Using technology as a remedial resource to improve student learning: Clarissa Ann C. Cruz ED 480 Educational Technology Spring 2008

Advantages: -Access enormous amounts of information through the internet -Offer a wide range of tools and and processes for enhanced learning -Communication -Expansion of learning opportunities -Collaboration -Greater learning experience - And many more..

Overview/Examples: Communicate Effectively: Analyze and Interpret Data: Understand Computational Modeling: Manage and Prioritize Tasks: Engage in Problem Solving: Ensure Security and Safety:

Communicate Effectively:

Analyze and Interpret

Data:

Understand Computational

Modeling:

Manage and Prioritize

Tasks:

Engage in Problem

Solving:

Ensure Security and

Safety:

Help and Guidance from the teacher: Teach students how to use technology properly. Practice, practice, practice.. Introduce new techniques and strategies (keep updated). Engage students in learning. State purpose and advantages.

Help and Guidance from the teacher:

Teach students how to use technology

properly.

Practice, practice, practice..

Introduce new techniques and strategies (keep updated).

Engage students in learning.

State purpose and advantages.

Accommodations for Students with disabilities: Presenting information in multiple formats and multiple media. Offering students with multiple ways to express and demonstrate what they have learned. Providing multiple entry points to engage student interest and motivate learning. *For the most part, there are numerous technology available to cater to almost every kind of disability.

Presenting information in multiple formats and multiple media.

Offering students with multiple ways to express and demonstrate what they have learned.

Providing multiple entry points to engage student interest and motivate learning.

*For the most part, there are numerous technology available to cater to almost every kind of disability.

A new look at Technology: Technology as tutor Technology as a means to explore Technology as tools to create, compose, store, and analyze data Technology as a means to communicate

Technology as tutor

Technology as a

means to explore

Technology as tools

to create, compose, store,

and analyze data

Technology as a means

to communicate

ESL students and Technology: Build conceptual frameworks. Teach learning strategies. Focus on reading in all classes. Give students opportunities to engage in free reading. Help students move beyond the text.

Build conceptual frameworks.

Teach learning strategies.

Focus on reading in all classes.

Give students opportunities to engage in free reading.

Help students move beyond the text.

Advice for Teachers with ESL students: Increase strategic use of technology . Enhance LEP student orientation in content classrooms. Redefine teacher roles . Increase access and equity for LEP students.

Increase strategic use of technology .

Enhance LEP student orientation in content classrooms.

Redefine teacher roles .

Increase access and equity for LEP students.

Planning for the use of Technology: Specific educational goals and a vision of learning through technology Ongoing professional development Structural changes in the school day A robust technical infrastructure and technical support Ongoing evaluation

Specific educational goals and a vision of learning through technology

Ongoing professional development

Structural changes in the school day

A robust technical infrastructure and technical support

Ongoing evaluation

Conclusion: The world is changing Technology will be the center of everything Efforts in integrating technology in the learning environment Technology provides numerous advantages

The world is changing

Technology will be the center of everything

Efforts in integrating technology in the learning environment

Technology provides numerous advantages

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http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/methods/technlgy/te800.htm

http://www.ncrel.org/policy/pubs/html/vp12/essay.htm

www.uq.edu.au/teaching- learning /download/workshops/innovation- technology -tl.ppt

http://www.serve.org/seir-tec/publications/NewsWire/Vol7.1.pdf

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/methods/technlgy/te900.htm