This document provides guidance and resources for effective technology integration for 21st century learners. It discusses the need for vision and support from leadership, appropriate training, access to hardware and software, and willingness to take risks. Examples of technology that can be used include blogging, podcasting, clickers, videos, and interactive websites. The goal is to teach students to use technology as a communication tool and to think critically rather than just teaching the technology itself. Effective integration engages students, supports collaboration and assessment, and enhances the learning process.

1. The Times are Changing

2. Kicking it up a
Notch!
Technology Integration for the 21st
Century Learner…

3. • Vision and support from leadership
• Appropriate training
• Knowledge of CCCS and/or CCSS
• Access to hardware and software
• Technical support or resources
• Community support
• Financial support
• Policies and standards that support new learning
• Culture that encourages and promotes risk taking
Essential Environmental Conditions for
‘successful’ Technology Integration

4. • A willingness to take a risk,
• A need to change the status quo,
• The desire to learn new ways of
delivery, so that everyone learns.
And when all else fails…

5. • First step… Interest and motivation
• Small… with an idea
• Try …
• Succeed or fail…
• Tweak it…
• Try again.
Where to start ?

6. • Learning curve…
• Comfortable and familiar…
• Yes, it takes a certain amount of time to prepare…
but you can…and you have it for the next class or
the next year
• Success or failure…
• Frustration…
• Use it or lose it…
• Students will enjoy the change…
• Experience
What you can expect…

7. • According to the Beloit College Mindset list
(http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/advisory/),
• Feel that the "digital world is routine and technology
is just too slow."
• More tech savvy and spend more hours plugged into
the "Matrix", than any other generation before them.
Our ‘21st Century’ Students…

8. A Vision of K-12 Student

9. • Showing a YouTube video in class,
• Using PowerPoint to present,
WE ARE HERE!
• Let’s start taking it to the next level & look at teaching these
children differently
• Don’t need to teach the technology,
• Need to teach them to use technology as a communication tool,
• Need to teach our students to think, analyze and draw conclusions,
• The Goal is to improve student achievement and address 21st
Century skills.
Where am I heading with this…

10. • School Fusion –
• Blogging and Podcasting,
• Supports composing @ the Computer – CCSS,
• Reflective,
• Clickers
• Formative Assessments,
• Check for understanding,
• TV’s, Youtube Access, Brain Pop
Already have…

11. • Happens across the curriculum,
• Deepens and enhances the learning process,
• Four key components of learning:
• active engagement,
• participation in groups,
• frequent interaction and feedback, and
• connection to real-world experts.
• Achieved when the use of technology is routine and
transparent and when technology supports curricular goals.
Effective Tech Integration

12. • Changes the way teachers teach,
• Provides effective ways to reach different types of learners
and assess student understanding through multiple means,
• Enhances the relationship between teacher and student,
• Teachers grow into roles of adviser, content expert, and
coach,
• Make teaching and learning more meaningful and fun.
Effective Tech Integration

13. • innovation,
• creativity,
• active participation,
• and collaboration
21st Century Learner

14. • Inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge.
• Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply
knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge.
• Share knowledge and participate ethically and productively
as members of our democratic society.
• Pursue personal and aesthetic growth.
21st Century Skills

15. • Media Sharing
• Digital Storytelling
• Manage and Organize
• Social Networking and Communication
• Content Collaboration
Tech Integration Websites should…

16. • Many free website building sites – FRIENDLY & Easy
• Weebly -
http://sprinklesandcupcakes.weebly.com/index.html
• Freewebs
• Webs
• Google Sites
• Many project applications for ALL subjects
• Research and present new material,
• Access on the internet,
• Groups of students can research different pages on a
Subject,
Student Websites

17. • Google Docs - Free
• Interactive &,
• Collaborative,
• PREZI – ppt on Steroids!,
• Free to Educators & Students,
• Offers collaboration,
• Implies connections of thoughts and ideas, conclusions,
• http://prezi.com/i1mxyvdfokpf/copy-of-differentiation/
Forget PowerPoint

18. • http://www.tikatok.com/writing
• StorySpark – create your own story
book online,
• Use Google to work Collaboratively
on a writing assignment.
• http://library.collaborizeclassroom.com/
• Free, effective and engaging
Writing Across the Curriculum

19. http://www.readwritethink.org/
• Complete Lesson Plans
• Inquiry and Analysis
• INTERACTIVE
Read, Write, Think

20. • Game-based Learning
• Can be online
• http://www.icivics.org/
• http://muzzylane.com/project/making_history
• http://www.educationarcade.org/projects
• http://www.educationalsimulations.com/products.html
• Can be created
• Game Maker,
• Game Star,
• Scratch and
• Alice
Get your Game On…

21. • Google Doc’s Training
• http://www.google.com/educators/p_docs.html
• http://edutraining.googleapps.com/
• SimpleK12.com
• Free Webinars,
• Free training books,
• Atomic Learning – District pays for account
Where can I go next…

22. https://sites.google.com/site/insttechresource/home
Instructional Technology
Portal Website

23. Abbot & Costello

24. Think Differently