Technology to Enhance Learning
Course Description:
Strategies for integrating technology into the teaching and learning process, with a focus on enhancing how students think rather than what they think. Special attention given to supporting higher order thinking and problem solving with technology.
Reflection and Artifacts
This class was the other big eye opener for me. I took this class during the summer and I really was able to look at the amount of technology I was using in my classroom. As I looked at the self assessment, I realized just how little students were using technology during any given project. The most that the technology available to the students was used in a project was in the huge Social Studies research project that we did every spring. We used the SMARTBoard on a daily basis in my lessons, but not with a whole lot of student interaction. It was during this class that I really looked at the Social Studies Teacher's Edition to see what kind of recommendations they have for integrating smaller projects and which ones really lend themselves to the use of technology, other than just researching and typing up papers.
The focus of my self assessment was to look at a topic we touch on at the beginning of the school year, the four factors of production. I took the recommended lesson one step further, by not just having the students come up with their own version of the four factors, but also by having them research some of the items that they couldn't think of that would go into making something like a CD. Then after their mini-research project they used the Inspiration software and created a concept map like the one in our book to print off and share with the class. This project opened the door to adding more mini-research projects for Social Studies and Science.
Artifacts
Self Assessment Word Document
Newsy Lesson Plan Word Document
Return to Program of Study
The focus of my self assessment was to look at a topic we touch on at the beginning of the school year, the four factors of production. I took the recommended lesson one step further, by not just having the students come up with their own version of the four factors, but also by having them research some of the items that they couldn't think of that would go into making something like a CD. Then after their mini-research project they used the Inspiration software and created a concept map like the one in our book to print off and share with the class. This project opened the door to adding more mini-research projects for Social Studies and Science.
Artifacts
Self Assessment Word Document
Newsy Lesson Plan Word Document
Return to Program of Study