PowerPoint Presentation Wireless Technology in the Classroom

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Wireless technology in the classroom

• what research says
• teacher resources
• student resources

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Research says

• Adolescents face a world with new types of
  information systems. They need wide access to
  technologies that support new ways of managing,
  analyzing, developing and monitoring information.
  At the secondary level, many students are
  familiar with these capabilities while others are
  not.
• Dr. Julie Meltzer,
• Adolescent Literacy Linking Research and
  Practice

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How Can Technology Help Encourage Literacy in the
Classroom?

• As children talk together, share their writing,
  or lean over to read another's words on the
  screen, they use language to communicate.
  Computers and other forms of technology support
  literacy and encourage speaking, reading,
  writing, and listening, through formal and
  informal language opportunities.

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Technology can

• Offer support for young learners
• Provide children with ways to express themselves
• Encourage reading and writing

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Top ten techno blunders
Setting inappropriate assignments
Assuming equipment will work
Assuming help is coming
Not allowing time to prepare
Taking support for granted
Overestimating students skills
Believing software publishers
Misjudging the challenges
Using inappropriate web sites
Having no plan B
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Why reinvent the wheel?

• Free lesson plans on any subject
• Supplemental content
• material and learning games
• Warm up/sponge
• activities
• Enlarge learning
• community

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Hey,its just another learning tool!

• More relevant
• information available
• Satisfies the auditory
• learner
• Take a virtual tour without
• ever leaving the class
• Publish students work on the
• internet