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Through a partnership with Google for Education, the education nonprofit Digital Promise seems to have found success in tackling what it says is among the foremost issues in education today \u2014 the “digital use divide.”<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the two partners released a report outlining the results of the Dynamic Learning Project <\/a> , a teacher-coaching program piloted in 50 low-income schools across Alabama, California, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas last year. The report found that instructional coaching \u2014 the process of teaching the teacher \u2014 paid dividends for teachers who might have struggled to otherwise integrate technology into their classroom.<\/p>\n

Each school was specially selected by Google and Digital Promise based on interest from faculty and the severity of its \u201cdigital use divide,” or the skill of its faculty in utilizing the technology available to them.<\/p>\n

Each school chosen for the project had adequate technology available to its teachers, but inadequate training or integration between the tools and the curriculum to actually justify the \u201cuse\u201d of a 21st century lesson plan, said Aubrey Francisco, chief research officer of Digital Promise, and Liz Anderson, head of social impact programs at Google for Education.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first [divide] level is whether students have access to tools, and the second level is about how those tools are actually being used in the classroom,\u201d Anderson said.<\/p>\n

Anderson wanted to see if, by providing coaching to teachers in low-income communities, her team and Digital Promise could increase teachers’ confidence, build their skills and tap into the value of the technology tools that their schools have already invested in.<\/p>\n

With funding from Google for Education, the project sponsored 50 instructional technology coaches, or DLP coaches, for one year. The coaches \u2014 many of whom were previously employees at their respective schools prior to the project \u2014 essentially became resident technology experts that the schools otherwise would not have had the resources or ability to provide.<\/p>\n

Teachers took advantage of the free expertise from the coaches, who themselves were mentored by Google throughout the year. Working with around 10 teachers over an eight-week instructional period, the coaches first identified specific challenges that educators faced with classroom technology, while brainstorming potential solutions \u2014 tech-based or otherwise. Over the subsequent eight weeks, coaches observed, assisted and co-taught lessons empowering the lead teacher in his or her use of technology \u2014 a strategy that Anderson and Francisco said works well.<\/p>\n

While the process could be considered personalized learning for teachers, it\u2019s not just about learning how to turn on a new Smartboard or use a new software program on a tablet. In one 7th-grade history class, a teacher turned a news literacy lesson involving a decidedly non-digital form of media \u2014 newspapers \u2014 into a multimedia-based group project, in which students showcased online research, design and critical thinking skills to build their own newspaper as a classroom.<\/p>\n

The project seems to have worked. A year later, Anderson and Francisco are adding 36 new schools while retaining 44 of the original 50, and more than 80 percent of DLP teachers agreed that they\u2019re more capable of using technology to boost student collaboration, creativity, communication, critical thinking, agency and more skills throughout the instructional cycle.<\/p>\n

Schools interested in participating next year are encouraged to apply on Digital Promise’s website. While Google will not fund the coaches as it did in the project\u2019s inaugural year, it will continue to provide mentorship and support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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