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Heather Humphries

Differentiated Instruction: Getting Personal with Technology - 4 views

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    This is a great example of using computers and technology to create differentiated learning within one classroom.
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    This is a wonderful article raising the concerns of using technology with children of such a young age (when it discusses kindergarten use pixie). I believe instruction with technology has drastically changed and is getting better for its actual purpose in the classroom. Other than something fun for the students to play with.
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    As a special education major, this article really relates to daily activities I can experience in the classroom. Technology gives special education teachers an opportunity to watch students learn on their own at their own levels, rather than teaching at an intermediate level where all kids can learn.
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    I so enjoyed reading this article about new ideas of learning with students. It is imperative that we, as future teachers, learn to engage students where they are at and also where they are going. It's incredible to think how fast computers and technology have changed our lives, however this fast-paced world of new gizmos and gadgets is the "norm" for our students. When the article talked about, "The school hardly seems like it would be ground zero for high-tech educational innovation. It occupies a clean but unremarkable building on a quiet wooded street near a seemingly endless series of strip malls. Many of the teachers, and almost the entire corps of key technology leaders, are older women -- not your stereotypical technology mavens. Yet these veteran educators are living proof that success lies not in the flashiness of the gizmos you have but in how well you use them." It will be critical that we keep up with the ever-changing types of technology so that we can best serve our students.
Ariel Bobbitt

Education Week: The Rise of the Tech-Powered Teacher - 1 views

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    This article is about Khan Academy trying to help provide teachers provide more differentiated instruction by using this technology.
Lori Lacey

Technology Integration for Elementary Schools - 2 views

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      I thought this article was very interesting. There are some helpful hint to sharing technology with the students. The point that stood out for me was that we as educators need to give the children the tools they need to have good hands on experiences to enhance their learning.
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    This site has got some great articles on intergrating technology in the classroom. This one in particular gives some useful tips when setting up your classroom instruction.
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    This article gives great insight into what can actually be accomplished in an elementary school setting. I thought this article was interesting and informative.
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    I liked this article because it had cute ideas for integrating technology into early education. Its hard as an early childhood major to use technology cause you do not want to affect their development or make class more difficult, but i liked these ideas.
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    I think as an Early Childhood Major it is hard to incorporate technology in the classroom not only because you don't want to affect their development but, I know that when I was in K-3 we went to a computer lab had completely different lessons that we did in a classroom. It related to the lessons but, it was taught by a different teacher.
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    I really loved this article. Not only did it talk about technology for classrooms, but it gave real examples of how it was being used in schools. It is difficult sometimes to be creative but getting feedback and seeing how others are using it, can be extremely helpful! As I am on my way to earning my ECE degree, I look for these types of examples to start to get ideas for my own classroom and how I will work with students.
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    I loved the example about the teacher who would comment on all of the students' blogs, and by the end of the year, the students could carry the discussions on their own. That just shows us as educators that students do have the ability to learn technology.
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    This was very interesting. I found it a little funny when I saw the word relax but it is true that if you let students have the feeling that these valuable tools are theirs then they will take care of them. I feel for most children, who are taught to be careful with valuable things, this will be the case. Although, there are some kids who are never taught that nor taught respect for others things because they are just taught to be selfish. As a teacher this would be you job to show them that they need to care for valuable things and respect others property along with your own.
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    I thought this article was very interesting. Students do have the ability to continue the use of technology with out the guidance of teachers, as this article points out.
Kellie Demmler

