MOTIVATION

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MOTIVATION TEACHER IMPROVEMENT THROUGH THE USE
OF TECHNOLOGY

• Presented by Jen Bower Courtney White

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DPTS 11 Educational Technology

• The teacher understands the role of educational
  technology in learning and uses educational
  technology as an instructional and management
  tool. 

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Seaford School District

• Located in Seaford, Delaware (25 miles north of
  Salisbury, MD)
• 62 Free/Reduced Lunch
• 47 minority enrollment
• 22.5 Special Education
• 3 ELL

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Our Challenge Secondary Schools

• Not enough equipment to give to all teachers
  interested
• Teacher buy-in
• Equipment not being utilized
• Time to plan and implement new applications
• Stipulations placed upon us by the state (blocked
  sites)
• Lack of educational integration specialist in
  each school
• Resources to maintain and improve technology

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The Electronic Syllabus Project

• The main challenges of teaching from a web site
  are
• Extra time for planning instructional materials
  and posting them to the web site
• Reliability of connection

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Engaging All LearnersThe Electronic Syllabus
Project

• The Electronic Syllabus Project is an attempt to
  bring multimedia into the secondary classrooms in
  the Seaford School District.
• Teachers who volunteer for the project aim to
  digitize most of what they do in the classroom
  and teach from their website on a daily basis.

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Our Challenge Elementary Schools

• Communication - 4 different Elementary schools
  West Seaford, Central, Blades and Fredrick
  Douglass.
• As of 10/31/07 every teacher received 1
  Multimedia teaching station in each classroom
  (computer, projector, cart, document camera).
• Lack of Teacher Confidence - teachers lack of
  knowledge about technology.
• Lack of time for planning and collaboration
• Limited in computer labs (computer labs and
  computer carts)
• Vision to step away from the traditional
  activities.

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How does technology improve teaching and student
achievement ?

• Increases motivation
• Engages student participation
• Promotes hands-on experiences
• Allows them to explore the world outside the
  classroom (virtual field trips, web quests,
  Google earth, educational blogging and web
  conferencing)
• Develop communication skills
• Increase addressing learning styles
• Increase collaboration

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Engage Me or Enrage MeWhat Todays Learners
DemandMARC PRENSKYs 3 types of students

• The students who are truly self-motivated.
• The students who go through the motions.
• The students who tune us out. (These students
  are convinced that school is totally devoid of
  interest and totally irrelevant to their lives.)

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How does technology motivate teachers?

• Increases student motivation
• Electronic organization (wikis, web pages,
  blogging and microsoft applications)
• Allows for collaboration among colleagues around
  the world
• Visually enhances the classroom instruction and
  environment

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How to Measure Technology Integration in the
Classroom?

• Loti Survey
• Observation student/teacher/administration
• Student Survey

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Educational Technology

• The teacher...
• Knowledge Components
• understands how to use various educational
  technological tools to access and manage
  information.
• understands how to integrate educational
  technology into classroom instruction.
• understands how to review and evaluate
  educational technologies to determine
  instructional value.
• understands the uses of instructional technology
  to address student needs.
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• Performance Indicators
• designs instruction to promote student skills in
  the use of educational technologies to access and
  manage information.
• uses a wide range of instructional technologies
  to enhance student learning and problem solving.
• uses technological advances in communication to
  enrich discourse in the classroom.
• uses appropriate educational technology to create
  and maintain data bases for monitoring student
  progress.

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Summary