Integrating

Education Technology
into the Curriculum

EDU 505 – Introduction to Ed Tech

Week 1
Where Do We Want to Be?
Helping our teachers become 21st Century Educators
Education in the 21st Century

 “We’ve slid into the 21st Century-and into the digital

age-still doing a great many things the old way.”

 Two Terms Coined by Marc Prensky

 Digital Native: Today’s Students
 Native speakers of Technology
 Digital Immigrant: Those of us not born in the digital
age.
 Like those who learn a second language late in life, have an
accent; we too have an accent.
 Need to Shift Gears and abandon our pre-digital
instincts and comfort zones.
Collaborating with Students

 Can no longer decide for our students; we

need to decide with them.
 Include them in all classroom decision making:
 Discussions about curriculum development
 Teaching methods
 School organization
 Discipline
 Assignments

 May sound like the inmates running the asylum.

 Through this we may gain ideas to solve education’s
thorniest problems.
 Educational Technology K-12

The most reliable way

to anticipate the
future is by understanding
The present.

John Naisbitt
Author of Megatrends
Technology’s Penetration into
25% of the Homes in the USA

Technology Number of Years

Telephone 35
Television 26
Computer 16
Internet 7
PDA 3
Percent of U.S. Homes with Computer
and Internet Access

90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
1985 1990 1995 2000 2003
U.S. Dept. of Commerce using U.S. Bureau of the Census Current Population Survey
Supplement
 Teen Access to Technologies

ages 13-18
Satellite TV
ages 19-24
Web enabled cell phone

Digital music player

Digital Cable TV

Digital Camera

Video game console

Cell Phone

Computer

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
 Internet Usage By Age

100%

90%
80%

70%
60%

50%

40%
30%

20%
10%

0%
2-5 6-8 9-12 12-15 16-18 19-24 25-35 36-45 46-55 56-65 65+

2000 2002 Age

 Internet Savvy Students in 2007

 Rely on the Internet to do school work

 Use Internet as virtual textbook and reference

library

 Use Internet as virtual tutor and study shortcut

 Use Internet for virtual study groups

 Use Internet as a virtual guidance counselor

 Use the Internet as a virtual locker, backpack,

and notebook

Pew Internet & American Life Project, August 14, 2002

 How Technology Has Effected Parenting

While technology offers many positive things, like

connectedness and information, those same
attributes, if misused, can also be quite harmful.
Without the proper guidance and monitoring, teens
can be lured into a sphere of digital and real-world
dangers.

 E-Monitoring
 Remotely view computer monitors
 Bad language tools
 Filters
 Website blocking
 Global positioning
 Performance tracking
How are schools using technology?

 Electronic presentation: 81%

 Word processing: 68%
 Internet: 50%
 Publishing: 40%
 Web editors: 36%
 Spreadsheets: 6%
 Databases: <1%
 E-mail: <1%
 E-learning

 Provides new opportunities for educators

 Promotes local control by expanding

opportunities

 Increases flexibility for schools

 Promotes opportunities for differentiated

instruction to meet needs of all learners

 Promotes higher level thinking and

opportunities for enrichment of all learners
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige, July
2002
Don’t forget No Child Left Behind

 With the pressure put on schools to meet

NCLB requirements, it is easy to say we
can’t do that and meet AYP!
 Not an option:
 NCLB requires that all students will be
technologically literate by the 8th grade.
 December 31, 2006 States must show how
they are integrating technology into
curriculum and teaching.
 Educational Technology can support
No Child Left Behind by:

 Equipping teachers with productivity tools.

 Empowering teachers, parents and decision
makers with real-time data.

 Expanding access to the best resources and

learning opportunities, increasing choices.
 Engaging students in their education.

 Individualizing learning by personalizing

instruction for each student’s unique learning
needs.
Structuring meaningful work for children to do from which they will
learn.

