Technology Integration: Assistive Technology and Social Media
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This is a Professional Development I conducted for our staff as part of an M.Ed. program.
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- 1. Fulton Heights Professional Development November 5, 2010
- 2. Current Technology Knowledge: I feel comfortable using……… 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 SchoolFusion Wiki Podcast/vodcast WebQuest Blog Productivity Software e-mail Search Engines Rating Average
- 3. Current Usage: I use, or would use if I had……… 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 Mobi board Document Camera Digital Projector Flip video camera Notebook Software PowerPoint Clickers Rating Average
- 4. I would like to learn to………
- 7. TODAY Assistive Technology Connecting with others using technology Model the use of clickers to increase engagement
- 8. When we are done, you should: Have chosen one Assistive Technology to investigate Composed an online communication Had fun with the clickers!
- 9. Teacher Trivia Challenge 1. How many teachers are there in the US? a. 7.3 million b. 6.2 million c. 8.5 million 2. Who was the first president to enact the law requiring guidelines and funding to states for the education of special needs children? a. Ford b. Kennedy c. Bush 3. What is Charlie Brown's teacher known for saying? 4. What landmark Supreme Court decision led to the integration of schools? a. IDEA b. No Child Left Behind c. Brown v. Board of Education 5. In the movie Dangerous Minds, Michelle Pfeiffer's character (teacher Louanne Johnson) challenges her students to a contest that brought together a famous musician and poet. Who were they? a. Bob Dylan/Dylan Thomas b. Leonard Cohen/Thomas Watson c. David Gray/Thomas Gray Bonus: What song was featured in the movie and featured Pfeiffer's character in the video? From: http://teachhub.blogspot.com/2008/12/teacher-trivia-challenge.html
- 11. What is Assistive Technology? Equipment that enhances the ability of students and employees to be more efficient and successful. For individuals with LD (learning disabilities), computer grammar checkers, an overhead projector used by a teacher, or the audiovisual information delivered through a CD-ROM would be typical examples. www.kentcountyarc.net/pages/main/resources/resources_glossary.htm
- 12. What about our kids?
- 13. Assistive Technology for Learning and Studying: Aids students with high-incidence disabilities (learning, behavior, or cognitive disabilities) to increase, maintain, or improve their functional capabilities. North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
- 14. Quick Access Technologies Multi-media PowerPoint YouTube/aTube Catcher Jing Screencast.com Concept-Mapping Inspiration IHMC Cmap Speech-to-Text Dragon Naturally Speaking e-Speaking Text-to-Speech Assistive Technologies site Which one do you think you would be most likely to try first? A. B. C. D. Why?
- 15. AccessApps
- 16. Teacher Trivia Challenge 6. What ancient educator is known for his technique of instructing through questioning students? a. Aristotle b. Socrates c. Thales of Miletus 7. What was the first word Anne Sullivan taught Hellen Keller? a. Water b. Milk c. Doll 8. Who first proposed the theory of multiple intelligences? a. John Dewey b. Lev Vygotsky c. Howard Gardner 9. Who started the Freedom Writers movement? a. Michelle Pfeiffer b. Erin Gruwell c. Dylan Thomas 10. What is the average # of weekly hours teachers spend on non- compensated duties? (According to a 2001 NEA study) a. 15.6 b. 9.3 c. 11.6 From: http://teachhub.blogspot.com/2008/12/teacher-trivia-challenge.html
- 18. What is UDL? Universal Design for Learning is a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. UDL provides a blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials, and assessments that work for everyone--not a single, one-size- fits-all solution but rather flexible approaches that can be customized and adjusted for individual needs. Why is UDL necessary? Individuals bring a huge variety of skills, needs, and interests to learning. Neuroscience reveals that these differences are as varied and unique as our DNA or fingerprints. Three primary brain networks come into play:
- 23. Resources 100 Inspiring Ways to Use Social Media in the Classroom English Companion Ning How to Connect Your Students Globally TeachHub.com List of Young Adult Writers Laurie Halse Anderson site 2learn.ca Go2Web20 RTI Guy on Facebook A. B. C. D. A. B. C. D.
- 24. Last Challenge Question! Who is the 2010 Teacher of the Year? a. Alex Kajatani b. Sarah Brown Wessling c. Anthony Mullen
- 25. Questions? You’ll have some time now to explore our new integration site – all of the links we have seem here are there, as well as many more!
- 26. Please complete the online discussion question before you explore the resources on our new site. Your input is valued!
