Technology in Everyday Teaching

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Technology in Everyday Teaching

• BYTE Conference
• February 27, 2009
• Rolling River School Division

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ICT In The Classroom

• ICT should be infused into everyday teaching and
  is not intended to stand alone
• Instruction should provide students with a broad
  perspective on

• The nature of technology
• How to use and apply a variety of technologies
• The impact of ICT on themselves and on society

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ICT In Science

• Science education strives to create
  scientifically literate citizens.
• Scientific literacy is an evolving combination of
  science-related attitudes, skills, and knowledge
  needed by students to
• Interpret information
• solve problems
• make informed decisions
• accommodate change
• achieve new understandings

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What is ICT?

• Information and Communication Technology
• Technology can be defined as the processes, tools
  and techniques that alter human activity

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Hard Technology

• refers to tools
• Computer hardware and software
• Smart Boards, microscopes, graphing calculators
  and probeware
• Television and VCRs, DVDs, and cameras
• This is the stuff that you can take a hammer
  to!

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Soft Technology

• refers to processes
• Information management
• Needs assessment, data and task analysis
• Instructional design
• Time management and collaboration with others
• This is the stuff that you can only swear at!

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Modes Of ICT Integration In Science
Hard technologies used

• Computers, smart boards and data projectors
• Probeware, graphing calculators and data loggers
• electronic pH meters, digital sphygmomanometers
  
• microscopes and microscope cameras
• Various software applications
• -PowerPoint, PhotoDraw, Excel, Word, Publisher,
  FrontPage, etc
• CD ROMs and DVDs
• -virtual dissections, biological systems,
  bacteriology lab, Starry Night
• TV, video, digital cameras. And more!

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Technology is not the answer for every problem.
Sometimes, old fashioned methods are the best!
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Modes Of Integration
Soft technologies used

• Information management-
• -gathering and selecting appropriate sources
• Data analysis-
• -evaluating internet resources and summarizing
  data collected through experimentation
• Instructional design-
• -providing students with variety of ways to
  achieve an outcome
• Setting timelines and allowing collaboration-
• -planning a PowerPoint presentation
• -referencing materials used
• -choosing which form of multimedia to use
• Visuals, posters, videotape, or slide show/oral
  presentation

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Use In Direct Instruction

• Data projectors- the overhead of the 21st century

• Interactives-
• -CD ROMs such as Starry Night
• -online tutorials such as Balancing Chemical
  Equations

-Posting of assignments evaluation
rubrics Sports Science Evaluation Grasshopper
dissection

• Animations- used as a model
• - weather information, biological systems,
  ecological relationships, physics principles

• Teacher designed websites Crocus Plains Science
  Department

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Use in Student Assignments

• Paperless assignments
• -students create multimedia presentations to
  present to the class or to be marked from their
  computer account
• Grade 9 Ancient People and the Stars
• Grade 10 Severe Weather Phenomena
• Evaluation
• Research assistance
• Forensic Science
• Epidemiology
• Practice pages
• -Grade 9 - Astronomy example
• -Grade 10 Weather example

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Using ICT to Support Learning

• Home contacts
• Homework
• Information for parents
• Complete online units for other teachers
• Insects
• Ethnobotany
• Infectious Disease

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Why Have a Student Targeted Website
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Why Have A Student Targeted Website?

• Homework help (elements example)
• Review for tests/quizzes
• More class time for learning less notes
• Textbook issues none approved, money, out of
  date, weak, etc.
• Parent information homework, marks
• Attendance issues illness, field trips,
  suspensions

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Tools to help build a site

• Contact local computer administrator for URL
• Use FrontPage rather than trying to write in html
• Run through some tutorials on the internet

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Associated problems

• Can you think of anything that might cause
  trouble for your use of ICT in the classroom?
• Links become outdated even if you use solid
  educational sites (the wayback machine)
• Students get used to getting information off the
  web and seem not to be able to use other means of
  gathering information (BOOKS)
• Must evaluate the validity of sites - eg.
  Wikipedia
• Students must be taught that re-writing
  something does not make it theirs

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Adding Content to your Website

• Know what you are looking for
• Try to limit the number of hits by being as
  specific as possible
• You want 10 hits, not 10,000
• Use specific words
• Lesson plans, interactive activities, lab
  activities, experiments, etc.
• Experiment with different search words in engines
  like Google they give different results
• Dont give up!

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Thank You
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