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Integrating Education Technology into the Curriculum
EDU 505 – Introduction to Ed TechWeek 1
Where Do We Want to Be?Helping our teachers become 21st Century Educators
Education in the 21st Century
“We’ve slid into the 21st Century-and into the digital age-still doing a great many things the old way.”
Two Terms Coined by Marc Prensky
Digital Native: Today’s Students Native speakers of Technology
Digital Immigrant: Those of us not born in the digital age.
Like those who learn a second language late in life, have an accent; we too have an accent.
Need to Shift Gears and abandon our pre-digital instincts and comfort zones.
Collaborating with Students
Can no longer decide for our students; we need to decide with them. Include them in all classroom decision
making: Discussions about curriculum development Teaching methods School organization Discipline Assignments
May sound like the inmates running the asylum.
Through this we may gain ideas to solve education’s thorniest problems.
The most reliable way to anticipate the future is by understanding The present.
John NaisbittAuthor of Megatrends
Educational Technology K-12
Technology’s Penetration into 25% of the Homes in the USA
Technology Number of YearsTelephone 35Television 26Computer 16Internet 7PDA 3
Percent of U.S. Homes with Computer and Internet Access
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
1985 1990 1995 2000 2003
U.S. Dept. of Commerce using U.S. Bureau of the Census Current Population Survey Supplement
Teen Access to Technologies
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Computer
Cell Phone
Video game console
Digital Camera
Digital Cable TV
Digital music player
Web enabled cell phone
Satellite TVages 13-18ages 19-24
Internet Usage By Age
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
2-5 6-8 9-12 12-15 16-18 19-24 25-35 36-45 46-55 56-65 65+
Age2000 2002
Internet Savvy Students in 2007
Rely on the Internet to do school work
Use Internet as virtual textbook and reference library
Use Internet as virtual tutor and study shortcut
Use Internet for virtual study groups
Use Internet as a virtual guidance counselor
Use the Internet as a virtual locker, backpack, and notebookPew Internet & American Life Project, August 14, 2002
How Technology Has Effected Parenting
While technology offers many positive things, like connectedness and information, those same attributes, if misused, can also be quite harmful. Without the proper guidance and monitoring, teens can be lured into a sphere of digital and real-world dangers.
E-Monitoring Remotely view computer monitors Bad language tools Filters Website blocking Global positioning Performance tracking
How are schools using technology?
Electronic presentation: 81% Word processing: 68% Internet: 50% Publishing: 40% Web editors: 36% Spreadsheets: 6% Databases: <1% E-mail: <1%
E-learning
Provides new opportunities for educators
Promotes local control by expanding opportunities
Increases flexibility for schools
Promotes opportunities for differentiated instruction to meet needs of all learners
Promotes higher level thinking and opportunities for enrichment of all learners
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige, July 2002
Don’t forget No Child Left Behind
With the pressure put on schools to meet NCLB requirements, it is easy to say we can’t do that and meet AYP!
Not an option:
NCLB requires that all students will be technologically literate by the 8th grade.
December 31, 2006 States must show how they are integrating technology into curriculum and teaching.
Educational Technology can support No Child Left Behind by:
Equipping teachers with productivity tools.
Empowering teachers, parents and decision makers with real-time data.
Expanding access to the best resources and learning opportunities, increasing choices.
Engaging students in their education.
Individualizing learning by personalizing instruction for each student’s unique learning needs.Structuring meaningful work for children to do from which they will learn.
Dr. Phil Schlechty, Schools for the Twenty-first Century
Teacher-centered instruction
Passive learningPassive learning
Isolated workIsolated work
Single mediaSingle media
Single path progressionSingle path progression
Single sense stimulationSingle sense stimulation
Reactive responseReactive response Isolated, artificial contextIsolated, artificial context
Factual/literal thinkingFactual/literal thinking
Information deliveryInformation delivery
Student-centered learningStudent-centered learning
Authentic, real world contextAuthentic, real world context
Proactive/planned actionProactive/planned action
Critical thinking, informed decision-makingCritical thinking, informed decision-making
Active/exploratory/inquiry-based learningActive/exploratory/inquiry-based learning
Information exchangeInformation exchange
Collaborative workCollaborative work
MultimediaMultimedia
Multipath progressionMultipath progression
Multisensory stimulationMultisensory stimulation
Establishing New Learning Environments
TraditionalTraditional -------- -------- IncorporatingIncorporating ------ ------ New EnvironmentsNew Environments New StrategiesNew Strategies
The Students are the Knowledge Workers
We must createmeaningful work forchildren to do from
which they will learn.
Phil Schlechty
The Students are the Knowledge Workers
If students become engaged in the right
“stuff,” they are likely to learn what we want
them to learn.Phil Schlechty, Working on the Work, 2002
The Students are the Knowledge Workers
Focus on inventing highly engaging work for all
students—work that the community deems
important.
Phil Schlechty, July 2002
Six Most Wanted Workforce Skills
SKILL PERCENT OF JOBSREQUIRING SKILL
Technological Fluency 81Communication 74Teamwork (Collaboration) 36Leadership 34Problem Solving 23Creativity 22
David ThornburgThe New Basics
Core Skills Needed for Present Day Worker
Digital-Age Literacy Inventive Thinking Effective Communication High Productivity
School Technology and Readiness ReportNCREL Sponsored enGauge Project, 2006
Students Must Use Technology to:
Create Documents Locate Information Collaborate with Remote Groups Perform Calculations Make Dynamic Presentations
Tools Students Should UseStudents need to know how to use technology effectively to create documents, locate information, collaborate with remote groups, perform calculations, and make dynamic presentations. At minimum, they should understand how to use the following tools:
The Web Blogs and Wiki’s Word, Excel, PowerPoint Spreadsheet Graphing Software Database
Drawing Software Paint/Photo Software Sound and Music
Creation/Editing Software Animation/Movie Editing
Software Presentation Tool (Including
Multimedia Authoring)
What tools do your students’ know how to use??
Create Meaningful Work For Students
WHICH IS:
PROJECT BASED LIFELONG LEARNING
David ThornburgThe New Basics
Results for Younger Students
Results from the NAEP for 4th & 8th grades in Math and Science 2001:
Indicated that the quality of computer work was more important than the quantity.
Using computers to help students work through complex problems, thus tapping higher order thinking skills, produced greater benefits than using computers to drill on routine tasks.
The fact that computers were most effective when teachers used them to promote higher order thinking is a huge argument in favor of technology.
The survey confirmed that teachers were not using computers effectively. Fewer than 30% reported their teachers used computers for higher order thinking skills.
How should they be used?
Word processing: students who are skillful at keyboarding can more easily express their ideas than students who scribble out their homework with a pen and paper.
Using computers for art projects: Although there may not be any history knowledge involved in creating computer graphics, this activity provides students with a set of conceptual tools that they can apply across subject areas.
Creating charts; tables; and graphs: These tasks help students think abstractly about economic, social and physical phenomena.
Completing projects: Experience in planning, implementing, and sustaining a large project—a practice referred to as project-based learning, appears to promote student achievement.
The Bottom Line
“If our schools in the 21st Century are to be anything more than holding pens for students while their parents work, we desperately need to find ways to help teachers integrate kids’ technology-rich after school lives with their lives in-school.” --Marc Prensky
“What we’re talking about is invention – new things in new
ways. Change is the order of the day in our kids’ twenty first-
century lives. It ought to be the order of the day in their schools
as well.”
Marc Prensky, Edutopia, Dec/Jan 2006
Educational Technology K-12
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