Technology Integration Projects for Students

Windom Elementary School, USD 444 Little River

March 4, 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 Windom Elementary. Primarily it includes the use of computers, printers, internet connections, scanners, digital cameras, Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel), Kidspiration, and KidPix.


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 Windom

Technology Integration, Step by Step

 

ISTE Standards  http://cnets.iste.org/index2.html

National Content Standards for Students

      http://education.wichita.edu/m3/models/content_area/stustandards.htm

State Content Standards

Math http://www.ksde.org/outcomes/math399.html

Science http://www.ksde.org/outcomes/science.html

Social Studies http://www.ksde.org/outcomes/socialstudies.html


Searching the Internet for Kid-Specific Sites

      Choose a topic.

Kid Friendly Search Engines  http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm

KidsClick! http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/

Use Advanced Search

Type in topic.

Select reading level.

 

Take Digital Notes

Open Word and Internet Explorer

Toggle back and forth copying and pasting the title of a website, the URL, and how you will use this site in your classroom.  If possible, copy these into categories using topics, or standards.

 

Using the Internet in a Lesson Plan

      Virtual Field Trips  http://www.field-guides.com/

      WebQuests http://webquest.sdsu.edu/matrix.html

      TrackStar http://trackstar.hprtec.org/

      TIPS for Health http://education.wichita.edu/m3/tips/health.htm

 

Finding Lessons

      TeachersFirst http://www.teachersfirst.com/matrix.htm

      Blue Web’n http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

Comprehensive Educational Sites  

http://education.wichita.edu/m3/models/content_area/lessons.htm

 

Using Kidspiration to Create Interactive Lessons

Using Kid Pix Activity Kits

 

**Our 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).

 

**Our 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 and Tonya L. Witherspoon, Wichita State University

March 4, 2002