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- What this says about our staff is that our primary concern is to provide our students with the access and support they need to learn. Removing barriers and creating excitement for learning are necessary for all students, but ours need particular attention in these areas.
- Let’s take a break for just a minute and see how you and your students can begin learning how to use clickers in your classroom. Like Kagan structures, it is best, and easiest, to introduce these strategies through fun, class-building, or teambuilding activities. After this process becomes smooth, you can begin plugging in content. We’ll do the rest of questions later and there will be a prize for the most correct answers! In verbal mode, the mode I’m using, you do not have to do any preparation to use the clickers. You can even still track students’ answers for assessment purposes. Teacher trivia with clickers, verbal mode, student chooser button for #3 Answers: 1. 6.2 million (b) 2. Gerald Ford (a) 3. 'wah wah wah wah? 4. Brown v. Board of Education(c) 5. Bob Dylan/Dylan Thomas (a) 5b. Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise
- So what is Assistive Technology? Ask for volunteers – if none, then use the student chooser in the clicker program
- Ask: What’s the most common label among our kids? So what kinds of assistive technologies are useful for them? I did some research and these are the ideas I found
- There are actually a number of technologies that are supportive for our students. Some reduce frustration, or support conceptual learning, or cater to different learning styles.
- I’ve created a school site that contains a great deal of information about different technologies that can be used in the classroom. We will visit that later, but there are several technologies that are very simple to use that I wanted to point out to you now. I’ve chosen several that are free and fairly easy to use. Ask which they would like to see and vote with the clickers Show 2
- This is a site that I only found recently. I’m very excited by what they’ve put together here and I wanted you to hear about it from them. There are some amazing resources on this site! How do you think students could use these? I have a jump drive that I have loaded with some of their programs - that will be the prize for the teacher today that gets the most questions right in our trivia challenge. So let’s do the second round!
- You don’t always have to do whole class instruction to use the clickers, you can give them a printed test and let them work at their own pace. Go ahead and answer the questions and I’ll show you the answers when everyone’s done. This would be a good time to get a drink or go to the bathroom if you need to. Teacher trivia with clickers, student paced 6. Socrates, 7. doll, 8. Howard Gardner, 9. Erin Gruwell, 10. 11.6 (according to a 2001 NEA study)
- Center for Applied Special Technology or CAST is an organization that specializes in research and development of technology tools and lessons to aid in differentiation of instruction. I wanted to introduce you to this site briefly because they have a number of free tools for teachers to use, including one that helps teachers check their lesson plans for the principles of Universal Design for Learning.
- Differentiation is so important – we all know that, but we get very little training in how to actually do it. The CAST site has so many resources, research findings, and other tools that I wanted you to know it is out there. One of the most important things I’ve learned through the research on their site is how to incorporate technology into my plans for differentiation. Everything has to start with the educational objective, not the technology, and it is so easy to become overwhelmed by all of the gizmos and programs. One of their articles points out the best way to incorporate technology for differentiation. Choose one thing you are going to try, plan to use it where it best helps meet an instructional objective, do the lesson, and then evaluate how it went and what you might do differently the next time. This cycle is the most manageable and productive way to use assistive technology, as well.
- How would you describe Web 2.0? What does that mean? How has it changed people’s use of the internet? The Pew Internet & American Life Project recently reported that “as the tools and technology embedded in social networking websites change, and use of the sites continues to grow, youth may be exchanging ‘macro-blogging' for micro-blogging with status updates.” Web 1.0 – That Geocities & Hotmail era was all about read-only content and static HTML websites. People preferred navigating the web through link directories of Yahoo! and dmoz. Web 2.0 – This is about user-generated content and the read-write web. People are consuming as well as contributing information through blogs or sites like Flickr, YouTube, Digg, etc. The line dividing a consumer and content publisher is increasingly getting blurred in the Web 2.0 era. Web 3.0 – This will be about semantic web (or the meaning of data), personalization (e.g. iGoogle), intelligent search and behavioral advertising among other things. If that sounds confusing, check out some of these excellent presentations that help you understand Web 3.0 in simple English. Each takes a different approach to explain Web 3.0 and the last presentation uses an example of a "postage stamp" to explain the "semantic web".
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- These are just a tiny sample of the resources that are out there for you, and your students, to use. Let’s choose just a couple to glance at….you’ll have a chance to explore them on your own at the end of our time. Use the clickers to choose 1 from each column and view them