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21st Century
Essential Skills – enGauge
Backwards
Design
Classroom
Instruction That Works
Information
Literacy
Innovative
Software
Moving
to Higher Levels
Multimedia
Presentations
One-Stop
Sites for Educators
Online
Assessment
Technology
Is More Than a Computer
Wireless
Mobile Computing
Which strategy is
the easiest to do with technology?
Can technology fit
into each of these strategies?
What is Information
Literacy?
How has information
literacy changed over the past 5 years?
What is our responsibility
to help students become technologically literate?
How do we move beyond
just "teaching the software" to applying the use of the software
to the task?
What types of software
lend themselves to more student/class interaction?
What are the characteristics
of a high-level activity?
How can you change
an activity that focues on lower levels of recall and comprehension
to higher levels?
Why is such an emphasis
placed on multimedia?
What is an effective
use of multimedia? What is an ineffective use?
Why would a teacher
want to start with one of these sites versus Google?
What site is most
helpful to you?
Are online
assessments for students or for teachers?
What is
the impact of online assessment on students and teachers?
What characteristics
make a higher-level project:
What are
the strengths and limitations of project-based learning?
Is the school setting
the place for students to learn thse tools?
What can
you do to help students make real work applications using these tools?
What additional
technologies could beincluded?
Should wireless
technology be a part of education?
Will wireless technology
be a part of your students' future?
What can you do
to facilitate emerging technologies?
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Promising
Practices Using Technology
The topics below suggest ways that teachers can use technology to meet
their instructional objectives and achieve their goals for student learning
and achievement. The technology isn’t the focus; it is the tool
for what is happening with your curriculum.
21st Century Essential Skills – enGauge
http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/skills.htm
Over $7 billion is invested annually in educational technology. Increasingly,
policymakers, administrators, and teachers are being asked:
* What value does technology bring to our nation's schools?
* How can our schools ensure a return on these investments?
* Why does technology work in some schools and not in others?
EnGauge, a new Web-based framework developed by NCREL with Metiri Group,
provides deep insights into these critical questions.
Today's school leaders face a serious dilemma: Communities expect their
graduates to be ready to thrive in the Digital Age, but the 21st century
skills required for such success are not well defined. Those skills
have been divided into
- Basic
Literacy
- Scientific
Literacy
- Economic
Literacy
- Technological
Literacy
- Visual
Literacy
- Information
Literacy
- Multicultural
Literacy
All students
need to learn to use technology more effectively, and teachers need
to incorporate technology as one of the tools they use as they teach
the Utah State Core Curriculum.
Technological literacy is knowledge about what technology is, how it
works, what purposes it can serve, and how it can be used efficiently
and effectively to achieve specific goals.
Students who are technologically literate:
- Demonstrate
a sound conceptual understanding of the nature of technology systems
and view themselves as proficient users of these systems.
- Understand
and model positive, ethical use of technology in both social and personal
contexts.
- Use
a variety of technology tools in effective ways to increase creative
productivity.
- Use
communication tools to reach out to the world beyond the classroom
and communicate ideas in powerful ways.
- Use
technology effectively to access, evaluate, process and synthesize
information from a variety of sources.
- Use
technology to identify and solve complex problems in real-world contexts.
Backwards
Design
or Know Where You Plan to End Up Before You Get Started
Use this
template to design your lessons using the backwards design process,
focusing on Core standards, essential understanding, essential questions,
skills tobe learned, assessment, and instructional activities.
Lesson Plan Template
Microsoft
Word Version | PDF
Version
Understanding
by Design Exchange
http://www.ubdexchange.org/resources.html
Classroom
Instruction That Works
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/professional_development/strategies/index.html
The authors have examined decades of research to determine what teaching
strategies have positive effects on student learning. These strategies
are not new, but when teachers use these strategies effectively with
their students, the outcome is a measurable difference in student achievement.
Each of these strategies can be used by any teacher at any time, using
either traditional teaching tools or using technology. This site provides
ideas for using technology.
Information Literacy
These sites help students improve their research when using the Internet
as a research tool.
Elementary Library Media Page: It’s Not the What . . . It’s
the Where
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/grade_level/media.html
Information Literacy: Garbage In, Garbage Out: Evaluating Web Pages
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/grade_level/secondary/info_lit.html
Internet Research Skills: Inspired Investigations
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/searchingtheweb/internet_research.html
Searching the Web
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/searchingtheweb/searching.html
NetSmartz and Internet Safety
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/Internet_Safety/safetyindex.html
Innovative Software
ArcView/GIS
http://www.gis.com
GIS.com is a portal to GIS information on the Web and was created by
ESRI, a GIS software developer. The site is intended to educate anyone
interested in geographic technology on the value that technology brings
to their day-to-day activities. The site also provides GIS users with
resources to help them in their work.
