Integrating technology

1. Integrating Technology
Elena De La Rosa
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Pre-Service Teacher Institute

2. Classroom Hardware Care
Things not to forget to do…

3. Teacher Computer
• Will usually lock after 15 minutes
• District may run updates at high peak times so
Internet will be slow at those times.
• Do no play streaming video from computer,
download it then put it on common drive to save
disk space if your district has one.
• Back up your work on a flash drive or the
common
• Mouses are usually laser sensored, so don’t
always work well with mouse pad

4. Projector
• Clean filter at least twice a week
• Turn OFF lamp when not in use by muting
or standby
• Make sure image is large enough for all to
see
• Secure chords so that they are in a safe
place

5. Document Cameras
• Secure base
• Use light to give more light
• Focus camera
• When not “talking” to projector, connect
directly to projector use remote  select
menu  make sure your setting is on
presentation
• Don’t forget to mute when not in use.

6. Student Computers
• Do not let students surf as this will ‘clog’
the computer and make it slow down
• Recommend using either your campus
website or one you have created for
activities
• Student links should have student online
resources and updated often.
• Turn them off at end of day.

7. Tech Integration
Yes, but how???

8. Definition
Technology integration incorporates
technology tools to teach content using
effective instructional practices.
Technology can empower students to
think critically, solve problems, and
evaluate more effectively. Good
integration is characterized by how and
why technology is used, not by the amount
or type of technology.

10. Technology
Integration
looks like:

11. Teachers:
• See that knowledge is something children
must construct rather than something to
be transferred
• Meet the needs of all students
• Are facilitators
• Collaborate with colleagues and
administrators

12. Students:
• Have an active role
• Apply what they learn in authentic
situations
• Use the technology for a purpose that is
clear to them
• Collaborate to maximize learning

13. Lessons:
• Should be seamless
• Can be interdisciplinary project-based
• Promote higher order thinking
• Are supportive of curriculum and standard-
based

14. Support Personnel Provide:
• Administrative support
• Adequate and dependable equipment
• Reliable network
• Technology resource teachers

15. The Five Principles of Effective Tech Integration
• Identify the learning objectives for your lesson or activity.
Knowing your goals will guide your decisions throughout the lesson.
• Determine what technology is best suited to meet your learning
objectives.
Will you use spreadsheets, word processing, the Internet, and/or
other technology applications? Your learning objectives should
guide your decision.
• Review the technology skills you and your students will need
to best utilize the technology for the lesson.
You want your students to be focusing on the instruction, not on how
to use the technology.
• Organize your classroom to best meet the needs of the lesson.
This might mean moving things around in your classroom to set up
workstations. It might mean reserving time in the computer lab or
using a single computer as a projector. There are many possibilities.
• Set the student outcomes for the lesson.
Determine what students should know by the end of the lesson and
what work they will provide to demonstrate this understanding.

16. Elements
• Graphic Organizers
• Lesson Plans
• Software
• Interval Integration
• Web access

17. Professional Resources
• Technology Integration module
http://www.edutopia.org/teaching-module-tech
• Edutopia http://www.edutopia.org
• Classroom2.0
http://www.classroom20.com/

18. Interactive Tools
How to use them in your
classroom.

19. Web 2.0

32. Web2.0?
What is it?
How do I use?
Do I want to use it?

34. What is Web2.0
• Web 1.0 • Web 2.0
– Not interactive – Shares information
– Passive response – Collaborative
– Informative – Online resources
– One way – Interactive community
communication ownership
– Single ownership – Live posting

35. Instructional Expectations
Decrease
• Only whole class, teacher-directed instruction
• Student passivity and prizing and rewarding of
silence in the classroom; classroom time devoted
to fill-in-the-blank worksheets and other
“seatwork.”
• One-way transmissions of information from
teacher to student
• Only role memorization of fact and details
• Teachers thinly covering large amounts of
material in every subject area
• Tracking or leveling students into “ability groups”
• Use of and reliance on standardized tests

36. Instructional Expectations
Increase
• Experiential, inductive, hands-on learning
• Active learning in the classroom
• Diverse roles for teachers, including coaching,
demonstrating and modeling.
• Emphasis on higher-order thinking, learning key concepts,
and principles.
• Deep study of a smaller number of topics
• Grouping, collaborative activity
• Choice for students
• Attention to the varying learning styles and other needs of
individual learners.
-Zemeiman, Daniels, Hyde (1995)

37. Blogs
Blogs are used to share information with
others. One manager
• Blogger
• Edublogs.org
• Kidblog
• List of Free Blogs

38. Wikis
Wiki is Hawaiian for quick. It can also be the
acronym “What I know”. Community
based.
• Wikipedia
• Wetpaint
• PBWorks
• Wikispaces
• Weebly

39. Social Bookmarking
• Delicious
• Diigo

40. Open Source Software
• Gimp
• OpenOffice Docs
• Audacity
• Youtube converter
• Celestia
• TuxPaint

41. Free online tools
• Google Docs
• Google Earth
• Kerpoof
• Read Write Think
• Internet4Class

42. Online Video
• Youtube
• Teachertube
• DiscoveryEducation

43. Resources
Blogs
• http://edublogs.org/
• https://www.blogger.com/start
• http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/
• http://kidblog.org/home.php
Wikis
• http://www.google.com/intl/en/options/
• http://pbwiki.com/
• http://www.wikispaces.com/

44. Resources
Social Bookmarking
• http://delicious.com/
• http://www.diigo.com/
Video
• http://www.youtube.com/
• http://www.teachertube.com/
• http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/index

45. Resources
Software
• http://www.gimp.org/
• http://www.openoffice.org/
• http://www.openoffice.org/
• http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
• http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html?gclid=CLfyxfK56bACFSW
• http://download.cnet.com/VLC-Media-Player/3000-13632_4-1
• http://zacbrowser.com/
• http://www.aspexsoftware.com/shapes.htm

46. Resources
Free online
• http://
www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp
• http://www.internet4classrooms.com/grade_lev

47. Resources
• http://earth.google.com/
• http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/
• http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
• http://www.kerpoof.com/
• http://www.tuxpaint.org/

48. Questions???
Contact Information
edelaros@houstonisd.org
edelaros151@gmail.com