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THE NEXT STEP

These next two chapters are the backbone of incorporating technology in the classroom. We move from basic computer applications to integrating technology across the curriculum. Chapter five opens up with a great example of a English teacher who decides to take a major literary school project and rather than reduce it he wants to expand it and make it even more meaningful for the students. He decides o use a desk to publishing program to create an even bigger project. He goes thou six phases. The first two phases is to assess his technological pedagogical content knowledge and determine the advantage if any. The third stage is to decide on objectives and assessments. Phases four and five were to design an integration strategy and then prepare the instructional environment. His final phase was to evaluate and then revise it for the future. These phase would be a very good outline for any teacher to fallow wishing to implement a change in their instructional techniques.
The chapter provided a great list of software tools and broke them into categories. the six categories that were outlined in the text were material generators, data collection and analysis tools, graphic tools, planning and organizing tools, research and reference tools, content area tools.
Managerial generators are desktop publishing software, test generators, worksheets and puzzle generators, iep generators,  graphic document makers and pdf and form maker.
Data collection and analysis tools are electronic grade books, statistical packages, student management systems, online and computer based testing systems.
Graphic tools are draw/paint programs, image editing software, charting/graphing software, clip art, animation, sound  and font collections
Planning and organizing tools are outlining and concept mapping software, lesson planning software, scheduling and time management tools
Research and reference tools are electronic encyclopedias, electronic atlases and mapping tools, electronic dictionaries and thesauruses.
Content area tools are Cad systems, midi tools, music editors and sequencers, reading tools.







The chapter goes into a great deal of description of the various programs and how they work. This text is actually an very good resource to keep for reference as a classroom teacher is looking for ideas as to how to incorporate technology into his or her classroom.
As I read this chapter and reflect on my current school assignment i was amazed at how many of these programs we are actually using right now. Our student information system is Power School, we sue Discovery Education Assessment, Lesson Plan Programs along with a great deal many others. We no longer have a traditional year book rather we have a DVD. It contain hundreds of pictures and all in color along with video. The cost of the year book went down to 25.00 dollars.






I found Chapter Six to be the most exciting to far that I have read. When looking a multimedia vs. hypermedia I get relay excited about hypermedia. I feel that multimedia is limited in how the presentation is made. It defiantly makes learning fun and more effective but we can bring so much more to the student by linking the world the lesson. In the  past it would not be unusual to see a student with a stack of books, journals and other resources all around him as he was trying to navigate a certain subject. If a student wanted to study the Civil War he might need a book of maps and resource on military capabilities and populations  and the list could go on and on. Today that student could have a report that not only would hyperlink him to all the resources he would need but it could also take him to a modern day documentary on the civil war.Think of how much more effective the his study time will be.

This chapter focused on six kinds of hypermedia: commercial, presentation, video production and editing, design and development, virtual reality and web 2.0. The chapter breaks down mutimedia design and offers suggestions ranging from design to content and evaluation.

I feel our class is tied very closely to this chapter as it started discussions on blogs, social networks, and wikis. This should be a very exciting time to be a classrrom teacher as we now have so many different types of resouces available to inspire and motivate all  students. As an administrator the last thing I want to see today when I do a teacher evaluation is the sage on stage. I am sadden to report that when I do classroom observaations that is exactly what I see the majority of the time.

WEEK THREE AND THE MOVIES

This weeks movies really were a view into the near future of what we need to address as schools. A great many students now see schools as a place to socialize. They are board with the curriculum and do not feel challenged. It is not that we are not pushing them or providing them an opportunity to grow we just are not turning their light on. Many students are turned off in the classroom and refuse to be involved in the traditional lecture top down teaching format. They want to be challenged in different ways.

In one of my courses it was stated that students receive almost all of blooms highest level of cognitive domain in evaluation, synthesis, analysis, and application when they get home and jump on their computers and spend hours researching things and subjects that are of interest to them. It is not that our students can not learn its just that they want to be taught differently than we were or are.

In the movie about Sam she sounds like a great example of this. She demonstrates she is creative and talented. She spends hours on the computer and even refers to it as her second life. How many of us would love to have a student spend 12 hours on a subject on a non school day. I really liked how she explained the book was easier for her to comprehend electronically. I was once had a superior tell me we can not let that happen in education. Students must learn to love to pick up a book and read it. I FEEL THAT IS ONE OF BIGGEST PROBLEMS IN EDUCATION WE NEED TO ELIMINATE THAT TYPE OF THINKING.

