Welcome to Using Technology to Increase Student Achievement

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Welcome to Using Technology to Increase Student
Achievement

• Dept EDCI
• Course 5959
• Section 62k
• Course Title Technology in Classroom
• Credit hours 1
• Instructor Mike McManamen
• Term Spring 2007

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Goal and Focus of Session 1

• How can Technology Integration Increase Student
  Learning in my Classroom ?
• What does Technology Integration look like in the
  Elementary Classroom?
• How can I better use the current tools I already
  have available to me?
• What is available to me online for free to help
  my students and how can I find it?
• What is a virtual school and why is it going
  change the way schools do business?

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How can Technology Integration Increase Student
Learning in my Classroom ?The Research

• No Computer Left Behind
• --June 29, 2005
• Findings
• 1) First, increased and sustained professional
  development opportunities should be afforded to
  educators who are called on to increase the
  effective use of technology for instructional
  purposes.
• 2) Second, additional time (support) must be
  allocated to the technology needs of educators.
  Time is needed both to learn new technologies
  themselves and to learn to integrate those
• technologies in the classroom
• 3) Third adequate technical assistance (support)
  must be provided to support technology adoption
  and that support must be timely
• 4) Finally, a consistently strong predictor of
  adoption and use of technology is attitude toward
  technology.

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Research Cont. . .

• Technology and Academic Achievement What the
  Research Shows
• Findings
• Technology is combined with instructional
  strategies, like project-based instruction, that
  actively involve students in learning in
  intellectually complex work that demands higher
  order thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Teachers have the necessary professional
  development.

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Technology's impact on learning

• http//www.nsba.org/sbot/toolkit/tiol.html

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No Child Left Behind Guidelines for Technology

• The NCLB Act (Title II, Part D, Subpart 1) sets
  forth three goals for educational technology
• Use technology to improve the academic
  achievement of students in elementary and
  secondary schools.
• Ensure that every studentregardless of race,
  ethnicity, gender, family income, geographic
  location, or disabilityis technologically
  literate by the end of the eighth grade.
• Encourage the effective integration of technology
  with teacher training and curriculum development
  to establish widely implemented, research-based
  best practices.

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National Technology Standards

• http//www.education-world.com/standards/national/
  technology/k_12.shtml
• NTS Standards

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This is not what technology should look like in
an Elementary Classroom.
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This is What it looks like!
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Ideal Lab Set-up
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Ideal Classroom Set-up - Elementary
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Technology Tools

• How can I better use the current tools I already
  have available to me?
• What is available to me online for free to help
  my students and how can I find it?

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How do I organize my web resources?

• My Favorites
• Save your favorites online
• Google
• Yahoo
• Folders
• Word or PowerPoint

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Online Resources

• Best Sites for Elementary Teachers
• Top 101 Websites for teachers
• The Teachers Corner. Net
• Top Sites in Education
• Best of the Internet for Elementary Teachers
• Discovery School
• Nettrekker
• Goshen County Online Resources
• What Else?

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Virtual SchoolsWhy Should We be Concerned?

• Article on Virtual Schools
• Wyoming E Academy
• (High School)
• Wyoming Virtual School
• (Elementary)
• Task With a partner investigate the Wyoming
  Virtual School. Talk about these Questions
• What would make a parent want to enroll their
  child?
• What makes our public school classrooms better?
• What can we do to make sure our classrooms
  contain the best attributes of the Virtual
  Schools?

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Project 1-Web Organization Due Next Session
Wednesday Feb 21st

• 1) Research the best online resources for your
  classroom.
• 2) Organize into the best system for you.
• 3) Next Session you will present your organized
  content and one of the best sites you found for
  your classroom.