Technology Integration Chapter 2

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Technology IntegrationChapter 2

• EDUC 275
• Marshall Jones

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Technology is not good

• Active learning is good
• Providing scaffolding for learning is good
• Engagement through problem solving is good
• Technology is only good if it helps meet those
  goals

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Technology Integration

• Seamless use of technology tools into a
  purposeful, participatory instructional or
  learning environment
• Good
• Using the Internet to research projects
• Bad
• Letting students play educational games if they
  finish their work early

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Technology IntegrationFactors to consider
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Where technology integration takes place (page
29, fig. 2.1)

• District level
• School level
• Classroom level

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Types of facilities you might use (page 35, fig.
2.3)

• Labs
• General use
• Special purpose
• Mobile labs
• Lap tops and PDAs
• Classroom Workstations
• Stand-alone classroom computers

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A technology integration planning model (page 39,
fig 2.5)

• Phase 1 Relative Advantage
• Phase 2 Planning Assessments
• Phase 3 Planning Instruction
• Phase 4 Logistics
• Phase 5 Evaluating Revising Integrations
  strategies

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For proper integration

• Find real learning problems that technology will
  help with
• Page 43 Examples
• Topic is difficult to understand because concepts
  are abstract (Ex predictions)
• Learning skills are difficult or time consuming
  (Ex graphing and manipulating data)
• Students need work with technology tools to be
  competitive (Ex Spreadsheets)

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MM Spreadsheet Activity
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Predictions, Graphing, Using Data to Answer
Questions

• Look at your bag. Make predictions based on the
  data collection sheet (Pre-computer activity)
• Open the Bag, sort and count the
  MMs(Pre-computer activity)
• Open Microsoft Excel and create a spreadsheet to
  graph the data. Dont print until I see it (at
  the computer)

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A type of learning

• How many of you made the spreadsheet and graphed
  the data?
• How many of you are experts at Excel?
• Why were you able to do this?
• Tutorials are a form of directed instruction that
  help in constructivist learning

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Relating this to the reading

• Page 133
• Also many other great examples in the book for
  spreadsheets and databases
• Useful Links and Handouts
• Excel is very cool, a link on links and handouts
  has a wealth of activities for you to use. Make
  sure to reference where you got them. If you
  dont that is plagiarism.