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interesting blog post by a teacher who integrates cell phones and iPods into the curriculum. From her vantage point, benefits outweigh distractions

a searchable group of apps based on device, grade level, Blooms, price - well maintained site!

This article makes a good point that I think I have missed sometimes in working with faculty. Before we encourage faculty new to Instructional Technology to use 21st Century technology as part of their curriculum we should encourage them to be participants in the technology. We should encourage them to subscribe to a blog/wiki/Podcast and be a participant so that they can better understand the tools usefulness in learning before they integrate it into their curriculum.

Some good steps. I think she missed the first step which is to define the need for the technology in the first place - what are the teaching/learning goals that will be satisfied/transformed through the integration of technology. Too often we start with the technology and forget the fundamentals of pedagogy.

Based on the book, Understanding by Design (Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe) this article summarizes the process of designing courses as "backward process." The process has 3 basic steps - 1) Identify desired results, 2)Determine Acceptable Evidence, and 3) Plan Learning Experiences