When viewing the second film on using games I felt this is an area that could be expanded a lot
 more in schools with students at all levels. We use the stock market game in personal finance and play risk in social studies. I then realized we could play battleships in geometry. I am not sure where it could stop. I also feel this could be a great classroom management tool and used as a reward for students.

At my school every student has the ability to use a laptop in class so it would defiantly be part of our daily lesson plan. While teaching a unit on the Civil War I would show them  google maps and  them how the states split up. I would first pre test them to divide the states as they thought they divided looking at a map of today and then use a time line from the period. We would then do a Virtual tour of the Battle of Gettysburg.  The last part of the project would be to find things in common with  the North and South and things that were different. This would include the economy and the military.
                                                                         
One of my biggest challenges is that we are 95 percent free and reduced lunch and most my students do not have computers at home. We do have a activity bus scheduled everyday and the students can go to the media center to use computes.

We along with most schools have a large percentage of students who refuse to do home work. I believe that we can make a big change in this by assigning home work that involves technology. Now that we understand today's students are motivated by the use of technology then that is how homework should be assigned and my students would be given the ability to use the media center everyday.

When looking at this weeks readings it is very interesting to see how computers have been used in the classroom over the years and its evolution. Computers have gone from being seen as a threat to now a vital teaching tool to assist the student and the teacher. Many good things have come from this. At my school we use it in a program called School Within a School. This is where students come for credit recovery and stay on track for graduation. I do agree with the text when it points out not all outcomes are positive.

One of the negative outcomes of Word Processing could be that students lack the ability to write legibly. I have seen this all to often at the high school level. It is not uncommon to see seniors graduate with honors and not be able to write without the the aide of the computer. This is a small price to pay as we prepare our students for the next level of education and to become productive citizens.

WEEK TWO BLOG CHAPTER TWO. MICHAEL LANEVE

Of all the text books I have had to purchase for the degree this is the one that I will most likely keep as a reference long after I graduate ( cross your fingers). I did find this chapter a bit all over the board as it focused on teaching and learning theories and how to implement technology. i would have preferred to see it divided into two chapters. The first part was a good review on direct instruction and inquiry learning. When looking at objectivists who believe learning happens when knowledge is transmitted to people and they store it in their minds. They believe it is separate and a has a real existence in the brain. Constuctivistists believe it is controlled by participating in certain experiences. Figures 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 thoroughly explain the leaders in each field and the what makes them different from one another.

The second part of the chapter explains in detail the challenges the teacher and schools face when implementing technology in the classroom. There exists conflicting views of directed and constructivist methods when it comes to implementing this change. This occurs because each group focuses on different problems or different aspects of the same problem. Objectivists say constructivist methods are unrealistic; constructivist consider directed methods to be outmoded.

TPACK stands for technological,pedagogical, content knowledge. It is not to be confused with the total knowledge in each category that is important but knowing how each group comes together and works to make the classroom more effective. In order for this to be successful we must first consider what both the teacher and the student have in knowledge in all the areas before entering the program. This framework attempts to capture some of the essential qualities of knowledge required by teachers for technology integrations their teaching.

TIP stands for technology, integration, planning. This is a six step process that is a meta cognitive tool the teacher uses to identify strengths and weaknesses and develop a strategy to integrate the technology in their classroom. the steps are: 1) assess technological pedagogical content knowledge, 2) determine relative advantage 3) decide on objectives and assessments 4) design integration strategies 5) prepare instructional environment 6) evaluate and revise integration strategies.

The muddiest point of all this information is keeping focused. technology changes so fast that while we are training our teachers the equipment is being outdated before we use it in many cases. the new Best Buy adds as so true. I feel often we get lost in what comes first the chicken or the egg and we never eat break feast. that same thing is happening in education. It has become to easy to not answer the call to electronic text books, elmos, smartbaoards and laptops for every students.

interest in teaching and tecnology

It is my desire to start a Charter School one day and deal with students that are at risk academically and behaviorally. The vision would be a high school where students would spend the first year or two in an academy and take reading, writing, and math and technology courses. these students would have to get to grade level before they would be promoted to the ninth grade.
The school day would look more like a college day with limited subjects but multiple classroom sessions. All students would use laptops, and text books would be electronic.