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How Technology Tools Are Changing Teaching and Learning

How Technology Tools Are Changing Teaching and Learning. By: Mary O’Connell The Teachers’ Lounge St. Louis, MO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= GegtmIJPdrM. What is 21 st Century Education?. What’s the Big Deal About Using Technology in the classroom?.

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How Technology Tools Are Changing Teaching and Learning

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  1. How Technology Tools Are Changing Teaching and Learning By: Mary O’Connell The Teachers’ Lounge St. Louis, MO

  2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GegtmIJPdrM What is 21st Century Education?

  3. What’s the Big Deal About Using Technology in the classroom? •Easily allows a teacher to promote 21st Century Skills

  4. 21st Century Skills Basics •4 Core Beliefs •Collaboration •Critical Thinking •Problem Solving •Digital Literacy •Easily allows students to conduct research on a daily basis •Students need to master content while producing, synthesizing and evaluating information from a wide variety of sources.

  5. What this learning should look like is up to interpretation •With instant global communication and instant access to information, it’s not just enough to “know facts”

  6. What this learning should look like is up to interpretation •Need well-prepared teachers •Utilize technology while ensuring students still master content and skills •Will allow teachers to create an engaging and personalized environment for each student

  7. What this learning should look like is up to interpretation •Will give us a new model for education •Learner-driven •Students take ownership of learning •”Borderless” learning •New push to make all kids learners for life

  8. What this learning should look like is up to interpretation “21st century technology should be seen as an opportunity to acquire more knowledge, not an excuse to know less.” -Lynne Munson President and Executive Director, Common Core

  9. What DOES THIS Mean for your store? • Look for products that can enhance or add to the learning in the classrooms • Suggest apps or websites along with products that go along with the targeted learning goals

  10. Language Arts Activity • Learning Goal: Identify action verbs • Ipad: Students act out action verbs and take pictures; create a collage of verbs using the app Pic Collage • Extension: Play Hammer Grammar game from book Games Galore Language Arts Mailbox Grades 1-3

  11. Taking pictures with iPad; inserting them in Pic Collage

  12. Hammer Grammar

  13. Interactive White Board ready Files

  14. Interactive White Board Ready Files

  15. SPLASH Math APP

  16. CCSS Collaborative Cards Algebraic Thinking by Didax

  17. QR Codes in the Classroom •QR Codes are barcodes that can: •Take you to a website •Link you to a video •Show you a text message •Step 1: Download a free QR Reader App (Qrafter) •Step 2: Generate a QR Code (http://www.qrstuff.com) •Step 3: Download the QR Code to your computer and save it in a document

  18. QR Extension

  19. MODELING for Teachers • During workshops or classes, model a lesson • Incorporate technology and the use of a product

  20. How We Get Around Learning Goals: Determine grade level vocabulary (RI.1.4) Participate in collaborate conversations in small or large groups (RSL.1.1) Compare and contrast details in a text (RI.1.9)

  21. Academic Vocabulary Level 1

  22. Have You Ever? strategy

  23. Introduction to Vocabulary

  24. Small Group Discussion • What different methods of transportation do you use? • What are the advantages of using a car to get to different places? • What is one disadvantage to using a car to get around?

  25. Types of Transportation Look at the app With Transportation I Learn (View scenes I learn sounds, words, travel) Or view Transportation app Pick 4 types of transportation from app Draw picture of each mode of transportation Complete each sentence This type of transportation is a ______. It moves people _______________.

  26. WordHunt

  27. Getting Around Word Translations An airplane or an automobile will help you travel somewhere far away. An aircraft or a car will help you travel somewhere far away. One of the advantages of air travel is getting to a place fast. One of the benefits of air travel is getting to a place fast.

  28. Lewis and Clark • Learning Goal: Examine the Lewis and Clark expedition • Activity: Complete scavenger hunt using Lewis and Clark app from National Geographic • Extension: Read and complete article from Nonfiction Comprehension Test Practice

  29. Nonfiction Practice • High- interest stories from Time for Kids • Sentence comprehension • Paragraph comprehension • Whole story comprehension • Critical thinking questions

  30. 21st Century learner • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0xa98cy-Rw

  31. Any Questions?

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