Why Use Technology?

Week 1 Lesson

Professional Development• Improve communication

• Improve instruction

• Become more efficient by asynchronous work environment

• Allow professionals to learn at own pace

Productivity Classroom Tool

• Manage and access your own materials quickly

• Effective presentation of information to students

• Real time assessment and feedback

Improve Learning

• Have students become producers rather than just consumers of media

• Constructivist learning – students learn by doing

Computer & Information Literacy

• Used together creates integration literacy

• Information literacy goes beyond technical proficiency:

• Gather information

• Select relevant information

• Organize information to integrate it and take action

Media

Multi-Media

Assists in organizing and managing vast amounts of information in various types of media

Create and communicate using various types of technology

Digital Media

• Technology that allows users to create new forms of interaction, expression, communication and entertainment

• Is multi-sensory

Standards for Teachers

• ISTE – International Society for Technology in

Education

– Created standards for all involved in education

• Teachers– Understand concepts

– Acquire knowledge, skills and attitudes for applying technology in K-12 settings

Who our students are…

• Hyper-communicators– Use multiple tools to communicate

• Multi-taskers– Who do several things at once with

ease

• Goal-oriented– Pursue multiple goals at one time

Our objective is to turn viewers into producers!

What our students should know

• How to be creative and innovative

• How to communicate and collaborate

• How to research for information fluency

• How to think critically & problem-solve

• How to be good digital citizens

• How to navigate basic technology operations

Creativity & Innovation• Apply existing

knowledge to generate new ideas

• Create original works as means of personal or group expression

• Use models and simulations and Identify trends

• Ex: create own presentations, web sites or videos to demonstrate understanding of newly acquired information

Communications & Collaboration

Interact, collaborate and publish with peers

Communicate info and ideas effectively via a variety of media

Develop cultural understanding

Contribute to team projects to solve problems

Ex: have students use cooperative learning via virtual classrooms across buildings, cities, states or world using wikis, blogs, podcasts

Research & Information Fluency

Plan strategies to guide inquiry

Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize and ethically use info from various media

Evaluate and select info sources

Process data and report results

Ex: evaluating sources correctly when searching the Internet and various online sources

Fluency continued…

Information fluency

• A person has mastered the ability to analyze and evaluate information

Media Literacy

• The ability to create, develop and successfully communicate info in all forms. Ability to analyze and question all media

Critical thinking and Problem solving

Identify and define problems and questions for investigation

Plan and manage activities to complete project

Collect and analyze data

Use multiple process to explore solutions

Ex: students create own podcast to prove what they have learned on a specific topic…creation goes beyond simply using technology

Digital Citizenship

• Advocate and practice safe, legal & responsible use

• Positive attitude that supports collaboration, learning and productivity

• Ex: Have students debate issues of “netiquette”, Facebookand Myspacedangers, security of information

• Understand and use technology systems

• Select and use applications effectively

• Troubleshoot systems and applications

• Transfer knowledge

Technology Operations & Concepts

• Ex: allow students to select best software application or WAY of doing a project within one software application to see if they can transfer knowledge effectively

To Think About…

• Who will your students be?

• What ways can you effectively integrate technology in that setting?

• Where are you at this point with technology?

• Where do you want to be?