I blog
about teaching with technology in the classroom (face2face, hybrid and online).
As mathematics teachers think
about teaching with technology, they should concurrently consider how to teach mathematical concepts in such a way that students can experiment with ideas, make conjectures, test hypotheses, and form generalizations.
The teacher candidates noted that they also benefited from seeing how such a learning environment could be structured so that student learners are allowed control over their learning (technological content knowledge), the use of acronyms to guide procedural knowledge development (technological pedagogical knowledge), and the level of technical skills required to teach with technology (technological knowledge)-- all of which increased their own teacher knowledge
about teaching with technology (Figg & Burson, 2009).
For more ideas for great books
about teaching with technology, these are some recommendations I was given on Twitter:
Peltz is passionate
about teaching with technology and opening Web access because he believes it's (a) a powerful way to engage students, and (b) the only way to teach kids how to safely and productively use technologies that they will use — and misuse — whether the school restricts them or not.
Not exact matches
My formal training is law, MBA, but I've been working in the
technology industry for 20 years now, so I've
taught myself
technology and certainly surround myself
with guys who are very knowledgeable
about the
technology industry.
She says the typical Waldorf parent, who has a range of elite private and public schools to choose from, tends to be liberal and highly educated,
with strong views
about education; they also have a knowledge that when they are ready to
teach their children
about technology they have ample access and expertise at home.
«We are looking to carve out a special niche amongst universities in Ontario,» says William Smith, dean of the faculty of science, «From the get - go we have been
about combining advanced
teaching technologies with an innovative interdisciplinary approach to both education and high - quality research.»
Her first collaboration
with the science curriculum was
with Gondek in a freshman seminar that they
taught about genetic engineering using CRISPR, a genome - editing
technology.
«We had been talking
about doing a company for a while in order to optimize the
technology in the commercial setting, but I'm an academic and I'm an assistant professor and 99.9 percent of my time is
teaching and research,» said Serre, who is based in the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences and (along
with Bath) is a faculty affiliate in the Brown Institute for Brain Science.
To continue the conversation
about neuroethics
with current students who will continue to work
with neural engineering
technology or participate in research, Specker Sullivan
taught a UW course called «Neuroethics» during spring 2017 that was offered under «Advanced Topics in Philosophy.»
About Site - Richard Byrne, at Practical Ed Tech, has been
teaching teachers to
teach with technology.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
About Blog The mission of this blog is to serve as a voice of a constant researcher in the field of educational and assistive
technologies so that the best products, strategies and services may be located easily, in hopes that they will then be delivered,
taught and used to better the lives of people
with disabilities.
This blog is
about lessons learned while solving complex problems, experimenting
with technology and
teaching other people on how to improve their skills.
With its blend ofhonesty, humor, and
technology, Midwest offers an accessible, upbeat alternative to what schools generally
teach about sex — if they
teach anything at all.
Joe Fatheree and Craig Lindvahl, two teachers who have made seven films between them and who
teach filmmaking workshops to educators, say that even when teachers are comfortable
with the
technology, they don't often feel confident
about teaching the art of storytelling.
How can we, as adults, hold these kids responsible for their actions without ever
teaching them
about the
technology they're tinkering
with?
Along
with the STEM (science,
technology, engineering and maths) subjects, another area we were passionate
about improving was how languages were
taught and the various ways we could increase the exposure our students have to other cultures.
Therefore, decisions
about ICT purchasing should start
with questions relating to what
technology can do to enhance the processes of
teaching and learning and how it might help drive better outcomes.
Kirp ends his critique
with a caution
about schools» soaring
technology spending, as part of a trend that ignores
teaching and learning and instead draws reformers to «hyped claims.»
Teachers get first - hand knowledge
about the hottest topics in
technology to keep up
with the latest applications and approaches to interactive
teaching and learning.
An e-mail chat
with a geologist is one method of using
technology to
teach students
about Earth, but there are many more.
Today considering the need of the hour, language teachers today organize a number of conferences and seminars to create a platform where they can keep themselves updated
about upcoming ideologies in the language
teaching techniques and
technologies, keeping themselves professionally updated and equipped
with the current trends.
The programme aims to create the next generation of informed, responsible and resilient digital citizens by providing schools
with a roadmap for planning and
teaching «
with» and «
about» digital
technology.
Teens Out to
Teach Teachers Students Evan Russo of Columbia, South Carolina, and Marshall Roch of North Hampton, New Hampshire, started Out2
Teach in 2002, a free Web site
with activities,
technology resources, and tips
about integrating
technology into the curriculum.
«What stood out for us
about Jenny was the fact that she
teaches astronomy and is already familiar
with NASA resources, as well as her educational
technology background,» Olson says.
The 3M Foundation, a St. Paul, Minn. - based
technology company, has awarded the Washington - based National 4 - H Council, a national youth volunteer and community involvement organization,
with a $ 500,000 grant to support curriculum that
teaches youths
about alternative energies and related careers.
