netp5.0productivity


 * NETP 5.0 Productivity**

5.0 Productivity Our education system at all levels will redesign processes and structures to take advantage of the power of technology to improve learning outcomes while making more efficient use of time, money, and staff. To meet this goal, we recommend the following actions: 5.1 Develop and adopt a common definition of productivity in education and more relevant and meaningful measures of learning outcomes and costs.

Study from "enlightened enterprises" what "true bottom line" outcomes are important for commerce and the economy. From that, schools might start looking at learning outcomes differently, some of this already at play in the new standards.

5.2 Improve policies and use technology to manage costs including those for procurement.

What costs now can technology reduce i.e. PDF and mobile devices, open access content and the like rather than textbooks; virtual meetings and web-cams for field trips &c? What public relations does the district need to overcome community reluctance or resistance from familiar conveyances.

5.3 Fund the development and use of interoperability standards for content, student learning data, and financial data to enable collecting, sharing, and analyzing data to improve decision-making at all levels of our education system.

National, or international standards would facilitate interoperability, but "local control" is something many folks are willing to pay for with inefficiencies, needless redundancy or achievement gaps.

What open source data collection, sharing and analyzing tools are available now?

5.4 Rethink basic assumptions in our education system that inhibit leveraging technology to improve learning, starting with our current practice of organizing student and educator learning around seat time instead of the demonstration of competencies.

Like seat time for students, there is an analogy for salaries for educators. If tech saavy staff are wiling to create and join virtual communities, at what point to they push back on "required" on-line time? Does replacing "on-line time" with seat time do any better if we can't show that the learning is "better"?

5.5 Design, implement, and evaluate technology-powered programs and interventions to ensure that students progress through our K-16 education system and emerge prepared for the workplace and citizenship.

The draft brings up that "A complex set of person and academic factors underlie students' decision to leave school or to disengage from learning, but support should start as early as possible, before children enter school, and should become intensified for those students who need it as they move through school."

How can we use technological landscapes and virtual worlds to engage early learners for "college and career readiness"?

[with Kelly] costs equity what is the performance- then be rewarded engage students in learning loose kids early interventions and implementation support family learning- positive, involved in early intervention, engagement in the chair text books versus mobile devices travel and field trip costs web cam and class to class or peer to peer scheduling for seat and class time- meet kids from another time zone salaries- if I develop content, how can I be reimbursed or being willing to share knowledge and build in time and effort help me be productive- can't have seat time norm then can't have set salary as compensation for teachers