Scott McLeod - Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning: (A Quick Guide to Educational Technology Integration and Digital Learning Spaces)

Solutions for Creating the Learning Spaces Students Deserve

Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning

Scott McLeod

Julie Graber

Copyright 2019 by Solution Tree Press

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: McLeod, Scott, 1968- author. | Graber, Julie, 1969- author.

Title: Harnessing technology for deeper learning / Scott McLeod and Julie Graber.

Description: Bloomington, IN : Solution Tree Press, [2018] | Series: Solutions series | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018020649 | ISBN 9781943874088 (perfect bound)

Subjects: LCSH: Educational technology. | Education--Effect of technological innovations on. | Education--Aims and objectives.

Classification: LCC LB1028.3 .M3985 2018 | DDC 371.33--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018020649

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To Betsy, Isabel, Lucas, and Colin, who put up with my shenanigans and without whom everything would be meaningless.

Scott

To Kendall, Erika, Austin, and Christian for encouraging me in all of my pursuits and inspiring me to follow my dreams. You are my world!

Julie

Acknowledgments

Scott and Julie would like to thank the thousands of educators who have helped us pilot, revise, and refine the 4 Shifts Protocol. Although our names are on the cover, this book belongs to all of us.

Solution Tree Press would like to thank the following reviewers:

Amber Akapnitis

Supervising Teacher of Academic Services

Phoenix Day School for the Deaf

Phoenix, Arizona

Stacey Cool

Technology Integration Specialist

Merced Union High School District

Atwater, California

Beth Downing

Technology Coach

Granville Intermediate School

Granville, Ohio

Amy Kochensparger

Science Teacher

Eaton High School

Eaton, Ohio

Katherine Mulrooney

Language Arts Teacher

Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Elementary School

Wilmington, Delaware

David Olson

Social Studies Teacher

James Madison Memorial High School

Madison, Wisconsin

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About the Authors

Scott McLeod, an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of Colorado Denver, is widely recognized as one of the United States leading experts in preK12 school technology leadership. He is the founding director of the University Council for Educational Administrations Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the only university center in the United States dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators. He is the co-creator of the Did You Know? (Shift Happens) video series and the 4 Shifts technology integration discussion protocol.

Scott has worked with hundreds of schools, districts, universities, and other organizations and has received numerous awards for his technology leadership work, including the 2016 Award for Outstanding Leadership from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). In 2015, he was one of three finalists to be the director of the Iowa Department of Education. In 2011, he was a visiting faculty fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Scott was one of the pivotal figures in Iowas grassroots one-to-one computing movement, which has resulted in more than 220 school districts providing their students with powerful learning devices, and he founded the annual Iowa 1:1 Institute and EdCampIowa.

Scott blogs regularly about technology leadership and shares numerous resources through his Digital Leadership Daily SMS service, Twitter account, blog, and other information channels. Scott is a frequent keynote speaker and workshop facilitator at regional, state, national, and international conferences. He has written over 170 articles and other publications, coauthored the book Different Schools for a Different World, and coedited What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media.

To learn more about Scotts work, visit his blog, Dangerously Irrelevant (http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org), or follow @mcleod on Twitter.

Julie Graber is an instructional technology consultant on a technology innovation team for Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency in Iowa where she supports educators with effective teaching, learning, leading, and technology practices. She is a passionate educator who is most interested in seeing teachers and administrators improve authentic learning opportunities for students. Her many areas of expertise include deeper thinking with technology, authentic learning, curriculum design, and performance tasks and assessments. Prior to Julie being a teaching, learning, and technology consultant, she spent thirteen years as a technology coordinator and business and computer teacher.

Julie is an Authentic Intellectual Work (AIW) coach and has coached elementary, middle, and high school teams of teachers on how to use the framework in order to increase the level of intellectual demand as well as the authenticity of the work that students are asked to do. She has served on several state leadership teams, including the North Central Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Hub Advisory Board and the Design Team for the Iowa Competency-Based Education Collaborative, and has provided guidance for schools to increase STEM education in their classrooms and move them toward competency-based and personalized learning. Julie is certified in the Instructional Practices Inventory and provides training for Defined STEM, a K12 curriculum resource with engaging project-based lessons on real-world scenarios. Jay McTighe, author and speaker, asked Julie to join his consulting group, McTighe and Associates, to conduct workshops for educators using the Understanding by Design curriculum framework. Julie is the co-creator of the 4 Shifts discussion protocol and a regular local, state, and national presenter focusing on authentic work and student-centered, personalized and project-based learning.