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Lee Ann Altman

Need and Importance of Information Technology in Education - WikiEducator - 0 views

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    Information Technology in Education INTRODUCTION Information Technology in Education, effects of the continuing developments in information technology (IT) on education. The pace of change brought about by new technologies has had a significant effect on the way people live, work, and play worldwide.
Angel Owens

A Chat With Educational Technology Leader Califone's Tim Ridgway | Digital NPO - 0 views

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    An interview with a company who has been in the educational technology biz. Interesting thoughts on laptop intiatives, etc.
Lee Ann Altman

Educational Leadership:Giving Students Ownership of Learning:Working with Tech-Savvy Kids - 0 views

  • However, schools can teach students the 21st-century skills they need by involving them in technology planning and implementation. By empowering students to work with adults to solve real-world problems, schools can engage students in meaningful dialogue about technology use, Internet safety, online learning, and filtering. In the process, they hone students' skills in problem solving, collaboration, civic awareness, ethics, leadership, and information and media literacy. Schools benefit from students' insights and experience; at the same time, they show students how their education is relevant for the world today. This kind of involvement captures students' enthusiasm, creates new communication pathways to parents and the community, promotes deeper understanding of the school technology policy, promotes student leadership, improves technology integration schoolwide, and builds respect and trust among all groups.
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      Schools can teach students the 21st - century skills they need by involving them in technology planning and implementation. This kind of involvement captures students' enthusiasm, creates new communication pathways to parents and community, promotes deeper understanding of the school technology policy, promotes student leadership, improves technology integration schoolwide, and builds respect and trust among all groups.
  • Five Time-Tested Models
  • Model 1: Students as Committee Members
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  • Model 2: Students as Trainers
  • Model 3: Students as Technical-Support Agents
  • Model 4: Students as Resource Developers and Communicators
  • Model 5: Students as Peer Mentors and Leaders
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    Most school or district technology plans call for the inclusion of all stakeholder groups as key to creating a sense of ownership and support that will lead to long-term success. However, these plans often ignore the largest stakeholder group of all-the students.
Kate McElvaney

The Great Debate: Effectiveness of Technology in Education -- THE Journal - 0 views

  • If technology has any chance to be effective, its use must be a regular, integral part of an instructional program and not viewed as an add-on (Deubel, 2001)
Angel Owens

Research Center: Technology in Education - 0 views

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    A good article that for me, helped bring together what we learned about essential conditions for technology.
Angel Owens

http://www.nassp.org/portals/0/content/55193.pdf - 0 views

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    Bumpy Road: what principals need to know as the technology leader. Written by university professors, this goes through the 10 questions school administrators need to ask themselves to be prepared to lead their school on the technology front.
Kate McElvaney

Expanding PD on a Shoestring Budget - Digital Education - Education Week - 0 views

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      This is real-world learning that benefits the teachers and the students!
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      The "garnering of support and interest" is an important leadership prerequisite to any PD technology roll out.
  • videoconferencing trainings to help teachers feel more comfortable with the technology
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  • created videos that were sent out through email to teachers to garner support and interest.
  • the team used students
  • The teacher leader delivered a curriculum about how to be responsible, respectful teachers of technology to help students learn soft skills like professionalism and leadership
Angel Owens

Education Week's Digital Directions: Digital Divide 2.0 - 0 views

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    This article discusses the possibilty of whether or not the digital divide still exists!
Kate McElvaney

Educational Leadership:Multiple Measures:Teaching with Interactive Whiteboards - 1 views

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      Technology in and of itself does not improve student learning, as seen with this 23%
  • how teachers might use interactive whiteboards more effectively
  • organize information
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  • stop the presentation so students can process and analyze the new information.
  • visuals should clearly focus on the important information
  • discuss the correct answer along with the incorrect answers, making sure to elicit opinions from as many students as possible
  • students focus on why an answer is correct or incorrect
  • in 23 percent of the cases, teachers had better results without the interactive whiteboards.
  • 16 percentile point gain in student achievement.
  • three features inherent in interactive whiteboards have a statistically significant relationship with student achievemen
  • the learner-response device
  • use of graphics and other visuals to represent information
  • interactive whiteboard reinforcer—applications that teachers can use to signal that an answer is correct or to present information in an unusual context.
  • a study that involved 85 teachers and 170 classrooms, the teachers used interactive whiteboards to teach a set of lessons, which they then taught to a different group of students without using the technology (see Marzano & Haystead, 2009).
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      Higher-order thinking skills in use: analyze and evaluate
Angel Owens

The Sky's the Limit: Kids' Top Tools for the Classroom | Edutopia - 0 views

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    An article that asked students: "What technology do you use outside the classroom that would be GOOD for the classroom?" Great responses and ideas!!
Kate McElvaney

Amount Of Time Teens Spend Online Can Improve Digital Literacy - 0 views

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      Because what we have them doing in school might be "more intensive," but it's not real world use? 
  • Many of these students can locate basic pieces of information and browse web pages if given specific instructions. But they are performing at lower levels than will allow them to fully utilize the educational, employment and social opportunities available to them in a modern context.
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      Hear the call for higher-order thinking using technology?
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  • teenagers who spend time on the web are more digitally literate during a time when technological proficiency is increasingly important, a recent report suggests.
  • participating in certain activities like emailing and chatting online influence digital reading performance
  • In school, however, students perform more negatively with more intensive computer use, suggesting that students are developing digital reading literacy largely through computer use at home.
Kate McElvaney

THE Journal: Technological Horizons in Education -- THE Journal - 0 views

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      This journal was recommended by Dr. Williamson. FREE digital edition!
Karen Shean

Techonology Tools To Get Teachers Started - 0 views

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    Here are a few more tools to checkout. Some we have already used. Helpful explanations
Lee Ann Altman

Critical Issue: Technology Leadership - 0 views

  • School leaders at all levels must collaborate with staff members and school personnel to create a vision for the future and a process for change, ensuring that schools and school districts are viable and thriving learning communities for students, staff, and community members. The focus on the purpose and direction of the organization (as a strategy for change work) is to ensure the long-term stability and quality of the educational program. All leadership roles have some management and executive tasks, and the difference between superintendent, principals, and directors is a matter of degree. The scope of the work and the scale of the operation change at each level of leadership. But regardless of a leadership level, school leaders need to make every effort to understand people in lower positions and discuss with them different perspectives. They must go beyond managerial roles and a "facts-and-methods" view of management and focus on the executive challenges of leadership to survive and thrive.
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      School leaders must collaborate with staff members to create a vision for the future. This will ensure schools have a thriving learning community for students,staff, and community.
Angel Owens

Cool Free Web Tools for Teachers - 0 views

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    I know some people dont like these, but I like to keep a few of these bookmarked because inevitably I find some good nuggets in here.
Kate McElvaney

The Future of Education - Charting the Course of Teaching and Learning in a Networked W... - 0 views

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      Lots of great professional development opportunities.
  • August 30th, Tuesday (2pm Pacific, 5pm Eastern, 9pm GMT):  Richard and Rebecca DuFour on Professional Learning Communities to Improve Schools
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      The experts speak live!
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      I bet Katherine could help them out!
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