What you should be doing (now) to integrate the Tools

of Technology intoyour Teaching

J o h n G . H e n d r o nG o o c h l a n d C o u n t y

Buzzword 1:integration

combinemerge

unite

fuseconsolidate

unify

homogenize

Change the way you teach.Change the way students learn.

“Integration” means…

Change is difficult.

Buzzword 2:access

Buzzword 3:Accountability

I want to know this is going to work.

I want effective solutions for teaching.

Buzzword(s) 4:Connected Learning

Too many times,what’s done on a computer is

inauthentic.

Quality learning must connectto the real world to make a lasting impression

on the lives of learning children.

Buzzword 5:Enhance

[Instruction]

Will technology enhance what I’m already doing?

What’s the value of enhancement?

supplement

augmentimprove

complement

intensifyimprove quality

My Five

Classroom Blogging

Research and Problem Solving

Let Me See It

Let Us Collect

Practice Makes Perfect

ClassroomBlogging

This is easy to do—for students, and for teachers.

Students become publishers.

With RSS, blogs are easy to handle administratively.

Blogging is at once social but also fosters introspection and self-evaluation.

Research &Problem-Solving

The future is content that is imperfect that requires scrutiny... so—

Teach students skills in information literacy by conducting research online +

Use the power of collective intelligence that the Internet provides.

Have students construct their own new knowledge by finding it.

Use technology (hardware + software) as one or more tools to solve problems, answer questions, or enlighten perspectives.

Let Me See It

Digital photography, and

stock photo sources make

finding visual media easier

than ever before in the history

of humankind.

It takes longer than writing words,

but we are visual animals,

and many of our students learn

well visually.

So...Let’s Tell a

Story

What do you know about me?

What do you know about Goochland High School?

Are images coming to mind? Or only what I talked about?

Let Us Collect

Where do we put Information?

Do you forget things? (I do)

What would happen if we cataloged, or collected our knowledge, so we could browse it later?

What’s the Idea?

Use technology to help students provide their own scaffolding by collecting and organizing the products of their knowledge.

Databases, wikis, blogs, digital portfolios

Practice Makes Perfect

Is drill and practice software effective?

What do others say?

Is most effective when:

it’s targeted for students who require practice, but who are also self-motivated

the software provides feedback

connections are made by the teacher for the student from the software to the real world

Drill & Practice

ConclusionsWhereWe Are

in2005-2006

Integration

National, State, and Local Mandates

Access

Change!—Professional Development

Effectiveness of Technology

Which Strategies?

Something easy

Something that accommodates access issues

Something that is based in sound educational/pedagogical theory

Something that targets discovery, constructivist learning, and higher-order Blooms

5 Strategies

Classroom Blogging

Research and Problem-Solving

Let Me See It

Let Us Collect

Practice Makes... Perfect

Thanks!John G. Hendron

www.johnhendron.net

Goochland CountyPublic Schools

www.glnd.k12.va.us