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Involving Students in School Using Technology

Explore innovative ways to involve students in school using technology, addressing outcast students, anti-social behavior, disciplinary issues, and academic failures. Learn practical strategies to help students succeed and thrive, including building websites, using video cameras, and incorporating interactive activities. Empower students to express creativity, participate in web quests, and engage in simulations to enhance learning outcomes. Discover how technology can bridge the achievement gap and transform educational experiences for all learners.

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Involving Students in School Using Technology

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  1. Involving Students in School Using Technology Christopher I. Cobitz, Ph.D. Instructional technology specialist NC A&T State University Materials at: www.cobitz.com NCAECT2001

  2. What? • Outcast students • Anti social behavior • Discipline • Failures • Gender achievement gap • High School • Often boys

  3. Why? • No place • Not the same • Not succeeding • BORING • Turned off

  4. The worst student! • Social outcast • No friends • Discipline problem • Hacker • Now makes $150,000/year (no college degree)

  5. Things to do • Involve • Help them enjoy • Understand they are kids • Help them fit in • Find a strength

  6. Some practical examples • Build a website • I like me!

  7. Bob! • I like Nascar • I hunt • I can tune a car even one that hasn’t run in years

  8. More • Give them a positive place • Technology assistants • Mentor • Mouse ball cleaner • Printer monitor

  9. Interesting activities • Video cameras • A day in the life • Very useful in understanding • Stop rewriting- word process • Change instead of redo • Good words look good • Ideas not words

  10. Get artistic • How would you feel if you never got to be creative? • Illustrate • Highlight • Draw • Cartoon • Clip art

  11. Let them win! • Give them a specialty • Even if they aren’t the best • Ever keep losing to the same person? • Pushing tin • Let them use that software • Several like algeblaster

  12. Unique activities • Inference • http://prometheus.educ.ncat.edu/users/lee/ • It is different • It is active!

  13. Webquests • Yea I know…. • Active involvement • The student does not have to sit and listen, they need to sit and work • A change of pace

  14. Old favorites • Kid Pix • Draw • Color • Letter books • Thinking things • WOW!

  15. Writing • Web pages! • Gives realistic audience • May assist in getting student attention • Articles of choosing

  16. On-line projects • Netmeeting • Chat • Pen pals • Share a picture of a pet • What did you get for your last birthday?

  17. Simulate don’t resitate • Simulations are worth a thousand detentions • Tie in emotions • Could even buy time (civil war)

  18. What if? • Databases • Allow you to ask the student higher order questions • Stimulating • Not necessarily one right answer

  19. The answer is? • Spreadsheets • Graphical representation tool • Number phobia now picture phobia? • How many numbers to make a picture? • How many pictures to make a number?

  20. What’s the point? • Computers and video technology help us do things different • We have traditionally not reached certain students • If we change and vary our methods, we are more likely to reach others

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