2. Professional Development
•Improve communication
•Improve instruction
•Become more efficient by asynchronous work environment
•Allow professionals to learn at own pace
3. Productivity Classroom Tool
•Manage and access your own materials quickly
•Effective presentation of information to students
•Real time assessment and feedback
4. Improve Learning
•Have students become producers rather than just consumers of media
•Constructivist learning – students learn by doing
5. Computer & Information Literacy
•Used together creates integration literacy
•Information literacy goes beyond technical proficiency:
•Gather information
•Select relevant information
•Organize information to integrate it and take action
6. Media
Multi-Media
Assists in organizing and managing vast amounts of information in various types of media
Create and communicate using various types of technology
Digital Media
•Technology that allows users to create new forms of interaction, expression, communication and entertainment
•Is multi-sensory
7. Standards for Teachers
•ISTE
–International Society for Technology in Education
–Created standards for all involved in education
•Teachers
–Understand concepts
–Acquire knowledge, skills and attitudes for applying technology in K-12 settings
8. Who our students are…
•Hyper-communicators
–Use multiple tools to communicate
•Multi-taskers
–Who do several things at once with ease
•Goal-oriented
–Pursue multiple goals at one time
Our objective is to turn viewers into producers!
9. What our students should know
•How to be creative and innovative
•How to communicate and collaborate
•How to research for information fluency
•How to think critically & problem-solve
•How to be good digital citizens
•How to navigate basic technology operations
10. Creativity & Innovation
•Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas
•Create original works as means of personal or group expression
•Use models and simulations and Identify trends
•Ex: create own presentations, web sites or videos to demonstrate understanding of newly acquired information
11. Communications & Collaboration
Interact, collaborate and publish with peers
Communicate info and ideas effectively via a variety of media
Develop cultural understanding
Contribute to team projects to solve problems
Ex: have students use cooperative learning via virtual classrooms across buildings, cities, states or world using wikis, blogs, podcasts
12. Research & Information Fluency
Plan strategies to guide inquiry
Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize and ethically use info from various media
Evaluate and select info sources
Process data and report results
Ex: evaluating sources correctly when searching the Internet and various online sources
13. Fluency continued…
Information fluency
•A person has mastered the ability to analyze and evaluate information
Media Literacy
•The ability to create, develop and successfully communicate info in all forms. Ability to analyze and question all media
14. Critical thinking and Problem solving
Identify and define problems and questions for investigation
Plan and manage activities to complete project
Collect and analyze data
Use multiple process to explore solutions
Ex: students create own podcast to prove what they have learned on a specific topic…creation goes beyond simply using technology
15. Digital Citizenship
•Advocate and practice safe, legal & responsible use
•Positive attitude that supports collaboration, learning and productivity
•Ex: Have students debate issues of “netiquette”, Facebook and Myspace dangers, security of information
16. •Understand and use technology systems
•Select and use applications effectively
•Troubleshoot systems and applications
•Transfer knowledge
Technology Operations & Concepts
•Ex: allow students to select best software application or WAY of doing a project within one software application to see if they can transfer knowledge effectively
17. To Think About…
•Who will your students be?
•What ways can you effectively integrate technology in that setting?
•Where are you at this point with technology?
•Where do you want to be?
