Beyond the Device: Key Strategies to Infuse Technology in Learning

Beyond the Device: Key
Strategies to Infuse
Technology in Learning

Welcome
Tonia McMillan
Instructional Technology
Coach, Dawson Educational
Cooperative
Oretha Ferguson
English Teacher,
Southside High School
Harry Dickens
Education Consultant,
Compass Learning

Agenda
• Breaking Down the Silos
• Using Technology as a Medium
• Common Objections
• Classroom Scenarios
• PD Planning
• Example Tools and Student Projects
• Q&A

Breaking Down the Silos
Curi
Techy

Professional Development Then…

Contact
Compass Learning
By email: successteam@compasslearning.com
By phone: 866.586.7387
Web: www.compasslearning.com
Twitter: @CompassLearning
View the on-demand webinar: http://info.compasslearning.com/ImplementingTech

Using Technology as a Medium
The excitement in students should be rather about the
related activities and tasks which will be performed or
done using technology as a medium not the technology
alone.

Using Technology Effectively
“Effective use of technology in education” is perhaps a
new discipline that needs to be taught.
- Edtech Review February 2016
• Learning Outcomes and Pedagogical Approach
• Educational technology should focus on what students need to learn,
rather than on how to use a specific device
• Technology opens the window to greater connections with people,
expanding content farther than ever before, and the ability to create new
ideas.
• The excitement in students should be rather about the related activities
and tasks which will be performed or done using technology as a medium
not the technology alone.

Tonia McMillan
Instructional Technology Coach,
Dawson Educational Cooperative

Self Assessment
How are teachers using technology "with" their students?
• Are they using technology daily?
• Are they using a variety of tools to complete assignments?
• Are they creating projects that show a deeper understanding of
the content?
• Are they leveraging digital programs to introduce and/or reteach
skills and concepts?

Common Objections
• Don't have the technology tools or access to the
technology.
• Uncomfortable, feel inadequate.
• Doesn't fit with what you are teaching.
• Too much time…teaching the standards.

Those born into an innate "new culture" while the digital immigrants are old-
world settlers, who have lived in the analogue age and immigrated to the
digital world…Marc Prensky
Digital Natives vs. Digital Citizens

Classroom Setup
What does your classroom look like and what you can do...
Interactive Whiteboard + Projector Use online applications
One computer Blogs, Livebinder…Collaboration
Computer center Student created projects, LMS
Laptop, netbook, or iPad cart Student feedback…Socrative, Kahoot.it
Handful of mobile devices Research, class book, video
1:1 laptops or netbooks All of the above and more!
1:1 mobile devices Projection - Nearpod

IWB + Computer + Projector
Instead of poster board timelines…

One Computer
Instead of:
• Writing in a notebook
or journal…
• Writing independent
stories…

Computer Station/Center
Blended Learning Approach
• Create videos of where they will go
• Research steps on obtaining a passport
• Travel costs, luggage, etc.

Computer Lab, Laptop Carts, Class Sets of iPads
Instead of taking exams, surveys or quizzes on paper…immediate
student feedback!

Handful of Mobile Devices
Create and
Collaborate
Read aloud
fluency checks
Interactive
Hot Spots

1:1
Student Choice
Multifunctions –
eBook Readers,
Calculators,
Notetaking, LMS
Mirroring –
Ex. Nearpod
Student Polls,
Surveys – Ex.
Socrative, Poll
Everywhere
Group work -
Collaboration

Getting There
 Take it one step at a time.
 Decide how it will help your students better understand the
content.
 Know the basics ...keyboarding navigation.
 Different tools

Professional Development
Plan!

Get the Help You Need
• Determine your own level of proficiency and personal
technology needs.
• Work with fellow teachers, coaches, and administrators.
• Build a plan that fits you.
• Seek outside help.
• Quality vs. Quantity
Instructional VS Informational

Oretha Ferguson
English Teacher, Southside
High School

Curriculum
• What do I want my students to learn?
• How can technology support teaching and learning?

Curriculum: Create a Book about Caesar
• Write a simplified version of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar appropriate for
junior high students.
• Give all necessary background.
• Be sure the story is illustrated and the cover has a captivating cover.
• This book must tell the entire story and have at least ten pages.
• Write an appropriate lead-in to the book on the inside of the book jacket.

Curriculum: Caesar in Music
• Compose music and write words to tell the entire
• The Tragedy of Julius Caesar.
• Bring instrument(s) to class to perform the composition.
• Be sure this is original!
• Turn in the score and the words.
• Consider involving the audience to sing with you for the
chorus.
• Be creative.
• Only musicians need to consider this project!!!

Curriculum
Choose a theme within the play to develop and publish a tri-fold
brochure, make a podcast, create a PhotoStory3 project, PowerPoint,
or make a movie.
The product should be specific to a theme and supported with details
from the play.
Be Creative

College and Career Readiness Standards
• Can students synthesize and use information?
• It’s more than taking a test! It’s personalizing learning.

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