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Using Technology to Reach At-Risk Learners

This presentation explores how technology can be used to engage and empower at-risk learners, including outcast students, those with anti-social behavior, discipline issues, and academic failures. Practical examples, interesting activities, and unique approaches will be discussed, highlighting the benefits of using technology in the classroom.

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Using Technology to Reach At-Risk Learners

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  1. Using Technology to Reach At-Risk Learners Christopher I. Cobitz, Ph.D. Director of Technology Thomasville City Schools Materials at: www.cobitz.com NCETC2001

  2. Who • All shapes • All sizes • All colors • Mostly from lower income • Mostly do not feel they belong

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

  4. Why? • No place • Not the same • Not succeeding • BORING • Turned off • Need food and shelter first • Experiences?

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

  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 • Special activity…tutorial etc

  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. Buy the gift of time • Let EVERYBODY use the computer learning activities • Gives more time to work with individuals • Buy their interest with excitement

  21. 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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