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Technology Integration

Part 2: Resources (Page 1 of 4)
Best Practices for Teaching and Learning with Technology

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Technology Integration is a four part series on essential questions, technology integration resources, web page design, and multimedia in projects.  Sections contain relevant opening essays and resources.

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Best Practices for Teaching and Learning with Technology

 

Assistive Technology Tutorials from the University at Buffalo are designed to help you with reading and writing tools (e.g., Clicker 4, Co:Writer 4000, products from IntelliTools, Write: Outloud), tools for visually impaired (e.g., JAWS for Windows, BrailleNote), and creating talking books (e.g., HyperStudio 4).  Links to other tutorial sites are included.

A Beginner's Guide to Integrating Technology, written by L. Jackson for Education World (http://www.educationworld.com), presents tips with a number of Web links on how to get started.  Even the most advanced Web user will find sites of value.  Article is dated May 8, 2002.

Best Practices of Technology Integration in Michigan is divided into elementary, middle, and high school by subject and includes specific lessons with educational objectives.

Burkhart's Technology Integration: Elementary School, Middle School, and Special Needs.

Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITED.org)

Cyberbee is a Pacific Bell Blue Web'N Site that helps teachers to integrate technology in the classroom. Content contains curriculum ideas, research tools, how to's, curricular treasure hunts, curriculum and technology links, conference notes, and a link to the journal for Multimedia Schools for Cyberbee articles by Linda Joseph of Columbus (Ohio) Public Schools.   Linda Joseph is author of Net Curriculum: An Educator's Guide to Using the Internet.

CyberSmart!, a curriculum for K-12 that teaches students how to use the Internet in a S-M-A-R-T way, is offered for free to schools nationwide.  The entire curriculum has five units organized by topics and also clustered by grade level: Internet Safety, Manners (social, ethical, legal issues), Authentic Learning and Creativity, Research and Information Literacy, and 21st Century Challenges.  Note: CyberSmart! was acquired by Common Sense Media in 2010, which will adapt the CyberSmart! lessons and integrate them into their Digital Literacy and Citizenship framework by adding video, interactive components, and parent resources to create a whole community approach to K-12 Digital Literacy and Citizenship education.

CAST Toolkit with software JPGHOT:  Digital Content in the Classroom is a free online tool from CAST, the Center for Applied Special Technology.  This toolkit is based on Universal Design for Learning.  "The Digital Content Toolkit provides information, support, tools, ideas, models, research, and a community of practice for educators interested in using flexible computer technologies to reach and teach diverse learners.

DigitalLiteracy.gov from the U.S. Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration contains resources for teaching basic computer and internet skills, which are appropriate for schools, libraries, and job training centers.  Under Educator Tools you can search by topic, keyword, or skill to learn.  Learn about web surfing, cyberbullying, email, internet collaboration, copyright, general navigation, online banking, social media, design and usability, mobile/wireless communications, and so much more.

Ed Index by Bernie Poole at the University of Pittsburgh contains an extensive set of resources for elementary and secondary education, courseware download sites and recommendations, education edindexers, basics of online learning, electronic field trips, lesson plans, general resources for education, instructional design for online learning, multimedia resources (video, still image, and audio), online workshops and tutorials, reference tools, scavenger hunts and Web Quests, special needs education, and education job search.  Of particular interest:

The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology at San Diego State University is a collection of short articles on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education. Multimedia is used to enhance learning, rather than just for decoration. Categories include Cognition and Learning, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, Evaluation, Media Design, and Project Management.

Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into learning activities. Teachers, students, and media specialists, for example, can create hot links, subject samplers, treasure hunts, and WebQuests and automatically see their work in a web page.  This site is part of the Knowledge Network Explorer from Pacific Bell's education program.

Free Technology for Teachers is a blog written by Richard Byrne, which contains free resources and lesson plans for teaching with technology.

Getting Started Enriching K-12 Curriculum with Internet Resources, written by P. Deubel, is an imaginative, tutorial approach of a teacher's exploration of the Internet with its enormous resource of materials to enrich K-12 curriculum.  It is located on this site and was featured in the summer 2002 online edition of Learning & Leading with Technology.

