2. Professional Development
• Improve communication
• Improve instruction
• Become more efficient
by asynchronous work
environment
• Allow professionals to
learn at own pace
3. Productivity Classroom Tool
• Manage and access
your own materials
quickly
• Effective presentation
of information to
students
• Real time assessment
and feedback
4. Improve Learning
• Have students become producers rather than
just consumers of media
• Constructivist learning – students learn by
doing
5. 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
6. Media
Multi-Media
Digital Media
Assists in organizing and
• Technology that allows
managing vast amounts of
users to create new forms
information in various types
of interaction, expression,
of media
communication and
entertainment
Create and communicate
• Is multi-sensory
using various types of
technology
7. 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
8. 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!
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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
15. Digital Citizenship
• Advocate and practice
safe, legal & responsible
use
• Positive attitude that
supports
collaboration, learning
and productivity
• Ex: Have students
debate issues of
“netiquette”, Facebook
and Myspace
dangers, security of
information
16. Technology Operations & Concepts
• Understand and use
technology systems
• Select and use
applications effectively
• Troubleshoot systems
and applications
• Transfer knowledge
• 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
17. 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?
