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ITRT Mini-Conference: ITRTs Just Keep On Rockin'
July 25, 2008

//Strategies for the Non-Choir: ITRTs Helping Pass the SOLS WITH Technology//
Presentation by Karen Richardson media type="custom" key="1080633"

Keep It Simple:
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Make It Relevant:
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Let's start with Rogers' //[|Diffusions of Innovations:]//

Different **adopter categories** are identified as: 
 * **innovators** (venturesome): You
 * **early adopters** (respectable): The Choir
 * **early majority** (deliberate): Sitting Closer to the Front But May Not Be Singing
 * **late majority** (skeptical): Main Non-Choir Members
 * **laggards** (traditional): Keep trying but don't expend too much energy.

The early majority and late majority make up 68% of the population. Here's what they want to know about technology:
 * **relative advantage**: why is it better than what it is replacing?
 * **compatibility**: how consistent is it with what they already do?
 * **complexity**: how hard is it to use?
 * **trialability**: can it be tried out without making a huge commitment?
 * **observability**: will they be able to see the results?

Inspiration/Kidspiration


 * **relative advantage**: why is it better than what it is replacing?
 * pictures, words AND audio (differentiate for learners)
 * uses all the learning styles
 * switches from diagram/outline
 * link to other stuff
 * can mess up and try without redoing the whole thing
 * easily changed and adapted
 * helps them review for the SOLs
 * **compatibility**: how consistent is it with what they already do?
 * already using mind mapping: nonlinguistic representation
 * **complexity**: how hard is it to use?
 * teach you to use it in five minutes
 * templates
 * **trialability**: can it be tried out without making a huge commitment?
 * **observability**: will they be able to see the results? more peer teaching, students will be more willing to help each other, be able to read it,

Clickers: 
 * **relative advantage**: why is it better than what it is replacing?
 * saves time, saves paper, easily export student reports for students and parents with item analysis, does data calculations for you, sets up groups for differentiation, pre-test/post-test, it's fun and engaging, appeals most students, anonymity,
 * **compatibility**: how consistent is it with what they already do?
 * testing, surveys, quizzes, polling the room, grading papers, class participation, attendance, looking at results (sorting your graded papers), being able to analyze data easily and quickly
 * **complexity**: how hard is it to use?
 * choose your system wisely, demonstrating, turn it over them gradually, input the information for them (student info, paper test info, tests across the grade level)
 * **trialability**: can it be tried out without making a huge commitment?
 * **observability**: will they be able to see the results?

 A New Model: Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge


=Playing the Game:=

//Marzano's Strategies://

 * 1) Identifying similarities and differences
 * 2) Summarizing and note taking
 * 3) Reinforcing effort and providing recognition
 * 4) Homework and practice
 * 5) Nonlinguistic representations
 * 6) Cooperative learning
 * 7) Setting objectives and providing feedback
 * 8) Generating and testing hypotheses
 * 9) Cues, questions, and advance organizers

//Engauge Range of Use Technologies://

 * 1) Drill & Practice
 * 2) Intergrated Learning Systems
 * 3) Productivity Tools
 * 4) eCommunications, Video/Audio/Data, Online Environments
 * 5) Online Research
 * 6) Expression and Visualization
 * 7) Simulations
 * 8) Problem Solving With Real Data Sets

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