PDA GifHandheld Devices in the Classroom from Teacher Tap.  If you desire to integrate handhelds into your curriculum, you will appreciate the many resources included at this site related to Personal Digital Assistants, GPS and GIS, Portable Electronic Keyboards, Digital Cameras, and more.  Highly recommended.

Infosearcher is the online complement to Information Searcher, a print newsletter designed to help K-12 professionals integrate technology into the curriculum. Cyber tours guide users to learn about active learning sites, evaluating web sites, Internet search strategies, teaching the Internet, integrating the web into curriculum and more.

Intel Education Initiative contains four parts: K-12 education, higher education, education competitions, and education beyond classrooms.  For K-12, the Intel® Teach Program offers proven professional development programs to promote 21st century skills. Intel’s free teaching tools and resources allow for collaborative, student-centered learning.  Numerous resources are provided, as "Intel believes that young people are the key to solving global challenges, and a solid math and science foundation coupled with skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, and digital literacy are crucial for their success."

Internet Expeditions: Creating WebQuest Learning Environments by A. Lamb.  This site in workshop format provides several examples of WebQuests, tips, and instructions for creating and integrating WebQuests into your curriculum.

Learning@Hand from GoKnow, Inc. contains "reviews of educational software for use for Palm OS®, and helpful tips for integrating handheld devices into your classroom." Educators can share their own lesson plans, and participate in the chat room.  GoKnow was developed by Elliot Soloway, Ronald Marx, and Joseph Krajcik of the University of Michigan's Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education.

LETSNet is the Learning Exchange for Teachers and Students at Michigan State University College of Education, also sponsored by Ameritech.  The mission of LETSNet is to help K-12 teachers to develop their understanding of the Web and its use in classrooms.  Attention is given to mathematics, social studies, science, and language arts and the content is informed by national work on curriculum standards.  Learn about the 10 big ideas driving the Internet in education: field trips, teamwork, global connection, research, visualization, publishing, individualizing, professional growth, home and community, and kids corner.  Read actual case studies of teacher experiences.

NETS (National Educational Technology Standards) for Students from the International Society for Technology in Education addresses skills, rather than tools, in the areas of creativity and innovation, communication and collaboration, research and information fluency; critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making; digital citizenship, and technology operations and concepts.

New Horizons for Learning Teaching and Learning Strategies: Technology in Education contains descriptions of how computers can be used to stimulate and develop writing skills, collaborate with peers in foreign countries, do authentic kinds of research that is valuable to the adult world, and do complex kinds of problem solving that would otherwise be impossible without technology.  Read articles on topics that include using audio in online classrooms, learning through virtual reality, how technology can be used to implement Multiple Intelligences theory, creating global learning communities, integrating technology through student created multimedia projects, and much more. A list of Internet projects and sites that provide support for using web technologies is provided.  Using technology in education is one of the over 20 strategies for teaching and learning that are found at this site.

Penn State Teaching and Learning with Technology provides several sections from which to choose resources: preparing a course, grade and test, copyright and plagiarism, create and use audio and video, publish on the web (e.g., blogs, eportfolios, podcasts), and more.

Teacher Tap will help educators to answer common technology integration questions.  Start with search resources and techniques, electronic books and e-reading, visual resources, intellectual property rights, online reference materials, primary resources and real world data, projects, field trips, assessment, tutorials, electronic portfolios, and so much more.

Technology & Learning eBooks Download eBooks on a number of topics, including new tools that students use (podcasts, cell phones, blogs, social networking), the potential of interactive technologies, online safety, 1:1 computing, whiteboards, VoIP and networking, mobile devices, and wireless.

techs4schools was created by TECH CORPS and sponsored by Compaq to provide a free online mentoring service to K-12 schools and educators.  Volunteer IT professionals assist educators across the country to provide step-by-step technology assistance and information. Join a team and get your questions answered in specialties such as:

 

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Part 1: Essential Questions  |  Part 3: Web Page Design  |  Part 4: Multimedia in Projects