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Alyssa Kuhl

Training Future Educators to Integrate Technology in the Classroom | College of Educati... - 0 views

  • The main objective of the course is to prepare pre-service teachers to become technology-proficient educators. Technology has the capability to enhance teacher instruction and contribute to student’s overall learning. The course outlines appropriate methods and applications of technology as it relates to K-12 instruction and education. Additionally, there is a focus on current and emerging applications of technology. Toward the end of the semester the course focuses on helping students develop lesson plans to effectively integrate technology into their own classrooms.
  • In 2004, the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) adopted standards for educators supporting technology integration instruction to enhance student learning. Their standards highlighted the importance of empowering future educators with the right resources to appropriately teach tomorrow’s technology users.
  • t is important that the integration of technology be carefully implemented at a reasonable pace.
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  •  “The class is very important because it focuses on safe and appropriate use of technology integration strategies. We have found that although education students may be comfortable using technology in their every day lives, they are hesitant to integrate it into their teaching practice,” said Viruru. “Overall, the course provides an environment where future educators can experiment, ask questions and measure outcomes for future practice.”
  • While traditional forms of technology, such as projectors and interactive whiteboards are often standard classroom equipment, students who are unable to attend a traditional classroom can take advantage of new technologies from home. 
  • Schools can also benefit from the use of new technologies during a major illness or outbreak, or to keep students on track during a suspension or long-term illness.
  • “For example, apps like Educreation  in which teachers record lessons and allow students to play them back several times as necessary are great for learning,” said Rackley. “This feature also allows students to record themselves working through a problem enabling the teacher to play back the recording and observe students’ thought processes as they work through the lesson. For an educator, this is priceless because they may be able to alter the instruction to better support student learning,” she said. 
  • Outside the classroom, assistive technologies can increase the number of weekly instruction hours that a student receives from their teacher.
  • Another unique aspect of digital learning is that it can create a more inclusive learning environment. Just as there are diverse types of technology, there is diversity in users as well. For students with special needs, technology can enable them to be more independent and fit in with classroom learning and routines. Students with visual or hearing impairments can utilize voice-over for accessibility on Apple devices. Similarly, the VGo robot has assistive technology like text-to-talk, which may be helpful for homebound students who are verbally impaired.
  • he future of technology in education can be revolutionary and endless. With access to new technologies and services, students no longer need to frantically write answers to pop quizzes with pen and paper. Instead, they can submit answers using instant classroom response polls and complete quizzes that display answers in real time, with online software like polleverywhere.com
  • “The class is very important because it focuses on safe and appropriate use of technology integration strategies. We have found that although education students may be comfortable using technology in their every day lives, they are hesitant to integrate it into their teaching practice,” said Viruru. “Overall, the course provides an environment where future educators can experiment, ask questions and measure outcomes for future practice.”
  • For these students, access to technology and instruction can make a difference in their ability to keep up with assignments or withdrawing from school. 
  • Instead, they can submit answers using instant classroom response polls and complete quizzes that display answers in real time, with online software like polleverywhere.com.
  • “The class is very important because it focuses on safe and appropriate use of technology integration strategies. We have found that although education students may be comfortable using technology in their every day lives, they are hesitant to integrate it into their teaching practice,” said Viruru. “Overall, the course provides an environment where future educators can experiment, ask questions and measure outcomes for future practice.”
  • can submit answers using instant classroom response polls and complete qu
  • The main objective of the course is to prepare pre-service teachers to become technology-proficient educators.
  • Because technology is rapidly changing and affects student’s lives in and out of the classroom, it is important that the integration of technology be carefully implemented at a reasonable pace
  • education students who are exposed to technology before entering the classroom as professionals are better prepared.
  • education students who are exposed to technology before entering the classroom as professionals are better prepared.
  • Students in groups were instructed to use an app like Popplet to produce webgraphs from reading assignments covering the American Revolution. Later, they used the tablets for a science lesson on weather and terrain to collect and organize photos. In this example, the technology was easily adapted for use in varying formats across disciplines.
  • they used the tablets for a science lesson on weather and terrain to collect and organize photos.
  • While traditional forms of technology, such as projectors and interactive whiteboards are often standard classroom equipment, students who are unable to attend a traditional classroom can take advantage of new technologies from home. 
  • students who are unable to attend a traditional classroom can take advantage of new technologies from home. 
  • For these students, access to technology and instruction can make a difference in their ability to keep up with assignments or withdrawing from school. 
  • With all the new technology possibilities, there is still some debate among educators on the appropriate use of technology in the classroom and whether or not it creates an environment for inappropriate use.
  • The VGo is a computer-operated robot with a camera display that can be physically placed in the classroom for students that are homebound. With a Wi-Fi connection from home students can use computer keyboard arrows and webcam to manipulate the robot around the classroom. By having their face displayed on the VGo camera monitor students are able to have social interactions with classmates and virtually raise their hands to answer questions in class by signaling to the teacher with the VGo light. 
  • Technologies like the VGo offer a wide range of possibilities and benefits for all students
  • it becomes an extension of the student and classmates are still able to interact with them
  • For students with special needs, technology can enable them to be more independent and fit in with classroom learning and routines. Students with visual or hearing impairments can utilize voice-over for accessibility on Apple devices. Similarly, the VGo robot has assistive technology like text-to-talk, which may be helpful for homebound students who are verbally impaired.
  • Schools can also benefit from the use of new technologies during a major illness or outbreak, or to keep students on track during a suspension or long-term illness.
  • “Last year we heard from a graduate student in the college. She shared how making podcasts of her lessons impressed parents during a flu epidemic at the school,” said Rackley. “Parents were able to listen to the podcasts with their children to complete the homework assignments before returning to school. In this instance, the podcast turned into a very valuable tool for the teacher, student and parent.”
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    Talks about the types of things educators can and should do in the classroom in regards to technology. Briefly talks about the benefits of incorporating technology into the elementary classroom.
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    This article tells us about how to use technology to record so students can go back and look at information missed, or if they were out with an absence. It also says that now mobile phones can be used as a method to enhance some learning in a way that they are not a distraction. It helps kids be more engaged in the heavily used technology time we live in. 
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    This website is perfect for helping kids in the classroom. One reason is they give great examples on how to help children with disabilities which will help me in my field of teaching.
cgrothey

