The Effective use of Technology

1. Alexander McCall Denise Miller Lisa Trainor Karen White EDUC 546 Dr. Craven The Effective use of Technology

2. CHAPTER TEN • Twenty-year period • Next decade • Impact of technology on the act of learning • Decisions that must be made by school leaders • How technology is being integrated into today's schools

3. TECHNOLOGY: A TWENTY-YEAR PERSPECTIVE • Twenty-years ago • Early 1980's • Personal Computers • Early 1990's • Speed • Cost

4. SCHOOL DISTRICTS • Integration • Networking • Curriculum enrichment • Internet • CD-ROM • Video applications

5. What do these developments hold for teaching and learning in the school environment? • 2003 • The Politics of Technology • "authoritative allocation of scarce resources"

6. Current Application in School • Choices in technology

7. 45 million people a day go to school • Core text as learning guild • Developed with great care and include an internal strategy for learning • Portable and require no service or requirement • Record of organized knowledge and scholarship • Technology capacities • Instantaneous and updated knowledge bases • Learning in nontraditional spaces • Completely individualized learning experience

8. School Districts • Superimposed on traditional textbook learning • Textbooks • Fundamental or basic knowledge • Define and sequence learning • Used for daily practice and study • Technology • Enrich • Model • Teach and reinforce skills • Student-to-student learning experiences

9. Uses of technology in schools • Upgrade curriculum knowledge and structures • Access knowledge sites such as ASCD's Website-http://www.ASCD.org/org/index-to develop lesson plans • Attack basic skill mastery without direct teacher instruction • Electronic communication and curriculum access to home-bound and home-schooled students. • Enrichment activities to supplement the regular curriculum for the gifted, able or hard working students • Use LAN's for special function groups such as subcommittees and review groups

10. Uses of technology in Schools continue • Use software for long range planning such as IBM's Planner • Monitor voluminous and critical data such as test data analyses • Microwave transmissions of Educational television station • Telephone technology • Fax machines • Tailored curriculum material

11. Technology advantages to school • Nonlinear • Students do not require a classroom teacher or even a classroom

12. The Basics for Practicing Supervisors • Resources • Network • Critical inquiry (thinking) skills • Model inquiry for students

13. 'Cyberspace" • The Internet • The information superhighway • WWW - World Wide Web • Web addresses • Websites "home pages" • Locations on the Internet • ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network • Provides for dial-up Internet connection • Search Engines • Tools for locating information

14. Usenet Allows users to share information and interact E-Mail Electronic mail Interactive Programs Like e-mail, but "real time" or live, and can chat Chat Rooms A location on the Internet where a group of people talk Listserv Electronic messages by subscription Newsgroups Like a listserv only fixed topics CD-ROM Like a home disc you use for music

15. Curriculum Integration Applications

16. Schools • Staff development • Conferencing • CD-ROM • Internet • Learning Network • "Virtual Universities"

17. In Classrooms • e-mail • Cross-cultural e-mail contacts for educational purposes • Bigfoot (http://www.bigfoot.com) • Kidlink (http://www.Kidlink.com) • Integrated instructional activities • Electronic cooperative learning groups • Two-class challenge • Spelling bees • Joint science projects • Exchange of recipes for cross-cultural dinners • Multischool newsletters

18. Internet technologies Discussion groups via "chat rooms" Subscription to a newsgroup Learning software Shareware.Com (http://www.shareware.com) ZDNET Software Library by Microsoft (http://www.hotfiles.com) Index sites Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov) Fedworld (http://www.fedworld.gov) CMCApplications-Education (http://www.com.cmc/info/application-education.html)

19. CIA World Factbook (http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/pu.html) Hubble Space Telescope (http://www.stsci.edu) K12.chat.elementary - casual conversation about grades k-5 k-12.ed.math - mathematics curriculum for k-12 education

20. “Teachers and supervisors must begin to see the machines as more than “things”; they are learning tools that can profoundly improve instructional delivery”. . . and will “ultimately, redefine the meaning of the term school.” (Wiles 308)

21. Change From . . . • Passive Recipients Designers of Classroom Learning Experiences • From 1965 to 1995 characterized by organizational structures to accommodate student differences to individualize instruction to the degree possible to meet the obvious diversity of students in attendance • From 2000 to 2025 will be characterized by technology that allows the complete and final individualization of learning and completely redefines the meaning of the term curriculum in terms of formal learning

22. But How? • Observe that the purpose of teaching defines the appropriate medium • Technology will produce a kind of learning not previously experienced • Learning will not be dependent on a fixed and ordered knowledge base, but rather will consist of a nonlinear and multimedia mix • Establish a set of standards or blueprint for all learning sites and a change strategy for getting there • Set goals for accessibility, continuous training, and reward for growth

23. What’s the Goal? • True integration of technology into student learning

24. What about the Students . . . • “Pulling down stuff from the Net” is no new thing to the average 10 year old • But, three problems: 1) the Internet is an uncontrolled medium that can be dangerous, and 2) random learning does not produce an educated citizen. • MUST TEACH students to filter the information found, to navigate the Web with a destination in mind, to sort out irrelevant messages and to gather new information into coherent patterns. • Watch out for intellectual property rights and intellectual quality control. Anyone can put anything on the Internet, and students should constantly inquire about the origin and the qualifications of the source.