We need to build a bridge between special education and general education technologies.
A great book to read is A Whole New Mind by Daniel H. Pink.
Students today take all the technology they bring from home and leave it at the door of the school. Very Sad.
Change needs to come from the top. When leadership enrolls in the digital classroom it will all come together.
TTAC is the SPED traning arm of the VDOE.
We need to teach to instruction and not to test.
AT has flirted and courted with IT for a long time. What has the courtship been like in your division? It's time to consummate the union.
Our vision is that all students will use engaging technologies in collaborative inquiry-based environments to assist them in transforming knowledge and skills into products, solutions, and new information. (A Vision of K-12 Students Today: UTube, 2007, b.j. nesbitt)
Are our students engaged or enraged? You cannot all ways tell from appearance. Teach the students to think and they will be engaged.
WWW stands for Whatever, Whenever, Where ever
IDEA 1990: What is Assistive Technology?
Devices and sevices that help individuals with disabilities carry out a functional activity in their environment. This means purchasing, borrowing, modifying, changing, and training at no cost tot he parents. We need to provide whatever it takes to allow them to access the curriculum to show us what they know. (Stages Software Program)
All students need to create, apply, and be excited. Today and everyday.
We need the right people on the bus. We need the wrong people off the bus. We need the right people in the right seats.
What if anything makes your division hesitate to take your students global? Conversations need to be started now because this will happen in spite of the attempts of the most fearful person on your staff to try and stop it.
Sometimes we have to hit the reset button. Madison County took MS Office off all computers and are now using Google Docs. They have a more limited ability than Office but allow for collaboration.
Augusta County took one of its ITRTs and made them strictly AT, placing them under the SPED director but requiring them to be a liason between SPED and Instructional Technology.
Best Practices: Enhancing Teaching with Technology
-"higher level" questions and advanced organizers produce deeper learning
-most useful with information that is not well organized
-wait time for questions increased the depth of students' answers
-word processing applications
-organizing and brainstorming software
-multimedia
A study on pupil's use of multimedia advance organizers and its effect on retention found that students who were given a PowerPoint advance organzer to help articulate a lesson retained more information than those who did not receive this type of multimedia advance organizer. ( Chien-Hsun Tseng, 2004)
Strategies will help students acquire and integrate learning
-nonlinguistic representation
-elaborate on knowledge
-have students
--create physical models
--generate mental pictures
--engage in kinesthetic activities
Non-lingusitc representations
--word processing applications
-spreadsheet software
-organizing and brainstorming software
-digital microscopes
-web resources
-multimedia
A great high school software program would be inspire data
By high school, software usage should be rote.
Strategies that will help students acquire and integrate learning
-summarizing
--students need to be able to summarize, delete some information, substitue some information, and keep some information
-notetaking
--students must organize information to capture the main idea and supporting details
Summarizing applications
-work processing
--track changes
--auto summarize
-organize and brainstorming software
Notetaking applications
-word processing
--combination notes: outlining, webbing, pictographs, words
Organizing and brainstorming software
Summarizing and Notetaking
-multimedia software
Caution: Students can get caught up in the entertainment factor and neglect the critical analysis necessary to create useful notes
-improved literacy skills due to heightened engagement with print and language
-reinforces vocabulary and writing conventions
Research is showing that even minor struggling students benefit from S-T or T-S software.
Text to speech software allows struggling readers to:
-focus on comprehension
-build endurance in reading
-increases the amount of time for reading
(Curtswell)
Timeliner is not just for Macs.
Timeliner is an easy to use software application that should be on most computers in our schools. The main purpose of Timeliner is to develop the sense of time and chronology based on events. Using Timeliner for visual organization, the students can keep track of events in a story or novel they are reading or arrange events in history. Timeliner also makes it easy for students to sequence the stages of a scientific process. arrange fractions in numerical order or illustrate exponential growth.
Timeliner can also be used for comparison. Students can compare a historical fiction book to a timeline of actual events in history or compare relative weights for a person on each planet. Multiple timelines can be merged. Sample timelines are included for each subject. Once timelines are created, they can be displayed in an assortment of views. Students can export timelines as JPEG images or present their timelines as a slideshow.
Strategies that will hep students practice, review and apply learning
-identifying similarities and differences
-homework and practices
-generating and testing hypothesis
Identifying similarities and differences
-by restructuring their understanding of the content, students make new connections, gain insights, correct misunderstandings
1. What is your vision concerning technology for all?
2. How important in it that your instructional team work together? If we want all students to be successful, not only on this year's SOLs, but on the future 21st century skills needed long after, where does our team need to start? Who should be included on this team?
3. What do we do to ensure that all team members, including the reluctant teacher, end up on the same page?
Differentiating Technology in the Classroom.pdf
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