Opening Up The Possiblities

Teaching with Technology

Two Big Questions: What can technology allow us to do in education that we could not otherwise do? How can technology helpus to do better that whichwe already do?

Web Power

TrackStar: A Web-based annotated Bibliography- A Webliography

WebQuest: A Structured Web-based research strategy

                             

A Virtual Field Trip

Culture Quest: An Interdisciplinary investigation combining history and language arts

HistoryColonial AmericaFrench and Indian WarFort William Henry

Language ArtsLiterature Cooper’s “The Last of the Mohicans”Writing: Compare and Contrast

A Virtual Passport Visit foreign countries

GlobalearnAsiaQuest

Talk to friends from other cultures

Web66

A Virtual Museum Exhibit

Assemble sites that represent the work of important photographers

Students analyze and study selected photographer

Students take photos in the style of photographer

Multimedia PowerPoint as

Presentation Tool Demonstration of

Learning

MY NATION

• The People and TheirCulture

The Monster Project

Elementary Language Arts

Draw a “Monster” Describe how to draw the

monster Draw the monster from

the description

Brainstorming with Inspiration

Idea Maps Analyzing Reading Project Planning Bringing Out Detail

Ma

sweet caring

beautiful

organizedgenerous

compassionate

loving hard working

warmfriendly

clean

vibrantenergeticsharing

Character AnalysisCharacter: Ma

Create Timelines For Organizing Work

Student ResponsibilitiesDue Dates

For Adding Historical Perspective

March-June, 2000A Timeline for Project NATION-SPACE

March 15, 2000 March 25, 2000 April 1, 2000 April 10, 2000 April 15, 2000 April 20, 2000 April 25, 2000

Teams Selected Projects Defined

April Fool's Day

Space Station Begun

Map of NATION Due

Desktop Publishing Create Curriculum

Related Calendars Publish Travel Brochures

and Newsletters Catalogues and Flyers Business Cards Menus Etc.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. (Yes) With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith (Yes) we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. (Talk about it) With this faith (My Lord) we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. [Applause] This will be the day, [Applause continues] this will be the day when all of God’s children (Yes) will be able to sing with new meaning:

My country, ’tis of thee, (Yes) sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim’s pride, (Yes) From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring (Yes) from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. (Yes. All right) Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. (Well) Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. (Yes) But not only that: Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. (Yes) Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. (Yes) Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. [Applause] From every mountainside, [Applause] let freedom ring.

And when this happens, [Applause continues] when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, (Yes) we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

Free at last! (Yes) Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! [Applause] Martin L King, March on Washington,

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1963: Addressing the huge gather-ing at the March on Washington for J obs and Freedom

Create or Enrich Maps Locate natural disasters Identify natural resources Locate geographical features

Classroom Management 17

Demonstration StationUse Mapmaker’s Tool Kit

to DemonstrateGeographical Concepts

Manipulate and Analyze Data

Create data bases

Work with data base

Present data

Classroom Management 26

Cooperative Learning

Use Tabletop to manipulate and analyze databases.

Cats Which Are Both Male andTen Years Old

Thinking About The Process

The Implications for Schooling:

The Intersection ofThree Essential Elements

– Teacher– Student – Content

Technology Changes the Relationships at the Point

of Intersection

Refocusing Learning Altering the Perception of the Role of Teacher Valuing Higher Order Thinking Skills Creating a Culture of Inquiry Appealing to Multiple Intelligences

Technology refocuses learning

…from the narrow notion

of a finite catalogue of information

to an expanding universe rich in knowledge, context and connections.

Technology alters theperception of

teacher…from the idea of teacher as holder of all knowledge

to the creation of a learning community consisting of members with more and less experience

Technology Values Higher Order Thinking

Skills

…by changing the task from gathering old information

to analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating essential questions and creating new knowledge

Technology Creates a Culture of Inquiry

…that encourages student cooperation by placing students in a

collaborative environment

Technology Appeals to a Variety of

Intelligences

…by allowing teachers to develop lesson strategies that utilize a broader range of pedagogies and appeal to a greater number of learning styles

Can Computers Really

Make a Difference?

YES!