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Saving Your WorkSaving Your Work

Breaks/ScheduleBreaks/Schedule

AttendanceAttendance

Class Class ParticipationParticipation

AssignmentsAssignments

JournalsJournals

Important Things to Important Things to Remember!!Remember!!

CollaborateCollaborate

NetworkNetwork

ShareShare

SupportSupport

Professional Professional ConversationConversation

EvaluateEvaluate

ReviewReview

SpeculateSpeculate

WonderWonder

RespondRespond

AssessAssess

Reflective JournalReflective Journal

Application SoftwareApplication Software

Cross PlatformCross Platform

K – 12K – 12

Multi-disciplineMulti-discipline

Higher Order Thinking Higher Order Thinking SkillsSkills

ConstructivismConstructivism

LearningLearning is not only a is not only a matter of transferring matter of transferring ideas from one who is ideas from one who is knowledgeable to one who knowledgeable to one who is not…it is a is not…it is a processprocess where knowledge becomes where knowledge becomes internalized.internalized.Teaching with Technology, Sandholtz, Ringstaff,

Dwyer

1997, Teachers College Press, Columbia University

INSTRUCTIONAL INSTRUCTIONAL EVOLUTIONEVOLUTION

ENTRYENTRYADOPTIONADOPTIONADAPTIONADAPTIONAPPROPRIATIONAPPROPRIATIONINVENTIONINVENTION

FIVE STAGESFIVE STAGES

Entry

Non-users of technologyMinimal student technology useDisconnected technology useTraditional Instruction

Technology is a Technology is a problem, an problem, an inconvenienceinconvenience

Adoption

Use technology for personal productivity

Limited student technology useTraditional Instruction

Technology seen as Technology seen as having some, limited having some, limited utilityutility

Adaptation

Use technology for instructionConsistent student technology use

Continue to do what they’ve always done, but now with technology

Technology often an add-on

Technology used for Technology used for traditional instructiontraditional instruction

Appropriation

What will this tool let us do?Powerful student technology use

Changes in teaching practice begin

Technology becomes a Technology becomes a powerful tool for learningpowerful tool for learning

Innovation

Non-traditional classroomPowerful student technology useStudent-centered, learner- directedConstructivistProject-based

Technology transforms Technology transforms teaching and learningteaching and learning

DemonstratiDemonstration of on of successsuccess

Teacher centered, didactic

Learner centered & interactive

Fact teller, always expert

Facts, memorization

Quantity

Collaborator & sometimes learner

Relationships, inquiry and invention

Quality

ClassrooClassroom m ActivityActivity

Teacher Teacher RoleRole

InstructionInstructional al emphasisemphasis

InstructionInstruction ConstructConstructionion

The New York State The New York State Learning Learning StandardsStandards

Situate learning in real-life contexts

Help students be actively involved in their own learning

Show students how to explore, explore, developdevelop, , apply, respond critically, apply, respond critically, analyze, evaluateanalyze, evaluate

Focus on what the student will do, not what the teacher will do

Requires a change in instruction & assessment

Essential Essential QuestionsQuestions

•Go to the heart of a Go to the heart of a disciplinediscipline•Naturally recurNaturally recur

•Raise other important Raise other important questionsquestions•Have no simple right or Have no simple right or wrong answerwrong answer

Essential QuestionsEssential Questions•What makes a great author?

•Must you live it to write it?

•Is the U. S. 18th century constitution the best basis of government in the 21st century?

•Is the space exploration worth the cost?

•Did the Roman Empire fall or was it pushed?