How Educators Use Pinterest for Curation | MindShift - 0 views

  • drawn red-hot excitement for its unique visual, topic-based curation approach
  • create a densely packed visual scrapbook of public and street art to identify themes that would have easily been missed had they gathered individual photos in a folder
  • to show good design work to her media design classes
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  • share visual material for collaborations and peer critique
  • one of the main applications for Pinterest
  • social curation journalism is
  • students use Pinterest as part of a “social photography” assignment
  • assigned students in a “writing for the web” class to produce stories for their Doing It Downtown blog to use Pinterest as a curation tool for visuals, while using Storify for social media and Spotify or LastFM for music.
  • “I teach Pinterest as a visual ‘SPACE,’”
  • S is for sourcing story ideas and trending topics; P is for promotion and publishing students’ work. A is for aggregation of pictures (with suitable copyright); C is for curating top news, and E is for engaging with others.”
  • Pinterest is not without its drawbacks. Not all students, especially males, find it equally intriguing
  • But the big issue some are warning about with Pinterest has to do with its copyright policy regarding the images users pin.
  • Lawyer and amateur photographer Kirsten Kowalski likened it to Napster due to the liability its terms of service and copyright policies create for users of the site
  • Pinterest issued a statement on March 15 suggesting that, like YouTube and other social media sharing sites, it is “protected under the safe harbor of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (PDF),” and also tries to respond promptly to any copyright violation concerns.
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    Looking to add visual interest to your lesson? Pinterest may be your solution! The article suggests ways in which this visual social media site can be used in the classroom and promotes SPACE - an acronym that helps students to remember the "best" uses for the site. This is interesting in terms of reaching students with varied learning styles and intelligences, developing creativity and higher order thinking, and more. However, like most tools the site does have its downfalls. It tends to be more engaging for females than males, which brings about an interesting gender debate. Its use also falls into fuzzy copyright issues - none of which are different from other social media sites. Check out the article & let me know what you think!
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    Until Pinterest addresses the nudity and pornography that can pop up on the "everything" catergory, I can't recommend this site for class projects. I've banned my own children from it (both of my daughters have a board on my own account) and wish desperately that I could unsee some of the images I've seen. It seems like copyright might be the least of their worries if lewd content continues to surface. It's really too bad - I have to agree that it could be great for group or individual projects.
samantha senalik

Technology Integration for Elementary Schools - 2 views

http://www.edutopia.org/stw-differentiated-instruction-technology-integration

started by samantha senalik on 18 May 12 no follow-up yet
Carley Figgins

THE Journal - 1 views

  • Challenge 1: professional development. Key among all challenges is the lack of adequate, ongoing professional development for teachers who are required to integrate new technologies into their classrooms yet who are unprepared or unable to understand new technologies.
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      Educators need to be trained or the students will not get the full benefits of technologies available in the classroom.
  • Challenge 2: resistance to change.
  • Challenge 4: delivering informal learning. Related to challenge 3, rigid lecture-and-test models of learning are failing to challenge students to experiment and engage in informal learning. But, according to the report, opportunities for such informal learning can be found in non-traditional classroom models, such as flipped classrooms, which allow for a blending of formal and informal learning.
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  • Challenge 3: MOOCs and other new models for schooling.
  • Challenge 5: failures of personalized learning. According to the report, there's a gap between the vision of delivering personalized, differentiated instruction and the technologies available to make this possible. So while K-12 teachers seem to see the need for personalized learning, they aren't being given the tools they need to accomplish it, or adequate tools simply don't exist.
  • Challenge 6: failure to use technology to deliver effective formative assessments.
  • However, there is still an assessment gap in how changes in curricula and new skill demands are implemented in education; schools do not always make necessary adjustments in assessment practices as a consequence of these changes.
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      Challenge #1 is definitely important for teachers who have been working in the education field for some time. I think it would be very hard to incorporate technology into learning if you haven't used any technology in the classroom for 15 years!
  • Challenge 1: professional development. K
  • Resistance to technology comes in many forms, but one of the key resistance challenges identified in the report is "comfort with the status quo.
    • Ashley Perry
       
      "Comfort with the atatus quo" imterested me a lot. As a teacher I plan on jumping on new and exciting ways to teach my students instead of settling with the norm.
  • significant challenges are preventing widespread effective implementation
  • challenges are systemic and some related to the technologies themselves,
  • Among those issues are challenges that represent significant constraints on the adoption of technology in education.
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      Technology in education to the degree it is being used is a fairly new concept and will come with some hesitation.
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    This article discusses the challenges of professional development, resistance to change, MOOCs and other new models for schooling, delivering informal learning, failures of personalized learning, and failure to use technology to deliver effective formative assessments. It also talks about emerging trends, opportunities, and technologies.
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    I liked this article because it clearly defines the challenges of technology use while teaching. It's concise and simple to understand.
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    This article examines a few of the same challenges I face personally with the use of technology in MY future classroom. As a fairly tech functional person, I fail to see the relevance of "high tech" in a math class. I am minimally accepting a few items, however, I personally this semester am struggling with a college math course because my own learning style cannot compute the excessive use of technology for a lower level math course. I love math and enjoy the challenges, but I fail to see how selecting one problem for a set and uploading a picture to BB for other students to correct is in any way useful.
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    From this article, I learned of the many challenges faced within educational technology. It lays out the challenges and makes it easier for an understanding of the challenges faced. Each challenge makes it easier for these challenges to become over turned.
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    This article definitely asks some good questions but I'm not sure that they answered all of the completely. There is a lot that needs to go into an online classroom like the teachers need to have a completely different type of training if they are going to teach online and not in the classroom. how do you keep a child engaged when they are not right there with you? Also the student needs to have the ambition to do the work. I know for myself that having online classes is not an option because I become distracted and for a teen or younger the number of distraction in the world is countless.
Lindsay Pasco

