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Welcome
Interactive Learning for the Interactive Generation
Presenter: Terri Stice, Director of Instructional Technology, ADE; GCTGreen River Regional Educational Cooperative
Fundamental QuestionsDoes technology fundamentally change good instructional practice?
Is good instruction just good instruction and technology just an add on?
Guiding Questions•What does teaching & learning look like when
technology is being effectively used? •What are the challenges of the classroom? • How do we engage the interactive generation?
Research
“Technology integration is the future of education.”
“Technology has a way to get every student involved – we simply can’t overlook it.”
“It’s not about the technology. It’s about the interactions we get because of the technology.”
John Medina
Rule # 10 – Vision trumps all other senses
Teachers must use classroom technologies to enhance and expand student interactions with knowledge and people.
•Physical Interactions •Social Interactions•Cognitive Interactions
1. Is the technology being used “Just because it is there?”
2. Is the technology allowing the teacher/students to do old things in old ways?
3. Is the technology allowing the teacher/students to do old things in new ways?
4. Is the technology creating new and different learning experiences for the students?
Effective Instructional Strategy
Research Application to Differentiated Classrooms
Technology to help Engagement for Learning
Recognizing similarities and differences
45% percentile gain
Graphic organizers, sorting, classifying, using metaphors and analogies
Inspiration/KidspirationGraphic Organizers
Emotion is the best way into the mind.
Summarizing information and taking notes
34% percentile gain
Beginning, Middle, End, Clarifying information, webbing
Primary Pad VoicethreadRead Write Think
Work has meaning and value
Reinforcing effort and providing recognition
29% percentile gain
Effective praise, & rewards Storybird.comKids R Authors Scholastic
Would the kids keep doing the work if the teacher wasn’t here?
Homework and practice 28% percentile gain
Planners and Organizers Twitter, Facebook, Homework helpers
Clear/Modeled Expectations – Students know what success looks like.
Nonlinguistic representations
27% percentile gain
Cause and Effect OrganizersConcept Organizers
Digital CamerasGlogster, Google Earth
Choice – Students have meaningful options.
Cooperative and collaborative learning groups by ability, interest, and other criteria
27% percentile gain
Think-Pair- ShareIndividual and Group accountability
WikispacesGoogle DocsThinkQuests & Webquests
Learning with others – Learning has a social component.
Setting objectives and providing feedback
23% percentile gain
Ongoing feedback, student feedback
Blogs, Discussions Boards, Facebook
Personal Response – work that engages almost always focuses on a product or performance
Generating and testing hypotheses
23% percentile gain
Decision Making, Historical investigation, invention
Graph Club, Xtra Normal, Sense of audience – Student work is shared.
Questions, cues, and Advance Organizers
22% percentile gain
Advance organizers question wait time
Cubing, Think Dots, video conferencing
Emotional / Intellectual Safety – Freedom to take risks.
Be Thoughtful….
Software Selections What are the interactions it provides?
(physical, social, cognitive) Is it meeting the need? (FREE)
Kids touching the board/laptop does not mean you have cognitive interaction.
Get away from the “Undeniable Wow” and ask why?
Work to design, not to decorate lessons and resources
What’s the task?
Terri Stice, Director of Instructional Technology
Green River Regional [email protected]