Transcript PowerPoint Presentation - Technology in Education

Technology in the Classroom
General Introduction
Ideas for Managing and Using
Computers in the Classroom
Karen Work Richardson
June 2001
Integrating Technology May…
• Change the way you teach
• Change the way you interact with your
students
• Change the expectations you have for your
students
• Free you to really do what you do best:
TEACH!
ACOT Stages of Technology Integration
Entry
Learn the basics of using the new technology
(skill)
Adoption
Use new technology to support traditional
instruction (create puzzles or worksheets, use
for information)
Adaptation
Integrate new technology into traditional
practice (application software)
Appropriation
Focus on cooperative, project-based, and
interdisciplinary work
Invention
Discover new uses for technology tools
http://www.apple.com/education/planning/profdev/index4.html
Web Resources
The BEST Site for One Computer Classrooms:
http://www.furman.edu/~pecoy/mfl195/onecomputer.ht
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A Sample Web-based Lesson:
http://www.wmburgweb.com/Resources/Lesson/index.htm
A GREAT portal for Teachers:
http://www.teach-nology.com/
Issues of Computer Use
• Expectations : What do you hope to achieve?
• Room Arrangement
– Where do students use the computer?
• Management/Scheduling
– When do students use the computer?
– How do students use the computer?
• Integration
– Why do students use the computer?
Room Arrangement
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Easy access for students and for teacher
Easily supervised
Plenty of space
Neatly organized
Planning the When
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Be fair
Be realistic
Be consistent
Have the computer in
use all the time
• Consider using Friday
as “catch-up” day
• Use time or defined
task to determine how
long each child or
group can be at the
computer
• Use technology to
track usage
Planning the How
• Develop a system for
using the computer
• Think small
• Assign learning
groups
• Emphasize preplanning
• Limit data entry
• Create a homepage
with agendas and links
• Use “class buddies” to
update computers
users who miss
classwork
Planning the How
• Enforce expectations • Use scaffolds
– Task cards
• Avoid floppy disks
– Checklists
• Use students as
– Templates
computer helpers
• Get help
• Steal!
Integration
• Examine current unit or activity for ways to
add technology
• Rewrite the lesson unit to identify changes
due to technology
• Prepare materials and create schedule
Ideas…
• Look up info related to current class
discussion
• Daily info like sunrise/sunset, tides,
temperature
• Class newspaper or journal
• Ongoing story
• Class web page
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Drill and practice
Simulations
Adding adjectives and adverbs
Subject/verb agreement
Identify poetic devices
Brainstorming
Ideas…
• Have students create task cards for a particular
activity or web site
• Draw story webs
• Illustrate vocabulary words
• Make lists, sort lists, organize lists
• Print out clip art or graphics to use in collages
• Add graphics and pictures to a class collection
• Mini-lessons
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• Use computer group work to teach
cooperative learning skills
• Have ongoing “personal” projects that
children can work on for short periods of
time throughout the year(write in journal or
add to a web page)
• Take or make a quiz
• Complete or make a puzzle
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Group or class e-mail letter
Class database
Enter group info into spreadsheet and graph
Electronic worksheets
Reading database
Class calendar
Add a label
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Create a school directory
Make an alphabet book
Prepare for a field trip
Report on a field trip
Write a caption
Add a sentence
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Quicktime movies
Venn diagrams
Color maps in Paint
Create a timeline
Diagram a sequence
Put the pictures in order
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Use commercial software
Find time for exploration and creativity
Chart information in a table
Collaborate on a banner
Model using the computer as a tool
Use a picture to illlustrate a topic