David Warlick Article - 5/03 So I call for a moratorium on integrating technology into the classroom. Muchmore! But integrating technology will not accomplish this. http://www.edtechnot.com/notarticle503.html
Extractions: When I decided to become a schoolteacher, my vision of the classroom included textbooks, chalkboards, an occasional filmstrip, and papers to grade at night. Personal computers were not in this picture (They had not been invented). I was a passable teacher, and got better as the years went on. I did not become a better teacher by integrating 12 computers into my classroom in 1982. I improved because each year taught me more about working with middle school children, helping them learn, and helping them to love learning. integrating technology , and continued to be very good teachers. They still think of me as that comical little guy running down the halls looking for somebody to come and see the neat program he just wrote. As the decades have passed, we have learned many ways to use technology to help students learn. Yet, integrating computers into education continues to be a hard sell, especially in this time of budget meltdowns, and an overwhelming emphasis on reading and math test scores. Information is changing dramatically in what it looks like, how we access it, and what we can do with it. The most fundamental of these changes include:
Extractions: More than US$300,000 in classroom technology donated to enhance learning environments San Antonio, TX - June 17, 2002 - SMART Technologies Inc. and the SMARTer Kids Foundation of Canada announce their joint donation of more than US$300,000 in interactive classroom technology to support the Intel Teach to the Future program in North America. Intel Teach to the Future is a worldwide program to help teachers integrate technology into instruction and enhance student learning. To date, 500,000 teachers in 25 countries have completed training through this program. Pre-service educators and in-service teachers participating in the Intel Teach to the Future program learn from other teachers how to effectively incorporate technology tools and resources into their lesson plans. Both students and teachers are clearly benefiting from this program. In a 2001 survey of U.S. teachers, conducted nine months after they completed the program, 84 percent reported that using computers improved their instruction and 80 percent found that computer-based lessons enhanced student learning. "SMART chose to participate in the Intel Teach to the Future program because of its reputation and dedication to improving education worldwide," says David Martin, chairman and CEO of SMART Technologies Inc. "The program's goals are in synch with SMART's commitment to enhancing the learning environment for both students and teachers."
Extractions: More than US$400,000 in classroom technology donated to professional development program for educators "SMART is a demonstrated leader in education technology. Intel is pleased that SMART is providing this generous donation to participants in this program,” says Stephen Andrews, U.S. Program Manager for Intel Teach to the Future. “The SMART Board interactive whiteboard is a natural addition to the Intel Teach to the Future program, providing a teaching tool that helps integrate computer-based materials to give students an interactive and engaging learning environment." For more information on the Intel Teach to the Future program, visit www97.intel.com/education/teach/us_program.htm About SMART Board Interactive Whiteboards
Teach The Teachers Summer Technology Institute recipient with the Intel teach to the program that showcases teachers integratingtechnology into their classrooms With one computer in the classroom, her class http://ttt.pugetsoundcenter.org/index.cfm?nav=c_bios
Extractions: Teaching Today publishes innovative teaching tips on a weekly basis. Written with the busy teacher in mind, each tip is concise, practical and easy to implement in the classroom right away. Topics covered in Teaching Today are classroom management, career development, high stakes testing, instruction and planning, parental involvement, reading in the content areas, using technology in the classroom, and portfolio development. Teaching Today also offers free weekly downloads that correspond to the tips. Our free downloads make implementing the teaching tips even easier. Teaching Today provides educational resources for teachers looking for everyday solutions to the challenges of the classroom. This Week's Topic Integrating the Internet into the Classroom The use of technology, the Web in particular, has become an important skill for both students and teachers to master. The Internet has a vast amount of information and infinitely many uses, but it takes practice to learn to effectively navigate its resources. This weeks tips focus on finding ways to guide students in their research and use of the Web. This Week's Tips Use the Internet with a Unit of Study (Monday) Integrate the Internet into a unit of study by setting up a learning center . Find a Web site with the information needed for one component of the unit. Post the Internet address and clear directions for the assignment near the computer. As students work independently or in small groups, they can rotate through the computer learning center. Continue to monitor computer use as you move throughout the classroom.
FIPSE Grant Database is developing the Learning to teach with technology inquiry and problemsolving inthe classroom. to help them learn to integrate technology into their teaching http://www.fipse.aed.org/grantlist.cfm?program=7&subject=24
Preparing To Teach With Technology use computers and excited to teach and learn competence of today s teachers to integratetechnology into the learning those just entering the classroom to our http://www.glef.org/php/article.php?id=Art_813&key=039
Preface and model for integrating computer technology into your curriculum by an approachto creating an integrated inquiry lesson can make in the classroom when the http://www.nteq.com/preface.html
Extractions: Book Preface Model Summary Authors Table of Contents Ordering Information Preface The introduction of computers into the K-12 classroom has been exciting, but many educators would probably agree that we have not seen the results we anticipated. Teachers, parents, principals, superintendents, and school boards are beginning to question their investments in computer technology. What do we have to show for all these computers? Most students today are still educated the same way students were educated a generation or two ago. Students are no more likely to sit in front of a computer for all their instruction than they would with one of Skinners programmed learning machines. Why has the computer not revolutionized education as some scholars predicted? This book is about students using computers as a tool to solve problems as part of the learning process. We provide a rationale and model for integrating computer technology into your curriculum by using it as a tool rather than as an instructional delivery device.