Technology Is Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • use of digital technology is hampering their attention spans
  • media use among children and teenagers ages 8 to 18 has grown so fast that they on average spend twice as much time with screens each year as they spend in school.
  • But there is mounting indirect evidence that constant use of technology can affect behavior, particularly in developing brains, because of heavy stimulation and rapid shifts in attention.
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  • accustomed to getting quick answers with a few keystrokes that they are more likely to give up when an easy answer eludes them.
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    an interesting article about technology 
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    This article talks about how students are starting to have shorter attention spans with the increase in technology. If they do not find an answer to a question right away online they are likely to give up. Teachers have to learn to be more engaging with their students.
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    This article talks about how students are starting to have shorter attention spans with the increase in technology. If they do not find an answer to a question right away online they are likely to give up. Teachers have to learn to be more engaging with their students.
Nicole Reid

Block ads by sensitive category - AdSense Help - 0 views

  • To prevent ads from certain sensitive categories from appearing on your site, block them by updating the "Sensitive ad categories" setting in your account. If you filter an ad category through category filtering, it will block ads of all targeting types and formats.   Right now, we support blocking for a limited set of languages, regardless of the language of the site. Just visit the Allow & block ads tab, choose the Blocking options section and then Sensitive categories. Depending on your country, you might not see all of the categories listed below on your sensitive categories page. For example, if gambling is not permitted in your country, the Gambling opt-in sensitive category is not available. Sensitive categories are divided into standard sensitive categories and opt-in sensitive categories. Standard sensitive categories are allowed by default. To prevent ads from any of these categories from showing on your pages, click the Block button corresponding to the category.
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    By blocking ads it will help so that your school divise can be protected and you wont have to worry. Knowing how to do this should be of high importance to many and being able to know how to do this is something valuable
Sierra Koehler

