EdСrunch: Alexa Joyce, Microsoft
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This document summarizes Microsoft's vision and offerings for transforming education through technology. It discusses how Microsoft is delivering experiences that bring learning to life both in and out of the classroom, empowering educators, inspiring students, and helping institutions meet evolving needs. Microsoft aims to be partners in learning by providing the skills, communities, technologies and experiences needed to help every student achieve their potential. The document highlights how technology can impact communities through better education outcomes, an empowered knowledge economy, and entrepreneurial growth.
EdСrunch: Alexa Joyce, Microsoft
- 1. We are partners in learning. Alexa Joyce Director of Policy, Teaching & Learning, Worldwide Education
- 2. Helping Transform Education We are delivering services and experiences that bring learning to life in and out of the classroom and allow education leaders to reimagine how technology can modernize learning and improve learning outcomes. Inspiring Students We are providing the technology skills and support programs that can help students get prepared for their next step in life, whether the workforce or advancing their education. Supporting Educators We are empowering educators with the training, communities, technologies and experiences they need to succeed and to help every student achieve their greatest potential. Empowering Schools and Universities We help education institutions meet the evolving needs of education infrastructure by offering cost-effective IT products and technologies that help secure and manage the business of education, in the cloud and on premise. Microsoft in Education We are partners in learning.
- 4. How learning technology impacts communities Better education outcomes Empowers knowledge economy Enables entrepreneurial growth Higher GDP Tools and references in Microsoft EDU Digital Inclusion Model, 2014, //citynext
- 5. I am privileged in my role that I get a chance to travel the world and visit many countries. Almost everywhere I go I am either shown something transformative, or I am asked the question: Where or what have you seen that is transforming education? And in most part, the question is underpinned by a curiosity about how technology in particular, and often Microsoft technology is having a transformative effect. It is never an easy question to answer. In many ways we are still a long way from transformation. In many ways, access to technology has been part of the problem, and not only in the simplistic view that lack of technology is holding us back. Often, in places where there is ubiquitous access to technology, to devices, to services etc., it can be the dependence or blind faith in technology that sometimes holds us back. Technology can be a double-edged sword… Drivers of technology in the classroom Trends impacting teaching and learning
- 6. Drivers of technology in the classroom What do they mean for us? Learning beyond school walls and days Anytime anywhere learning, blended, online eContent, O365, cloud, apps Personalization Adapt pace, path, pedagogy Data, BI, adaptive content, PD Interactive Authentic Content Rich media, multiple means of engagement, creation Integrated O365 with apps, LMS, content, inking 21st Century Skills & Assessments Broader skills, digital collaborative assessment Tools and resources for collaboration, problem solving
- 8. Education for all centers on engagement
- 9. Current situation in virtual & blended learning
- 10. Enabling effective virtual & blended learning
- 11. Vision of Anytime Anywhere Learning for all Strategic Planning, Organizational Capacity and Sustainability Leadership and Policy Quality Assurance Partnerships for Employability Teacher and Leader Capacity Inclusion and Accessibility 21st Century Pedagogy Curriculum, Content, and Assessment Personalized Learning Learning Communities Technology for Efficient and Effective Schools Learning Environments
- 12. 12 Engaged Learners Build knowledge in personal learning networks Acquire higher order learning and 21st century skills Create media, build artifacts, develop authentic portfolios Apply feedback from teachers, peers, and experts
- 13. Learners engaged in doing and creating
- 14. 14 Engaging Learning Environments Learning complex content and skills Learning in games and designing games Learning through coding Learning in schools designed for today and tomorrow
- 15. Engaging learning environments 21st Century Skills Cloud Collaboration
- 16. Pen technology engages students Scientific evidence for touch/pen interface (The Design of Future Educational Interfaces, 2013, S. Oviatt) Increase the quantity and quality of ideas generated and problems solved Reduce cognitive load, allowing more attention to learning content Facilitate divergent thinking, a prime component in creativity Support learning by low performing students Support natural communication and thinking Allow psychomotor engagement, conceptual learning Reduce attention shifts among input and output, aiding students with learning disabilities Enable full richness of symbolic thought, all written languages and representations Help learners become experts in their own learning, a prime goal of 21st century schooling
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- 18. Teachers engaged in leading and creating
- 19. Why professional learning matters Expectations of graduates New learning environments Preservice & inservice preparation Impact on learning New skills and dispositions needed for college, career, and community Increasingly personalized, blended, digital Limited in time and agility to reflect new learning environments and pedagogies More time in collaborative PD = higher performing schools Students must be expert learners Increased complexity Limited budgets for training More focus on practice in PD = higher performing schools
