Eliciting Student Creativity Using Technology Ben Smith and Jared Mader Red Lion Area School District Thursday, March 18, 2010

About Us Ben Smith: Physics Teacher Science Chair Technology Resource Teacher Keystone Technology Integrator Doctoral Student in Instructional Technology STAR Discovery Educator ISTE Board of Directors Jared Mader: Director of Technology Former Chemistry Teacher Keystone Technology Integrator Masters Degree in Instructional Technology STAR Discovery Educator BlendedSchools Consultant

Nonprofit international membership association. Focuses on improving teaching and student learning using technology as a tool. Connects educators to learn from each other. Promotes best practices from the field. International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)

2010 Presentations Integrating Technology into the Classroom Thursday, March 18, 8:00- 9:00 AM, Hall D, Room 1 Eliciting Student Creativity Using Technology Thursday, March 18, 9: :30 AM, Hall D, Room 1 BYOL Workshop - Wikis for Students and Teachers in Science Thursday, March 18, 12:30 - 2:30 PM, Hall D, Room 1 BYOL - Using Google Apps in the Science Classroom Thursday, March 18, 3:30 - 4:30 PM, Hall D, Room 1 The Tech-Based Science Classroom Friday, March 19, 8: :00 AM, Hall D, Room 1 BYOL - Podcasting for Students and Teachers in Science Friday, March 19, 12:30 - 1:30 PM, Hall D, Room 1 BYOL Workshop - Emerging Technologies in Science Friday, March 19, 2:00 - 3:00 PM, Hall D, Room 1

Presents: National Conference - ISTE 2010 Denver, Co Booth #1156 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)

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Today’s Students 21st Century Learners Multitaskers Text Messengers Gamers Appropriaters Today’s college students have spent 5000 hours reading hours gaming hours watching TV Marc Prensky - Digital Natives, Digital ImmigrantsSee ArticleSee Article

National Educational Technology Standards for Students

National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers

Why Go Digital? The World is Flat Google: Did You Know Video Change the way students work Create a Paperless Environment Move students from Digital Intuitives to Digital Natives Skills to Survive

Working Digitally All notes available online: Take all classroom activities and put them in a digital format Storage Access Sharing Linking Together Paperless Classroom Movement

How to Make it Happen Turn the printer off File Exchange Hand In / Distribute Drop Box Provide Templates Move through our Taxonomy Make requirements of students Working with students without access Example: Fill out survey

A Taxonomy for Integrating Technology Increasing Levels of Cognition Curriculum mastery deepens Increasing Complexity of Technology Skills Technology choices become autonomous

Applying Students are guided to combine and integrate technologies Give students the directions Use Tutorials Web Video Project Make Movie, Analyze Motion, Make Website Students use Office, Photos and Accompanying Software, and a Canvas interface to create lab report Students use PowerPoint to make slides to import into iMovie Students add movies, MP3s and images into a Wiki

Creating Students are making sound choices about the appropriate synthesis of content and technology into a final product Be Vague Fill up the Student Toolbox Lightning Racer Podcast Chemical Reactions Project Catapult User Manual Taking Notes - iWeb / NoteBook Lab Report in Inspiration

How to Erase Technology Have students move through the taxonomy As students acquire the skills of using a technology…. It becomes a tool they may choose The emphasis of an activity shifts from the technology to the cognitive skills students must employ Becomes invisible

How to get Students to be Creative Creating the Canvas Word, PowerPoint, Inspiration, Wikis, Google Docs Learning to Paint User Created Content: Podcasts, Movies, Animoto, Mapping Creative Process Instructional Design: Be Vague

How to Erase Technology Have students move through the taxonomy As students acquire the skills of using a technology…. It becomes a tool they may choose The emphasis of an activity shifts from the technology to the cognitive skills students must employ Becomes invisible

Getting Teachers to Integrate Ways to Use Technology Personal and Professional Use Instructional Enhancement Observing in the Taxonomy Using with Students

How to Integrate Technology Know your kids What are their strengths and weaknesses What technologies are available? Look for Connections between curriculum goals and technology

Creating Scaffolds for Students Tutorials Word Screentoaster Student Examples Modeling

Planning Documents Year Long Plan Being Creative Curriculum Map What are 21st century skills? What are technologies you / your students can use? What are your current integration activities?

Assessing Technology Integrated Projects What are the goals / objectives of the project? Curricular Skills Technology Develop a rubric Curriculum Focus should be first Need a rubric area to deal with technology aspect Collaboration Problem Solving Communication

Digitizing the Science Classroom Integrating Tools What you need Student Response System Homework / Submitting Assignments Our Websites Print to PDF Snapz Pro / Camtasia Audacity / Podcasting Interactive Whiteboard iMovie / MovieMaker iPods Microsoft Office Web 2.0 Apps Science Probes Peripheral Devices End Classroom Activities What Teachers and Students Do Lectures / Demonstrations Discussions Question and Answers Solve Problems Demonstrate Software Write on the Board Meet in Groups with Teacher Meet 1 on 1 with students Students Work in Groups Complete Worksheets Grade Papers Assign Homework Work with Students returning from absence

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