Beyond books: THS showcases technology - 0 views

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    "It's like Facebook for school," Martin said. "When I'm working on an assignment, I can see who else is working on that assignment right then and we can help each other." English teacher Joy White said the online platform is also useful when students miss class. "I have a student who broke his leg," she said. "Now he can easily keep up with what he missed, still participate in online discussions, reach me easily to ask questions and make sure he stays on track." Most of the teachers' TISD email accounts are connected to their phones so they can answer questions about homework in the evening, officials said. "That way, students have their questions answered before they come to class," Director of Communications Matthew LeBlanc said.  "They have any confusion about a subject cleared up ahead of time so they are ready to learn during actual class time," he said.
Nicole Reid

Expanded text ads - AdSense Help - 0 views

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    This site would be useful due to the fact that there are picture ads to help students better understand the concepts. I feel that students can learn visually as well as from the teacher talking. adunit will help feather students learning.
Mel Anderson

Classroom Response Systems ("Clickers") | Center for Teaching | Vanderbilt University - 0 views

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    This site would be useful to teachers because it shows different ways to teach in a classroom. Teachers would have to come up with questions and the students would have to use a clicker to send in an answer. It would make students more involved and the teacher would be able to see if the students are understanding what has been taught.
Kendra Larson

Why is Education So Important in Our Life? | EdLab - 0 views

  • rst thing that strikes me about education is knowledge gain. Education gives us a knowledge of the world around us and changes it into something better. It develops in us a perspective of looking at life. It helps us build opinions and have points of view on things in life. People debate over the subject of whether education is the only thing that gives knowledge. Some say education is the process of gaining information about the surrounding world while knowledge is something very different. They are right. But then again, information cannot be converted into knowledge without education. Education makes us capable of interpreting things, among other things. It is not just about lessons in textbooks. It is about the lessons of life. One thing I wish I can do is, to provide education for all: no child left behind and change the world for good!! Posted in Public | Kafoumba Doumbia's blog | login or register to post comments »
  • It helps us build opinions and have points of view on things in life. People debate over the subject of whether education is the only thing that gives knowledge. Some say education is the process of gaining information about the surrounding world while knowledge is something very different. They are right. But then again, information cannot be converted into knowledge without education. Education makes us capable of interpreting things, among other things. It is not just about lessons in textbooks. It is about the lessons of life. One thing I wish I can do is, to provide education for all: no child left behind and change the world for good!! Posted in Public | Kafoumba Doumbia's blog | login or register to post comments »
  • r. It develops in us a perspective of looking at life. It helps us build opinions and have points of view on things in life. People debate over the subject of whether education is the only thing that gives knowledge. Some say education is the process of gaining information about the surrounding world while knowledge is something very different. They are right. But then again, information cannot be converted into knowledge without education. Education makes us capable of interpreting things, among other things. It is not just about lessons in textbooks. It is about the lessons of life. One thing I wish I can do is, to provide education for all: no child left behind and change the world for good!! Posted in Public | Kafoumba Doumbia's blog | login or register to post comments »
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  • The first thing that strikes me about education is knowledge gain. Education gives us a knowledge of the world around us and changes it into something better. It develops in us a perspective of looking at life. It helps us build opinions and have points of view on things in life. People debate over the subject of whether education is the only thing that gives knowledge. Some say education is the process of gaining information about the surrounding world while knowledge is something very different. They are right. But then again, information cannot be converted into knowledge without education. Education makes us capable of interpreting things, among other things. It is not just about lessons in textbooks. It is about the lessons of life. One thing I wish I can do is, to provide education for all: no child left behind and change the world for good!!
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    Gives a basic answer to why Education is important
Kaleigh Maclay

Study: Emerging Technology Has Positive Impact in Classroom - US News - 0 views

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      What about those schools that can not afford to have it within their budget?
  • can't just hand out iPads just for professional development or training for the teachers
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  • left class with more questions than answers
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  • lively, engaging discussion
  • more productive
  • larger budget
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    Positive impact of technology in the classroom.
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    As a teacher noticed that her students were struggling with the concepts of the lecture, the teacher decided to upload the class lectures to iTunes. The students could have access to the class material on their own time.
Meghan Berther

