March+4+2010


 * ISB 21 Team Meeting Agenda **

Timekeeper: Tara || Recorder: Dennis || Purpose: Understanding = U Informing = I Recommending = R Deciding = D ||
 * Date: Thursday, March 4, 2010 || Starting/ Ending Time:7:30 – 8:30 || Place: EdTech ||
 * Facilitator: Jeff

Participants: Tara, Jeff, Kim, Chad, Rob, Dennis, Ida

Share anything interesting that happened last week. || Round Robin Touching Base || All/10 mins || 15 mins ||
 * **Task** || **P** || **Guiding Questions** || **Background/ Process** || **Person/Time** ||  ||
 * **Warm-up** || I || //How was last week?//
 * **Team Goal** || D || Debrief from ASB Unplugged
 * What did we learn?
 * What are our next steps? || Sharing highlights || Kim & Chrissy
 * **Book Club** || D || Team Goal: Next Steps:
 * IETP for Teachers
 * 1:1 Implementation in grade 6
 * [] || Strategize || All/20 mins ||
 * **Observation** || I || //What did we see regarding teacher anxiety and misconceptions about school tools?// || Round Robin || Jeff/10 mins ||
 * **Closure** || I || //How well did today's meeting go?// ||  || Tara/5 mins ||


 * Minutes**


 * Magic**
 * Blogging in HS has been good opportunity to talk to students (and teachers) about controlling their online profile
 * Rob's e-Reader project with Brad's class is a good look at annotating and reading an electronic text.
 * Students will reflect on the process, their learning, and experience with e-Reader
 * Using Microsoft reader
 * Optional "experiment" for students - one parent doesn't want child reading that much online text
 * Jeff and Kim had a successful Parent Coffee morning
 * Frustration from a HS parent (formerly at SAS) that there isn't consistency in PantherNet use
 * Great talk of positive use and learning at school of Facebook
 * Chrissy and grade 5 team doing podcasts for next history unit
 * The "detention" given to MS students after Facebook incidents was very positive learning
 * "Granny Principle" is a good guideline for students


 * ASB Debrief**
 * All stakeholders need to be involved including students and parents
 * A combined committee that can survey and build common language and distribute understanding and impetus for change
 * Example questions on survey of teachers
 * Demographics
 * Value and appreciation of 21st Cent Skills
 * Attitudes and values that you care up
 * Personal Technology Literacy
 * Professional Practice
 * applications of tech in classroom
 * communication tools
 * Pedagogical approaches
 * What are students doing
 * Perceived benefits and concerns
 * Professional Learning networks
 * How do they learn?
 * What resources do they have, use, need?
 * Describe their learning style
 * What type of training works best
 * Very powerful to see tech people with their admin attending and able to discuss implications on their own school
 * 1:1 needs to be leadership driven not from the tech team
 * Project Based Learning needs to be in place to really make 1:1 successful - otherwise it's just pulled out when next task comes up
 * Surprisingly, classroom use at ASB despite 6 years, is still at new or "playing" level
 * Pedagogy needs to be the focus
 * Make it transparent what we want to see, not just that it's a 1:1 laptop program
 * What are the learning outcomes - the changes in learning and pedagogy

Anxiety
 * In ES there is anxiety on where the school is going with class blog expectations
 * Need to know how to do it and what information would go there
 * In some faculty there is a feeling/misconception that if they aren't keeping up with tech, then they might be considered deficient