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Guidelines for Successful Technology Initiatives in K -12 Schools Focus on learning WITH technology, not ABOUT technology Focus on learning WITH technology,

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1 Guidelines for Successful Technology Initiatives in K -12 Schools Focus on learning WITH technology, not ABOUT technology Focus on learning WITH technology, not ABOUT technology Emphasize content and pedagogy and not just hardware Emphasize content and pedagogy and not just hardware Give special attention to professional development Give special attention to professional development

2 Tech won’t Replace Teachers Teaching with Tablets... Focus on Learning Technology = 21st Century tools to enhance & improve teaching & learning.

3 Tablets + Projectors = Presentation Tool Teacher can face the students, not the chalk- or white-board Show work, web, multimedia to entire class Added capabilities of –The power of highlighting important points –Annotations to material –Saving materials with or without annotations – not having to recreate them each time

4 Tablets = Improved Grading Tool Grade papers using the ink feature Allows teacher to retain a copy and return a copy of the document to the student –No more questions on what was graded how

5 Ink in Word, Excel, PowerPoint

6 Moving from Traditional to New Learning Environments—The Theory “Traditional” Learning “New” Learning Environment Environment Teacher-centered instruction Student-centered learning Single sense stimulation Multi-sensory stimulation Single media Multi-media Isolated work Collaborative work Information delivery Information exchange Factual, knowledge-based Critical thinking & informed Reactive response Proactive, planned action Isolate, artificial context Authentic, real world context Passive learning Active/exploratory and inquiry-based learning v Source: International Society for Technology Education (ISTE) Nets Project National Educational Technology Standards for Students, June 1998 p. 2

7 Professional Development is crucial to the success of 21st Century Teaching.

8 “If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of the future.” John Dewey


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