EDEL 394

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EDEL 394

• Technology Integration
• Wednesday, February 15

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Technological Literacy

• Why is technological literacy important?
• Contemporary literacy opportunities and
  challenges
• Lack of barriers between child and adult literacy
  world
• Lack of gatekeepers to censor hateful or
  incorrect messages
• Power and status in society the digital divide

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Albertas ICT program of studies

• An umbrella program, as opposed to a discrete
  subject area, designed to be infused across
  subjects
• Focus on learning
• Technology is best learned within the context of
  applications. Activities, projects, and problems
  that replicate real-life situations are effective
  resources for learning technology. (Alberta
  Education, 1999. Information and Communication
  Technology K-12, p.1)

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Technological Literacy

• Computers have not revolutionized schools
• Learning from computers and learning about
  computers has been replaced by a a learning
  with computers model

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Some wonderful examples of classroom projects
from Edmonton elementary school teachers and
children

• http//www.k-3learningpages.net/technology20home.
  htm
• http//www.k-3learningpages.net/web20online20gam
  es.htm
• Ms. Carol Vaage,
• St. Monicas School

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• http//dovercourt.theclassroom.ca/
• http//tlc.epsb.ca/lummismath/index.htm
• Mr. Andrew Lummis, Assistant Principal
• Dovercourt School

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• http//www.stmary.ecsd.net/inquiry/
• This project was science/language arts/art
  (integrated with digital pictures and word
  processing)  The project was a beginning step
  into using technology to facilitate inquiry
  based, project based learning published to share
  our learning globally.
• http//www.stmary.ecsd.net/2C1/
• This is a grade two project involving using
  technology in math class.  Excel was used to
  create graphs about a survey question they had. 
  A few of the students had family in Australia and
  the UK who also shared in the learning through
  email to the students and class.
• http//www.stmary.ecsd.net/Mrs20D206C/China/Chi
  na/Index/index.htm
• My first project is a China Website designed and
  created by Grade six students.  We decided (as a
  class) to use Front Page, publishing and coming
  up with activities that would support learning. 
  The students did all the research, designed their
  pages in groups and published to our school
  website.
• http//www.stmary.ecsd.net/mm/5G.htm
• This is a claymation project with the grade five
  teacher and class.  We worked with art, digital
  photography, video editing software and
  music. This project was entered into a contest in
  a River Valley Film Contest and won first place
  in their age group. The students received a
  trophy, new video editing software. The students
  and teachers were motivated to continue to video
  capture learning for authentic audiences.
• http//web.mac.com/stbrendansix/iWeb/Site/Welcome
  .html
• This is a podcasting project. The grade sixes
  have started and will assist the grade ones in
  podcasting penguin stories and research.
• Ms. Denise D'Agostini
• Assistant Principal, St. Brendan School

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Blog possibilities near and far

• Visit the site Learning and Technology
  Integration site www.lati.ualberta.ca to see
  examples of teacher and class blogs. Follow links
  for resources and elementary ELA.
• This site was created for a project in technology
  integration that is funded by AB Education. The
  project links mentor teachers, student teachers,
  and university teachers/researchers.

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Word Processing
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Databases and Spreadsheets
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Hypertext and Hypermedia
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Evaluating Computer Software
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The Internet

• Learning on and with the Internet
• Currency
• Relevancy
• Immediacy
• Multiple Perspectives
• Multiple dimensions

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Strategies for Web Reading
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Additional Issues and challenges