31. WHY SHOULD WE USE TECHNOLOGY?
Developing students’ higher
order thinking skills
Promote creativity
Facilitate academic learning
The benefits of using technology in the
classroom are:
36. Assist teachers in
Developing interactive lessons
Organization and grading policies
Motivating students for involvement
Reducing time gaps
Preparing students for the real world
Keeping students on task and
interested
37. WHY INTEGRATE?
Integrate technology throughout the
curriculum:
-language arts, science, social studies,
mathematics, and art
Saves time
Valuable aid for useful resources
66. “Across the world there is a
passionate love affair between
children and computers . . . And
more than wanting [computer
technology], they seem to know
that in a deep way it already
belongs to them. They know they
can master it more easily and
more naturally than their parents.
They know they are the computer
generation.”
—Seymour Papert, The Connected Family
71. Probably the most telling
statement on the low-level use
made of technology in
teaching is to contrast the use
of the various digital
technologies by the young in
their homes with the use of
those same technologies in the
classroom.
72. Kids lead high-tech lives outside
school and decidedly low-tech
lives inside school.
This new ‘digital divide’ is making
the activities inside school appear
to have less real world relevance
to kids.
(Illinois Institute of Design, 2007, p. 24)
73. Email Website creation
Podcasts Blogs
Wikis Chat rooms
VOIP—and Skype Social networks
Online games YouTube
Online music
Multifunctional mobile phones
digital cameras electronic calculators
data projectors Printers and scanners
digital ‘video’ portable digital storage
computer games
interactive multimedia teaching resources
165. How do I get the tools I need?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36045027@N00/2054989998
166. Start Small, but Dream Big
http://www.flickr.com/photos/73645804@N00/2222523486
167. 21st Century Skills are all about
teaching our kids to navigate the
world as THEY are experiencing it,
not the world WE experienced.
-Wil Richardson