Using Technology to Enhance Teaching & Learning - 0 views

  • Blackboard SMU uses the course management system Blackboard.&nbsp; For help creating Blackboard courses and learning the basics, consult Academic Technology's Blackboard help page, as well as this Blackboard online tutorial. Access your Blackboard courses here. Presentation Software Sometimes it's helpful to provide visual aids to complement teaching, stimulate discussion, or allow out-of-class teaching. Tools designed for this purpose, such as PowerPoint, can be used well or used badly. Click here for resources that provide advice for thoughtful use of PowerPoint, as well as a few additional presentation tools. Classroom Response Systems ("clickers") One way to encourage student engagement is by using electronic devices that allow students to record their answers to multiple choice questions and allow you to instantly display the results. The anonymity encourages participation, and their answers help the teacher know when further discussion is needed.&nbsp; Use of clickers can also serve as a catalyst for discussion.&nbsp; Click here to learn more about using response systems effectively.
  • Converting a Face-to-Face Course to an Online Course Teaching online, whether in a hybrid course or a wholly-online course, requires different techniques and different tools.&nbsp; Without the F2F contact, professors will need to be even clearer about setting and articulating expectations for digital work and participation.&nbsp; Encouraging interaction between professor and student and among students is an additional challenge, as is monitoring student learning as the course progresses.&nbsp; The online environment requires the use of basic technologies to digitize course materials as well as mastery of the university's learning management system.&nbsp; And various tools like Skype allow synchronous communications, while blogs and Twitter can encourage asynchronous interaction.&nbsp; Here are some ideas to get you started.
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    Enhance teaching and learning using technology
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    A lot of these points align with our class!
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    This site gives some examples of technology you could use in the classroom. This includes Presentation Software, Blackboard, etc.
hernanderc

Technology helps teachers turn classrooms upside-down - 0 views

  • the results are encouraging for him and his students
  • ecords video math lessons
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  • watch after schoo
  • est their comprehension with a short online quiz
  • on their school-issued tablet.
  • students work on assignments based on last night's video lesson.
  • flipped learning mode
  • math and science classrooms.
  • oost student achievement and narrow the achievement gap,
  • technology is changing
  • ow, students learn
  • flipped classroom is small but growing
  • switch back and forth
  • If you need to review something, it's a lot easier
  • watch it once
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  • nstruction more individualized
  • more collaboration
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  • student-to-student
  • ntire class period to do problems and ask for help
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  • traditional approach works best for their class or subject
  • having a tablet on which to watch video lectures has helped her.
  • flipped model is all about teachers using technology to make learning happen in new ways.
  • extend their classrooms outside of their walls
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    Article talks about teachers using the flipped method in their classrooms. Issued tablets are giving to the kids and they take it home, do their work, and come prepared to class with questions and answers.
ledfordaw07

Play online, learn online and feed the hungry | Freerice.com - 0 views

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    If you finish your work early go play on Free Rice. For each answer you get right, they donate 10 grains of rice through the World Food Program to help end hunger.
Liana Korol

9 insightful videos about using SMART Boards in the Classroom | Emerging Education Tech... - 0 views

  • ways in which&nbsp;these tools be used in the classroom. I’ve purposely gone for variety here, to&nbsp;reflect the reality of the world we all live and work in&nbsp;- we see teachers who work at&nbsp;different&nbsp;education levels, and some videos that are quite&nbsp;professional mixed&nbsp;with&nbsp;some that are more casually produced.&nbsp;Following those are a few&nbsp;videos that help to&nbsp;provide technical insight into these systems, and answer&nbsp;the&nbsp;question, “What does it take to&nbsp;install and configure and SMART Board?”
Cassidy O'Brien

