Are you interested in helping your students:

• Build 21st century workforce skills?
• Understand and analyze data?
• Engage in authentic projects that provide marketable job skills?

If so, here is a great learning opportunity for you.  Application deadline:  May 2, 2014.   To download an application and performance assessment, please visit http://bit.ly/1kKvaYz or email Geocache.ate@gmail.com. 

WHAT:  A paid professional development opportunity to design a geospatial technology-integrated project based instructional unit or a Geospatial Semester course that may be offered for dual credit at your high school and MCC or NAU.

WHEN:  Monday, July 21, 2014 through Friday, July 25, 2014 (8am-4pm) at Mesa Community College

WHO:   Teachers who can demonstrate basic Esri ArcMap skills interested in learning how to teach students to use the technologies within a project-based instructional framework.

BENEFITS TO TEACHERS:

• High quality, professional learning experiences
• Some travel assistance to MCC in Mesa
• Up to $1,375 stipend for full participation in all project components
• Instructional and technical support as you implement
• Opportunities to work alongside high school and college faculty
• Opportunity for lab upgrades for your high school
• Opportunities to travel to the Esri Education User Conference in San Diego, CA

For more information contact:

Karen Blevins

  or

The Speak Up National Research project annually polls K-12 students, parents and educators about the role of technology for learning in and out of school and represents the largest collection of authentic, unfiltered stakeholder voice on digital learning.  For more information visist Speak Up 2013.  Arizona participants need to enter in the survey password: su4az to take the survey.

On October 28th,  Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow, shared the benefits of participation and presented data for Arizona.  To listen to her overall vision of SpeakUp and how the data can benefit Arizona schools, click here for a recording of the October 28, 2013 webinar.  

To see past Speak Up data for Arizona go to http://www.azed.gov/educational-technology/speak-up-survey/.

 Take a look at Arizona’s College and Career Ready Standards website.   There will be more support for the role of technology will be coming in January   2013.

SketchUpPro

SketchUp Pro 2014/15 educational lab licenses are offered at no cost for schools that participate in the statewide licensing grant program. In order to obtain the critical information to activate the licenses, complete this form request.  For more information, go to: SketchUp website and Knowledge Center for downloading, installing, and authorization instructions, training materials, getting started guides, video tutorials, and much more. 

Contact Chris Giles Chris.Giles@azed.gov

Technology Literacy Assessment Tools

ADE offers a free student and staff technology literacy assessment (suitable for 5th – 12th grades) – please contact the Ed Tech Department for more information 602-364-1349.

Accounts are created at http://arizonaitts.flinnovates.org site. You can begin by selecting the Demo District from the drop-down menu.  For assistance with creating your account, please email Lacey.Weiser@azed.gov  and request the start-up directions.

 Teacher Tech Assessment URL: http://arizonaitts.flinnovates.org

 Student Tech Assessment URL: http://arizonast2l.flinnovates.org

Assessing Technology Integration Resources

The Arizona Technology Integration Matrix – Classroom Level (ATIM – Classroom Level) was developed as part of a ARRA Title II-D competitive grant, through the Arizona K – 12 Center, to assist teachers and other educators in assessing the current level of technology integration that is occurring within a classroom. The matrix is accompanied with video clips and lesson plans to illustrate the different levels of technology integration.

• Arizona Technology Integration Matrix – Classroom Level

Additional tools to accompany the AzTIM are the:

 The Technology Integration Matrix Observation Tool (TIM-O) is a tool for guiding principals, teachers, and others through the process of evaluating the level of technology integration within a particular classroom. The TIM-O provides the user with a series of easily observable yes/no questions. When completed, the tool indicates a profile for the observed lesson in terms of the Technology Integration Matrix. For example, a lesson may be at the Infusion level on the Active spectrum, at the Adaptation level on the Collaborative spectrum, and so forth. With multiple observations, the TIM-O helps evaluators get a clear picture of the professional development needs of the teacher to support further technology integration.

Technology Comfort Measure (TCM) – The Technology Comfort Measure (TCM) is a thirty-five question self-assessment for teachers. The TCM presents teachers with a series of pairs of photographs depicting different ways of using technology in the classroom. For each pair, the teacher is asked to choose the scenario with which he or she is most comfortable. Each photograph depicts a different level and characteristic of integration as described by the Technology Integration Matrix (TIM). After completion, the teacher is presented with an approximate profile in terms of the TIM and suggestions for professional development.

Once you have your username and password, click here to access the tools.