EDU120-SP12

Teachers deserve a chance to begin teaching at a school that holds high expectations. Yet they are often required neither to prove proficiency in technology nor to practice the use of it in their classrooms.

The teachers would become capable technology users who would understand that the opportunities that instructional technology affords can make the practice of teaching more efficient.

Basic Computer/Technology Operations and Concepts.

Personal and Professional Use of Technology.

Application of Technology in Instruction

chool districts spend millions of dollars each year on technology for the classroom. That hardware and software has the potential to save time in the area of administrative duties as well as to significantly impact student learning when integrated into an existing curriculum. 

he obvious key to technology’s successful implementation in schools is training and support. This is not an earth-shattering revelation. The first problem is that new staff members are not receiving even the minimum amounts of training they need to successfully utilize existing technologies beyond the lowest levels of use. In addition, these new teachers are not provided with any long-term support system to aid them in reflection or continued growth.  Even veteran teachers are already overburdened with duties and often reluctant to take on more new challenges.

Always have engaging activities on hand to keep your students on task and learning. Students will misbehave if they have nothing to do, don’t give them the opportunity to be bored. Technology is a great way to fill those extra minutes with critical thinking and problem solving activities.

A good teacher is continually learning. Technology makes it easy to extend your learning by offering professional development on demand. Professional development will keep your teaching fresh, current, and will remind you of what it is like to learn something new. Teachers who are continually learning make empathetic teachers, they understand how frustrating it can be to learn something for the first time.

When students are using technology as a tool or a support for communicating with others, they are in an active role rather than the passive role of recipient of information transmitted by a teacher, textbook, or broadcast. The student is actively making choices about how to generate, obtain, manipulate, or display information.

Another effect of technology cited by a great majority of teachers is an increased inclination on the part of students to work cooperatively and to provide peer tutoring

The first time you create a map on Target Map it is reviewed for quality before it is added to the public gallery.

it provides a good way for visual learners to see data sets in a context that is significantly different from standard data sets.

World Map is designed to enable creation, visualization, and exploration of geographically referenced information. In other words, you can build some great mapped data visualizations on the service.

The rapid and constant pace of change in technology is creating both opportunities and challenges for schools.

The rapid and constant pace of change in technology is creating both

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We know this to be true because prior to technology in education students still learned and passed tests

Many say that students can learn content without technology in the classroom

87% of teens use the Internet (Lenhart, 2005)

The newest technology to enter the education arena, however, is the interactive whiteboard, or SMART Board. These combine multimedia functions with internet access and offer educational, interactive programs for teachers and students.

But the pitfalls of too much technology in the classroom are quickly becoming evident. For children, the drawbacks of technology in general, and of the internet in particular, have resulted in cyber bullying and the threat of sexual predators.  Daily newscasts provide a quick glimpse of the perils of technology and in the classroom it can be no less treacherous.

r research, which is often its purpose, much time is wasted sifting through the numerous websites for the one that offers the most relevant information

Technology is helping teachers to expand beyond linear, text-based learning and to engage students who learn best in other ways. Its role in schools has evolved from a contained “computer class” into a versatile learning tool that could change how we demonstrate concepts, assign projects and assess progress.

technologies as tools for the production and delivery of modes of writing/communication

offers a wide variety of support on the effective use of technology in the classroom to increase student academic gains. 

technology integration support tools, approves technology plans,  supports the E-Rate process, provides online professional development and digital resources, and guides the work of  the Statewide Instructional Technology Project (SIT).