Promising+ideas+and+practices

=Agenda Item 2 - Promising Practices= Back

=Philosophy/Principles=
 * Ethical behaviors /citizenship as a key element. Possible overarching element.
 * Approach ethical behavior as a community responsibility
 * Cybersafety
 * Netiquette
 * Ethical compass [[file:ISTECompass.pdf]]
 * Articulate "Transformational"
 * Use 3 Cs
 * **C**reate
 * **C**ollaborate
 * **C**ommunicate
 * Consider **C**ontent as the fourth C
 * Considerations related to student learning
 * Quality (ensure the use of tech doesn't result in poorer content)
 * Facilitating learning - learning styles
 * Ongoing nature of learning across grade levels over K-12 continuum
 * Maintain focus on core-content - established learning outcomes (standards)
 * Always evolving
 * Purposeful
 * Open to new ideas/input

=Promising Practices=

= = == = = =Tools and Resources=
 * Identify RVIS as a tech school
 * Consider professional learning needs and faculty at all levels of development
 * Build a sense of collective efficacy
 * Consider the potential of the implementation continuum models
 * Early adopters
 * Transformers
 * Resistant / Afraid / Resistant / Uncomfortable
 * 4 steps in using new tech
 * Awareness and exploration
 * Practice (for own use)
 * Professional model (use in a professional context)
 * Invention (Modify and adapt)
 * Learning community - dynamic and including various types of support
 * Parent learning
 * Accepting of new ideas (developments / from new teachers)
 * Visual models
 * Articulate roles
 * Other schools' models
 * Code of conduct/digital compass
 * Google docs and apps
 * E-portfolios
 * Communication tools
 * Establishing the need for the tool - justification filter
 * Support network
 * Inquiry framework - schoolwide - CONSCIOUS DELIBERATE INFORMED PURPOSEFUL decision making about WHAT and HOW to use tools for learning
 * [|www.K-12onlineconcerecr.org]

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