Tom Snyder
Company
http://tomsnyder.com/
Software products and professional development services that inspire
great teaching and improve student learning such asTime Liner, Graph
Club 2.0, Decisions, Decisions, Science Court Explorations, and Reading
for Meaning
Inspiration/Kidspiration
Visual learning techniques - graphical ways of working with ideas and
presenting information - teach students to clarify their thinking, and
to process, organize and prioritize new information. Visual diagrams
reveal patterns, interrelationships and interdependencies. They also
stimulate creative thinking.
Inspiration/Kidspiration
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/professional_development/Inspiration3/Main.html
Kidspiration
Activities
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/Kidspiration/index.html
Inspiration
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/inspiration_templates/index.html
Moving to Higher Levels
Move from questions and activities focusing on recall and knowledge
to the higher levels of application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
CSIP Activities and Strategies
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/technology_planning/csip/index.html
Differentiated Instruction and Multiple Intelligences
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/different/diffindex.html
Bloom's Taxonomy
http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/guides/bloom.html
Loti Assessment Information
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/technology_planning/LoTi/index.html
Multimedia Presentations
Students can create multimedia presentations as an alternative way to
assess what they have learned. Multimedia presentations are also great
to introduce new subjects or as a teaching tool.
Creating Effective Presentations
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/presentations/index.html
KidPix
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/professional_development/KidPix/kidpix_studio.htm
HyperStudio
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/professional_development/HyperStudio/hyperstudio.htm
PowerPoint
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/professional_development/PowerPoint_Web/index.html
Keynote
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/professional_development/KeyNote/index.html
ImageBlender
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/professional_development/ImageBlender/index.html
MediaBlender
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/professional_development/MediaBlender/index.html
One-Stop Sites for Educators
Don’t
spend your time going from one web site to another looking for information.
Start with the sites below.
Utah Education
Network (UEN)
http://www.uen.org
T4–Transforming Teaching Through Technololgy
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us
MarcoPolo
http://www.marcopolo-education.com
Intel Innovation in Education
http://www97.intel.com/education/index.asp
.....Unit
and Project Plans
.....http://www.intel.com/education/unitplans
.....An Innovative Odyssey: A world tour
of innovative uses of technology in education
.....http://www97.intel.com/odyssey/storyindex_day.asp
Apple
Learning Interchange
http://ali.apple.com/
.....Teaching and Learning
.....http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/teaching.html
.....iLife
Lesson Ideas
.....http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/ilife.html
Online Assessment
Use the Internet for a variety of purposes: have your students take
practice CRTs, design rubrics that are tailored exactly to your specifications,
or help your students with their compositions following 6-trait writing
guides.
Assessment
and Evaluation
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/integration/Eval&Assess/E&A.html
UTIPS (Utah Test Item Pool)
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/tips/tipsforusingtips.html
On a Mac use Safari or Netscape for your
browser
Rubrics
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/Rubrics/Rubrics.html
UEN Rubric
Tool
http://www.uen.org/rubric/
USOE Evaluation and Assessment Site
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/eval/
Evaluating Writing Using 6 Trait Scoring
http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/ScoringPractice.asp?odelay=3&d=1
Project-Based Learning
With project-based learning, students investigate rich and challenging
issues and topics, often in the context of real-world problems, integrating
a variety of subjects. Students typically work in teams, using technology
to access current information. In order to promote critical thinking
skills, a good project will contain one or more of the following:
- Interpersonal
Communication
- Information
Gathering or Data Collection
- Collaborative
Problem Solving/Product Creation
Technology Project Ideas
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/grade_level/projects.html
LoTi Level Lessons
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/technology_planning/LoTi/lotilevels.html
Edutopia Online: The George Lucas Foundation
http://www.glef.org/
WebQuests
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/professional_development/WebQuests/index.htm
A WebQuests is an inquiry-based activity in which some or all of the
information that learners interact with comes from resources on the
Internet. Learners search the Internet with a specific task in mind
as the focus is on using information rather than searching. They support
higher level thinking skills (analysis, synthesis, and evaluation) and
are useful for teaching any subject at any grade level.
Technology Is More Than a Computer
Computers are wonderful but don’t forget the other new technologies
available.
Learning with Handhelds
http://www.intel.com/education/handhelds/index.htm
Videography for Educators
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/ali/exhibits/1000019/
Digital Cameras in the Classroom
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/professional_development/digital_cameras/index.html
Digital Gadgets in the Clasroom
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/gadgets.html
Texas Instruments
http://education.ti.com/educationportal/index.jsp
Wireless Mobile Computing
Wireless computing allows us to untether computers. Instead of moving
kids to machines you can move machines to kids, allowing them to use
the technological in the best educational environment for the task.
Mobile
Computing for Education
http://www.apple.com/education/mobilecomputing/news.html
Maine Learning
Technology Initiative
http://www.state.me.us/mlte/
Jordan School District’s Mobile Labs
http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/JustNTime/index.html
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