6 Technology Challenges Facing Education -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • Challenge 1: professional development. Key among all challenges is the lack of adequate, ongoing professional development for teachers who are required to integrate new technologies into their classrooms yet who are unprepared or unable to understand new technologies.
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      I think that it is important to know and understand the challenges with technology in the education field. I think that this is important because it can help to keep those challenges minimal in the classroom. I think it is important that the students do not become too dependent on technology.
  • Challenge 2: resistance to change. Resistance to technology comes in many forms, but one of the key resistance challenges identified in the report is "comfort with the status quo."
  • According to the researchers, teachers and school leaders often see technological experimentation as outside the scope of their job descriptions.
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  • Challenge 3: MOOCs and other new models for schooling.
  • Challenge 4: delivering informal learning. Related to challenge 3, rigid lecture-and-test models of learning are failing to challenge students to experiment and engage in informal learning. But, according to the report, opportunities for such informal learning can be found in non-traditional classroom models, such as flipped classrooms, which allow for a blending of formal and informal learning.
  • Challenge 5: failures of personalized learning. According to the report, there's a gap between the vision of delivering personalized, differentiated instruction and the technologies available to make this possible.
  • Challenge 6: failure to use technology to deliver effective formative assessments.
  • However, there is still an assessment gap in how changes in curricula and new skill demands are implemented in education; schools do not always make necessary adjustments in assessment practices as a consequence of these changes. Simple applications of digital media tools, like webcams that allow non-disruptive peer observation, offer considerable promise in giving teachers timely feedback they can use."
Sarah Clark

Worth the hype? - 1 views

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    Is educational technology use worth the hype? Is it a fad that is here to stay? What on earth is PathBrite? Find out in this article!
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    I found this article very interesting. I really enjoyed how it examines the ins and outs of whether or not educational technology is worth everything that it claims to be worth. I found it really useful and I really enjoyed reading it!
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    This is an interesting article. I really like that it said the education field is playing catch-up. I think with the number of teachers retiring on time due to the economy the new teachers are going to be able to change the world of technology in the education systems currently.
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    I like that this article talks about both sides of technology and everything its supposed to be. Very neat article
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    It is obvious that the hype for technology in classrooms is important, but the article does well to say that technology for students isn't the only important aspect to the new tools for students. Teachers need to know how to incorporate the technology into their teaching so that it isn't JUST the technology the students are learning from.
Breanne Crawford

Educational Leadership:Teaching Screenagers:Transforming Education with Technology - 1 views

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    This article addresses a lot of concerns and questions with technology in education. It talks about schools that have a device for every individual student as well as the challenge of students bringing their own devises from home. It also reiterates that teachers are very important in leading this shift into a more technological classroom and school environment and how teachers can learn also from each other and students. 
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    At first I didn't think I was going to find this article useful, but after reading through it, I really enjoyed it. I really like how it took a side that asked questions, but also addressed the concerns. I feel like this was a different way of examining the topic of educational technology.
Breanne Crawford

New Technology Helping Schools Achieve Individually Tailored Education - 0 views

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    I really liked this article because I have personally seen this type of positive technology use in the classroom. It is amazing how it can help every individual student whether they are gifted or struggling
Kellie Demmler

School of One boosts individual learning | Best Practices News | eSchoolNews.com - 0 views

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    A great example of disrupting class with technology! 
Jordan Griggs

What is the Most Innovative Use of Technology? | Digital Learning Environments - 5 views

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    Digital learning environment designed for differentiated education.
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    This article just makes it clear that the use of I-CAN is really a great tool for classrooms. This tool makes it easy for children to communicate with others and be independent with their own projects. It allows creativity and that is something we need more of in the classrooms.
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    I think the I-CAN technology seems really neat. It's like out Blackboard at oul but it also has job opportunity postings and is more tuned to the professional side of college students.
Kellie Demmler

Education Week: NYC Innovation Zone Tests Customized Digital Learning - 0 views

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    Interesting experiment on customized learning.  
Cody Sarensen

Technology and Multiple Intelligences - 1 views

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    More than one wag has pointed out that someone awakening from a 50 year nap in a school would think she had been asleep for a few years at most, long enough to see fashions change, but that's about it. Otherwise, schools would be pretty much the same as when she fell asleep a half-century ago.
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