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- 1. Introduction Creative Teaching Techniquesand Utilization of Multimedia
- 2. Course Overview Setting the Stage Brief Highlights – Project 1 – Focus on the NETS • Day 1 – Teams 1-2-3 Present • Day 2 – Teams 4-5-6 Present – Project 2 – Social Bookmarking (Establish Due Date) – Projects 3, 4 & 5 • Independent Educational Blog • Lesson revisions • Final – Exploring resources and online applications • Course Wiki • Web 2.0 Tools and applications – Devices Focus – Journals – Portfolio
- 3. Course Model Establishing a mutual understanding • Modified Project Based Learning model will be used – Journey of exploration – Questions will be asked – Guidelines will be given – Answers ??? • Time dictates moving at a fast pace – Many concepts will be presented – Most will be explored but not mastered
- 4. Overview Project Based Learning • Essential Questions: – How can I use technology to support the management of my classroom? – How can I use technology to support learning in the classroom? • Supporting Questions: – What does it mean to be an e-Teacher? – How can technology make my job as a teacher easier to accomplish? – What type of technology skills do I currently have? – How can I communicate with students? with parents or guardians? – How can I engage my students? • Objectives – Students will develop a working knowledge of the role technology should play in education; for classroom management, administration, and most of all teaching and learning.
- 5. Preparing for theFuture • What are your experiences in using technology in the classroom? • How is it changing the way we teach and what we will teach in the future? • What might the future look like?
- 6. Technology Enhanced Project Based Lesson • Jumping right in… – What does it look like? – Play movie
- 7. Research Says… • Resultsfrom a High School Survey of Student Engagement might report the following: – 2/3 of high school students report feeling bored in one or more classes every day – ½ of high school student spend less than 4 hours a week on homework – Over ½ of HSS state they do not discuss academic material outside of class – 30% of students do not graduate Specifics may change from study to study but the overall message is always the same.
- 8. Where does technology come into play? • Technology fosters critical and creative thinking – Writing and design programs – Online information research and retrieval – Applications, tools, games, etc. • Technology supports memorization (when it is appropriate) – Electronic worksheets – Drill and practice – Online tutoring programs
- 9. Project Based Learning •What does it do? – Allows for the investigation of problems or questions causing students to engage in: • Problem solving • Decision making • Designing – Students work together on challenging questions or problems that apply to their lives or what they do – Students learn to: assess, analyze, create, reflect, and act
- 10. Begin to FocusOn… • Developing learning activities – that are long term – cross-curricular – provide a deeper engagement with content – make the use of technology seamless, spontaneous and part of an average day
- 11. The HOW • Howdo I create project based learning projects? – Activities are organized around driving questions • Creates a need to know essential content and skills • Requires inquiry to learn and/or create something new • Allows the students to make choices • Incorporates feedback and revisions • Results in publicly presented product or performance
- 12. Day 1 –Class Activity Lets begin by pointing out examples from the video. • How did you see projects being implemented in the video? • What types of strategies were the teachers using? • What types of technology did you see? How were they being used? OK the video was about a group of young children, how might it change in the higher grades, middle school and high school?