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June 2019
Smoothing the Transition to Online Testing for Students with - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Smoothing the Transition to Online Testing for Students with - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Smoothing the Transition to Online Testing for Students with Limited Technology Skills Michigan Technology Readiness Infrastructure Grant June 2019 The Big Picture School tech readiness precedes student tech readiness. Schools cannot
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TRIG Intended Purpose
- 1. Develop and implement
collaborative purchasing arrangements
- 2. Establish sustainable, cost-effective
collaborations of technology and data-related services
- 3. Build the school and district
capacity for online assessments and “Any Time, Any Place, Any Way, Any Pace” learning To empower every student in Michigan to excel at next generation assessments, to leverage technology for learning, and to achieve lifetime success in a global economy
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Funding
- $160 million over 4 years
- Data, devices, and starting
collaborations
- Estimated leverage: +$300 million
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Collaboration
- All projects run by regional
consortiums
- It is not “the state’s program”
- It is a state-funded local and regional
collaboration
- Set up forums for communication and
collaboration, participate but do not control
(example: tech coordinators listserv)
https://www.gomaisa.org/organizations/michigan-collaboration-hub-mi-ch/
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Activities
- MTRAx (readiness measurement)
- Device Purchasing (statewide bid)
- Strategic Readiness Support
- Targeted Site Transformation
- State Education Network
- E-Rate
- Data Integration
- Data Services Collaborative
- EduPaths (classroom readiness)
- MI Open Book
In the interest of time, we are going to talk about only the first half of these. For far more detail:
- http://22itrig.org/
- http://www.techplan.org/te
chnology-readiness/
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MTRAx
- Online tool to measure readiness
- Enter your school’s hardware and
software, outputs a score for instructional and assessment readiness
- Measuring where we are, where we
have needs
- Good data when required; hard to
maintain without carrot/stick
- New, better versions of program
https://mtrax.org/
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Device Purchasing (“SPOT Bid”)
- Statewide RFP
- One statewide request for hardware
and software prices that any school in the state can use
- $27 million in incentive funds
- Better prices through bulk buying
- Better data through known purchases
- Sustained through 1% administrative
fee
https://www.remcsave.org/
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Strategic Readiness Support
- Now that we know all this about
schools’ readiness, who needs help?
- Reserved pool of funds for high need
- Extra attention from state and
regional technical support
- Regional technology visits with vendor
support, “tiger teams” – help getting configured for online testing
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Targeted Site Transformation
- Reserved pool of funds to help a small
number of schools go to 1:1 devices
- Develop best practices to share
around the state
- Sustaining best practice guidance and
professional development, no money to keep funding 1:1 purchases
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State Education Network
- Enhance the fiber backbone across
the state
- Connect it to every intermediate
school district
- Deliver better bandwidth and
reliability
- Save money through bulk buying
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E-Rate
- Leverage federal funds
- Identify localities that are missing out
- n potential funds
- Provide state bureaucrat support on
grant requests
- Permanent E-Rate consultant position
at the Michigan Department of Education, quarterly committee meetings
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What should we have done more of?
- Promoting local training
- Digital literacy for teachers
- Intentional use of technology
You probably have 20 great ideas we could insert here. Hold onto those for Q&A time and discussing what you did in your state that worked well.
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If You Remember Only Three Things…
- Technology costs money
- Collaboration saves money
- State support can provide a
foundation for local success
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