TECHNOLOGY ENHANCING OUR CLASSROOMS:HOW IT AFFECTS STUDENT AND TEACHER ACHIEVEMENTS

Elizabeth Johnson

2011

The more powerful that technology becomes in the lives our students, the more indispensable our

good teachers are

- Michael Fullan

Good Teachers Integrated Technology

What Is Our Role?

Technology Integration Within the Classroom:

Becoming Media Literate

Media and Technology

Entertainment

Access to technology

The 21st Century Student

Teachers are working with students whose entire lives have been immersed in the 21st century media culture.

21st century skills are learned through our curriculum, which is interdisciplinary, integrated, project-based, and more, include and are learned within a project-based curriculum

All Ages of Learners

Students in technology rich environments experience positive effects on achievement in all major subject areas.

Students in technology rich environments showed increased achievement in preschool through higher education for both regular and special needs children.

Students’ attitudes toward learning and their own self-concept improved consistently when computers were used for instruction.

Technology Paired with Thinking

Student involvement and achievement

Teacher professional developmentRethinking current beliefs about technology and classroom practice

Enhancing student learning

requires three things:

Student Learning Paired With Technology

Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

Agility and Adaptability

Initiative and Entrepreneurialism

Accessing and Analyzing Information

Curiosity and Imagination

Collaboration across Networks and

Leading by Influence

Effective Oral and Written

Communication

Classroom Instruction That Works

Nine Strategies to Improve Student Learning

Identifying Similarities and Differences

Summarizing and Note Taking

Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition

Homework and Practice

Nonlinguistic Representations

Cooperative Learning

Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback

Generating and Testing Hypotheses

Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers

Teacher Professional Development is Key to Student Achievement

Technology in Our Classrooms

Ongoing Professional

Development and Support

Curriculum and Practices

Expectati

ons for

technolog

y use for

teachers

Qualitative and Quantitative Classroom Interactions

There is a huge qualitative difference between learning something, which requires only information, and learning from something, which requires that the learner enter into a rich an complex relationship with

the subject at hand. Lowell Monke

Learning Somethin

g

Learning for

Somethin

g

21st Century Workforce

Internet

•2 billion people on the Internet.

•500 million people on Facebook.

•17 million Wikipedia articles.

•35 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute (or 176000 full-length Hollywood movies each week).

Phone

•5 billion cell phones.

•6.1 trillion text messages were sent last year.

•500 billion mobile phone apps were downloaded last year.

•200 million on Twitter.

I technology

•Apple will sell 20 million iPads this year.

Are We Preparing Our Students for the 21st Century?

78% public school teachers received some technology

trainingTraining lasting

1-5 hours 39%

Training lasting 6-10 hours19%

Training lasting more

than 10 hours20%