Sentences with phrase «technology as a teaching tool»

Students, for example, may be indifferent to using technology as a teaching tool, but may insist on the efficacy of smaller classes.

With a very limited budget, she has found ways to use innovative technology as a teaching tool to improve student achievement, which already seems to be reflected in the district's steadily climbing state test scores.

We are teacher educators (in elementary science and mathematics) who are enthusiastic about technology as a teaching tool — though it is as new to us as it is to our university colleagues.

New programing reflects that fact and may incorporate new technologies as teaching tools and delivery methods.

Not exact matches

The first focuses on ideation and product market fit, the second teaches the technology tools required to build the company such as CAD and iOS / Android programming, and the third focuses on marketing and sales applications.

First used as teaching tools and for technology demonstrations, their utility to perform more complex science duties and serve as the backbone of commercial services is gaining traction.

The revised «Framework of Essential Skills of the K - 12 Chief Technology Officer,» released last week, comes as education leaders are increasingly looking to digital tools to improve teaching and learning.

This document is intended as simple introduction to some free Web 2.0 type tools that can be used by teachers who are interested in using technology in language teaching.

There are many teachers not using technology as a true teaching tool in the classroom and more for creation and curation but if you are tapping into this gift of technology by using the tools that support your classroom teaching, make sure you are not lazy with the way your are utilizing it.

Exclusively at Bett 2018, Wesleyan Bank will unveil its new white paper, «Affordable Access to EdTech», which highlights the latest technology innovation in education, as well as new improvements to established teaching tools and the impact such aids can have.

Mobile technology was a powerful teaching tool to introduce and encourage core scientific practices such as observing, hypothesizing, identifying, and sharing information, all while submerged in nature.

Using digital games as an educational technology tool to drill - and - kill content and skills can be akin to using only phonics books to teach reading.

Teachers also get to use modern - day technology tools in everyday practice, not just as occasional add - ons, and they get to master a form of teaching that's likely to reach millions of new students each year in the United States and abroad.

Those two words could just as easily describe the author's thoughtful affect on Paul Allison's Teachers Teaching Teachers or the degree to which his new book, Crafting Digital Writing: Composing Texts Across Media and Genres, methodically articulates how 4th - 12th grade instructors can introduce technology tools, mentor texts, composing practices, and heuristics for helping students write.

Both Dede and O'Shea agreed that curriculum development — not technology — is the key to augmented reality's potential as a teaching tool.

Instead, they envision a different form of accountability, such as that in a small professional firm, where one person takes on both leadership and administrative responsibility to coordinate a variety of teaching personnel and supporting technology tools.

As I wrote in an article coauthored by two executives from Qualcomm and published in the March / April 2010 issue of Educational Technology, «mobile wireless devices and ubiquitous tools have the potential to transform teaching and learning in K — 20 schooling.

As we move closer to positioning digital technology as an effective teaching and learning tool, there is an ever - increasing pressure for schools to increase their IT provision and for teachers to increase their skills using technologAs we move closer to positioning digital technology as an effective teaching and learning tool, there is an ever - increasing pressure for schools to increase their IT provision and for teachers to increase their skills using technologas an effective teaching and learning tool, there is an ever - increasing pressure for schools to increase their IT provision and for teachers to increase their skills using technology.

How Teachers View Technology A recent «Teachers Talk Tech» survey found that the majority of teachers view computer technology as a valuable teaching tool that can improve students» academic performance and attention in class, while strengthening the lines of communication witTechnology A recent «Teachers Talk Tech» survey found that the majority of teachers view computer technology as a valuable teaching tool that can improve students» academic performance and attention in class, while strengthening the lines of communication wittechnology as a valuable teaching tool that can improve students» academic performance and attention in class, while strengthening the lines of communication with parents.

Deklotz sees the digital tools as a means to an end: «With the technology we now have available, there's absolutely no reason to teach to the middle.»

First, if technology is used as a teaching and learning tool, tied to curricular goals and assessment and embedded within strong instructional techniques, it can promote better instruction and greater student collaboration, enhancing student learning.

Using this research as a starting point, we can engage preservice teachers in developing habits / skills necessary to identify the best teaching tools to help students, whether they are computer - based technologies or not.

Caroline Wright, director, BESA said; «Today's research shows there is an opportunity for teaching schools, school leadership organisations and industry to work with schools to help them understand how they can utilise tablet technology to its full potential, and integrate tablets as learning tools into the classroom.

He was impressed with the student response technology's potential in the classroom and decided to incorporate it into his lessons, along with agile teaching, as a tool for both student engagement and formative assessment.

