effective instruction using technology evangelina guillen university of texas at brownsville

Effective Instruction Using Technology

Evangelina Guillen

University of Texas at Brownsville

Effective Instruction using Effective Instruction using TechnologyTechnology

The essential pieces that a teacher needs to effectively complete the puzzle pieces of effective instruction using technology are:

technology integration lesson design collaborative techniques management strategies technology skills fun interactions Source: pc.innovative teachers.com

Useful WebsitesUseful Websites

http://cvc3.coastline.edu/Telelearning2001Web/DesignTemplate.htm

http://pc.innovativeteachers.com/mpc_web/CoachingChronicles/Sample.aspx

http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/researchskills/dalton.htm#Application

Technology IntegrationTechnology Integration

Students should be motivated, engaged and learning actively.

Learning should be authentic. Learning should be collaborative. Students should be the explorers and

producers of knowledge.

Source: Intel Teach Program

Technology IntegrationTechnology Integration

Instruction and learning should be integrated across the curriculum.

Students should be proficient in digital age literacy skills.

Assessments should be performance based.


Facilitate TechnologyFacilitate Technology

A facilitator in a student-centered classroom organizes resources in a way that guides students and helps them learn how to learn.

Facilitation strategies that teachers should include in the various stages of a unit:

At the beginning of a unit, include strategies for setting learning goals.


Facilitate TechnologyFacilitate Technology

During a unit, include strategies for: monitoring progress toward learning goals introducing new knowledge practicing, reviewing, and applying knowledge

At the end of a unit, include strategies for helping students determine how well they have achieved their goals.


Lesson DesignLesson Design

In order to gain the positive benefits of technology use, you have to start with a high quality lesson and then use technology to enhance the learning and accomplish your objectives.

High quality lessons often: Begin with specific educational objectives or

standards Include assessment opportunities that tie

directly to objectivesSource: Creating Technology Rich Lessons

Lesson DesignLesson Design

High quality lessons often: Provide students with assessment tools Begin with a problem Address various needs and learning styles Develop higher-level thinking skills Focus on literacy skills, when possible Address and build upon basic skills Include opportunities for real-world

opportunitiesSource: Creating Technology Rich Lessons

Instructional StrategiesInstructional Strategies

The following instructional strategies are used

in student-centered classrooms: Small group activities, such as creating

graphic organizers, role-playing, and

engaging in dramatizations, ensure that

students understand core concepts.


Instructional Strategies (cont.)Instructional Strategies (cont.)

Instruction in and modeling of skills critical for projects or activities provides students with opportunities to practice new skills in meaningful contexts.

Additional activities and skills instruction, based on formative assessment during the unit, address content and skills challenges.


Direct InstructionDirect Instruction

What is Direct Instruction?

It is a teaching strategy in which the teacher presents the knowledge to be learned and explicitly directs the learning process.

Source: Learning and Teaching

Direct Instruction is…Direct Instruction is…

Goal Oriented (use technology to plan) Focused and aligned (Powerpoint lessons) Teacher scaffolding (use interactive video to

help student understand concept) Opportunities for practice and feedback

(online quizzes/tests offer immediate feedback)

Source: Learning and Teaching

Cooperative LearningCooperative Learning

Cooperative group work is an important part of an effective classroom.

Primary goal is to get students actively involved in their learning, where there is an accepted common goal.

The teacher’s role changes from information The teacher’s role changes from information disseminator to facilitator and resource disseminator to facilitator and resource person.person.

Source: teched.vt.edu

Cooperative LearningCooperative Learning

Because of the limited number of computers and utility software available in classes, small group instruction can also be beneficial in this area.

Computer work requires learners to develop many skills. These include knowing commands and applying design capabilities. Through cooperative techniques, student teams can share knowledge to get the task accomplished. Source: teched.vt.edu

Technology in Cooperative LearningTechnology in Cooperative Learning

There are many excellent situations for applying small group cooperative learning strategies for technology education.

Examples include the use of simulator technology, conducting experiments, doing computer work, and solving technological problems.

Source: teched.vt.edu

Project-Based LearningProject-Based Learning

In project-based classrooms, teachers provide instruction in the strategies students need for success rather than oversimplifying tasks. (webquest.org, edutopia)

The idea is to assist without denying students’ needs to build their own foundations. http://www.nwrel.org/request/2002aug/intro.html

Source: nwrel.org

Project-Based LearningProject-Based Learning

While working on projects, students develop real-world, 21st century skills- many of the same skills desired by today’s employers:

Working well with others Make thoughtful decisions Take initiative, self-manage Solve complex problems Communicate effectively Source:Intel Teach program

John Piaget’s Stages Cognitive John Piaget’s Stages Cognitive DevelopmentDevelopment Birth – 2years: Sensory Perception. Motor

activity. Few complex mental images. 2-7 years: Preoperational. Own viewpoint

only. Cannot accept other’s views. 7-11 years: Concrete Operations. Sees world

more objectively. Able to accept others views 11 plus: Formal Operations. Hypothesize.

Imagination can carry out activities and transfer to reality.

Source: change.freeuk.com

Stages of DevelopmentStages of Development

An important implication of Piaget's theory is adaptation of instruction to the learner's developmental level. The content of instruction needs to be consistent with the developmental level of the learner.