And here are a few examples of teachers» goals: to more consistently draw on student data to inform my
teaching; to employ high standards for all of my students, not just the ones I easily relate to; to be more open to experimenting
with the new
technologies in my classroom; to working more collaboratively; to getting better at saying «no»; to giving supportive and constructive feedback to my colleagues; to be more open to my colleagues» feedback
about my
teaching.
He
teaches an online graduate class he created
about technology integration for Bethel University based on the textbook he co-authored
with Dr. Katherine Cennamo from Virginia Tech and Dr. Peg Ertmer from Purdue.
It seems we would avoid much of the fragmentation and lack of theory if social studies researchers began
with the ends in mind — student learning — and examined the ways in which
technology can be used to bring
about the kinds of
teaching and learning activities known to contribute positively to student learning.
His interest in presenting game - based learning theories and practices, as well as sharing his own experiences at regional conferences, all came
about through his graduate work at Marlboro College Graduate School, culminating in a Master's in
Teaching with Technology from Marlboro in 2014.
Preservice teachers will have the opportunity to examine some reasons for
teaching with technology and may compare those reasons
with their existing beliefs
about the uses of
technology in the classroom.
A learning environment was created and modeled, where preservice teachers were challenged to think
about teaching and learning
with technology, the relationship between
technology and learning, and to become designers of learning
with digital media and network
technologies.
The completion of one cycle of experiential learning helped them gain a better understanding of VS, the key VS
teaching skills, the VS teacher's responsibilities, and the role of
technology in VS. It also helped the teacher candidates to address their preconceptions and misconceptions, which minimized their concerns
about VS. What began
with a motivation to acquire the required contact field experience hours ended
with spurred interest in a potential career related to VS.
«The rapid advance of
technology and the very different way teachers approach
teaching today, along
with the almost simultaneous [aging] of the nation's education infrastructure, is creating a tremendous need to rebuild schools — yet school officials have very little knowledge
about what education will look like 10 or 20 years from now.»
The rapid expansion of available technological tools has prompted scholarly discourse
about how Shulman's (1987) construct of pedagogical content knowledge might be built upon to help describe the sort of knowledge teachers need for
teaching with technology.
The case further documents how three middle school science teacher participants developed knowledge
about how to
teach with technology as they planned and implemented a blog activity in science over a 4 - week period.
Moreover, an emphasis on the easiest choice in the present offers little assurance that the preservice teachers will make the effort to learn more
about and experiment
with unfamiliar and emerging
technology media in their future
teaching.
This study reveals information
about prospective teachers» discourse in a synchronous, online environment as they learned
about teaching mathematics
with technology.
TEC was a yearlong, intensive program, which included a 2 - week - long summer introductory course
about inquiry
teaching and
technology tools and follow - up group meetings throughout the school year associated
with an online course
about teacher action research.
In a study conducted by Kim et al. (2013), a positive correlation was found between teachers» pedagogical beliefs and their
technology integration practices: «What teachers say they do was significantly correlated
with both their beliefs
about effective ways of
teaching and their actual practices
with regard to
technology integration» (p. 81).
The emergent salient categories were previous experiences
with technology; beliefs
about teaching, learning, and
technology; the use of
technology in classroom instruction; and the implementation of inquiry - based
teaching.
The choices preservice teachers made to incorporate
technology into their practice indicated what they valued
about teaching, the degree to which they were comfortable
with technology, how they conceived and envisioned their content knowledge, and where they found support to engage in experimentation.
Mursion CEO Mark Atkinson, a pioneer of new
technologies to support
teaching and learning and an Emmy - award winning documentary television producer, expressed his enthusiasm
about the collaboration: «Mursion is thrilled to join
with ASCD to develop the
technologies to deliver new forms of professional learning for school leaders.
With Edmodo's support, teachers from all over the world are meeting up with other teachers in their local communities to talk about ways they can improve their teaching with technol
With Edmodo's support, teachers from all over the world are meeting up
with other teachers in their local communities to talk about ways they can improve their teaching with technol
with other teachers in their local communities to talk
about ways they can improve their
teaching with technol
with technology.
Our seminar was not
about technology; it was
about teaching and thinking
with technology.
Explicit instruction of NETS - T would allow students to be clear
about their
technology literacy skills, and allow them to begin connecting that awareness
with the importance of standards - based
technology in their future
teaching experiences.
TPCK for
teaching with technology means that as teachers think
about particular mathematics concepts, they are concurrently considering how they might
teach the important ideas embodied in the mathematical concepts in such a way that the
technology places the concept in a form understandable by their students.
Although several studies in other disciplines report that teachers planning
with print - based ECMs tend to develop a better understanding of instructional strategies and their impact on student thinking (Collopy, 2003; Grossman & Thompson, 2004; Lloyd, 1999; Remillard, 2000, 2005; Schneider, Krajcik, & Marx, 2000), little is known
about the effects of
technology - enhanced ECMs or those designed for
teaching in the social studies.
Once student
teaching began, the researchers periodically conducted informal interviews
with each participant to determine their thoughts
about technology integration.