Integrating Technology into your Teaching

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Integrating Technology into your Teaching

• ED300
• Kristen N. Hindes

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Challenges

• Access
• Set-up
• Classroom
• Lab
• Media Center
• Familiarity/Personal Knowledge
• Keeping informed
• Test the software, become the expert

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Challenges

• Curriculum congruence
• Consider carefully the why of your decision to
  use technology as much as the how
• Example, CD-ROM about ancient Egyptian history
  when ancient Egyptian history is not part of your
  grade level curriculum
• Be care not use technology for technologys sake

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Technology to consider

• Audio-Video
• Film
• Filmstrip
• Audiotapes
• Video
• Video cameras
• Digital cameras
• videoconferencing

• Calculators
• Supports, is not a substitute for, the
  development of quantitative reasoning and problem
  solving skills.

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Technology to consider, cont.

• Word processing
• Keyboarding
• Simplifies editing and revision
• Students compose longer pieces

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Educational Software

• Drill-and-Practice
• Allows students to work with information they
  have previously learned, getting immediate
  feedback to assist in skill mastery
• Instructional game
• Provides practice similar to drill-and-practice
  software, but structures it in a game format,
  with rules and a competitive environment

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Educational Software

• Integrated Learning Systems
• ILS offer complete complete, networked
  instructional, assessment, and management
  packages with pretests, instruction, practice,
  and posttests.
• Often aligned with national or district
  curriculum goals.
• Problem-Solving Software
• Requires logical thinking on the students part
  and assumes that previous concept development has
  taken place

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Educational Software

• Reference
• Brings together great amounts of facts and
  illustrates them with a variety of media
  elementsgraphics, animation, video, and audio
• Computer Simulation
• Allow students to experience real-life events in
  the safety of the classroom. Decisions are often
  made to affect the outcome, so the student tends
  to become an involved and interested learner.

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Educational Software

• Tutorials
• Aid concept development by carefully presenting
  instruction and feedback. Can be used for
  remediation or enrichment, and are especially
  useful when teachers for a specialized topic are
  not available.

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Administrating with technology

• Communicating
• Letters
• Newsletters
• Official correspondence
• Student contact information
• E-mail

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Administrating with technology

• Planning
• Lesson plans
• Planning for individual students needs
• Designing a classroom layout
• Scheduling
• Budgeting money
• Booking classroom guests

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Administrating with technology

• Generating
• Quizzes, tests, assignments
• Easier to share with other teachers
• Easier to modify
• Easier for students to read

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Administrating with technology

• Evaluating
• Quantitative record keeping
• Electronic gradebooks
• Spreadsheet software
• Qualitative record keeping
• What a teacher observes in daily interactions
  with students is telling of the growth of those
  students
• Anecdotal method of assessment coupled with
  numerical

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Research Resources

• Britannica Online
• http//www.smcvt.edu/library/databases.htm
• Subject Guide to Selected Resources--Education
• http//www.smcvt.edu/library/resources/index.htm
• ERIC
• http//www.smcvt.edu/library/databases.htm
• Amazon.com
• http//www.amazon.com