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Kim Wilkens

5 Tips and Tools for the Tech Terrified Teacher | Edvoices - 0 views

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    Interesting post from tech terrified turned tech guru teacher. "Dear EdTechies: How do you do outreach to tech terrified teachers and engage them?"
Lara Brooks

educational technology planning guide - 1 views

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    Contains specific guiding question to help in creating a tech plan
Lara Brooks

National Center for Technology Planning - Tips on Developing Effective Technology Plans - 4 views

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    This is actually a document written as well by John See, the same author who wrote the article on the previous post, "Developing Effective Technology Plans". It is an improved version of it, where other aspects are considered. I think the author brilliantly condenses the most important aspects that we must take into account in any tech plan that intends to look at technology from the perspective of a new era. Norma Acero.
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    I concurr with you, Norma. The term technology planning has become a watermark hence its meaning has been lost. This perspective coupled with the post I made a few minutes ago, "It's more than Computers", are more divergent views of the process. As a matter of a fact the two are synonymous.
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    I appreciated the stream-lined approach this article presents as to what makes for an effective technology plan.
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    Contains descriptors of what tech plans are and what they should contain
Lara Brooks

eSchool News Article on TPACK - 0 views

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    This article describes ed tech integration using TPACK
Michelle Adams

Education World: One-To-One Computing: Pitfalls to Avoid - 0 views

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    Just because a technology is available for students doesn't mean it has to be used all the time. Find out what the research says about the benefits of one-to-one computing, and read about educator concerns about the overuse of technology. Included: Ten Web sites offering research, concerns, and tips on one-to-one computing!
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    Just because a technology is available for students doesn't mean it has to be used all the time. Find out what the research says about the benefits of one-to-one computing, and read about educator concerns about the overuse of technology. Included: Ten Web sites offering research, concerns, and tips on one-to-one computing!
Tristan C

Ed Tech Timeline of the 60's 80's and 00's - 1 views

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    This is a video that identifies the major tech advancements of the 60's 80's and 2000's.
Lara Brooks

History of Educational Technology - YouTube - 1 views

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    This video has some great primary source visuals, which illustrate the ed tech over time
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    I like the visuals in this video. It really shows how far we've come.
Jesse Chavis

The Future Technology: Expectation Vs. Reality - 0 views

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    The Future Amazingly Precise Predictions from AT&T in 1993 Super-Low-Tech iPhone Speaker Touch Screen Technology in 2014
Michelle Adams

The Digital Librarian: The Ideal Tech World - 1 views

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    This is a guide that demonstrates how to create the ideal technology plan.
Kat Anderson

Six-Step Process in Creating a Technology Plan Step 5 - 0 views

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    Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has a site filled with resources that include: Steps to developing a plan. Guiding Questions to use in developing the plans. Links to relevant resources. Downloadable Action Plan sample and templates. Tech Plan Scoring Guide to use in evaluation of the plan.
Melodie Henderson

Byron Public Schools - Technology Plan 2012-15 - 2 views

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    This presentation provides tech plan information with a little twist for viewing.
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    I thought this was helpful. It provides a lot of good information in regard to the creation of authentic student project work.
Tristan C

IBM TheSmarterCity: Education - United States - 0 views

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    I like the second video that discusses how administrators can use tech to collaborate. I hadn't previously thought about using tech to have students' records follow them.
Kim Wilkens

Tips and Tools for Technology Planning - 0 views

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    These tips are aimed at businesses, but some good advice for schools too. Create targets as clear measurable objectives. Inform & engage constituents. Don't fit business to tech, fit tech to business. "If users don't know what the app will do for them, it's not worth buying."
Norma Acero

The Ideal Tech World - The Digital Librarian - 6 views

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    This article shows how technology not only aids student learning, it motivates students, builds confidence, creativity and problem solving, increases content knowledge, helps students with special needs thrive and reflects the demands of the modern world. And, therefore, it gives relevant info to make a successful technology plan. It offers as well an interesting comparison between what digital learners vs. what many educators prefer when it comes to education.
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    As real time is translated to 'cyber time' how often do we think of the students when we plan for technology? Do we do what's best for them or convienent for us?
Norma Acero

