End of Class Slip

Technology Integration:

Teacher integrates technology in her classroom:

• SMARTBoard; active lessons
• Engage students in coopoerative learning.
• Actively engage them/participation.
• Online Collaborative projects;
• Learn from students in different parts of the world
• Reaching out to experts in the field.
• Virtual Penpals (epals.com)
• Daily online blog
• Use for students AND Parents.
• Online Assignments
• Open classroom (trasnparent teaching, document what is going on in the classroom)
• Recognition- Student accomplishments and success.
• Students have their own blogs to share their opinions. (more intersted in writing)
• Being exposed to current events
• Sharing their perspectives - in and out of class, global citizen.
• Laptops in the classroom
• Having laptops in our classroom allows us to blog and do online collaborative projects.

Students get to enjoy a more collaborative learning environment and share their work with the world!

Some ways to get collaborative projects could be to reach out to experts in other countries via skype, and wikis. Bring them into your classroom!
Writing assignments become more meaningful to students when you give them a global audience (audience outside of school, writing for more than just the teacher).

Somethings we could do before technology:

• Send home assignments (write in the planner,newsletter)
• Collaborative projects (different grade levels, other schools in the same city)
• Effective classroom management plan can allow student engagment.
• "Open Classroom" sending home a newsletter, call home.
• Students keep a journal about current events by looking at a newspaper.
• Sharing perspectives (within our own classroom)

Things that we couldn't do before technology:

• World-Wide collaboration
• Active blogging
• Online (Only within the last 10-15 years)
• SMART Board and Laptops.
• Recognition of student work.

Could do better:

• Engagement/Participation - Not solely responsible but increases it.
• Cooporative learning
• Open Classroom - don't have to "kill all the trees"
• Could tweet, blog, maintain wiki.
• Collaborative projects.
• Sharing perspectives - can go beyond the classroom
• VERY current, current events.
• Assignments

Technology makes classrooms much more effective!
Which technology do I use? Trying to find the perfect fit between the most effective technology and what your trying to create takes some time and thought.

Reasons to use technology
1. Use technology to reinforce learning
2. Be creative in using different kinds of learning (homemade elmo, named it grover.) Creative ways of asking for funding.
3. Communicating with your parents all the time, not just for parent/teacher conferences.
4. How students can stay connected wtih other people of the world.
5. Teachers admitting they don't know everything.
6. Use technology that students already have.
7. Use technology to engage your students not to entertain them!

Distraction is not a new concept! Technology may increase this concept.

Should you use your personal technology in the classroom?

• No, don't put your personal stuff at risk! Seperate those two worlds!