Canada's Seven Digital Deadly Sins

  • "Fake News" & Media Literacy

    • • CSM's Media Literacy Library 

      • Checkology

      • Mozilla's Web Literacy

      • Play Fact-itious, an online game

      • The Bad News Game & the Get Bad News PDF

      • Above the Noise on YouTube (e.g. Can you trust influencers? episode)

      • Propaganda Analysis -- Mind Over Media

      • The CLASSIC: Save the Pacific northwest Tree Octopus!

STANDARD 4. CURRICULUM, INSTRUCTION, AND ASSESSMENT

AI and ChatGBT in K-12 Education (Thanks, Barry for the Resources)

What is AI? Please choose one of the following articles to read prior to class (you will only be able to access two free articles below, so choose wisely), and be prepared to answer and defend:

“Will you be supporting/using ChatGBT in your classroom/school/district in 2023-2024? Why or why not?”

•  Outsmart ChatGPT: 8 Tips for Creating Assignments It Can't Do (6 min.)

•  ChatGPT Cheating: What to Do When It Happens (4 min.)

•  3 Strategies for Helping Students Navigate the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (3 min.)

•  Artificial Intelligence Is All Around Us. So This District Designed Its Own AI Curriculum (9 min.)

•  Why Schools Need to Talk About Racial Bias in AI-Powered Technologies (6 min.)

•  With ChatGPT, Teachers Can Plan Lessons, Write Emails, and More. What's the Catch? (8 min.)

•  We GaveChatGPT 5 Common Teaching Tasks, Here's How Teachers Say It Did (27 min.)

•  ASCD-Planning Professional Development on ChatGPT

Chromebook Replacements. As a school/district administrator you are constantly called to make decisions. Upcoming decisions will include the ongoing, costly replacement of chromebooks. See: Chromebooks ‘Short’ Lifespan Costs Schools Billions of Dollars.  

Please choose one of the following articles (which I requested and received reprint rights to use) to read prior to class, and be prepared to answer and defend: 

“Will you be supporting the ongoing replacement of 1-to-1 Chromebooks moving forward? Why or why not?”

1. Few Students Take Computer Science. This District Offers a Blueprint for Changing That. (10 min.)

2. What Happened When a District Decided to ‘Mess With High School.’ (12 min.)

3. Schools Bought Tech to Accelerate Learning. Is It Working? (7 min.)

4. Misguided Use of Ed Tech Is a Big Problem. How Schools Can Help Prevent It (4 min.)

5. 25 Stupid Uses of Educational Technology, According to Educators (1 min.)

6. What We’ve Learned About Technology and Learning in the Last 3 Years (8 min.)

7. How Educators Feel About the Impact of Technology, in Charts (1 min.)

STANDARD 4. CURRICULUM, INSTRUCTION, AND ASSESSMENT

DISCUSSION: Should we be buying textbooks any longer? Check out Open Education Resources (OER) that are already available in your discipline. Then prepare a GoogleSlide presentation to your BOE Program Committee. 

Introduction to Module                

Tech & School Improvement 1             Tech & School Improvement 2           Tech & School Improvement 3

Using Technology Assessment Module

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Updates & Articles

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