Technology
Integration
Projects
for Students
Cottonwood Elementary School
February 12,
2002
Curriculum already being taught in the district is
supported by content area standards. Technology can be integrated
into existing curriculum to support, enhance, and extend the curriculum
and provide a tool for research, analysis, communication, and creativity.
Technology Integration Projects for Students (TIPS)
provides a way for technology to be integrated into an existing subject area
to support the accomplishment of the content-area standards, district
benchmarks, and the ISTE National Education Technology
Standards for students. Technology is not isolated from instruction.
Technology for this presentation is based on equipment and
software presently available in Cottonwood Elementary (Andover, Kansas
Public Schools). Primarily it
includes the use of computers, printers, internet connections, scanners,
digital cameras, video recorders and players, and AppleWorks.
Students? In the age of technology, we are all students. We are
experiencing things that no one before us has experienced. We are
exploring in ways no others have explored before us. As adults we are
student explorers ourselves as well as guides and experts for our students
TIPS for Cottonwood
Individual Technology Stories
Presenter shares personal technology story.
Participants share personal technology stories.
Teacher Centered Staff Development
Levels of
Adoption
Technology Integration, Step by Step
Step One
Use software appropriate for content area in a center.
(Check with a specialist to see what's available.)
Living Books
Sammy's Science House
Carmen SanDiego (world, time, US)
Graph Club
Table Top Junior
Step Two
Ask students to use
word processing to complete assignments in class.
Take
digital photos to use in the classroom.
Step Three
Use Kid Pix or HyperStudio to illustrate what has been
learned.
First Grade
Fourth Grade
Step Four
Use the Internet as a reference tool.
KidFriendly
Search Engines--use the dictionaries and encyclopedias online.
Encarta
Reference--Type in a word and get information.
Use the Internet as a research tool.
KidFriendly
Search Engines
KidsClick!
KidsClick!
Advanced Search selects sites according to reading level.
Step Five
Student Projects: Students research a topic on the
Internet, use a graphic organizing program to organize the information, and
use PowerPoint to develop a presentation to show the results.
Grade One
Grade Three
Grade Five
Step Six
Design a Web-enhanced lesson
Health
Step Seven
Design a WebQuest to teach a concept.
Bernie
Dodge
Building Blocks of a WebQuest
My Challenge for Teachers: Develop a plan.
Select a topic (Earth Day).
Plan to use technology in some way in your lessons.
Hints
Take baby steps.
Go slowly.
Work in teams.
Start with KidsClick! advanced search (earth day).
My Challenge for the School: Develop a plan.
New Hope
Elementary (One School's Plan)
The Goal
Sir
Robert Hitchman Primary School
Developed by Dr. Jeri A. Carroll,
Wichita State University
February 12, 2002
http://education.wichita.edu/m3/tips/tips_Andover.htm
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