Welcome to ICE 234: Survey of Computers in Schools

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Welcome to ICE 234Survey of Computers in Schools
Week One

• Christy Keeler, Ph.D.

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Using KidPix

• How did it make you feel to express yourself
  using KidPix?
• If your class of elementary students were
  familiar with KidPix, what similar types of
  activities could you do with them?

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Daily Outline

• Technology attitudes activity
• Introduce course expectations
• Terminology lecture and discussion
• Review
• Word processing demonstration
• Closing

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Daily Objectives

• Become familiar with KidPix
• Know the course expectations
• Define technology
• Differentiate between teacher productivity and
  instructional tools
• Differentiate between curriculum and instruction
• Adeptly format word processing documents using
  standard formatting tools

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Course Expectations

• Review course syllabus
• and outline

Are there any questions?
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• What is technology?

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Technology Defined

• A tool that extends human capabilities.
• Created by knowledge
• Purposes
• Survival
• Comfort

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Technology Defined

• Diagrams
• Blueprints
• Manuals
• Training
• Technical services
• Tools

• Processes
• Systems
• Models
• Simulations
• Hardware
• Software

• Prototypes
• Drawings
• Sketches
• Materials
• Techniques

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Instructional Technology

• any device available to teachers
• for use in instructing students in
• a more efficient and stimulating
• manner than the sole use of the
• teachers voice.
• - Cuban, 1986

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• What technologies are available in educational
  environments?

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• In what ways do teachers use technologies?

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Technology Uses

• Computer class
• Basic usage
• School-to-work preparation
• Informatics
• Programming
• Productivity tools
• Instructional tools

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Curriculum Defined

• the content of the instructional program
• Georgia Department of Education
• what students should know, be able to do, and be
  committed to (content), how it is taught
  (instruction), how it is measured (assessment),
  and how the educational system is organized
  (context)
• Alaska Department of Education

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Curriculum Defined

• Intended learning outcomes
• Goals
• Objectives
• Scope of content (depth and breadth)
• Sequence of content (organization)
• Balance of content
• Needed skills prior to instruction
• Content the teacher will execute

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Instruction Defined

• Instruction a deliberately arranged set of
  external events designed to support internal
  learning processes
• Gagné, 1992
• Events of Instruction events that are
  considered, chosen, and represented in the
  communications and other stimulation offered to
  the learner intended to bring rapid,
  obstacle-free learning
• Gagné, 1992

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Instruction Defined

• An action / process
• Interactive
• Teaching
• Method of delivering content

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Review (in pairs)

• What is technology?
• What is the difference between productivity and
  instructional tools? Give at least three examples
  of each.
• What is the difference between curriculum and
  instruction?
• What do you think 4th graders learn in math?

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Your Technology Journey

• Font type, size, color, style
• Justification
• Spacing
• Tabs
• Page Set-up
• Headers/Footers
• Bullets

• Toolbars
• View Size
• Tables
• Spell Checking
• Grammar Checking
• Dictionary/Thesaurus
• Track Changes

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Daily Outline

• Technology attitudes activity
• Opening
• Introduce course expectations
• Terminology lecture and discussion
• Review
• Word processing demonstration
• Closing

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Daily Objectives

• Become familiar with KidPix
• Know the course expectations
• Define technology
• Differentiate between teacher productivity and
  instructional tools
• Differentiate between curriculum and instruction
• Adeptly format word processing documents using
  standard formatting tools

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For Next Week

• Access WebCT
• Readings
• Digital Tools for Digital Kids
• ISTE NETS Tutorial
• NETS-S and Performance Indicators (Grades PreK-8)
• NETS-T
• Technology Journey I Draft
• Email when complete (Use TJI_LastName.doc)
• Back-up all documents you may want in your
  portfolio

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ICE 234Survey of Computers in Schools
Have a great week See you next Wednesday at 4!

• Christy Keeler, Ph.D.