Integrating Technology in the Classroom

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Integrating Technology in the Classroom
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• Daniel To
• Danielle Law

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How many of you have thought this before
Hmm..30 minutes left and my lesson is donebetter
take them to the computer lab
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All the Troubles of the World

• Isaac Asimovs warning

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Technology Defined

• Often, when dialoging about technology, people
  just mean computers
• However, for the purposes of this meeting, lets
  redefine technology to be any electronic device
  used for the purposes of communication or
  information transfer.

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Discussion

• Describe what integration of technology in the
  classroom looks like in your classroom

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• It is paramount that youth how technology affects
  them, and how they can cultivate and mold their
  own thoughts and skills to fit into this new
  global economy.
• For Cyberspace (and being a Cyborg), is not a
  notion about things to come it is embedded
  within the material condition of many things
  already at work today. (Patrick Fitzsimons,
  2000)

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The Reality of Technology

• Oral Tradition
• Written Communication
• Tapes and Recorders
• Laptops, Ipods, Cell Phones, Multi use Devices
  etc..

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In Reality Students of Today are

• Cyborgs

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Donna Haraway

• A Cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of
  machine and organism, a creature of social
  reality as well as a creature of fiction. Social
  reality is lived social relations, our most
  important political construction, a
  world-changing fiction.
• By the late twentieth century, our time, a
  mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and
  fabricated hybrids of machine and organism in
  short, we are Cyborgs. The Cyborg is our
  ontology it gives us our politics. The Cyborg
  is a condensed image of both imagination and
  material reality, the two join centers
  structuring any possibility of historical
  transformation
• (Haraway, 1985, pp. 65-66)

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Teachers/ Educators need to adjust their lessons
to the changing nature of the technological
landscape

• Textbooks outdated as soon as they come out
• Information is available readily
• 3. Copying and transferring of information style
  has changed.

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Discussion

• What are some hindrances to integrating
  technology into the classroom?

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• Three Levels of Using Technology as a Pedagogical
  Tool

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Level 1 Accessibility

• Homework
• Web Links
• Schedules

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Level 2 - Availability

• Lessons available for download
• Notes available for download
• Using web based and media material in lessons
• Teacher Contact Information

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Level 3 (Inter) Activity

• Teaching using technological tools
• Allowing students to use their technological
  skills to teach each other.
• Using discussion groups, blogs, forums, email and
  media to enhance student learning.

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Examples from Earl Marriott

• www.earlmarriott.com
• http//www.sd36.bc.ca/earlma/mrdawson/
• http//www.sd36.bc.ca/earlma/lee/
• http//www.sd36.bc.ca/earlma/danielto/

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Conclusion

• Pedagogy vs. Entertainment
• Integration vs. Accessorizing
• Cyborg vs. Robot Arm

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Discussion Blog
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• The Vacation of A Cyborg
• By Daniel To

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I wish that I could get away, From the busyness
this world holds And take a little vacation, In
my rustic, arcane fold! In this place, I could
breathe clean air, Because its been purified
- By the electronic static system The best that
money can buy.

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Back to the basics, thats what I want, No more
2.5 Megahertz for me! In this down to earth,
rustic condo, Its only a Pentium 3. On this
little hiatus of mine, I would like time to
reflect, I dont really want to be bothered, Im
not ready for that yet.
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So, Ill turn on all 3 voice mails, And leave the
cell at home, But in case of an emergency,
Id Better leave on the satellite phone. Of
course, what to do with email? I cannot be
disturbed this time. Yet, I cannot overload my
inbox. Oh well, this exceptions not a crime.
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In terms of entertainment, I must tear down to
the core Even though I run the great risk Of
really being bored. I guess Ill have to live
without My collection of DVDs, And survive with
the digital cable, Thats on the only 2 available
TVs.
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No, no! I cant! Its all too much! I cant drop
down as far as this! No amount of rest or
relaxation Can be worth all these comfort
risks! Oh, I wish that I could get away, From
the busyness this world holds, And take a little
vacation, In my rustic, arcane fold.
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