This document provides guidance for integrating technology into classroom teaching and managing computer use. It discusses how technology may change teaching and expectations, and outlines stages of technology integration from entry to invention. It provides sample classroom management strategies, ideas for student computer activities that support learning across subjects, and resources for teachers. The goal is to thoughtfully integrate technology in a way that enhances teaching.

1. Technology in the Classroom
General Introduction
Ideas for Managing and Using
Computers in the Classroom
Karen Work Richardson
June 2001

2. Integrating Technology May…
• Change the way you teach
• Change the way you interact with your
students
• Change the expectations you have for your
students
• Free you to really do what you do best:
TEACH!

3. ACOT Stages of Technology Integration
Entry Learn the basics of using the new technology
(skill)
Adoption Use new technology to support traditional
instruction (create puzzles or worksheets, use
for information)
Adaptation Integrate new technology into traditional
practice (application software)
Appropriation Focus on cooperative, project-based, and
interdisciplinary work
Invention Discover new uses for technology tools
http://www.apple.com/education/planning/profdev/index4.html

4. Web Resources
The BEST Site for One Computer Classrooms:
http://www.furman.edu/~pecoy/mfl195/onecomputer.h
tml
A Sample Web-based Lesson:
http://www.wmburgweb.com/Resources/Lesson/index.htm
A GREAT portal for Teachers:
http://www.teach-nology.com/

5. Issues of Computer Use
• Expectations : What do you hope to achieve?
• Room Arrangement
– Where do students use the computer?
• Management/Scheduling
– When do students use the computer?
– How do students use the computer?
• Integration
– Why do students use the computer?

6. Room Arrangement
• Easy access for students and for teacher
• Easily supervised
• Plenty of space
• Neatly organized

7. Planning the When
• Be fair • Use time or defined
• Be realistic task to determine how
• long each child or
Be consistent
group can be at the
• Have the computer in computer
use all the time
• Use technology to
• Consider using Friday track usage
as “catch-up” day

8. Planning the How
• Develop a system for • Limit data entry
using the computer • Create a homepage
• Think small with agendas and links
• Assign learning • Use “class buddies” to
groups update computers
• Emphasize pre- users who miss
planning classwork

9. Planning the How
• Enforce expectations • Use scaffolds
– Task cards
• Avoid floppy disks – Checklists
• Use students as – Templates
computer helpers
• Get help
• Steal!

10. Integration
• Examine current unit or activity for ways to
add technology
• Rewrite the lesson unit to identify changes
due to technology
• Prepare materials and create schedule

11. Ideas…
• Look up info related to current class
discussion
• Daily info like sunrise/sunset, tides,
temperature
• Class newspaper or journal
• Ongoing story
• Class web page

12. Ideas…
• Drill and practice
• Simulations
• Adding adjectives and adverbs
• Subject/verb agreement
• Identify poetic devices
• Brainstorming

13. Ideas…
• Have students create task cards for a particular
activity or web site
• Draw story webs
• Illustrate vocabulary words
• Make lists, sort lists, organize lists
• Print out clip art or graphics to use in collages
• Add graphics and pictures to a class collection
• Mini-lessons

14. Ideas…
• Use computer group work to teach
cooperative learning skills
• Have ongoing “personal” projects that
children can work on for short periods of
time throughout the year(write in journal or
add to a web page)
• Take or make a quiz
• Complete or make a puzzle

15. Ideas…
• Group or class e-mail letter
• Class database
• Enter group info into spreadsheet and graph
• Electronic worksheets
• Reading database
• Class calendar
• Add a label

16. Ideas…
• Create a school directory
• Make an alphabet book
• Prepare for a field trip
• Report on a field trip
• Write a caption
• Add a sentence

17. Ideas…
• Quicktime movies
• Venn diagrams
• Color maps in Paint
• Create a timeline
• Diagram a sequence
• Put the pictures in order

18. Ideas…
• Use commercial software
• Find time for exploration and creativity
• Chart information in a table
• Collaborate on a banner
• Model using the computer as a tool
• Use a picture to illlustrate a topic