Promising Uses of Technology in the English Classroom

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Promising Uses of Technology in the English
Classroom

• Britt Jung Jodie Lu Stout
• Bjung_at_stanford.edu
  jodielu_at_stanford.edu

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Agenda

• Introductions
• Technology that helps the teacher
• Technology in the traditional classroom
• Classrooms that depend on technology
• Additional resources
• What conclusions have you drawn?
• Survey

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Promising Uses of Technology in the English
Classroom

• What is your first memory of using technology?
• How do you ideally want to incorporate
  technology into your classroom next year?

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Technology that can help you and your students
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Tools

• Record keeping systems
• http//www.gradekeeper.com/
• http//www.thinkwave.com/
• http//www.vgrade.com/
• Mapping tools
• http//www.mindjet.com/
• http//www.inspiration.com/
• Teacher websites
• http//www.ncte.org/
• http//www.twc.org/
• http//courseinfo.stanford.edu/courses/ED460/
• http//www.hightechhigh.org/bdaley/

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Technology that supports traditional practices

• Writing process
• Word processing drafting, revision, editing
• Communication
• Email submission, peer/teacher review, inquiries
• Research
• Internet background information on authors,
  historical fiction, dictionary/thesaurus
• Skill Building
• Exercises in grammar, vocabulary and spelling
• http//ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.stm

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Specific Examples

• Crossword Companion
• The Costs of War
• Banned Books Quest
• http//www.paly.net/pkandell/bannedbooks.html

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Technology that runs the show the future of
education

• Microsoft Reader/eBooks
• http//www.ebooknet.com/topic.jsp?topicHome3ARea
  dingTechnology
• Automated writing assessment
• http//www.etstechnologies.com/criterion_web/index
  .html
• Technology-based classes
• Collaborative writing
• Palo Alto High School journalism class

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Palo Alto High - newspaper magazine class

• How does their class work?
• Training
• The publication process
• Fulfilling aspects according to the teacher.
• Empowerment/ownership
• Skills learned writing, editing, managing,
  critical thinking, collaboration, responsibility
• Fulfilling aspects according to the students.
• Authenticity journalistic writing, final
  product
• Autonomy business-like environment
• One example http//www.thelowell.org/

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Additional Resources

• http//www.lightspan.com/
• http//www.classroomconnect.com/
• http//www.primarysource.org/default.htm
• http//teacher.scholastic.com/read180/index.htm
• http//www.mentornet.net
• http//www.tminet.org/webquest.html
• http//www.nytimes.com/learning/general/navigator/
  teachers.html
• Mini-CUE Technology Conference Palo Alto High
  School 3/10/01

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How promising is technology in the English
classroom?

• there is no limit to what students can achieve
  when provided with tools that motivate them to
  learn.
• Lightspan, Inc. philosophy

• What worries me most about many of the
  applications is that they come down to pointing
  and clicking that they require very little
  mental energy from students, but instead reduce
  them to gap-mouthed spectators in galleries
  designed by others.
• Rosanne G. Potter
• Iowa State University

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What do you think the drawbacks and benefits of
using technology in the classroom are?
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Survey

• http//ldt.stanford.edu/survey/2.php
• Thank you and good luck!