What You Should Be Doing to Integrate the Tools of Technology into Instruction
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This document discusses strategies for integrating technology into teaching. It recommends five strategies: 1) Classroom blogging, which allows students to become publishers and fosters introspection; 2) Using technology for research and problem-solving to develop information literacy skills; 3) Using digital media like photos to enhance visual learning; 4) Having students collect and organize their knowledge into databases, wikis or blogs to provide their own scaffolding; and 5) Using targeted drill and practice software to be effective when it provides feedback and connections to the real world are made. The document emphasizes that technology should enhance and improve instruction, accommodate access issues, and foster discovery and constructivist learning through higher-order thinking.
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What You Should Be Doing to Integrate the Tools of Technology into Instruction
- 1. What you should be doing (now) to integrate the Tools of Technology into your Teaching John G. Hendron Goochland County
- 3. combine merge unify unite consolidate fuse homogenize
- 4. “Integration” means… Change the way you teach. Change the way students learn.
- 6. Buzzword 2: access
- 8. I want to know this is going to work. I want effective solutions for teaching.
- 9. Buzzword(s) 4: Connected Learning
- 10. Too many times, what’s done on a computer is inauthentic. Quality learning must connect to the real world to make a lasting impression on the lives of learning children.
- 11. Buzzword 5: Enhance [Instruction]
- 12. complement improve augment Will technology enhance what I’m already doing? What’s the value of enhancement? intensify improve quality supplement
- 13. My Five Classroom Blogging Research and Problem Solving Let Me See It Let Us Collect Practice Makes Perfect
- 15. This is easy to do—for students, and for teachers. Students become publishers. With RSS, blogs are easy to handle administratively. Blogging is at once social but also fosters introspection and self-evaluation.
- 18. The future is content that is imperfect that requires scrutiny... so— Teach students skills in information literacy by conducting research online + Use the power of collective intelligence that the Internet provides.
- 19. Have students construct their own new knowledge by finding it. Use technology (hardware + software) as one or more tools to solve problems, answer questions, or enlighten perspectives.
- 20. Let Me See It
- 21. Digital photography, and stock photo sources make finding visual media easier than ever before in the history of humankind. It takes longer than writing words, but we are visual animals, and many of our students learn well visually.
- 22. So... Let’s Tell a Story
- 23. What do you know about me? What do you know about Goochland High School? Are images coming to mind? Or only what I talked about?
- 24. Let Us Collect
- 25. Where do we put Information? Do you forget things? (I do) What would happen if we cataloged, or collected our knowledge, so we could browse it later?
- 26. What’s the Idea? Use technology to help students provide their own scaffolding by collecting and organizing the products of their knowledge. Databases, wikis, blogs, digital portfolios
- 28. Practice Makes Perfect
- 29. Is drill and practice software effective? What do others say?
- 30. Drill & Practice Is most effective when: it’s targeted for students who require practice, but who are also self-motivated the software provides feedback connections are made by the teacher for the student from the software to the real world
- 31. Conclusions Where We Are in 2005-2006
- 32. Integration National, State, and Local Mandates Access Change!—Professional Development Effectiveness of Technology
- 33. Which Strategies? Something easy Something that accommodates access issues Something that is based in sound educational/pedagogical theory Something that targets discovery, constructivist learning, and higher- order Blooms
- 34. 5 Strategies Classroom Blogging Research and Problem-Solving Let Me See It Let Us Collect Practice Makes... Perfect
- 35. Thanks! John G. Hendron www.johnhendron.net Goochland County Public Schools www.glnd.k12.va.us