Using Technology to Create LEARNING Experiences

1. Using Technology to Create LEARNING Experiences By Kathy O’Reilly

2. Technology is a Tool for the ClassroomWhy Integrate? • Technology can: • Help teachers do their job better • Be a facilitator • Connect and meet our students where they are • Help kids reflect, process, focus, engage and share their ideas • Express their own thoughts through applications • Ex: music, videos, podcasts • Students can reflect, connect, collect, analyze and model data

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4. So, Why Integrate? • Create using digital tools • Connect and meet our students where they are • Students can express their learning • Translate learning into their own • Students can reflect, connect, collect, analyze and model data • Share work and communicate with others • Record their learning through many sources

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6. Building on Technology • Learner-centered environments support independent work as well as collaboration among learners. • These classrooms provide students the opportunities to connect prior learning with current experience. • Computers can support the variety of ways learners construct their own understanding. • Computer software can mix text, pictures, sound and motion to provide a variety of options for learners.

7. Using Standards Note the standard Click on arrow in picture to view video on Brain Break Deskercize • Standards are an important component of planning your technology units. • This example shows how the physical education health curriculum matches standard 2.

8. Utilizing Computer Programs– Example • Problem: What are the dominant inheritance traits in your students? • Process: Research for understanding, create important probing questions for survey, gather data, create database reports using important criteria, summarize. • Programs Used: • Google Search • Using important search words for understanding • Google Forms (Survey) • Access Database (query searching using criteria and reports) • Excel (gathering data) • Word (word processing for summarizing experience)

9. Questions for Survey/Using Web Tool/Google Forms

10. An Access Database Report

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12. Summarize: Present Your Findings

13. Connecting Your Classroom with Web Tools

14. Example: Build a Website:Using: Teacher Web, Google, Webs or have your students build a site.

15. Updating Bloom’s Taxonomy 2.0 Bloom’s Taxonomy Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy By Lorin Anderson

16. How Can High Schools Integrate Using Web 2.0 Tools? Here are Some Suggestions: • Online quizzes • Online databases • Microsoft One Note—note taking software • Online classes – e-learning • Online primary sources and online text • Wiki’s • Google apps • Mind mapping • Student-centered portfolios • Probeware – for Biology and Chemistry to collect real world data. • Technology infused electives • Blogging: Journaling online as a powerful tool in current events lessons in particular. • By Laurie Jackson: Education World

17. Subject Tools • Math Machine • Math Lesson Plans • History Lesson Plans • English Lesson Plans • Language Arts • Science Lesson Plans • The Arts • Physical Education • Special Education

18. Web 2.0 Tutorials • Photoshop Resources • YouTube Videos • Free Google Earth Tutorials • Lynda.com – • free trial

19. TagxedoConstitution Example:

20. The link above will get you to my professional development website which contains many resources. Feel free to browse and try out some of the web tools. Explore my “Links” page. An easy one to try is “Tagxedo.” www.newtoolsforteachingandlearning.com

21. THANK YOU! • I hope you have learned from and enjoyed my presentation. Thank you for coming!