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Empower Change: Enhancing Technology Integration in Education

Explore strategies to promote technology integration in education, addressing barriers and effective encouragements. Understand leadership's role in fostering change and the significance of relationships, vision, and support. Discover tools like GMOTT, ASSURE, and Webquests to bridge the gap and enhance curriculum relevance. Delve into transparent technologies and professional development for sustainable change. Discover diverse resources for further learning and networking opportunities in educational technology.

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Empower Change: Enhancing Technology Integration in Education

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  1. Encouraging Change Karen Work Richardson Chesterfield County Schools May 9, 2005

  2. What Do You Already Know? • Snapshot of your school: Think, Pair, Share • Percentages/Types of Use • Requirements • Barriers • Effective Encouragements • How have you approached • change in the past?

  3. Leadership and Change • It’s about relationships. • It’s about vision. (Write it down, right now.) • It’s about support. (That’s you!)

  4. Technology and the Curriculum • Learning about (technology as curriculum) • Learning from (technology provides curriculum) • Learning with (technology supports curriculum) • Teacher/Administrator Productivity Use: databases, gradebooks, communication • Classroom Management/Access Issues

  5. Remember, this is a system… Administrative and Vision Access Skills Time Technical Support What do your teachers need in order to integrate technology effectively?

  6. GMOTT and ASSURE • http://knowledgeloom.org/media/bpinter/1163/elements.html • What’s the philosophy? Is this always appropriate? Which teachers would feel comfortable with this? • http://www.unca.edu/education/edtech/techcourse/assure.htm • Where is technology in this model? Which teachers would feel comfortable with this?

  7. Bridging the Gap with Webquests • Animal Adventures • Ponce De Leon • What skills does this require? Use a template to create a webpage; knowledge of curriculum • What access does this require? Ability to publish a webpage • What kind of time does this take? Several hours… • OR modify someone else’s: UVA Directory

  8. Technology Integration Making Choices to Meet Needs and Solve Problems The Secret Life of Bees

  9. Promoting Technology Use The same but better…Transparent Technologies: • Inspiration • Digital microscopes • Word processor • PortaPortal

  10. New things… Blogs Wikipedia, the IvyRun Wiki Del.icio.us The Voices of Youth International News The International Boiling Point of Water Promoting Technology Use

  11. Professional Development • Decision Making Model: http://www.ivyrun.com • Webquests for Educators: http://www.ivyrun.com • Resource Mining • Time to Create • Classroom Management • Time to Integrate

  12. Where Can You Learn More? • Annenberg CPB Project: http://www.learner.org • Principles of Principals Video Workshop • United Streaming: http://www.unitedstreaming.com • Hosts the Netfiles Program that features technology integration issues and vignettes • PT3 Now!: http://www.pt3now.org/ • Real-life examples of technology integration

  13. Where Can You Network? • Virginia Learning: http://www.virginialearning.org • Your Own Blog:http://schooltechleadershipblog.org/ • National Associations • Secondary: http://www.nassp.org/s_nassp/index.asp • Elementary:http://www.naesp.org/

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