Making the Most of Technology in the Classroom

Source: http://www.21stcenturyskills.org

Skills - the focus is on…

FlexibilityInnovationProblem SolvingCollaborationInterpretationEvaluation and AnalysisCommunication

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Technology…

...decentralizes knowledgehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/wonderlane/2062184804/

Maximize the Opportunities Unique to School

The phrase “technology and education” usually means inventing new gadgets to teach the same old stuff in a thinly disguised version of the same old way. - Seymour Papert

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Great Free Technology

Student Collaboration &

Review

Wikis & Scribe Blogs

Great Free Technology

GeoGebra – geometry and algebra in one program

Download: www.geogebra.org

Wiki support: http://www.geogebra.org/en/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Example with Vectors & Matrices

Great Free Technology

Jing – homework solutions and demonstrations www.jingproject.com

Jing Screencast of Geogebra

Jing Screencast of Fathom and Teaching Nonlinear Models for Data

Data Search with Wolfram Alpha

Organization

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Mimic Paper Organization

• 3-View Concept– Author, Title, Subject– Creator, Date, Content

• File Folders

• OneNote

OneNote Resources

• David Rasmussen's Blog - Group Program Manager for OneNote at Microsoft http://blogs.msdn.com/david_rasmussen/

• Mike Tholfsen OneNote Test Manager Blog OneNote in Education http://blogs.msdn.com/onenote_and_education/

• OneNote Online Communityhttp://www.iheartonenote.com

Lesson Delivery with DyKnow

Fathom

FluidMath

WebAssign

Portfolio Assessment

Maple and Interactive Texts