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Session 4: A Vision of K-12 Students Today - 33 views

session 4 21st century learning digital natives

started by Mrs. Warner on 05 Oct 10
  • Mrs. Warner
    #1 Mrs. Warner on 05 Oct 10
     
    Check out B. Nesbitt's video "A Vision of K-12 Students Today" here on YouTube if you're at home, or posted here on our course wiki if you're inside the BCPS Websense firewall.

    How closely, from your experience, is Baltimore County Public Schools aligned with this vision?
  • Christy McKinzie
    #2 Christy McKinzie on 06 Oct 10
     
    I feel Baltimore County has a very large way to go before we are aligned with this vision. Many teachers still use very little, if any, technology in their classes. Also, the technology we do have is difficult to keep up to date and running. I still have a difficult time having my students and parents accessing and using Edline.
  • Jackie Davis
    #3 Jackie Davis on 06 Oct 10
     
    We are so managed by a budget and time restraint that we will never catch up. BCPS will catch up to the present time technology in like ten years, however technology will just keep moving forward without us. Also, we can't train teachers fast enough in the current technology so we are always behind. What a headache!!!
  • Angela Martinelli
    #4 Angela Martinelli on 06 Oct 10
     
    Baltimore County has a long way to go to reach this vision. Who put made and approved this video? Baltimore Country says that most of those things that students use on a daily basis are illegal in schools. Also, what about the millions of websites that they block? I once had Baltimore County block my approved textbook website for Criminal Justice, and would not unblock it for my students to use. In order for the County to reach its vision, they need to reevaluate the many things and allow students to use tools that they already know and understand in the classroom. They also need to give the teachers more freedom in tech websites.
  • Robert Mryncza
    #5 Robert Mryncza on 06 Oct 10
     
    BCPS possibly has the potential to catch up with others technologies but curriculum may have to be changed. It is difficult to teach with success the material in the time restraints we have placed upon us. Training teachers then becomes an issue. Does it become something we have to do on our own time, will we be compensated in some way. There is only so much time that can be devoted to school. Personal lives, family and othere factors come into play. More computers have to be availkable for all to benefit and this becomes a cost factor. We already know money for education somehow goes to the wrong places. It is possible but highly unlikely. Simple economics.
  • Toni Dunn
    #9 Toni Dunn on 06 Oct 10
     
    I sweat when I see or read about the technologically-raised brain because mine wasn't raised that way. I think we all need to use as much technology as we can everyday to become more familiar with the new brain processing. Baltimore County curriculum is still old school related to math. It has ideas for cooperative learning - no technology. A few people are well versed in some of the new technologies but much of it is only related to calculator use. A brief overview on a PD day doesn't integrate the information for future use.We don't have the resourses for individual student use in the classrooms. we have had equipment since last year that is only now going to be installed, not neccessarily soon.
  • k maddox
    #10 k maddox on 06 Oct 10
     
    From my experience Baltimore County is not close to this vision. BCPS offers numerous professional development opportunities for teachers to learn new technologies to implement in the classroom. However, in my opinion after that one or five class session(s) there isn't time for a teacher to research, experiment, and prepare quality lessons using what is given. Planning periods are spent doing more than what is needed to prepare for a class. Personally I think there should be PD days for teachers to focus on one technology at least a semester but no longer than a year to become comfortable learning, using, and applying a technology in instruction. As students, adults learn at different paces as well. I see many teachers overwhelmed with all the technology in their classroom and none of it is used for instruction. Students want technology to used but to have them engaged we can't use or teach it if we as educators are at the beginners level. BCPS can continue to offer technology and courses but teachers have to use. I'm not even going to mention the Blueprint for Progresses statement about teachers being equipped with a computer.
  • Kim Samele
    #11 Kim Samele on 06 Oct 10
     
    I think that the technology vision is there for Baltimore County, yet it may be just a glimmer. Kenwood is full of technology and people seem open to using it. Even so, the technology is not always easy and it is time consuming. On the elementary level,I know that at my son's school there are not LCD projectors in the classrooms or the mass use of laptop. It is on this level, in the elementary school, that I think technology needs to start. So the idea is there for more integration but I still beleive that money is a huge hurdle.
  • Tammy Yost
    #12 Tammy Yost on 08 Oct 10
     
    The vision in Baltimore County regarding technology is moving forward, but slowly. We are just now supplying our classrooms and schools with technology, but not quickly enough. The funding just isn't there. The other issue is teacher training. Teachers need professional development opportunities to learn how to engage students with technology, embed the technology into their everyday lessons, and gain a comfort level working with the technology. Curriculums also need to be updated with technology integration suggestions and principals need to require that it be used within the classroom. Before this can happen we need to, as I said before, train staff in the use and function and integration of the various types of technology.
  • Chris Gauthier
    #13 Chris Gauthier on 11 Oct 10
     
    I think Baltimore County is working towards this goal with implementing technology, but the biggest obstacle is that they do not keep up with the hardware needs. I speak to teachers in other buildings and they are using computers that we got rid of a few years ago. In order to be able to handle the technology of today, BCPS will have to buy computers in mass just like they did when Hairston came in as the superintendent and switched over from Apple to PC. In the new curriculums that I have seen, there is more technology being suggested as alternatives but that is mostly because not all schools have the same equipment available to them. BCPS will have to work that all schools have the same equipment available to them before they can seriously expect teachers to integrate technology on a regular basis.
  • john kucharski
    #14 john kucharski on 12 Oct 10
     
    Just try to watch this class assigned videos on your school computer at school. NOT. The county has a long way to align with the technology that is out there. They have not even update the last two operating systems from Microsoft. Why is WIKI introduced to most teachers just this year with little or no training? Or should we wait to see if the county aligns to another technology?
  • elizabeth bana
    #15 elizabeth bana on 13 Oct 10
     
    Is this something I should know? As I sit here typing this, I have absolutely no idea what Baltimore County's vision is for technology integration. The only technology I use, I haved learned from other teachers. I also find that teachers are usually hesitant to try something out at first because they are worried about how it will actually work in the class. But, I have to repeat a previous - it is hard to integrate technology when I don't teach in a computer lab and the computers I do have access to don't always work. However, if you do want to integrate technology more you need to change the curriculum and make it more technology based.

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