zomusa 's List: Technology in Education

• ur school server provides another incentive for teachers to use technology," Wyatt noted. "Each class has a folder on the server, and each class folder includes individual folders for students. Any work done in the lab or in the classroom can be saved to those folders, which makes it easy for students to access their work from most places in the school. Teachers can download templates, clip art, hotlists, and so on, for easy and safe access by students

• This is a great page on what keeps teachers from learning and growing with technology and what the tech. resource teacher can do to help out. - zomusa on 2009-10-26

• 50% of all high school classes will be delivered online by the year 2019
• all have laptops, projectors, and video recorders and would engage in innovative practices like Richard Buckland who teachers a regular class to students, but also tapes all of his classes and allows students who are not physically present to receive credit upon watching the video and completing assignments. His students have the added bonus of being able to rate and comment on his lectures giving their teacher and each other feedback
• the basic technology necessary to succeed in the social or professional connected world in which they live which includes having a reliable internet connection, a keyboard enabled device in which to access it, and an onsite student support team to ensure it’s effective and efficient use.
• personal learning profile and plan for student success using tools like the Renzulli Learning System and Personal Success Plan. At many schools teachers don’t really know the whole child, so it is difficult to teach the whole child and nearly impossible to group students for instruction or provide truly customized, personalized instruction. If all students are profiled, t
• created as an environment for personal success

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• Does technology serve to create new opportunities for teaching and learning that were not available before, or is the computer simply serving as a $1000 pencil merely automating standard assignments?
• thinking critically about the information they access online?
• opportunities are being taken to build school/home/community connections?
• Are students being exposed to a broad range of skills and applications or are teachers focusing too much on too few? Are they being taught to create podcasts, engage in digital storytelling activities, utilize social bookmarks, collaborate with others using VOIP tools, etc.?
• Does the current allocation of technology within the school meet current needs? Are pioneering teachers being encouraged and rewarded for their work? Are these teachers being utilized as role models for those who are still trying to figure out how to leverage it all?

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