Dr. Phil Schlechty, Schools for the Twenty-first Century

 Establishing New Learning
Environments

Traditional -------- Incorporating ------ New Environments

New Strategies

 Teacher-centered instruction Student-centered learning

 Single sense stimulation
 Single path progression
 Single media
 Isolated work
 Information delivery
 Passive learning
 Factual/literal thinking
 Reactive response
 Isolated, artificial context
Multisensory stimulation
Multipath progression
Multimedia
Collaborative work
Information exchange
Active/exploratory/inquiry-based learning
Critical thinking, informed decision-making
Proactive/planned action
Authentic, real world context
The Students are the Knowledge
Workers

We must create
meaningful work for
children to do from
which they will learn.

Phil Schlechty
 The Students are the Knowledge
Workers

If students become engaged in

the right “stuff,” they are
likely to learn what we want
them to learn.

Phil Schlechty, Working on the Work, 2002

 The Students are the Knowledge
Workers

Focus on inventing highly

engaging work for all
students—work that the
community deems
important.
Phil Schlechty, July 2002
 Six Most Wanted Workforce Skills

SKILL PERCENT OF JOBS

REQUIRING SKILL

Technological Fluency 81
Communication 74
Teamwork (Collaboration) 36
Leadership 34
Problem Solving 23
Creativity 22
David Thornburg
The New Basics
 Core Skills Needed for Present Day
Worker

 Digital-Age Literacy
 Inventive Thinking
 Effective Communication
 High Productivity

School Technology and Readiness Report

NCREL Sponsored enGauge Project, 2006
 Students Must Use Technology to:

 Create Documents
 Locate Information
 Collaborate with Remote Groups
 Perform Calculations
 Make Dynamic Presentations
 Tools Students Should Use
Students need to know how to use technology effectively to create documents, locate information, collaborate with remote groups, perform calculations, and make dynamic presentations. At minimum, they should understand how to use the following tools:

The Web
 Blogs and Wiki’s
 Word, Excel, PowerPoint
 Spreadsheet
 Graphing Software
 Database


 Drawing Software
 Paint/Photo Software
 Sound and Music
Creation/Editing Software
 Animation/Movie Editing
Software
 Presentation Tool (Including
Multimedia Authoring)

What tools do your students’ know how to use??

 Create Meaningful Work For Students

WHICH IS:

 PROJECT BASED
 LIFELONG LEARNING

David
Thornburg
The New
Basics
Results for Younger Students

 Results from the NAEP for 4th & 8th grades in

Math and Science 2001:
 Indicated that the quality of computer work was more
important than the quantity.
 Using computers to help students work through complex
problems, thus tapping higher order thinking skills,
produced greater benefits than using computers to drill on
routine tasks.
 The fact that computers were most effective when teachers
used them to promote higher order thinking is a huge
argument in favor of technology.
 The survey confirmed that teachers were not using
computers effectively. Fewer than 30% reported their
teachers used computers for higher order thinking skills.
How should they be used?

 Word processing: students who are skillful at keyboarding can

more easily express their ideas than students who scribble out their
homework with a pen and paper.

 Using computers for art projects: Although there may not

be any history knowledge involved in creating computer graphics, this
activity provides students with a set of conceptual tools that they can
apply across subject areas.

 Creating charts; tables; and graphs: These tasks help

students think abstractly about economic, social and physical
phenomena.

 Completing projects: Experience in planning, implementing,

and sustaining a large project—a practice referred to as project-based
learning, appears to promote student achievement.
The Bottom Line

“If our schools in the 21st Century are

to be anything more than holding pens
for students while their parents work,
we desperately need to find ways to
help teachers integrate kids’
technology-rich after school lives with
their lives in-school.”
--Marc Prensky
Educational Technology K-12

“What we’re talking about is

invention – new things in new
ways. Change is the order of the
day in our kids’ twenty first-
century lives. It ought to be the
order of the day in their schools
as well.”

Marc Prensky, Edutopia, Dec/Jan 2006