This document discusses the benefits of using technology in education. It outlines how technology can improve communication, instruction, and efficiency. It also allows students to learn at their own pace. The document discusses how technology can be used as a productivity tool to manage materials, present information, and provide feedback. It emphasizes that technology should be used to help students become producers, not just consumers, through constructivist learning where they learn by doing. The document provides examples of how students can use technology to demonstrate creativity, communicate and collaborate, conduct research, think critically, and become good digital citizens. It stresses the importance of teaching students technology operations and concepts.

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

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. •Understand and use technology systems
•Select and use applications effectively
•Troubleshoot systems and applications
•Transfer knowledge
Technology Operations & Concepts
•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?