No Teacher Left Behind..

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school, teachers, technology 

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Scenario

Schools, teachers behind in technolgy use

Most students more computer literate than teachers, reports say

Associated Press

Schools lage behind much of society is using technolgy, but students are seeing benefits and clamoring for more access to computers, the government says.

According to an Education Department report, virtually all U.S. schools are connected to the Internet, with about one computer for every five students.

The majority of school are using technology to offer additional support during tutoring, to track student performance and increase communication between parents and teachers. At least 15 states provide some form of "virtual schooling," in which young students gain acess to individual instruction online.

According to Education Secretary Rod Paige, edcuators still lack training and understanding about how computers can be used to help students.

Nine of 10 children between age 5 and 17 use computers, and even higher numbers of online teenagers use the Internet for school-related work, according to the report send to Congress. The majority group of new users of the Internet from 2000-2002 were kids age 2 to 5.

Task

Sample Investigations/Teacher Resources

You and your classmates are interested in using more technology in the classroom.  Your teacher has the minimum understanding of some web 2.0 tools.

As a team, you will write a proposal to your principal. Please include as much information to support the need for technology in the classroom as well as the need for training for teachers.

Link for Master in Educational Technology 

http://butleratutb.pbworks.com/w/page/15207900/FrontPage

Social networking in the classroom:

http://education.mit.edu/papers/GamesSimsSocNets_EdArcade.pdf

Student Resources

Embed Google Custom Search Engine Here

Resources

http://www.philb.com/iwantto/web2education.htm

Preparing tomorrow's teacher

http://us.iearn.org/professional-development/online-courses/teachereducators

Web 2.0 tools training

http://bestweb20teachertraining.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/web-2-0-2/

Helping teachers integrate web 2.0 tools

http://bestweb20teachertraining.wordpress.com/2012/06/27/web-2-0-2/ 

Partnership with 21 Century skills

http://p21.org/

Designing the 21 century classroom

http://www.21stcenturyschools.com/Designing_21st_Century_Classroom.htm 

Harlingen CISD KHGN site:

http://www.hcisd.org/khgn

http://www.youtube.com/hcisdtv

Create a youtube account:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2031099_account-youtube.html

Create a youtube video:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2036208_youtube-video.html

Student Work

Standards

1. Read and analyze the scenario and situation.
Check your understanding of the scenario. Don't be tempted to start thinking about potential solutions or to start looking for information. 

1. List your personal understanding, ideas or hunches.

 With your team use all the information available in the scenario to list everything that you know about classroom technology. You do not have to conduct any research yet. Just use the information given and write the facts that you already know about technology classroom.

With your team, make a list about what you do not know and would like to learn. List all the questions you will need to answer to solve the problem.  

4. List what needs to be done.
"What should we do?" List actions to be taken, e.g., question an expert, conduct research, go to a board meeting about topic. List possible actions. 

5. Develop a problem statement.

You will be responsible for thinking and choosing one of the questions to solve the problem.  A problem statement should come from your analysis of what you know. In one or two sentences, you should be able to describe what it is that your group is trying to solve, produce, respond to, or find out. The problem statement may have to be revised as new information is discovered and brought to bear on the situation.

Use all the resources available (Internet, library, etc) to research about the problem/topic and find a solution.

7. Present Findings

You and your team will be creating a 2-4 minute youtube video to be aired on Harlingen's KHGN Channel 17 for the district that will educate and inform others of this ongoing dilemma, while providing a sensible solution. Your proposal must be back with research and data.Furthermore, it will be presented at the weekly principal's meetings.

6 (1) The technololgy applications curriculum has four strands: foundation, information acquistions, work in solving problems, and communication.

(H) yse terminology related to the Internet appropriately including, but not limited to, electronic mail(e-mail), Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), electronic bookmarks, local area newtworks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), Wolrd wide Web(WWW) page, and Hyper Text Markup Language (HMTL);and

(I) compage and contrast LAN's WANs, Internet, and intranet

(2) Foundations: The student uses data input skills appropriate to the task. The student is expdected to:

(A) demonstrate proficiency in the use of a variety of input devices such as mouse/track pad, keyboard, microphone, digital camera, printer, scanner, disk/disc, modem, CD-ROM, or joystick

No Teacher Left Behind by Christine Claudio is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Article: Schools, Teachers left behind in technology use:Most students more computer literate than teachers, reports say

Associated Press:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6799363/ns/us_news-education/t/schools-teachers-behind-technology-use/