The teacher's role is to facilitate learning by providing a variety of experiences. "Discovery learning" provides opportunities for learners to explore and experiment, thereby encouraging new understandings.

Stages of DevelopmentStages of Development

Opportunities that allow students of differing cognitive levels to work together often encourage less mature students to advance to a more mature understanding.

One further implication for instruction is the use of concrete "hands on" experiences to help children learn.

Source: http://projects.coe.uga.edu

CollaborationCollaboration

Collaboration is an important tool to effective instruction that incorporates technology.

Collaboration can be at various levels: between teachers, between students at different grade levels, and between schools and community groups.

Source: http://pc.innovativeteachers.com

Collaborative StrategiesCollaborative Strategies

A fourth grade teacher discussed with her coach, a fifth grade teacher, what she wanted her fourth graders to gain from a project on Washington State Native American Tribes. Together, they chose the appropriate standards, determined the appropriate assessment tool, and then discussed the experiences her students would need to be successful.

Source: http://pc.innovativeteachers.com


The fourth graders visited the fifth graders’ classroom and were shown examples of presentations and taught helpful hints. Students were then paired across grades to work on a Power Point presentation sharing their collaborative research.

Source: pc.innovative teachers.com


Students can use web-based collaborative learning tools to:

Share thoughts, ideas, projects with others. Share links to websites. Solicit/respond to other’s thoughts. Modify, add to, and delete other’s content. Create multilayered Web sites. Create linear, journal-like documents.


Web Based Collaboration ResourcesWeb Based Collaboration Resources

These sites encourage users to add information and aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing.

Blogs Wikis Online collaborative Web sites Tagging/bookmarking sites


Classroom Learning EnvironmentClassroom Learning Environment

Technology integration can be done in the primary and secondary classroom very effectively:

to promote increased effective use of technology

to resolve conflicts, to ease the burden on the busy teacher cater to individual needs.

Source:http://www.edbydesign.com


Equitable access to computer related technologies in the classroom for children who under achieve or who have a disability is a fundamental right.

They need to feel comfortable, and be empowered to interact and work with other students, at their level of understanding or achievement.

Source:http://www.edbydesign.com

Classroom Management StrategiesClassroom Management Strategies

Physical Set-Up

1. Set up your desk so that if you sit down, you can look at student’s computer screens.

2. Be sure to move around the classroom.

3. Make room between aisles so you can move freely and quickly.

4. Student possessions need to be store under desks so there is a clear traffic path.

Source: Creating Technology Rich Lessons

Classroom Management StrategiesClassroom Management Strategies

5. Determine needs for physical classroom so you have what you need to teach from laptop.

6. Make sure you have power strips for laptops7. Establish printers. Have students ask first.8. No food or drinks near computers.9. At testing times, arrange desks around

perimeter of room to prevent cheating.



Schools must determine WHY they consider computer-related technologies necessary for a student or group of students.

Then, careful consideration of HOW it will be implemented and BY WHOM must be resolved BEFORE any submission is proposed.

Source: http://www.edbydesign.com

Working With StudentsWorking With Students

1. Leave laptops packed until they are ready to be used.

2. Give all instruction before laptops are unpacked.

3. Laptops should be closed when not in use.

4. Have students turn down screen brightness when test taking to prevent cheating.


Working With Students (cont.)Working With Students (cont.)

5. Hook a computer savvy’s student’s laptop to the projector to demonstrate as you give instruction so you can move around the room.

6. Encourage students to ask permission before printing especially from internet.

7. Copy and paste URL’s into a database to record websites for a bibliography.


Technology SkillsTechnology Skills

Students apply skills to 21st century content: Global awareness Financial, economic, business literacy Civic literacy, Health/Wellness Awareness Students use Learning and Thinking Skills:

Critical Thinking/Problem Solving Communication/Collaboration Skills Creative and Innovation Skills Information and Media Literacy Skills

Fun InteractionsFun Interactions

Students can learn content through fun interactive technology websites like:

http://www.mathsisfun.com/puzzles/index.html

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/allgames.html http://www.brainpop.com/ http://www.funbrain.com/

ReferencesReferences

Kauchak, D.P., & Eggen, P.D.

(2007). Learning and teaching: Research-based methods (5th

ed.). Boston: Pearson.

Graham, P.(2004). Technology-rich lessons

participant workbook.

www.dell.com/training/educators


http://copland.udel.edu/~jconway/EDST666.htm#behapp

http://educate.intel.com/en/ProjectDesign/InstructionalStrategies/CooperativeLearning/

http://www.nwrel.org/request/2002aug/intro.html

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/SER/Technology/ch8.html


http://pc.innovativeteachers.com/mpc_web/CoachingChronicles/Sample.aspx

http://teched.vt.edu/vctte/VCTTEMonographs/VCTTEMono13(CoopLearn).html

http://www.change.freeuk.com/learning/howteach/piaget.html

http://www.edbydesign.com/specneedsres/gerryk/integcomptech.html

http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/index.php?title=Piaget's_Stages

effective instruction using technology evangelina guillen university of texas at brownsville

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