Technology to Support Teaching and Learning

Chris Halter, Ed.DUCSD Education Studies

chalter@ucsd.edu

Technology Support

Handheld technologies

SmartboardDocument Camera

PodcastingDigital 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 technologiesSmartboardDocument CameraPodcastingDigital StorytellingCollaboration

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 http://www.vernier.com/probes/

Probe Demo

http://www.vernier.com/getstarted/flash/labpropalm.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 technologiesSmartboardDocument CameraPodcastingDigital StorytellingCollaboration

Smartboard

Computer displayWrite-on whiteboardTouch sensitive

screenOverwrite 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

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 technologiesSmartboardDocument CameraPodcastingDigital StorytellingCollaboration

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 technologiesSmartboardDocument CameraPodcastingDigital StorytellingCollaboration

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 technologiesSmartboardDocument CameraPodcastingDigital StorytellingCollaboration

Digital Storytelling

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 technologiesSmartboardDocument CameraPodcastingDigital StorytellingCollaboration

Online Collaboration

Google DocumentsWord processingPresentationsSpreadsheets

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