Topic 4: Enhancing Learning Through Technology

 

Read :

• Read everything in the ov derview section of this wiki.
• Be sure to read all the sections on technology in each of the textbooks.
• Read the AASL Learning Standards at: http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/learningstandards/standards.cfm   What references to technology exist in these standards? Also examine the additional standards document created by AASL that match the standards. These are on the AASL website.
• Read the documents connected to the 21st Century Learning Skills Be sure you read the latest version of the 21st Century skills.
• Read the new version of ISTE's NETS Standards for Studnets www.iste.org/Template.cfm?Section=NETS
• Read about the Google Generation Study released 2008 at: http://librariansplace.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/despite-the-internet-google-generation-lacks-analytical-skills/
• Read as widely as you can in the educational technology literature, not so much for the material introducing the new technologies that are new and will revolutionize education, but concentrate on the application of the various technologies that stimulate the power to learn more in less time. What applications of tech tools do you see that actually transform teaching and boost learning?

• Building a repertoire of successful interventions of technology into the learning process

• Building student skill with many types of technology.

• Finding ways to use web 2.0 applications to stimulate learning in collaborative digital apaces.

Questions:

• What is the difference between academic computing and instructional computing?
• What techniques can we use to gain access to web 2.0 applications in our schools?
• How can we use iGoogle to get back in the information game?
• How can RSS feeds be our ally?
• What is a collaboratively built digital school library? How can we build one?

Administrators, faculty, parents, library media specialists, technology coordinators, and even students are still uncertain exactly what contribution technology should make to academic achievement. There are many conflicting voices. Our job is to try to sort through these voices and build a repertoire of ways we feel the most certain about.