28 Creative Ideas for Teaching with Twitter | MindShift - 0 views

  • 28 ways to use Twitter in class.
  • utilizes Twitter to gather real-time feedback
  • end up projected right there during lectures
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  • allowing students to answer questions via Twitter rather than raising their hands
  • This greatly aids studying, too, as they can easily refer back via dedicated classroom hashtags.
  • an excellent way for his students to continue class discussions after they’ve already ended
  • far easier to tweet changes, cancellations and other important announcements.
  • many students use Twitter now to alert their teachers about when they’ve finished their work
  • The 140-character limit offers a nice little challenge for students, and innovative educators and authors like have taken notice.
  • Word, trend or hashtag tracking:
  • ask them to actually tweet a response and open a discussio
  • Take notes:
  • For high schoolers and the college crowd, this assignment might very well help them discover some personal career goals.
  • Share a story:
  • The first tweets a sentence, the next builds off of it and so forth; try assigning a hashtag to make reading everything faster.
  • Keep parents informed: When teaching the younger set, parents may like to follow along with what’s going on in their children’s day. Keep a Twitter feed updating them about the different lessons and activities as they happen for greater engagement between the home and the classroom.
  • For kids just learning about distance, this makes for a lovely way to get them to know more about where everything is in relation to their own cities and towns.
  • ______ of the day: No matter the class, a vocabulary word, book, song, quote or something else “of the day” might very well make an excellent supplement to the day’s lesson. When teaching younger kids, tell their parents about the Twitter feed and encourage them to talk about postings at home.
  • A common hashtag and communicative network is all it takes to share insight and recommendations.
  • Keep up with current events: Similarly, educators can set up lists with different news sources, allowing their students to stay on top of current events. Separate them by field for quicker access and even more comprehensive organization.
  • Set up a communal hastag for students and professionals alike to use and exchange their views and lessons.
  • Host a Twitter scavenger hunt: For fun and education, get students moving and organize a sort of Twitter scavenger hunts — maybe even see if other classrooms or professionals want to get involved. As with many of the projects listed here, such an activity can easily be applied to a wide number of grade levels and academic subjects.
  • Not only does it help them reflect on their lessons and their world, but it also serves as a nice, guided introduction to social media.
  • Help students get their names out: College professors hoping to nurture the professional future of their juniors and seniors might like the idea of teaching them the role of social media in job hunting. Business students into the whole “personal branding” fad will particularly benefit from comprehensively exploring such things.
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    This article is talking about how to use twitter in a classroom setting and gives 28 different ideas on how to use it.
Nathan Karraker