Houghton Mifflin College - Integrating Technology classroom Management integrating technology Centers into The classroom K12 classroomideas, many of which are adaptable to the post secondary http://college.hmco.com/instructors/ins_teachtech_foundations_module_integtech.h
Extractions: Teaching Foundations Use Our Technology Faculty Development Programs Technology Demos select accounting business chemistry college surv. comm cis counseling dev eng economics education esl english french geology german history italian japanese math lang meth phys sci pol sci psychology russian spanish stu success Printer-friendly page I. Definition of Training Piece A. Purpose for Instructor "Integrating technology"what does that mean? After all, technology is a toola means, not an end. Isn't talking about "integrating technology" in one's instructional process therefore, like having a discussion about integrating the use of pens and pencils in the classroom? Or integrating the use of telephones into one's daily life? Ideally, integrating computer-based resources into the teaching and learning process would be as natural and veritably intuitive as picking up a phone to call your best friend. But computer-based technology resources are still fairly new to many. In their youth, other technologies that we now take for grantedelectricity and telephones for instancewent through this same explicitly focused "integrative process". For faculty, the downside of this process is both the time commitment it often requires, and knowing where and how even to begin. Identifying, locating, evaluating, determining ways to use these resources, and then actually creating the lesson plans that integrate them, can consume dozens of hours. The focus of this module, therefore, is to identify techniques and resources to assist faculty in reducing the time commitment it takes to begin to effectively integrate computer-based resources.
Mass Cultural Council | Services | CulturaLinks plans, activities and other ideas for integrating the arts into classroom teachingin all ASCD Curriculum technology Quarterly Read about new services for http://www.massculturalcouncil.org/services/integrating.html
Extractions: This 168-page publication provides the first study of K-12 education programs offered by performing arts centers nationwide, and showcases 74 performing art center institutions, large and small, partnering with their local schools. Arts and Learning Resources from the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies The Arts Education Partnership (formerly the Goals 2000 Arts Education Partnership) is a private, nonprofit coalition of education, arts, business, philanthropic and government organizations that demonstrates and promotes the essential role of arts education. The website offers advocacy resources, funding opportunities and publications. Arts with the Brain in Mind
Extractions: Home Teachers Discovering Computers Online An Online Course for Educators Thomson Learning, in partnership with the Teacher Education Institute, provides educators with an ongoing, sustained, intense, high quality, and research-based online professional development solution to train K-12 teachers, media center personnel, and administrators how to effectively integrate technology into their classroom specific curriculum or job area. A proven effective professional development training solution that: Meets the professional development criteria (definition #34) defined in the No Child Left Behind Act (Title I and Title II) Meets or exceeds the National Education Technology Standards for Teachers (NETS-T) and Technology Standards for School Administrators (TSSA) Provides teachers with curriculum specific skills to improve their classroom instruction in the core academic subjects so that their students are effectively prepared to meet challenging state academic content standards and student academic achievement standards.
Lesson Plans For Every Classroom Invariably, teachers go to a technology course/day and come reasons for not gettingoverly enthused about integrating computers into your classroom. http://www.lessonplans.com.au/integrate.htm
Extractions: document.write(''); Lesson Plans for Teachers and Trainers BEFORE spending hours integrating and planning how you will try to use computers in your classroom, take time to read the info below... It will save you time and frustration preparing your computer lesson plans! Hi there, My name is Brad Hauck and If you are looking for computer lesson plans solutions that you can use in your classroom, you will find some great ideas within this site. Probably, like you, I have spent numerous hours trying to integrate computers into my classroom and along the way I've picked up a few tricks and tips I use in my computer lesson plans that I'd like to share with you if you read on. I promise that you'll get at least one new idea or piece of information that you'll be able to use. Computers are becoming more and more popular as an educational tool yet, in my experience as a teacher, they are a difficult and sometimes impractical piece of classroom technology. Don't get me wrong, I'm a computer (nut) teacher with a technical background but it seems that the integration of technology brings with it a set of difficulties that we need to overcome through the way we set our "computer lessons". Some people point towards effective integration of computer skills as having two requirements: the skills must directly relate to the curriculum content and to classroom assignments, and
Extractions: Choose from the following list of existing Workshop titles focused on technology integration, or let's work together to create one of your own: Camp Connect Mentoring NEW! A Technology Coordinator's Tool Kit Classroom Web Page Design (Beginner) Classroom Web Page Design (Intermediate) Creative Assessment Strategies Designing WebQuests Getting Started on the Internet Internet: Taking Learning Beyond the Classroom Walls ... Using Laptops in the Classroom NEW! Inspiration and Kidspiration in the Classroom NEW! Integrating Microsoft Office into the Classroom NEW! Strategies for Successful Online Learning NEW! Using Technology to Enhance Learning for At-Risk Students NEW!
