A. Create an original website that demonstrates the importance of educational technology for teaching and student learning, using a website authoring tool. Submit an accessible URL of the website. Adhere to the following requirements for the pages within your website:
1. Create a web page describing the
purpose of the website and your personal philosophy for using educational
technology to facilitate student learning. Address each of the following:
·
Purpose of the website—The
purpose of this website is to show why and how to implement technology into a classroom.
Technology use is helpful for student engagement and depth of learning, so this
site will display several resources teachers can use for that purpose. Another
purpose of this site is to demonstrate how to use technology during lesson
planning and for facilitating assessments.
·
Personal philosophy for technology—My personal
philosophy for using technology in the classroom has two parts: first, that the
teacher needs to be proficient enough not to waste class time fiddling with the
tech and capable enough to instruct students and troubleshoot problems and second,
that the technology needs to add to the classroom experience by improving engagement,
time use, or overall student learning. Technology
in the classroom should only add to the time and minimize the effort of the
teacher, while only increasing student engagement and learning.
·
equitable use—Equitable
use means that all the students in this classroom need to have equal access to hardware;
computers, tablets, smart boards, etc., software; apps, and webpages, etc., and
the internet. Students need to be taught equitably how to use their hardware,
software, and the internet for the completion of assignment, studying, test-taking,
and the collaborative building of projects. Students need to be provided with equitable
access to the internet both here are school and at home.
·
ethical use—It is important that students
are expected to use their technology ethically in three ways; first, that they don’t
use technology to plagiarize, without citing or giving credit, or use software without the proper permissions.
Second, that they don’t use their technology to harass, bully, or hurt fellow students,
their teachers, the school or other businesses, or strangers. Third, that they take
care of the hardware they are using, are responsible to where they keep and use
their equipment, and that they recognize the use of technology as a privilege based
on how they treat others, intellectual property, and their equipment.
·
social responsibility—Students and
teachers have a responsibility to use their technology in the socially safe and
fair way. Technology tends to shorten the distance between people and blur the
lines of appropriate and inappropriate interaction. Therefore, it is important that
teachers maintain a professional communication with students online and that students
are treated fairly. Students are taught and expected to maintain safe interaction
practices between each other and on social media. Students are also taught and
expected to maintain a level of decorum and kindness as a way of treating other
people and maintaining appropriate interaction.
2. Create a web page about choosing
educational technology that facilitates student learning by doing the
following:
a. Describe three different resources and how they are used to research
educational technology to facilitate student learning.
Graphite—Is an unbiased, free website that grades and
ranks educational technology apps and websites so that teachers can find out
what would be the most useful in their classroom or what would improve student learning
the most. This site also provides best practices for each of the educational technology,
so teachers can see how best to implement them into their classroom. Graphite
is supposed to help teachers find the best materials to use and demonstrate how
to use them most effectively.
EdSurge—This website
shares the latest news and features on educational technology through podcasts,
newsletters, and reviews. It’s a free site that is unbiased in it’s reviews and
recommendations. EdSurge also helps educate teachers and parents on which tech
to use and how best to use it in the classroom.
Learning
Assembly—Learning Assembly is a website that unbiasedly assesses learning
technology and makes recommendations based on their criteria. They do a podcast
to help explain and increase understanding of the educational technology they
are recommending. They also help teacher give feedback to companies so that they
can improve their technology and make it better suited to the classroom.
b. Describe two methods or strategies for integrating educational
technology to facilitate student learning.
1. One strategy
that you can use technology for in the classroom is creating learning games
using apps or websites that allow students to compete against each other or
themselves. Or teachers can use the web as a digital scavenger hunt which students
can compete in researching topics. There are many ways to add fun learning into
a classroom with technology
2. Another method
teachers can use is teaching using a digital presentation. Using a smartboard
or projector linked to a computer any number of digital media can be presented
to illustrate and define concepts. A teacher can use videos, apps, slides, and webpages
to teach a new concept and help engage students better in learning.
