Integrate Technology

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Integrate Technology

• "We already knew that kids learned computer
  technology more easily than adults, It is as if
  children were waiting all these centuries for
  someone to invent their native language." - Jaron
  Lanier

By Kelly Boehmer and Nataly Caceres
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Math

• EXCEL!
• Mean, median, mode
• Different graphs and their uses
• Sums and totals
• Charts
• Surveying

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Extra Math Resources

• http//club.live.com/Pages/Home/HomePage.aspx?ocid
  club_sem_efFORMMXCA00publGooglecrea6f3fd757
  4bf461a44ff8fa357eaf0145 all types of games
• http//www.coolmath.com/
• http//nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/topic_t_1.html main
  site with virtual manipulatives (if you use
  nothing else, this would be a great site to take
  from our presentation.)

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Best Buys Best

• This school won the Best Buy most technological
  school award for integrating digital cameras into
  the math curriculum. The website is
  http//futureofmath.misterteacher.com/digitalcamer
  as.html
• This is that same class blog http//verity7math.b
  logspot.com/
• Use the website https//www.blogger.com/start to
  create a user friendly blog for any grade level.
  Blogging when used properly is a great way to
  assess students.

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Smart Boards

• Many schools today now use smart boards
  (interactive white boards). We offer workshops
  here to learn how to use them. Take advantage!!
• Websites that are great for smart boards!
• http//www.kenton.k12.ky.us/SmartBoard/smartmath.h
  tm
• http//eduscapes.com/sessions/smartboard/ - this
  site had really cool interactive movies about
  various subjects

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Ways to Use the Smart Board

• Digital storytelling
• Brainstorm
• Take notes directly into PowerPoint presentations
  
• Reinforce skills by using on-line interactive web
  sites
• Create a project calendar
• Teach editing skills using editing marks
• Use highlighter tool to highlight nouns, verbs,
  adjectives, etc.
• Use it with Kidspiration or Inspiration
• Teach students how to navigate the Internet
• Illustrate and write a book as a class. Use the
  record feature to narrate the text.

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EVEN MORE ways!

• Have students create e-folios including samples
  of their work and narration
• Electronic Word Wall
• Create video files to teach a software
  application, a lesson, or as a review to be
  posted to the server or web. Example How to
  create a graph in Excel or how to burn projects
  to CDs
• Use the built in maps to teach continents,
  oceans, countries, or states and capitals.

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Science

• Interactive Resources
• http//www.tryscience.org/home.html
• http//www.billnye.com/index.asp
• http//www.sciencenewsforkids.org/

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Social Studies

• Youtube! (teachertube)
• Use News articles
• Ellis Island
• http//www.ellisisland.org/Immexp/index.asp

• Slavery
• http//school.discoveryeducation.com/schooladventu
  res/slavery/world.html
• http//www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/

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RAL

• Class Blog
• Resources
• http//www.eduplace.com/tales/
• http//www.funbrain.com/detect/
• http//crayon.net/using/how.html
• Use newspapers online (USATODAY.com and
  NYtimes.com (for SS too).

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Important Points

• Make sure the computers have parental controls in
  the school and stress parent involvement.
• What is a reliable source?
• Kids know a lot, closely monitor their work!