| NAESP - 1 views

  • Creation and Design. Likewise, creation activities provide students the ability to develop creativity and problem-solving skills by displaying their mastery in profound and meaningful ways. Teachers at McKeel Elementary Academy in Lakeland, Florida, integrate the use of technology for student-created digital media into all areas of curriculum: Kindergarteners create image-based movies on recycling and insects; First graders develop PowerPoint presentations for “My Time to Teach” projects to share with the class; Fourth graders prepare for their statewide standardized writing assessment by developing elaborate digital storybooks on free web 2.0 sites such as Storybird (www.storybird.com) or StoryJumper (www.storyjumper.com). Fifth graders collaborate to launch a Web Safety Wiki to teach other students worldwide about digital citizenship (wildcatwebsafety.wikispaces.com). The projects created are excellent tools for formative and summative assessment. Yet more than that, through creation activities, students design products that make them active partners in constructing learning experiences in the classroom and beyond. In demonstrating their skills and knowledge, they become more confident in their own abilities and their own voices.
  • A dramatic shift is sweeping through our schools. The signs are all around us. Third graders texting on their cell phones. Kindergarteners who can navigate an iPod Touch better than we can. Middle schoolers who already have an Internet following on their blog or YouTube channel. These are not the same 21st century learners we came to know over the first decade of the new millennium. For these students, simply watching videos or images during class, playing an Internet multiplication game, or even taking turns at an interactive whiteboard is no longer enough. These new 21st century learners are highly relational and demand quick access to new knowledge. More than that, they are capable of engaging in learning at a whole new level. With the world literally at their fingertips, today’s students need teachers and administrators to re-envision the role of technology in the classroom.
  • Following the joyous moment when educators realize their students are capable, independent technology users who can create inspiring digital masterpieces, the next reaction is often a more solemn, “How do we fit it all in?” In fact, the answer to this question is vital to a successful technology integration transformation. In the former mindset of teaching with technology, the teacher was the focal point of the classroom, creating (often time-consuming) interactive and multimedia presentations to add shock and awe to his or her lessons and capture the attention of the 21st century child. A new mindset of teaching through technology must emerge, which depends on a vital shift in teacher/student roles.
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  • In technology-infused discovery activities, Internet research, virtual manipulatives, and multimedia resources allow students to explore unanswered questions.
  • Ideally, to maximize these opportunities, every student needs direct access to technology on a daily basis
  • The new 21st century learners must master more than the core curriculum to succeed in secondary and postsecondary institutions, as well as in the workplace. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills, a national organization advocating for 21st century readiness for every student, explains the outcomes of this transformation as fusing the traditional three R’s with four C’s: critical thinking, creativity, communication, and collaboration. As students develop the four C’s, we have discovered that effective application of these vital skills in a technology-infused life and workplace requires acquiring them in a technology-infused learning environment. This environment calls for two elements: We must increasingly put technology into the hands of students and must trust them with more progressive technology use. It is no longer sufficient for students to have less access to technological tools than the teacher, nor is it enough for any one suite of software to serve as the zenith for technology mastery. For student performance to approximate student potential, students need access to a constantly evolving array of technological tools and activities that demand problem-solving, decision-making, teamwork, and innovation. The four C’s are at the heart of the International Society for Technology in Education’s National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Students, providing a substantial framework for defining the focus of technology objectives for K-12 students. For example, in implementing these standards we have found that even our youngest 21st century learners are capable of independently creating digital storybooks, artwork, presentations, and movies.
  • The projects created are excellent tools for formative and summative assessment. Yet more than that, through creation activities, students design products that make them active partners in constructing learning experiences in the classroom and beyond. In demonstrating their skills and knowledge, they become more confident in their own abilities and their own voices.
  • The projects created are excellent tools for formative and summative assessment. Yet more than that, through creation activities, students design products that make them active partners in constructing learning experiences in the classroom and beyond. In demonstrating their skills and knowledge, they become more confident in their own abilities and their own voices.
  • Shift in Roles
  • In this configuration, the teacher acts as a learning catalyst, orchestrating and facilitating activities that spark defining moments for students. The most effective activities take two forms— discovery and creation—though they often symbiotically work together. The student then becomes the focal point of the classroom, acting as explorer (e.g., mathematician, scientist, sociologist) and designer (e.g., author, artist, composer).
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      NAESP has useful items on the standards regarding technology and the ways that technology has changed in the classroom. 
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    This site shows teachers why technology is important and how it can effectively be used in the classroom.
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    This website shows why it is important for teachers to integrate technology into the classroom.
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    Technology Integration for the 21st Century Learner
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    This page encourages teaching with technology. The main reason for this is because of how our world has evolved, and is now full of technology.
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    How technology helps creativity. 
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    it talks about the shift of the use of technology in the classrooms. Integrating things that kids will need to be able to successfully use in the future.
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    NAESP has useful items on the standards regarding technology and the ways that technology has changed in the classroom. 
Lauren Z

Top 10 Technology Tips for New Teachers - Teachingcom - 0 views

  • 1. Develop a Personal Learning Network (PLN) on Twitter.
  • Twitter is an excellent place for new teachers to connect, collaborate, share ideas, and struggles with educators around the world.
  • 2. Keep students engaged.
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  • Technology is a great way to fill those extra minutes with critical thinking and problem solving activities.
  • Technology makes it easy to extend your learning by offering professional development on demand.
  • 3. Take charge of professional development.
  • 4. Involve parents by creating a link between home and school.
  • Keep parents informed so they can be advocates for their kids education at home.
  • Wix www.wix.com
  • 4. Involve parents by creating a link between home and school.
  • Weebly www.weebly.com
  • Bloust www.bloust.com
  • Yola www.yola.com
  • Lunar Pages http://wiki.lunarpages.com/Free_Education_Accoun
  • Create a classroom Twitter account (http://twitter.com) and invite parents to follow the class on Twitter.
  • This keeps parents updated with exactly what is happening in your classroom throughout the school day. When students get home parents can ask about specific activities that happened throughout the school day instead of getting the standard “nothing” answer when they ask what they did that day.
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    Here are 10 technology tips for new teachers. Every teacher has trouble memorizing everything that is new but this website makes it easy to remember what to do
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    This website can be very useful to new teachers. there are a lot of great tips, and the students will be able to learn easily from you!
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    Gives ten tips on how to use technology in order to relate to your students in and out of the classroom.
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    This site shows 10 ways that teachers are able to incorporate technology into the classroom. 
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    Very helpful website for teachers who find themselves struggling with technology!
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    This can help parents know what is going on in school with their kids grades/day at school/and other information they might need.
Olyvia Adams

