This document discusses the benefits of using technology in education. It outlines how technology can improve communication, instruction, and efficiency for teachers through asynchronous learning. It also describes how technology allows for effective presentation of information to students and real-time assessment. The document then discusses how technology can engage students through constructivist learning by having them produce rather than just consume media. It emphasizes developing students' skills in areas like creativity, communication, research, critical thinking, digital citizenship, and basic technology operations. The overall message is that technology integration can enhance both teaching and learning when used appropriately.

1. Why Use Technology?
Week 1 Lesson

2. Professional Development
• Improve communication
• Improve instruction
• Become more efficient
by asynchronous work
environment
• Allow professionals to
learn at own pace

3. Productivity Classroom Tool
• Manage and access
your own materials
quickly
• Effective presentation
of information to
students
• Real time assessment
and feedback

4. Improve Learning
• Have students become producers rather than
just consumers of media
• Constructivist learning – students learn by
doing

5. Computer & Information Literacy
• Used together creates integration literacy
• Information literacy goes beyond technical
proficiency:
• Gather information
• Select relevant information
• Organize information to integrate it and take action

6. Media
Multi-Media
Digital Media
 Assists in organizing and
• Technology that allows
managing vast amounts of
users to create new forms
information in various types
of interaction, expression,
of media
communication and
entertainment
 Create and communicate
• Is multi-sensory
using various types of
technology

7. Standards for Teachers
• ISTE
– International Society for Technology in
Education
– Created standards for all involved in education
• Teachers
– Understand concepts
– Acquire knowledge, skills and attitudes for
applying technology in K-12 settings

8. Who our students are…
• Hyper-communicators
– Use multiple tools to communicate
• Multi-taskers
– Who do several things at once with
ease
• Goal-oriented
– Pursue multiple goals at one time
Our objective is to turn viewers into producers!

9. What our students should know
• How to be creative and innovative
• How to communicate and collaborate
• How to research for information fluency
• How to think critically & problem-solve
• How to be good digital citizens
• How to navigate basic technology operations

10. Creativity & Innovation
• Apply existing
knowledge to generate
new ideas
• Create original works as
means of personal or
group expression
• Use models and
simulations and Identify
trends
• Ex: create own
presentations, web sites
or videos to
demonstrate
understanding of newly
acquired information

11. Communications & Collaboration
 Interact, collaborate and
publish with peers
 Communicate info and
ideas effectively via a
variety of media
 Develop cultural
understanding
 Contribute to team
projects to solve
problems
 Ex: have students use
cooperative learning via
virtual classrooms across
buildings, cities, states or
world using
wikis, blogs, podcasts

12. Research & Information Fluency
 Plan strategies to guide
inquiry
 Locate, organize, analyze,
evaluate, synthesize and
ethically use info from
various media
 Evaluate and select info
sources
 Process data and report
results
 Ex: evaluating sources
correctly when searching
the Internet and various
online sources

13. Fluency continued…
Information fluency
• A person has mastered
the ability to analyze and
evaluate information
Media Literacy
• The ability to
create, develop and
successfully communicate
info in all forms. Ability to
analyze and question all
media

14. Critical thinking and Problem solving
 Identify and define
problems and questions
for investigation
 Plan and manage
activities to complete
project
 Collect and analyze data
 Use multiple process to
explore solutions
 Ex: students create own
podcast to prove what
they have learned on a
specific topic…creation
goes beyond simply using
technology

15. Digital Citizenship
• Advocate and practice
safe, legal & responsible
use
• Positive attitude that
supports
collaboration, learning
and productivity
• Ex: Have students
debate issues of
“netiquette”, Facebook
and Myspace
dangers, security of
information

16. Technology Operations & Concepts
• Understand and use
technology systems
• Select and use
applications effectively
• Troubleshoot systems
and applications
• Transfer knowledge
• Ex: allow students to
select best software
application or WAY of
doing a project within
one software
application to see if
they can transfer
knowledge effectively

17. To Think About…
• Who will your students be?
• What ways can you effectively integrate
technology in that setting?
• Where are you at this point with technology?
• Where do you want to be?