Technology to Support Teaching and Learning Chris Halter, Ed.D UCSD Education Studies

Technology Support Handheld technologies Smartboard Document Camera Podcasting Digital Storytelling Internet Data analysis & evaluation Interactive Presentation Student Voice Collaboration

Personal Use - Classroom Use What technologies do you currently use is your “real” lives? What technologies do you currently use in the classroom with students?

Teaching the “Nintendo Generation” A short video clip

Technology Support Handheld technologies Smartboard Document Camera Podcasting Digital Storytelling Collaboration

Handheld Technology Choices Graphing Calculators PDA (Palm devices) GPS units

Handheld Graphing Calculators Powerful data analysis by students. Teacher can display. Navigator system gives teacher access to whole class view of student calculators.

TI - nspire Grab and Move Feature

Handheld Technologies - Probes Venier: These probes collect real data and can attach to Palm devices, graphing calculators, or computers Venier:

Probe Demo propalm.swf propalm.swf

Handheld Palm Devices These have developed into mini- computers. They can word process, create presentations, and analyze data.

Palm in the Classroom A short video clip

Handheld - GPS & Geocaching Geocaching in Education

Handhelds in Your Classroom What activities do you have students do in the classroom that could be accomplished or supported by handhelds?

Technology Support Handheld technologies Smartboard Document Camera Podcasting Digital Storytelling Collaboration

Smartboard Computer display Write-on whiteboard Touch sensitive screen Overwrite on the computer screen

Smartboard Large whole class interactive environment

Smartboard Large whole class interactive environment

Smartboard Large whole class interactive environment

Downloadable Resources There are online libraries for Smartboard Notebook lessons  Lesson Lesson

Smartboard in Action Short video clip

Smartboard in Your Classroom What could you see yourself doing with a Smartboard in your classroom? How could you use it? How could the students use it?

Technology Support Handheld technologies Smartboard Document Camera Podcasting Digital Storytelling Collaboration

Document Camera Overhead for the technology supported classroom

Document Camera in Your Classroom What limitations do you face with the current overhead? What do you wish it could do? Would a document camera add anything to your teaching or student learning?

Technology Support Handheld technologies Smartboard Document Camera Podcasting Digital Storytelling Collaboration

Podcasting A way to distribute your audio message. Accessible via internet connected computer or mp3 player (i.e. iPod) Some current educational podcasts include … (insert some podcast) This is just starting to make its way into education.

Podcasting in Your Classroom Is there a “message” that you would want to get out or publish to a wider audience? There is currently over 2300 K-12 pod casts on iTunes.

Technology Support Handheld technologies Smartboard Document Camera Podcasting Digital Storytelling Collaboration

Digital Storytelling

A digital story is an interpretation of the curriculum from the student’s perspective. Brings together many media types. Brings together many learning modalities. Brings together many levels of learning (see Bloom’s taxonomy)

Digital Storytelling Sample Student video montage

Digital Storytelling Are there stories, perspectives on the curriculum, that your students could tell?

Technology Support Handheld technologies Smartboard Document Camera Podcasting Digital Storytelling Collaboration

Online Collaboration Google Documents  Word processing  Presentations  Spreadsheets Multiple Collaborators working on the same document at the same time with viability of each other’s work.

Google Interface GoogleDocs

Now for the challenge:  What direction do you want to take?  What technologies will support your goals for student learning?

Thank you for your time. Discussion and Questions