Using Technology to Improve Teaching and Learning

1. Using Technology to Improve Teaching and Learning
ِEbtehaj alhazmy

2. Using Technology to Improve Teaching and
Learning
Children and young people are
enthusiastic about technology and
increasingly skilled in using it, although
they may lack more advanced skills and
knowledge. They spend much of their
time using digital technology for
entertainment, socialising and for
learning1. However, exciting
opportunities to harness children’s skills
and enthusiasm to improve learning in
schools are sometimes being missed:

3. Why use technology?
Interactivity
Collaboration
Communication
Sense of cohort
Variety of teaching and learning preferences
Formative and summative assessment

4. What is Technology?
Technology is comprised of the products and
processes created by engineers to meet our
needs and wants.

5. Technology
Study of our human-made world
Deals with “what can be

6. How Does Technology Address Human Needs and Wants?
Transportation
Technology
Medical
Manufacturing
&
Construction
Bio-Related and
Agriculture
Nanotechnology
Information Communication
Energy and
Power
Environmental

7. Information
Technology
Information Technology allows us to send signals around
the world.
Examples:
Television, Internet, satellite, GPS, cell phones

8. Impacts of Information
Technology
POSITIVE
IMPACTS
NEGATIVE
IMPACTS
INTERNET –
Information is
stored for
easy access
INTERNET – Harder
to distinguish
between reliable and
unreliable sources

9. Cool websites
• Wiki
• Glogster
• Prezi
• Cloze builder: Cloze Passage Builders
Example
Graphic organizers (popplet, bubbl.us, Cayra,
Text2MindMap

10. Communication
TechnologyCommunication Technology is giving or exchanging
information.
Examples:
Magazines, DVDs, photography, video games

11. Twitter
What is Twitter?
Twitter is a real-time information network that connects
you to the latest information about what you
find interesting. Simply find the public streams you find
most compelling and follow the conversations.
“Twitter has simply become one of the best places for
teachers to collaborate, share solutions to common
classroom problems, and discuss education policy. In fact,
it might just be the best forum teachers have ever had.” –
Liz Dwyer

12. Edmodo
• Social learning network similar to Facebook designed
specifically for foreign language students and teachers:
teachers post assignments and reminders of upcoming
quizzes and tests, students can also post their own
topics. This site gives the possibility for communicative
language practice (as opposed to practicing vocabulary
or verb conjugations in isolation). This is a way for
students to do the majority of preparation at home and
practice actively with us in class!. This allows students
to hand in homework via the Edmodo interface and
eliminate paper altogether!

13. The networked teacherby Alec Courosa

14. What is Facebook?
Social networking website connecting people
across the street, country and world
Focuses on building and relating social
relations among people who share common
interests, activities and experiences

15. Who uses
Facebook?

16. App used on mobile phones
Take a picture or a video add text and send it to a
friend
Can be viewed for 1-10 seconds before
disappearing
Can add to “Your Story”
What is Snapchat?