Technology Integration On A Budget

Web 2.0
Technology Integration on a Budget

What’s so special about it?

We are currently preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist, using technologies that haven't yet been invented , in order to solve problems that we don't even know are problems yet.
--Karl Fisch, "Did You Know?"

web 2.0
Web 2.0 is a two-way medium – a platform upon which content is not only consumed but created
~ Steve Hargadon (A Brave New Classroom)

Characteristics of Web 2.0
Participatory
Sharing
Facilitating Community
Open Communication
Freedom to share and Reuse

Advantages to education
Promotes Critical Thinking
Social Learning
Increase Language Skills
Modalities and Learning Styles
Creativity
Students and Teachers Co-Creators

Grandson #1 Deven age 8
Loves to play Roblox
Builds places, buildings and communities with virtual legos
Has friends online (community)
Visits program creator to ask questions
Gets excited because other kids ask to copy his work.

Grandson # 2 Travis age 7
The Little Brother
Enjoys Roblox as well as other social and game sites.
Has a life besides computer
Will go wherever his brother goes and does whatever the older brother does.

Deven and Travis
Fight constantly – except when they’re playing together online.
Deven taught Travis how to read so he could participate with him.
Spent the summer building towers, amusement parks and fighting zombies together.
Deven has been able to make friends this year for the first time.
Travis has better reading skills.
Vocabulary of both boys is above level.

Collaborative
Where to Start with Wikis and Blogs

Horizontal Learning
Instead of the traditional vertical method of teacher to student, the horizontal learning takes place among teachers and students, students and students, teachers and teachers.

Differentiated Instruction
Teaching with student variance in mind (meeting the kids where they are)
No standardized approached to learning ( the text as one tool among many in the teacher’s toolbox)
Responsive teaching (rather than one-size-fits-all)

A teacher proactively plans varied approaches to what students need to learn, how they will learn it, and/or how they can express what they have learned in order to increase the likelihood that each student will learn as much as he or she can as efficiently as possible.
Carol Ann Tomlinson
Differentiated Instruction

Who’s in Your Classroom?
Photo from “A Night at the Museum”

They’re all different, so howcan you make it meaningful for all of them?

What are you trying to teach?
Goal of the Lesson – what do you want the technology to do for you?
What’s the most important concept or skill you want the student to learn?

How will technology contribute to the learning process?
If the technology overshadows the purpose or interferes with the process of learning, then it’s best to not use the technology.
The technology is only a tool to help a student achieve success and understanding, not the end in itself.
Don’t use it if it doesn’t help.

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Adapted for 21st Century Learning
creating
Evaluating
Analyzing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering
~Lorin Anderson: a student of Bloom’s wanted to update it to fit 21st Century Learning

Designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing, devising, making , programming , filming, animating, blogging, mixing, publishing, broadcasting
Creating
Checking, hypothesizing, critiquing, experimenting, judging, testing, detecting, monitoring, commenting, reviewing, posting, moderating, collaborating, networking, testing
Evaluating
Comparing, organizing, deconstructing, attributing, outlining, finding, structuring, integrating, mashing, linking, validating, reverse engineering, cracking
Analyzing
Implementing, carrying out, using, executing, running, loading, playing, operating, uploading, sharing, editing
Applying
Interpreting, summarizing, inferring, paraphrasing, classifying, comparing, explaining, exemplifying, advanced searches, Boolean searches, journaling, categorizing, tagging, commenting, annotating, subscribing
Understanding
Remembering
Recognizing, listing, describing, identifying, retrieving, naming, locating, finding, bullet pointing, highlighting, bookmarking, networking
Based on a revision by Andrew Churches

Assessment Strategies

Low cost and/or free technology
“Many, many technologies that were previously expensive or unavailable are now becoming free to anyone with a web browser.”
~Thomas Bittman

WYSIWYG
*What you see is what you get
(**hey, nothing is perfect)
(***what do you want for free?)

What will you need?
Materials
Internet Access, story starters, preparatory work
Space
Time
Equipment
Hardware
Software
Batteries

Where to start
Don’t try to do everything at once.
Will the application be the lesson or enrichment?
How much time will you need?

Allow for things to go wrong
Will the school’s filter allow you to go there?
Will your students need special permissions?
Does your equipment work?
Batteries charged?
Room on the photo card?
Computers online?
Does the website still exist? (it happens!)

Be prepared for outcomes
When you let kids collaborate, you may get more than you bargained for.
Be ready to be a facilitator – guide the students, but don’t take over.

Blogs And Wikis and Nings, O My!

My Wiki
http://sites.google.com/site/tech4020/

Tech4020 Ning
http://tech4020.ning.com/

Technology Integration On A Budget

by mrskellyscl on Sep 29, 2009

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