Transcript Evaluating Effective Technology Integration

Evaluating Effective
Technology Integration
Mission Impossible ?
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Or mission
Accomplished ?
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Administrators will…
• Define technology integration as it
applies to the needs of their school
environment
• Explore appropriate use of technology
by examining best practices
• Idenitfy strategies for evaluating
teachers in the electronic classroom
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Challenges…
• Moore’s law
• Professional development
• TIME
• Access vs. Integration
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What IS effective technology
integration?
An outsider would view the
use of technology as a
seamless part of daily
instruction
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You’d have trouble
accomplishing your
learning goals if the
technology were
removed
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Best practices in online
learning activities…
• Bridge time and space
– Photos from Civil War or Saturn
• Simplify the complex
– Maps & charts
• Make the abstract concrete
– Real-life instances of fractions or geometry
• Challenge preconceptions
– Summer in Reykjavik
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Adapted from: Overview of Using Pictures in Lessons –
www.ncrtec.org/tl.camp/lessons.htm
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• Provide context
– Whale baleen
• Develop aesthetic appreciation
– Photos showing various biomes
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Adapted from: Overview of Using Pictures in Lessons –
www.ncrtec.org/tl.camp/lessons.htm
You can describe how the
technology is enhancing
instruction
in 2-3 sentences
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Ultimately…
Students are genuinely
interested and excited
about learning
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Additional “tests” for
integration
Discussion Activity
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Teachers’ approach to use of
technology…
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Entry level
Adoption
Adaptation
Appropriation
Invention
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7-minute
Video clip
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Teacher Evaluation…
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Good teaching is
good teaching.
However…
“Good technology in the
hands of poor teachers can do
more harm than good!”
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The most important
evaluation question…
What is the
“best media”?
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“Addendum”
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Observation Scenarios &
Discussion
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“MISSION” REMINDERS…
• Effective teaching
with technology
does not occur
overnight!
• Leadership is the
essential key to
successful
technology
integration!
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Questions ?
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“It is the combined effect of good
teaching, appropriate technology and a
conducive environment that makes a
difference in student achievement.”
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Additional Resources
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Leadership & Learning Technology Modules http://www.ncrtec.org/pd/llwt/
NCRTEC Lesson Planner http://www.ncrtec.org/tl/lp
Scoring Guide for Student Products http://www.ncrtec.org/tl/sgsp
Scoring Guide for Lesson Plans that Use Technology Resources http://www.ncrtec.org/tl/sgsp/lpsg.htm
Factors Influencing the Effective Use of Technology for Teaching and Learning Lessons Learned; SEIR*TEC,
http://www.deirtec.org/publications/lessons.pdf
Teaching, Learning & Technology –A Report on 10 Years of ACOT Research; Apple Computer, Inc.,
http://www.apple.com/education/k12/leadership/acot/library.html
Using Pictures in Lessons – www.ncrtec.org/tl.camp/lessons.htm
Golden Nuggets: Seven Tips for Technology Success – www.education-world.com/a_admin/admin228.shtml
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Coaching Staff for Integrating Technology http://www.ncrtec.org/pd/llwt/coach.htm
Learning and Managing Change for Integrating Technology http://www.ncrtec.org/pd/llwt/manag.htm
Models of Technology Integration from MidLink Magazine Showcase –
http://www.ncsu.edu/midlink/sc2000/sc2000.htm
Healy, Jane M. 1998. “Failure to Connect – How Computers Affect Our Children’s Minds – for better and
worse. NY: Simon & Schuster.
Integrating Technology into Instruction – How We Became One of the Best by Simply Listening
http://www.ascd.org/readingroom/ctq/vol07/1summer.html
Why Use Technology – www.ascd.org/readingroom/edlead/9404/peck.html
Administrator’s Role in Technology Integration – http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech087.shtml
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