Tech Museums - 1 views

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    Just thought it would be interesting to see in this link how a tech museum in California creates activities to promote active interactive learning, and how this kind of museums make everyone feel technology can be mastered by all of us.
Norma Acero

"Is this the end...?" - 0 views

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    Well, this article couldn't be more interesting... It dates back to 1997, it is in the Journal of Technology Education by Virginia Tech. It seems that since 1990 the number of students graduating with technology education teaching degrees had plummeted notoriously and the doomsday for the tech teacher preparation programs would occur by 2005... I guess it didn't happen!
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    Well, Norma, I do think this is interesting and I think it might have happened. The article is specifically about "technology teachers," and there aren't that many of those anymore. Now, technology is not as much a standalone subject as it is integrated into the whole learning process. That's good, IMHO. But, at the same time, I think we've gotten away from offering computer science courses. That's bad, IMHO.
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    Hmmmm... That's true! I've been trying to remember how things were in Colombia a couple of years ago, and it seems the same phenomenon has happened. I remember how in college I took some technology courses for specific kinds of programs... then, they started disappearing and if I wanted a refresher I had to teach myself or find a friend. In my schools here I can see how the technology classes are used as a means to do something else through technology rather than studying technology by itself... It stopped being the object of study and became a means to achieve objectives in other areas. A clear sample of that: The technology teachers at my two schools started going to two or three schools, they are more kind of facilitators than instructors... I guess that's pretty bad for the kind of student who needs to learn formally, step by step, in a classroom setting.... For our students... well, my younger students know way more than me! And they didn't learn it form anybody! Just trial and error!
Melodie Henderson

Increase Student Engagement by Getting Rid of Textbooks - 0 views

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    Editor's Note: Today's guest blogger is Shelly Blake-Plock a high school classroom teacher from Maryland, who blogs at teachpaperless.com. Drool in the textbook. That's one of my most lasting impressions of high school. I can't tell you the number of times that I fell asleep -- face down in my textbook -- during various history and foreign language classes.
jenwilkerson

Encouraging Distraction? Classroom Experiments with Mobile Media - ProfHacker - The Chr... - 0 views

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  • I think the best place to start when thinking about incorporating technology into the classroom is by asking the question, “What is the right tool for this particular job?” Sometimes it’s a digital tool and sometimes it’s not. But when we force a digital tool into a classroom scenario where it isn’t the best one for the job, students are extremely quick to pick up on this “tech for tech’s sake” implementation.
  • And the faster and more intense our connectedness becomes, the further we move away from that ideal. Digital busyness is the enemy of depth.”
  • Instead, if used in a dynamic way that addresses the medium’s strengths, mobile media can actually get us to engage with each other and with the spaces we move through in deep, meaningful, and context-rich ways.
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  • It is apparent that the students often shift between the two classroom spheres. Does this “distraction” take them away from engaging with the content I’m presenting? Quite the contrary. From my experience, they are engaged with the material that is being discussed in a much more sustained way because the devices that have typically severed as “distractions” in the past (e.g. using the laptop or the mobile phone to access Facebook) are now being utilized to constantly engage them with the material.
  • The quiz began with a QR code posted on my office door (I started here so they would all know where my office was located!) that led them to a download of the 7scenes app.
  • from Broadcastr to Foursquare
  • When they arrived to class on the day of the field test, we all went geocaching around campus.
  • The three groups each decided to create fictional narratives and used a range of mobile media from websites designed for the iPad, geocaches that contained narrative elements, and one group even built a reverse geocache that held the contents of the story.
  • Soon, if it hasn’t happened already, every teacher in higher education will have to develop a strategy for mobile phone use in the classroom (whether that be to integrate the technology or to ban it).
Kim Wilkens

The History Of Learning Tools [Infographic] | Edudemic - 2 views

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    Interesting that this infographic includes history of computer science. Every time I look into tech in the classroom, I wonder at the disconnect between edtech and CS.
Kim Wilkens

Unleashing the potential of educational technology - 1 views

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    A report from the White House giving would-be ed tech developers hints for success (and a reality check about what they face).
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