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Evaluating Effective Technology Integration

Evaluating Effective Technology Integration. Mission Impossible ?. Or mission Accomplished ?. Administrators will…. Define technology integration as it applies to the needs of their school environment Explore appropriate use of technology by examining best practices

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Evaluating Effective Technology Integration

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  1. Evaluating Effective Technology Integration Mission Impossible ?

  2. Or mission Accomplished ?

  3. Administrators will… • Define technology integration as it applies to the needs of their school environment • Explore appropriate use of technology by examining best practices • Idenitfy strategies for evaluating teachers in the electronic classroom

  4. Challenges… • Moore’s law • Professional development • TIME • Access vs. Integration

  5. What IS effective technology integration? An outsider would view the use of technology as a seamless part of daily instruction

  6. You’d have trouble accomplishing your learning goals if the technology were removed

  7. Best practices in online learning activities… • Bridge time and space • Photos from Civil War or Saturn • Simplify the complex • Maps & charts • Make the abstract concrete • Real-life instances of fractions or geometry • Challenge preconceptions • Summer in Reykjavik Adapted from: Overview of Using Pictures in Lessons – www.ncrtec.org/tl.camp/lessons.htm

  8. Provide context • Whale baleen • Develop aesthetic appreciation • Photos showing various biomes Adapted from: Overview of Using Pictures in Lessons – www.ncrtec.org/tl.camp/lessons.htm

  9. You can describe how the technology is enhancing instruction in 2-3 sentences

  10. Ultimately… Students are genuinely interested and excited about learning

  11. Additional “tests” for integration Discussion Activity

  12. Teachers’ approach to use of technology… • Entry level • Adoption • Adaptation • Appropriation • Invention ACOT

  13. 7-minuteVideo clip

  14. Teacher Evaluation…

  15. Good teaching is good teaching. However… “Good technology in the hands of poor teachers can do more harm than good!”

  16. The most important evaluation question… What is the “best media”?

  17. “Addendum”

  18. Observation Scenarios & Discussion

  19. “MISSION” REMINDERS… • Effective teaching with technology does not occur overnight! • Leadership is the essential key to successful technology integration!

  20. Questions ?

  21. “It is the combined effect of good teaching, appropriate technology and a conducive environment that makes a difference in student achievement.”

  22. Additional Resources • Leadership & Learning Technology Modules http://www.ncrtec.org/pd/llwt/ • NCRTEC Lesson Planner http://www.ncrtec.org/tl/lp • Scoring Guide for Student Products http://www.ncrtec.org/tl/sgsp • Scoring Guide for Lesson Plans that Use Technology Resources http://www.ncrtec.org/tl/sgsp/lpsg.htm • Factors Influencing the Effective Use of Technology for Teaching and Learning Lessons Learned; SEIR*TEC, http://www.deirtec.org/publications/lessons.pdf • Teaching, Learning & Technology –A Report on 10 Years of ACOT Research; Apple Computer, Inc., http://www.apple.com/education/k12/leadership/acot/library.html • Using Pictures in Lessons – www.ncrtec.org/tl.camp/lessons.htm • Golden Nuggets: Seven Tips for Technology Success – www.education-world.com/a_admin/admin228.shtml

  23. Coaching Staff for Integrating Technology http://www.ncrtec.org/pd/llwt/coach.htm • Learning and Managing Change for Integrating Technology http://www.ncrtec.org/pd/llwt/manag.htm • Models of Technology Integration from MidLink Magazine Showcase – http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/sc2000/sc2000.htm • Healy, Jane M. 1998. “Failure to Connect – How Computers Affect Our Children’s Minds – for better and worse. NY: Simon & Schuster. • Integrating Technology into Instruction – How We Became One of the Best by Simply Listening http://www.ascd.org/readingroom/ctq/vol07/1summer.html • Why Use Technology – www.ascd.org/readingroom/edlead/9404/peck.html • Administrator’s Role in Technology Integration – http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech087.shtml

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