Educational Technology Integration

As I shifted my classroom from teacher-centred to student-centred, my students began to do lots of their their own research. Sometimes this resulted in them teaching each other. Sometimes they created a project with the knowledge they were acquiring. But the bottom line was that their learning had a purpose that was apparent to them, beyond simply passing the unit exam. What was my role? I helped them learn to learn. I prompted them to reflect on their thinking and learning, while at the same time I shared my own journey as a learner. I helped them develop skills such as using research tools, finding and evaluating sources, and collaborating with their peers. My goal as a teacher shifted from information-giver and gatekeeper to someone who was determined to work myself out of a job by the time my students graduated.

A lecture by video is still a lecture.

My students need to be able to find and critically evaluate their own resources.  Consequently, if I’m continuously handing them resources, they are not going to learn this skill.

For the first time, none of my students were left behind. Everyone learned Chemistry. Everyone received credit for the class. And my students became more adept at research, thinking, collaborating, problem solving, and reflecting on their own learning. Everyone finished on time.

It’s not about fads – it’s about ownership I’ve learned that inquiry & PBL learning can be incredibly powerful in the hands of students. I would never teach any other way again. When students own their learning, then deep, authentic, transformative things happen in a classroom. It has nothing to do with videos, or homework, or the latest fad in education. It has everything to do with who owns the learning. For me, the question really is: who owns the learning in your classroom?

Each mission includes fun games with arcade-game style tests kids need to successfully complete before that feature of the online kids community

Each mission offers the child gentle clues about making the right decisions about things like only going to sites where you're supposed to go, and never giving anyone your passwords.

Lessons are provided in an interactive cartoon-based session where the child or student can click answers or have the character try different actions to see if it's the right thing to do in a given situation.

online dangers and to create awareness for not only children, but also parents, educators and even law enforcement

It is set up for early childhood environments like preschools or kindergarten, and is suitable for most children up to 5 or 6 years old

The music, sounds and animate is fun and is sure to keep the interest of any child from 3 to 6 years old

potential to increase student engagement

improve communication and personalize learning

concerned about distraction

devices getting stolen, lost, or broken

Students showed the strongest preference for using their own personal devices

crave control of their own learning,

to move forward with a BYOT initiative should be done with an eye on the instructional positives more than the disciplinary negatives

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parents, training with teachers, and student expectations need to be in place before successfully embarking on this endeavor

back, and watch the magic take place. If only life were that simple and learning that easy!

ys, the technology drove the educational process. And guess what? It didn't work very well!

define not only what we could buy but also how those products would be used. In many wa

As educators, we were unfamiliar with the technology and uncertain about its possibilities.

So we stepped back and let software developers, hardware vendors, and other technicians

Technology lends itself to exploration. But before technology can be used effectively, exploration must be valued as important to both teaching and learning.

In such an environment, educators can encourage a diversity of outcomes rather than insisting on one right answer.

Of course, active learning is rarely a clean, neat proce

s. Students engaged in such a process can create busy, noisy, and messy classrooms. It's important to recognize that this kind of learning takes practice -- for both the teacher and the students.

In a technology-rich classroom, students don't "learn" technology. Technology merely provides the tools to be used for authentic learning. It is a means, not an end.

Teachers must take responsibility for helping design the staff development process so that it really meets their needs -- so that it includes time to practice using the equipment, to watch teachers model lessons that infuse technology into the curriculum, and to mentor other teachers.

In order to successfully infuse technology into their classrooms, teachers must have the support of all stakeholders in the educational community. They must resist the notion that learning to use the "gadgets" is an end in itself.

l goals. They must be included in planning

Finally, teachers must educate themselves on how to best use those tools to enhance teaching and learning.

And, since the programs for the Kindle and the Nook can be downloaded on just about any kind of computer, including a smart phone, nursing students can have their complete textbook collection at hand just about anywhere to use as reference.

Innerbody.com has anatomical maps, back and front, of all nine major organ systems and it is free to any user and at visiblebody.com, for a fee, three dimensional models of the human body, from top-to-bottom, inside-to-out are available as teaching and study aids.

Instructors can use simulations, whether developed in the school or purchased from education corporations, which allow nursing students to practice placing a catheter or inserting an IV.

The Neighborhood is a program which presents unfolding stories in a serial format about a virtual community.

Elsevier, a publisher of global programs in every area of science and health information, offers a program that completely presents electronic medical records (EMRs) which students can use for tracking and studying trends in a specific patient's healthcare including electronic ordering, documentation, clinical pathways and medication administration records (MARs).

Coursework that embraces these advances in education technology are not only appropriate but necessary in today’s steadily changing, technology driven healthcare environment.

Due to the clinical aspect of nursing as a career, not every class can be strictly computer based, students must get out and meet other nurses and learn to work with real patients. However, what is amazing is with the continuing advances in technology and cyber tools introductory clinical work can now be addressed in the online classroom before nursing students hit the hospital halls.

find ways to translate this enthusiasm for games—and willingness to spend hours playing—into school subjects

project called GlassLab is bringing together some of the world’s top game designers and education experts to build new teaching games

97 percent of children ages 8-17 play video games

help students connect art to our world

Photo Peach is a super easy way to create an interactive quiz game using images.

quickly created to link directly to text, images, or web addresses

Bloom's Learning Taxonomy

It’s another pro-communication app. It's also pro-social and helps them learn how to care for something. 

  --Maureen Watson Kindergarten.comFree; iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

Similarly, teaching looks like a straightforward job when done well but depends upon layers of pedagogy and practice which can remain hidden to parents, children and the general public.

But the real divide is the "digital use divide", otherwise known as the "participation gap"

"trojan horse"

The world is different now than it was when we went to school and so we need to prepare our children differently.

Technology is something to understand not something to fear