COMING to a Classroom near YOU

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COMING to a Classroom near YOU!

• Show Me the Money?
• Dangerous Minds?
• Blackboard Jungle?

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Technologyat WHOs expense?

• There are multiple expenses when it comes to
  integrating technology

• Monetary

• Resources

• Training/Professional Development

• Support

• Time

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Monetary Expenses

• Resources

In order to have integration, you have to have
computers!
Mountain Brook City School District

• 115,400 - network
• 50,000 - upgrades and maintenance

• 55,600 - software
• 3,300 - replacements and upgrades

Computers become obsolete almost before they are
bought, which is why upgrades are SO
importantand costly!
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Training/Professional Development
and Support

• Budget an adequate amount(suggested 30)

• staff training

• leadership

• cost of trainers

• materials

• on-site tech. experts

• substitutes
• (IF training is conducted
• during school hours)

• financial support

ARE critical
If teachers are not properly trained, integration
wont be achieved and the district will fail to
achieve an adequate return on its technology
investmentthis is usually the case!
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Time

• Training/professional
• development

(is money)

• Planning

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Negative Affects on Individual Learning

• www.math.washington.edu/koblitz/mi.html
• Promotes a short attention span and need for
  immediate gratification
• Teacher - Student interaction and relationships
• Focus on Do versus Why
• Calculators and the decimal point
• The big mystery
• Focus on computers rather than using computers as
  a tool
• Developmental Readiness
• Web sites
• Individual
• Creativity
• Plagiarism

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Need for Multi-Sensory Approach

• Material that stimulates the mind (clay, sand,
  blocks, painting)
• Orton-Gillingham for reading and writing
• LESH model for math

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David MintzWithout the support and assurance
that each machine is up running ever day ,
then schools might as well buy softballs.
(www.techlearning.com)
Technology
Classroom Support

• Down servers
• Unexpected problems
• Constant computer breakdowns
• Little tech support

• Relevant software
• Teacher training
• Computers per classroom

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Pamela Mendel (Healy) Raoul has spent many more
minutes zapping aliens than doing math.
Classroom Management

• Frustration levels (student teacher)
• Extra diversity levels of students
• Classroom arrangement
• Discipline
• More time taken away from required
  curriculum

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The simple fact that kids are excited by
computers is not enough to make computers the
central focus of the classroom.

• Edward Miller
• (www.nytimes.com/200/09/technology/27EDUCATION)