The Transformation Toolkit: Table of Contents

Give One Get One Icebreaker. This opening activity provides participants with an opportunity to get to know each other while exploring how integrating technology into the instructional program can enhance learning for all students.

Technology Shared Language Activity. This activity provides participants with the background knowledge and shared vocabulary necessary to meaningfully participate in the technology visioning and planning activities.

Introduction to Learning Ecosystem Map. It is important that participants become very familiar with the Learning Ecosystem map. This activity provides an opportunity for participants to explore the map in depth, reflect on the interdependent components and discover new ideas and practices.

Generational Perspectives Activity. This activity provides participants with the opportunity to share responses to focus questions that reflect the perspective of generational groups.

Stakeholder (People Wheel) Activity. Assuming that the ultimate goal of stakeholders in School 2.0 is to design the "next generation of school" that ultimately prepares students for the 21st Century, this activity provides an opportunity for all participants to understand the perspectives of the different stakeholder groups in a school community.

Process Areas Activity. Using the results from the People Wheel activity, participants will look to the future by brainstorming on ways technology can help meet stakeholders' needs in each of the five process areas: communication, collaboration, content, assessment and evaluation, and creation.

TechTacks Activity. This activity provides participants with the opportunity to use what they have learned in the previous activities to create a technology-equipped 21st Century classroom.

Technology Visioning Process. Through the use of the "nominal group technique," this visioning activity provides participants the opportunity to use background knowledge and newly acquired information from the preceeding activities to draft an instructional vision for their district or school that includes the integration of technology.

Give One Get One for Technology Administrators and Principals. This activity sets the stage for chief technology officers, directors of technology, principals, lead technology specialists, and central office instructional and support staff to participate in writing a vision statement for their district.

Challenge Scenarios. In this activity, participants respond to common technology challenges faced by school staff and communities, central office, and school-based administrators. A detailed scenario of the challenge is summarized for participants before they begin a three-step problem-solving process of: (1) collaboratively answering questions based on the scenario, (2) consulting provided resources to gain a depth of knowledge and analyzing their first response to the questions, and (3) changing their answers based on new information. This process assists participants in honing their background knowledge and supports future planning and the implementation of their developed vision.

Strategic Technology and Implementation Planning. This activity provides a foundation for the technology planning process. It allows participants to gain the information and background knowledge necessary to begin their own process for developing their strategic technology planning. After creating a strategic technology plan, participants use this activity to develop an implementation plan that supports the technology vision and sets their strategic plan in motion.