What you should be doing
(now) to integrate the Tools
of Technology into
your Teaching
John G. Hendron
Goochland County

Buzzword 1:
integration

combine
merge
unify
unite
consolidate
fuse
homogenize

“Integration” means…
Change the way you teach.
Change the way students learn.

Change is difficult.

Buzzword 2:
access

Buzzword 3:
Accountability

I want to know this is
going to work.
I want effective solutions for
teaching.

Buzzword(s) 4:
Connected
Learning

Too many times,
what’s done on a computer is
inauthentic.
Quality learning must connect
to the real world to make a lasting impression
on the lives of learning children.

Buzzword 5:
Enhance
[Instruction]

complement
improve
augment
Will technology enhance what I’m already doing?
What’s the value of enhancement?
intensify
improve quality
supplement

My Five
Classroom Blogging
Research and Problem Solving
Let Me See It
Let Us Collect
Practice Makes Perfect

Classroom
Blogging

This is easy to do—for students, and for
teachers.
Students become publishers.
With RSS, blogs are easy to handle
administratively.
Blogging is at once social but also fosters
introspection and self-evaluation.

Research &
Problem-Solving

The future is content that is imperfect that
requires scrutiny... so—
Teach students skills in information
literacy by conducting research online +
Use the power of collective intelligence
that the Internet provides.

Have students construct their own new
knowledge by finding it.
Use technology (hardware + software) as
one or more tools to solve problems,
answer questions, or enlighten
perspectives.

Let Me See It

Digital photography, and
stock photo sources make
finding visual media easier
than ever before in the history
of humankind.
It takes longer than writing words,
but we are visual animals,
and many of our students learn
well visually.

So...
Let’s Tell a
Story

What do you know about me?
What do you know about Goochland
High School?
Are images coming to mind? Or only
what I talked about?

Let Us Collect

Where do we put
Information?
Do you forget things? (I do)
What would happen if we cataloged,
or collected our knowledge, so we
could browse it later?

What’s the Idea?
Use technology to help students
provide their own scaffolding by
collecting and organizing the
products of their knowledge.
Databases, wikis, blogs, digital
portfolios

Practice Makes
Perfect

Is drill and practice software effective?
What do others say?

Drill & Practice
Is most effective when:
it’s targeted for students who require
practice, but who are also self-motivated
the software provides feedback
connections are made by the teacher for
the student from the software to the real
world

Conclusions
Where
We Are
in
2005-2006

Integration
National, State, and Local Mandates
Access
Change!—Professional Development
Effectiveness of Technology

Which
Strategies?
Something easy
Something that accommodates access
issues
Something that is based in sound
educational/pedagogical theory
Something that targets discovery,
constructivist learning, and higher-
order Blooms

5 Strategies
Classroom Blogging
Research and Problem-Solving
Let Me See It
Let Us Collect
Practice Makes... Perfect

Thanks!
John G. Hendron
www.johnhendron.net
Goochland County
Public Schools
www.glnd.k12.va.us