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Controlling Your World Do you have control? What can you change? How?

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A Vision All students, teachers, and administrators will be able to be creative, communicate, collaborate, and problem solve in a productive and ethical manner.

Pedagogical Foundations Curriculum must drive the need for technology integration Technology is the tool used to facilitate student- centered learning Scaffolding technology skills has to occur prior to the expectation that students can make thoughtful choices about its appropriate use Degree to which students can utilize technology is also dependent upon their level of cognitive ability. Curriculum must drive the need for technology integration Technology is the tool used to facilitate student- centered learning Scaffolding technology skills has to occur prior to the expectation that students can make thoughtful choices about its appropriate use Degree to which students can utilize technology is also dependent upon their level of cognitive ability.

for Students Global Digital-Age Learning Skills

How to Integrate Technology Know your kids Identify their strengths and weaknesses Know your resources What technologies are available? Know your curriculum Look for Connections between curricular goals and technology enhanced strategies in a digital age

for Teachers Global Digital-Age Teaching Skills

Getting Teachers to Integrate Ways to Use Technology Scaffolding your own use Personal and Professional Use Enhancing your teaching “Observing” in the Taxonomy Using with Students “Incorporating” through “Creating” in the Taxonomy

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Knowing Content is NOT Enough Students must be able to Construct new understandings Solve problems Make decisions Communicate and express themselves Understand complex issues Work collaboratively Set goals and work to a timeline Make ethical choices

Increasing Levels of Cognition Curriculum mastery deepens Increasing Complexity of Technology Skills Technology choices become autonomous Our Taxonomy

Observing Students are passive spectators of the technology

Incorporating Students are leveraging technology to increase productivity

Producing Students create a product with a single technology

Exploring Students engage in discovery learning prior to formal instruction

Collaborating Students interact with peers, instructors, and outside resources

Applying Students are guided to combine and integrate technologies

Creating Students are making sound choices about the appropriate synthesis of content and technology into a final product

Your Status Use the following descriptions to classify an activity at your highest level of integration: Observing Students are passive spectators of the technology Incorporating Students are leveraging technology to increase productivity Producing Students create a product with a single technology Exploring Students engage in discovery learning prior to formal instruction. Collaborating Students interact with peers, instructors, and outside resources Applying Students are guided to combine and integrate technologies Creating Students are making sound choices about the appropriate synthesis of content and technology into a final product

Where are you now?

Increasing Levels of Cognition Curriculum mastery deepens Increasing Complexity of Technology Skills Technology choices become autonomous Our Taxonomy

To begin… 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 digital-age skills students employ

Creating Scaffolds for Students Tutorials Word Video Capture/Screen Capture Student Examples Modeling

The resources… Being Creative.isf Curriculum Map.isf Year Long Plan.isf

Eliciting Skill Development Through the curriculum, the students must be provided experiences that will facilitate growth in all areas of the NETS. The curriculum mapping document will help…

Eliciting Creativity Designing activities that ask students to be creative must begin with the end point in mind. The “being creative” document will help…

Inspiring Creativity Creating the Canvas The places where “user created content” is stored Learning to Paint The products created by the technology tools Creative Process Allow students to make choices

Ensuring Success In order to allow students to be successful, we must scaffold our activities from a content perspective as well as a technology one The Year Long Plan will help:

Assessing Technology Integrated Projects What are the goals / objectives of the project? Curricular Skills Technology

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