- 20. 20 Engaging Pedagogy Learning time is the variable for each student Learning time expands with blended approaches, the world as the classroom Teaching capacity grows in personalized professional learning Assessment is embedded, relevant, and continuous
- 21. Pedagogy that engages anytime anywhere
- 22. Adapts to today’s student and who they are Prepares students with 21st Century skills Makes the lives of teachers easier The 21st Century Classroom
- 23. Making the lives of teachers easier • Creating interactive, personalized content • Providing to students in and beyond the classroom • Engaging teaching strategies and assessment: Apps • Ongoing collaborative professional learning Preparing students with 21st Century Skills • Communication and Collaboration • Critical problem solving and creativity • Global awareness • Personalized learning
- 24. Bing Word Excel OneNote DragonBox Mastery Assess Pearson Kno GGfl Geoboard Geogebra Wolfram Khan Academy Chronozoom Worldwide Telescope 3D Builder Movie Moments Fresh Paint Photosynth Nearpod Socrative NovaMind iXplain Yammer Skype Lync Office OneNote Kodu, Project Spark ITAcademy Visual Studio Classflow Edmodo Haiku Learning Desire2Learn
- 25. 21st Century Skills IDC 2013 Top 20 Skills Microsoft Products Microsoft Programs Collaborative problem- solving skills: Problem solving, Project management, Time management, Interpersonal skills Skype, OneDrive, Office Mix Partners in Learning, Faculty Connection Working together Office Office 365, games Shout.org, Imagine Cup, BizSpark, Kodu, DreamSpark Solving challenges Office, Detail oriented, Independence, Troubleshooting, Analytical Office 365, Bing for Schools Idea generating and sharing Office, Self-starting, Organization Office 365 Knowledge generating and sharing Communication skills, Office, Organization Office 365, Bing for Schools, Mathematics Resource creating and sharing Communication skills, Office, Self- starting, Organization Office 365, Visual Studio, Storyteller, 3D Builder, Movie Moments, Fresh Paint, media apps ICT literacy skills: Office Skype, OneDrive Learning through social networks Communication skills, Ethics Office 365 MS student blogs and forums ICT Literacy Office 365, Bing for Schools, Visual Studio, media apps IT Academy, MS Virtual Academy, MS Certification, Azure in Education Technological awareness Troubleshooting Bing for Schools, media apps YouthSpark, IT Academy Simulation Analytical Games, Visual Studio Imagine Cup IDC, http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/oct13/10-15skillspr.aspx DC Study: Top Skills Comparison. IDC Study: Top Skills Comparison - High-Growth/High-Wage Positions Versus All Occupations (Wanted Analytics and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Data, October 2013)
- 26. Why collaborate? Enables learners to more thoroughly think through topics Encourages exploration of alternative ideas and perspectives Stimulates critical thinking and helps learners to build on ideas through discussion Enables students in different places and geographies with an opportunity to work together— simulating the workplace of the future
- 27. What capabilities should collaboration tools enable? • Social Collaboration • Synchronous and asynchronous collaboration on any device • Peer review, polling, and feedback • Cross cultural and language interaction
- 28. What capabilities should personalized learning tools enable? New literacies, application of learning to novel contexts Data manipulation and visualization Comprehensive organizing and sharing for complex projects Content acquisition, assessment, workflow among groups and audiences
- 29. Microsoft personalized learning tools overview Goofygoober1 Affordances Tools New literacies, application of learning Word, PowerPoint, Office Mix, Story Author, 3D Builder, Movie Moments Data manipulation and visualization Excel, BI Comprehensive organizing and sharing OneNote Collaboration, assessment, workflow Exchange, Lync, SharePoint, OneDrive, Skype, Yammer Content acquisition Chronozoom, Bing in the Classroom
- 30. Personalized learning Student Scenario: Digital History Project Office Mix overview of local historic highlights from past century and essentials of personal history with brief comprehension checks of concepts. Content includes a video describing the personal history project with a local expert. Students identify a person who was born before 1950 and use Chronozoom to see the main events in the person's life. The students interview and collect media from the person using Skype, plan the history using NovaMind, create media using iXplain and Sketchbook, develop a chapter for the class local history book published using Story Author, and work with local historical society to enter the book in a history archive.
- 31. Personalized Teaching Teacher Scenario Microsoft Certified Educator professional learning courses help the teacher to learn technology tools and develop TPACK Office Mix content and quizzes are quickly created for individualized learning Project materials are organized and shared in the learning community using OneNote/OneDrive 21st Century Learning Design rubrics are used for student self assessment
- 32. Video – school 1:1 learning
- 33. For evidence and expert perspectives, look for the Microsoft in Education Transformation with Anytime Anywhere Learning for All papers and decks: • Vision for Anytime Anywhere Learning for All • Enabling Transformation with Strategic Planning, Organizational Capacity and Sustainability • Quality Assurance: Monitoring and Evaluation to Inform Practice and Leadership • Inclusion: Equitable Access and Accessibility • Public, Private, Community Partnerships for Employability • Curriculum, Content and Assessment for the Real World • Personalized Learning for Global Citizens • Learning Communities and Support • Building Leader and Educator Capacity for Transformation • Transforming Learning Environments for Anytime, Anywhere Learning for All • Designing Technology for Efficient and Effective Schools