Mean scores for the survey item, «Using computer technologies as a tool to reflect upon my teaching practices is a powerful way to improve them,» were also incorporated into the analysis for the fourth research question.

The common misconception that emerged was that many teachers see technology integration as a tool in itself but do not see how that tool can enhance the curriculum; that is, some teachers use technology for the sake of using technology rather than understanding how it can improve teaching and learning.

Results of the survey item, «Using computer technologies as a tool to reflect upon my teaching practices is a powerful way to improve them,» can be found in Figure 4.

In the following study, the preceding three technology tools were introduced to a group of 10 new teachers as a means of exploring their use for eliciting and encouraging reflection on their beginning teaching experiences.

As reported in this study, beginning teachers were encouraged to engage in reflection through the use of these technology tools, often leading to improvements in their teaching practice.

Electronic portfolio development, online discussions, and videotaping teaching are three technology tools that may encourage reflection on teaching as it naturally occurs in a beginning teacher's practice.

At the conclusion of Student Teaching II, preservice teachers in two elementary cohorts (49) and four secondary cohorts (102) responded to the following open - ended prompt: «To what extent were you able to use technology as a tool for learning in your university coursework and / or in half - time Student Teaching I and full - time Student Teaching II?»

While the preservice teachers in this study taught in a variety of settings (urban, suburban, and rural), as well as a variety of grade levels and subjects, they faced a consistent challenge in using technology as a tool for learning: lack of access to adequate technology in the K - 12 schools.

Topics addressed in the open - ended questions included hardware and software purchases funded by the PT3 grant; ways in which students were using technology in learning; participation in grant - sponsored professional development activities; ways in which the knowledge and experiences from professional development activities were being used; ways in which the combination of hardware, software, and professional development affected the educators» professional, administrative, and instructional work; and their opinions of the importance of computers as tools for teaching and learning in K - 12 settings.

Thus, as more and more teachers teach mathematics with technology as a tool, the shift must be toward the evolving issues more directly focused on student learning of mathematics — evaluating the results of the decision and its impact on the mathematics curriculum and instructional strategies needed so that all students are able to learn mathematics.

Modeling the use of multiple technologies as teaching and learning tools in university courses has been suggested as a way to help preservice teachers understand the potential of technology in the learning process (Howland, & Wedman, 2004; Rosaen, Hobson, & Khan, 2003).

In educational technology, situated cognition has been adopted as a valid and useful tool for computer - based instruction, the design of technology, and the use of technology to enhance the teaching process (Altalib, 2002; Hansman & Wilson, 2002).

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Despite the innovative technology, the teaching had not changed — the devices were simply being used as sophisticated test prep tools.

Technology not only serves as a tool to help students become more knowledgeable and efficient in an increasingly wired economy, but technology can also serve to make instruction more efficient and to allow differentiation in how students aTechnology not only serves as a tool to help students become more knowledgeable and efficient in an increasingly wired economy, but technology can also serve to make instruction more efficient and to allow differentiation in how students atechnology can also serve to make instruction more efficient and to allow differentiation in how students are taught.

1996 ePortfolio to teach instructional technology, for use as an electronic assessment and job - seeking tool, and as a mechanism for building professional skills that easily transfers from the campus setting to the world of work.

The use of technology is not intended as a substitute for great teaching; rather it is a tool to enhance great teaching.

And so one of the things as we look at how we support great teaching and build that continuum from, through teacher preparation into teacher practice, is how can we use technology as a tool to keep people connected, to be able to find resources as they need them and to be able to share those with their students regardless of what school they are in.

SRI sees technology as a tool for improving teaching and learning.

Teachers» resistance to change and «fear» of integrating computers into classrooms resulted from not recognizing the usefulness and necessity of technology to teaching and learning; teachers still viewed the computer as a part of the curriculum rather than as a tool for teaching (Medcalf - Davenport, 1998).

I think we will continue to see this diversity in Finnish schools as technology becomes a more common tool in teaching and learning.

Technology integration does not happen when teachers «drop» a tool into their teaching just as students walk in the door or as a mandated assessment tool / mechanism.

This event will explore how performing arts serve as a tool for teaching science, technology, engineering and math skills in early childhood.

The tendency during the New Social Studies was to promote technology as an «improvement of instruction» (Bender & Conrad, 1983, p. 20) rather than a tool for teaching.

Therefore, effective implementation of innovative technologies, like GST, in education will require preparing teachers to develop not only the necessary knowledge and skills for but also positive dispositions toward using GST as a tool for teaching.

It was built by our advance technology group as a teaching tool for developers to author in wide color gamut and high dynamic range, to show how the engine can scale between 4K and 1080p, and we saw it and it's just magical.