3. Create a web page with a sample
learning activity demonstrating the integration of a technology resource or
resources, including an explanation of how technology can be integrated
into each of
the following:
• curricular resources that
guide instructional design (e.g., standards)
Idaho W.11-12.2c. Use appropriate
and varied transitions and syntax to link the major sections of the text,
create cohesion, and clarify the relationships among complex ideas and
concepts.
This learning standard can integrate
technology into this lesson which demonstrates the need for transitions in writing.
A SmartBoard can be used to find the locations of missing transitions and add in
student suggested options. Another instructional activity that could be used
with this lesson is using the internet to look up articles and locate the transitions
used in the writing.
• formative assessment
strategy
The formative assessment for this
lesson calls for filling in missing transitions in a provided essay. Instead, students
can use a digital essay assigned through a virtual classroom and students can
work on it on their personal computers during class. They can turn it in
digitally too, and the teacher can see better who is working hard, and who
maybe needs more help.
• summative assessment
strategy
The summative assessment for this
lesson involves writing a 2 page essay with transitions. Students will use
their personal computers and a word processor to type up this essay in MLA
format. They will use the internet to research their topic for their essay and
can also search for transitions to help them figure out where and what transitions
to use in their essay. They can also turn this essay in on a digital classroom
platform or publish it in an individual blog for the class.
• how student data would be
used through technology or student learning outcomes
Data will be gathered both from
the formative and summative essay and then input into a spreadsheet app to see
overall improvement as well as who is improving and where there needs to be
more growth. Data will come from scores, but also from assessing how each student
is using transitions correctly or picking the wrong words to use in a
particular location. Seeing how many students are reaching their learning
outcomes will help the teacher decide whether to revisit the material or not.
4. Create a web page that describes how
educational and assistive technology fosters self-directedness and independent
learning by doing the following:
a. Create a section within
your page that provides two examples
of educational technology tools an educator can use to foster or support goals
of self-directedness and independent student learning. Explain how each of these tools
supports these goals.
Khan
academy—is a free online study and practice resource for students to learn and improve.
It has many lessons that a teacher can use to supplement what is being studied
in the classroom, or additional practice the teacher can assign for students to
work on from home. It has benchmarks so that students can see their progress and
make and meet goals.
Google
classroom—is a virtual classroom that teachers can use to organize their students
learning and assign work for them to do in class or at home. The classroom can
be used to grade, communicate, and keep everyone on the same page. Students can
be directed to check it regularly increasing their responsibility to their education
and can work on assignments on their own which increases their independence.
b. Create a section within your
page that provides two examples
of assistive technology, different than those used in part A4a. Describe how
the technology meets individual student needs and learning in an educational
setting.
Braille
keyboard—Students who have trouble seeing can use a braille keyboard, a keyboard
with bumps on the buttons to be tactile, to be able to type with their class.
They may also need some assistance from an audio description program, but with assistive
tech they should be able to use their personal computer to complete assignments
independently.
Closed
captioning—is an assistive tech for students who are hard of hearing. They can
read the captions along with reading lips or just following along with the lesson.
Closed captioning can be in the form of text to speech during a lecture, or subtitles
on a video or presentation used during the lesson. This tech meets the needs of
deaf or even distracted learners by visualizing the words from the lesson instead
of needing to be able to hear.
B. Acknowledge sources, using in-text
citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or
summarized.
Common Sense Media, Graphite, 2022, Retrieved: https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/teachers-meet-graphite
EdSurge, 2022, Retrieved: https://www.edsurge.com/about
Learning Assembly, 2022, Retrieved: https://learningassembly.org/
Khan Academy, 2022, Retrieved: https://www.khanacademy.org/
Google Classroom, 2022, Retrieved: https://edu.google.com/workspace-for-education/classroom/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw2MWVBhCQARIsAIjbwoPOutPnQX2FKEzBmUDbzAp0BNlKMsqF84_QHgUfQMEokMIWAnLpJG0aApSrEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
Idaho State Department of Standards. (n.d.). Ela
literacy standards - idaho state department of education (SDE). English Language
Arts/Literacy. Retrieved June 21, 2022, from
https://sde.idaho.gov/academic/shared/ela-literacy/booklets/ELA-Literacy-Standards.pdf
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