Special Education Technology - 0 views

  • Communication Books:Used by children with autism or those who struggle with verbal language, these books encourage a child to choose a small picture card. The card allows the child to ask for something or to answer a question. Called the Picture Exchange Communication System, PECS, it was created by Andrew Bondy, Ph.D. and Lori Frost, M.S.
  • Highlighter Tape:Many children with autism possess strengths in decoding skills but difficulties with comprehension. Highlighter tape is an economical way to highlight text without it being permanent.
  • FM Auditory Trainers:Children who are deaf or have significant hearing loss may use an FM auditory trainer in school. A microphone is worn by the teacher, and a receiver is worn by the student. An FM trainer has several settings.
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  • The Tap It (Touch Accessible Platform Interactive Technology):ADA compliant learning station designed to recognize a finger intentionally tapping an image. Provides full access to the screen for students using wheel chairs or other mobility devices.
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    description of different assistive technology for those in speced
Melissa Roush

How Can Teachers Use Technology in the Classroom? - 0 views

  • There are numerous ways that teachers can use technology in the classroom and many are already doing it. Some districts use interactive Smart Boards in place of traditional chalk or white boards in their classroom. These flat screen monitors are networked with the teacher’s classroom computer and the school’s internet connection. Interactive lessons in math, spelling, science and other subjects can be put on screen for students to participate in. The boards use touch screen technology and in some cases, kids are given handheld remote “clickers” that act as controllers for answering questions presented on screen.
Kataryna Altobelli

8 Engaging Ways to use Technology in the Classroom to Create Lessons That Aren't Boring... - 0 views

  • While lectures and lessons can be informative and even “edutaining” when delivered with passion and good materials by knowledgeable experts, sadly many traditional lectures and lessons are boring, and even worse often ineffective.
  • Even if you don’t have computers or tablets available in your classroom, the fact that an increasing number of High School and college students have smartphones is making it easier than ever to leverage technology to create engaging, active lessons students enjoy working on. For younger grades, if you don’t have access to devices with Web access, perhaps you can access a computer lab by request, or use devices in your library.
  • 1. Incorporate Student Input &amp; Gather Feedback
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  • Quick, easy Polling Applications
  • are two of many applications that make it quick and easy to create simple polls that can let you gather feedback from students – determine if they are struggling with a topic, if they know the correct answers to questions you ask, and so on. They can often participate in these polls using a smartphone.
  • You can also gather feedback by creating a “back channel” using Twitter.
  • 2. Gamify It
  • Leveraging gaming mechanics can make learning more fun is probably easier than you think. For example, any time you bring competition or levels of achievement to a classroom exercise, you’re gamifying your classroom.
  • Here’s a variety of resources and ideas for using gaming in the classroom:
  • 3. Let Students Create
  • 4. Get Interactive
  • Here’s a few tools and ideas to consider.
  • Online Interactive White Boards
  • Bounceapp
  • Interactive apps that work with Smartphones
  • 5. Have Students Collaborate
  • Here are a number of tools and techniques for classroom collaborations.
  • 6. Project Based Learning
  • 7. Simulations
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  • Business
  • 8. Bring in a Guest or Two
  • With the power of video conferencing apps like Skype, Google Hangout, Facetime, and others, our ability to connect with people all across the world has never been better or less costly. Teachers have been using Skype and similar tools to being guest lecturers, experts, students, and others into the classroom for years
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    This website focuses on specific ideas of what you can do with technology and give ideas on how to keep students involved. I really liked their ideas about how to get feedback from students in a non-traditional way.
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    this website consists of ways to teach children through technology. It teaches the teacher to teach in new and exciting ways.
Julie K

Mobile Learning in Education: Platforms, Apps & More - Teachability Community - 0 views

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    You can post questions or breakthroughs you have relating to technology in school
Elizabeth Dieringer

Successful Class Web Sites, Teaching Tips of the Week, Teaching Today, Glencoe Online - 0 views

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  • h your audience in mind. Determine the purpose of your Web site, then put yourself in the shoes of your students and their parents. How will they actually use the site; what will benefit them the most; what options can help them improve their understanding of class content? With the answers to these questions, you can begin to plan your site design.
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