Effective technology integration - middle school

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