Laptop Integration

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Laptop Integration

• Strong School, Waterbury
• Howard Gunther hugnther_at_aces.k12.ct.us
• Barbara Haeffner bhaeffner_at_aces.k12.ct.us

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Laptop Program

• Integrating technology improves student
  enthusiasm toward learning.
• When students are actively engaged in learning,
  achievement increases.
• To change instructional practice, teachers need
  opportunities to gain new knowledge and skills.
• Implementing new teaching practices improves
  student achievement.

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Subject Area Integration

• Teaching Strategies
• Project Based Learning
• Project Based Learning Checklist
• Real World Activities
• High Temperatures
• Jammin on the Text
• Higher Level Thinking Skills
• Where is it most effective?

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Classroom Management

• Instructional Design
• Instructional Design
• Student perceived relevance
• Student responsibility
• Teacher watchfulness

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Classroom Management Interviews

• How to Start Class
• Managing Student Behaviors
• Management Strategies

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Starter Activities

• Integrating technology as we shift our teaching
  and learning requires a unique approach to lesson
  and classroom planning.
• The sites go beyond what you can recreate with
  paper and pencil and use technology in a way that
  the lesson/activity would not be possible without
  it - and that is the key to seamless integration!

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Language Arts

• ePals Classroom Exchange
• epals Book Club
• 20th Century
• POV
• Introduction
• Storytelling
• Read Write Think

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Math

• Guide to State High Points
• American High Points Video
• Learning about Rate of Change (NCTM)
• Learning about Rate of Change (NCTM)
• NCTM Illuminations
• BrainPop
• Your brain just might pop with the wealth of
  lessons located here!
• BrainPop Video

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Science

• CIESE
• Interdisciplinary projects which utilize
  real-time data available from the Internet, and
  collaborative projects that utilize the
  Internet's potential to reach peers and experts
  around the world.
• CIESE Interactive
• The Nine Planets
• Take a virtual tour of the solar system and
  discover more about each planet than you may have
  ever known before!
• Nine Planets

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Social Studies

• Anne Frank Her Life and Times
• A picture filled scrapbook is one of the many
  resources available on this site.
• Atlas Xpeditions

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History

• The National Archives provides a variety of
  primary source resources.
• The Civil War as Photographed by Mathew Brady
• US NARA primary resources
• You Be the Historian
• Enter detective mode and use a variety of problem
  solving situations to determine historical
  context.
• You Be the Historian

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Electives

• A. Pintura Art Detective
• Students work through several situations and
  compare art from a variety of painters to a
  mystery painting.
• A. Pintura Art Detective
• San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
• This is one example showing the kind of quality
  information that can be found relating to all
  subjects.
• SFS Kids

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Sponge Activities

• Funbrain
• Online learning games in a variety of subjects.
• Kids Click Search Engine
• Students can be directed to search this site to
  read about content related to current class
  topics.
• New York Times Learning Network Student
  Connections
• News summaries, daily news quiz, word of the day,
  and Ask a Reporter

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WebQuest Portal

• 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.