Using Technology to Reach all Learners

By Sabrina McDowUsing Technology to Reach all Learners

In groups of four, please discuss the following question:

DiscussionWhy should we use technology in our classrooms?Type your response inWallwisher Response

Why technology now?21st Century Learning

Pre-TrainingWatch the following animated video: Integrating Technology using Websites

Complete the graphic organizer: Graphic Organizer

Jot down ideas of how you could use the three online resources in your classroom.

Engaging StudentsAre all of your students engaged?

What can we do in our classrooms to address technological advances in our society?

How can we use these advances to our advantage while engaging students?

Use the available resourcesXtranormalhttp://www.xtranormal.com/Xtranormal is a website that allows the use of animated characters to speak from text. It is useful with teaching lessons for engagement.

StixyYou can create Stixy presentations of lessons, as well as, provide instructions, graphics and videos for students that were not present for your days lesson. It can also be made available on a website for students to use at home when completing homework. Parents could also view the tutorial or lesson at home on their computer and feel more comfortable assisting their middle school child in Algebra.

WallwisherWallwisher is an excellent website for creating online discussions. After a question is posted, students can reply and view other replies from their classmates.

Prezihttp://prezi.com/Prezi is a wonderful website for showing off information. It allows the user to use different zooming options to emphasize facts, data, questions, pictures, graphs, etc.

Technological ResourcesHow can we use these resources effectively?

TutorialsVisit the following tutorials for some ideas.

Stixy Tutorial

WallWisher Tutorial

Effective use of TechnologyWhen creating presentations it is important to research graphics and videos. You can also create your own graphics and videos. I usually do a clip art search for graphics or use my camera to take pictures of relevant information.

ActivityFor this activity you will use the internet to search for math graphics and videos on a AKS of your choice. You will save your findings in a self-created folder with your name on it. Once you have at least 5 graphics and 2 videos, we will use it to create a Stixy.

ActivityLogon to www.Wallwisher.com/wall/smcdow and respond to the command on the wall that I created.

How could you incorporate Wallwisher in your lessons? Share your ideas with your group.

Authentic AssessmentCreate two lesson plans using either Prezi, Wallwisher, Stixy, Xtranormal or a combination of the four for an AKS that you will be teaching this school year. At least one lesson plan should give the students the opportunity to use the online resources.The assessment will be evaluated using the provided rubric.

RubricAuthentic Assessment Rubric

ResourcesBjnesbitt. (2007). A vision of k-12 students today. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8

Linkswww.prezi.comwww.rubistar.comwww.safeshare.tvwww.stixy.comwww.wallwisher.comwww.xtranormal.comwww.Youtube.com

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