Extractions: SIG Professional Development Notes by Corinne K. Widmayer How Intel Teach to the Future and ATA Academy affected technology integration at Parkside Middle School Two years ago I attended the MACUL Conference with no specific idea of the kinds of workshops I wanted to visit. I had taken a new position in a new school in a new district that fall, and as far as I knew I was the only one from my district attending the conference. Though Jackson Public Schools is a large district, most teachers in my building had not heard of MACUL and of those who had heard of it, I found only one who had ever attended a conference. I had been attending the conference for years and felt fortunate that my new principal allowed me to attend once again. As I searched through the program booklet, I really struggled with which workshops to choose. When I changed jobs, I had gone from being a private high school English and Computer Applications teacher to a public junior high special education science teacher. Science was not my area. I felt both a need and a reluctance to learn anything about it. I had also gone from extensive involvement in a schoolÕs technology planning and professional development to only informal involvement in a school where classroom teachers had just received new computers and were learning how to do e-mail. I teased my mentor teacher frequently about who was mentoring whom since I spent a lot of time showing her how to use her new computer.
TeachLink Online: What K-12 Teachers Can Teach University Faculty best illustrated by the integration of computer technology into our classrooms layersof literacies to use and integrate computers in the classroom. http://www.brown.edu/Departments/IESE/Teachlink/Winter02/k12.html
Extractions: Dickie Selfe, Director, ECAC Further complicating basic issues of access and training is the fact that our notions of text and writing have shifted and continually shift, best illustrated by the integration of computer technology into our classrooms and our lives. Hypertexts demand attention to words, graphics, and visual arrangement, and also to other multimedia components like video and audio clips. Teachers require new layers of literacies to use and integrate computers in the classroom. And not only do teachers require these literacies, they have to be able to teach and assess these literacies. Doing so is difficult in a computer classroom where some students may not yet have mastered basic keyboarding skills, others might be pointing the mouse at the screen as if it worked like a television remote, and still others might be surfing and copying and pasting and sending instant messagesmultitasking almost seamlessly, toggling between and negotiating the interfaces of different applications without hesitation. Creating and integrating activities that engage new as well as experienced learners is a formidable task.
Wilson Elementary Schools - Technology Integration then its completely integrated into our professional a Georgia framework programcalled InTech (integrating technology). in a technology classroom that uses http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/thepoint/wilson-a.htm
Extractions: Wilson Elementary School We had a chance to talk with some of the people from the featured schools to find out how their teachers are acquiring the kinds of skills needed for using technology in the curriculum. Wilson Elementary School Wilson Elementary School is located at Fort Benning, Georgia. It serves about 420 children (PreK-5) of Department of Defense personnel stationed at Fort Benning. When teachers and students returned to Wilson Elementary School after summer vacation, they walked past the building and headed straight for the trailers parked out back. The school is undergoing a renovation, but that hasn’t put a crimp in an important educational focus: technology. Since, as principal Phyllis Walker explains, technology isn’t "a separate entity but is integrated into everything [we] do," she made sure computers made the move with them. Each grade level has a computer with Internet and e-mail access. One other important thing that hasn’t suffered by the move is staff development. It’s stronger than ever at Wilson and has undergone a name change that reflects the staff’s commitment and expertise: "professional development." Technology use began in earnest at Wilson about five years ago. Their first staff development classes, remembers media specialist Wanda Person, focused more on the "nuts and bolts of how programs worked and how we switched from the purple ditto masters to something that’s a little more professional looking." During the next phase, all the teachers attended specific software classes outside the building or went for individual courses. "Sometimes," says Person, "You’d get back to your school and your school could support it and sometimes it couldn’t."
SEED development opportunity where teachers teach teachers. of K-12 classroom teachers,specialists in learning to integrate technology into their classrooms to http://seed.mainecenter.org/index.cfm?section=1&page=1000
Books - Educational Technology At Boise State University EDUC 363Field Experience. No Books. teachED 408integrating Technologyinto the classroom Curriculum when taught by Steve Christensen. http://education.boisestate.edu/edtech2/Books.htm
