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Technology—the
Perfect Tool?
Questions
to Consider
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Why should we consider using technology when we teach?
• How can technology tools be used to provide learners of all
abilities the opportunity to achieve?
• How can technology promote higher order thinking skills?
• How can technology help increase literacies students need?
Your
Task
•
Identify 2 or 3 tools that can be used with your curriculum.
• How and why would you use them?
The
Tools
Read*Write*Think
Stapleless
Book
http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/stapleless/index.html
One of
the MarcoPolo partners, Read*Write*Think’s goal is to provide
highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts
instruction.
ReadWriteThink
offers a collection of online Student Materials. These interactive tools
can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity
for students to use technology while developing their literacy skills.
Inspiration:
The Power of Visual Learning
http://www.inspiration.com
Using the
proven power of visual learning, Inspiration® helps 6th to 12th
grade students strengthen critical thinking, comprehension and writing
skills across the curriculum. Students build graphic organizers to represent
concepts and relationships and use the integrated outlining capability
to further organize ideas for reports.
Interactive Thinking Tools
http://www.intel.com/education/tools/index.htm
Visual Ranking
http://www.intel.com/education/visualranking/index.htm
Students show their reasoning and discuss differences in their conclusions
as they use the Visual Ranking tool to prioritize and compare items
in lists.
Seeing
Reason prompts students to investigate cause-and-effect relationships
in complex systems. They use an interactive causal mapping tool to create
maps that communicate their understanding.
http://www.intel.com/education/seeingreason/index.htm
Pioneer:
Utah’s Online Library
http://pioneer.uen.org/
Home Log-in Use your UEN log-in and password
Student Log-in login: pioneer password: utah
Visual Thesaurus
CultureGrams
UTIPS: Utah Test Item Pool
http://www.utips.org
Create
your own test. For example:
http://abjorklund.utips.org/
WebQuests
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the
information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed
to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than
looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis,
synthesis and evaluation
.
The WebQuest Page
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/
WebQuest Matrix
http://www.webquest.org
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