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Mission Possible: Building the Digital Launchpad for Our Schools

Mission Possible: Building the Digital Launchpad for Our Schools. IT & Instructional Services Design Challenge San Mateo County iZone June 9, 2014. Breakfast Activity: Place Your Dots on the Wheel. Directions : 1/ Fill out your worksheet. 2/ Place your dots on the wheel .

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Mission Possible: Building the Digital Launchpad for Our Schools

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  1. Mission Possible: Building the Digital Launchpad for Our Schools IT & Instructional Services Design Challenge San Mateo County iZone June 9, 2014

  2. Breakfast Activity: Place Your Dots on the Wheel Directions: 1/ Fill out your worksheet. 2/ Place your dots on the wheel. Green = Things we’re good at Yellow = Needs work but we have a plan Red = Don’t know where to start! * Dots should be labeled with your assigned district #

  3. Welcome

  4. Agenda • Welcome and Overview of Agenda • Warm-up Activity • Intro to the iZone Initiative • Design Challenge • Journey map • Group activity • Solution design • Next Steps

  5. #izonesmc Chatham House Rule When a meeting is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.

  6. I remember a time when… Warm-up Activity

  7. Introduction to the iZone

  8. Intro to the San Mateo County iZone What It Is Organized network of innovators who collaborate and share learning to bring digital learning to the classroom and transform education in our county Goals 1. Support improvement of San Mateo County 3rd grade proficiency from 58% reading at grade level currently to 80% by 2020 (coordinated with the Big Lift) 2. Support significant improvement in Algebra-readiness overall and closereadiness gaps among 8th grade subgroups 3. Support significant improvement in student engagement and motivation Who is Involved • Superintendent Campbell & SMCOE staff • Full Circle Fund members • County and local board members • Silicon Valley Community Foundation

  9. 3 Strategic Initiatives 1. Digital Districts: Building the Infrastructure for Digital Learning • Completed study of district bandwidth capacity w/ Educ. Superhighway • Conducted needs assessments for SBAC pilot on computer-based testing 2. Developing Innovation and Learning Networks • Convened educators (January): 46 attendees • Convened broader community (February): 67 attendees • 21st Century design challenge (April): 80+ attendees 3. Learning Analytics • Secured funding to build a “Centerfor Learning Analytics” • Prototyping solutions for daily formative assessment & knowledge capture

  10. Design Challenge

  11. Map Your Journey Thank back over the past 12 months and chart important learning moments you have experienced. Pure Joy Great Distress 5 minutes on your own June 2013 June 2014

  12. Interview Notes and Synthesis Engage your partner in a discussion of their journey map. Dig for stories. Review what you’ve heard from your partner and synthesize. Note the highs and lows your partner experienced… What do you make of what you’ve heard? What are some needs you might design around? 5 minutes each for sharing 5 minutes on your own

  13. Collective Problems and Opportunities

  14. Voting for Top Issues Vote for the priority issue(s) or problem(s) that you think are most likely to succeed or achieve a break-throughif it were tackled collectively. You have 3 votes.

  15. Solution Design • Choose the issue that most interests you and form a team with 4-6 members. Diverse teams are more creative. If there are more people, form two teams.

  16. Framing the ChallengeHow Might We… use space intentionally?

  17. Fluid space: the life of a d.school studio in 2 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYYIWN5Qqsc&list=PLgf6G0I0euDBoN0Uu5ONaunbsUXc8JJ_a&index=3

  18. Frame the ProblemHow Might We… • make goals, milestones and benchmarks accessible to students, real-time? • use homework to collect daily data? • archive and share data, student work across districts and community services?

  19. Yes, and…

  20. Team Design Challenge • 5 min - Each team member creates a How Might We… for your problem space. • 5 min - Pick/combine 1 for team to work on. Write HMW on big post it. • 10 min - Use post-its or whiteboard to brainstorm 100 ideas. • 5 min - Pick 1 to Prototype • 20 min - Build / Sketch out / Act out 1 Idea

  21. 100 Ideas • Suspend judgment • Build on ideas of others • Encourage wild ideas • Be visual

  22. Prototype • Build • Sketch out. • Act out.

  23. Report-Out & Group Discussion

  24. Where Do We Go From Here?

  25. Next Steps • Help us define the need for potential funders and partners • Respond to short survey that will be emailed to you • Send us your tech plan/blended learning plan 2. Keep working on your team’s issue 3. Join the iZone • Digital Design Team—meeting June 24th12pm • Innovation & Learning Team—meeting June 12th2pm

  26. Contacts Digital Districts Team: Rod Hsiao, rodhsiao@yahoo.com Innovation & Learning Networks Team: Nakeyshia Kendall, njkendall@gmail.com Rebecca Vydunya,rvyduna@smcoe.org izone: Kim Jacobson, kimjacobson@dschool.stanford.edu

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