What Does "Technology Integration" Mean? One reason why I love blogging is the chance to get a variety of responses to my ideas and thoughts. A reader of my last post commented: "This article describes how to help children learn to use an unfamiliar computer program. This got me thinking: what do we really mean when we talk about "technology integration?" However, how do we get to that point? Therefore, technology integration may not look the way we want it to until our students move beyond familiarity with tools and into being able to choose the correct tool for the job. I see various levels of integration, with the ultimate goal being seamless integration. This table is by no means perfect, but is a starting point to think about how technology integration looks in your own classroom. To get to "seamless," you must ask yourself: What skills are applied to nearly all tools? Of course, you often do not have a choice about how integrated our classrooms are due to lack of availability.
CSEFEL: Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning Gaby Rodriguez, Toppenish High School, Fakes 6-Month Pregnancy For Senior Project TOPPENISH, Wash. — When Gaby Rodriguez took off her fake baby belly and revealed to her classmates that for months they had been part of an elaborate social experiment, she did more than force members of her community to examine how they treat pregnant teens – she got the attention of the nation. The Yakima Herald-Republic detailed the experience of the 17-year-old Rodriguez in a story Wednesday that caught the attention of shows like "Good Morning America" and resonated with viewers of popular teen mom reality shows. School officials said they and Rodriguez would have no more comment until she returns from a class trip next week. But her action thrust her into a growing conversation. The profile of teen moms has changed in recent years. Three years ago, Bristol Palin was a pregnant 17-year-old introduced to the world during her mother's run for vice president. It seems teen mothers are the talk of the nation. They were kept in the dark as part of her senior project on stereotyping.
Home | Pyramid Plus: The Colorado Center for Social Emotional Competence and Inclusion Teacher Magazine: Community Forums I think the question here is less about whether or not master's degrees have a strict causal effect on teaching and learning and more about whether or not public schools should have lock-step pay increases (for seniority or degrees earned). Or, lockstep teaching assignments (5 or 6 classes with a prep, a study hall, and a 25 minute lunch). If I, as a teacher, can make a strong case that my degree in nursing will help students - for example, by creating an interdisciplinary courses that combine my practical medical knowledge with fields of biology and mathematic, or ethics and literature - why should I not be compensated for that? I am not terribly interested in the current versions of merit pay, because I think the metrics are so blunt and unreliable.
The Travelling Teachers: Fakebook - let's have fun with biographies This is a very interesting tool to study biographies in a different way. With Fakebook you can invent a profile of any historical or fictional character. Your result will be a Facebook-like page!You can add images, links, videos, "friends", comments and "likes"! I think it could be very useful to study history or literature. Nelson Mandela Bill Gates I personally created the following brief example with my students. There are some quotes, original pictures and links to original videos, as well. Albert Windsor fakebook page In Touch Understanding Copyright, Fair Use And Creative Commons Earlier this month I did a workshop for teachers from across the district on understanding copyright, fair use and Creative Commons. There are a lot of misconceptions surrounding copyright; what it is and what it isn't; what we can use in the classroom and more importantly, what we can not. There is a lot of information out there, much of confusing so what I hoped to do was show how to avoid copyright rules all together and use Creative Commons resources instead. First, watch this video about Copyright and Fair Use. Notice how it was made and the questions it asks. Here is the presentation that I created with some definitions and some interpretation of what can be used and what can't in the classroom. You can also check out all the resources in this Livebinder I created for the presentation. So take some time and learn about copyright, fair use and creative commons for use both in and out of the classroom.
Recording & streaming lectures - Copyright If you record one of your lectures you must make sure that unauthorised copyright material is not included in the recording that is distributed to students. Failure to do this could leave both you and the University open to the risk of prosecution for copyright infringement. Streaming lectures containing segments from literary works The Copyright Act allows you to read from a literary work and to perform a dramatic work in a class or lecture. If you record a lecture containing excerpts from these works you must take the following actions: observe the limits on copying set down in Part VB of the Copyright Actensure that the Part VB Warning Notice is displayed before the students download the lectureacknowledge the author of each work so that you abide by the moral rights clauses of the Copyright Act Streaming lectures containing images & diagrams Streaming commercially produced DVDs Streaming TV broadcasts recorded off-air under Part VA Streaming podcasts You can stream the following podcasts: