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Building lesson plans is an integral part of every teacher’s day. Integrating technology into lessons (that may have previously existed in a totally non-technology infused version) can sometimes be difficult, especially if the task at hand can be easily completed without technology – many of us wonder why bother if we don’t have to. While … 
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Beth Dichter's insight:
This infographic shows you the 7-Phase Model and the 7 Essentials of Project-Based Learning. The 7 Phase Model information comes from an article published by Edutopia (and is linked to in the post) and The 7 Essentials is based on a PBL GUide: A Resource for Instructors and Program Administrators, published by the National Academy Foundation and the Pearson Foundation. For more information on this topic be sure to check out these two resources.
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Additional categories include: * Curriculum Mapping * Lesson Planning * Learner Choice * Student Support * Classroom Management Each category has four tips. Four tips (each from a different category) are below. To see the full infographic click through to the post. * Technology is a means, not an end * Bloom’s Taxonomy (or related learning taxonomies) is/are used to move students from basic to complex thinking daily * Rigor is omnipresent, from bell ringers and quizzes to accountable talk and assessments * There are exemplar models immediately accessible to students of all important work and activities
Debbie Goodis's curator insight,
October 19, 2013 11:16 AM
Can these posters be purchased and printed?
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"The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells..."
Beth Dichter's insight:
This Tech Integration Mix is provided by the Florida Department of Education. It was recently updated (2011) and provides a variety of resources. Along with the five levels of tech integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments you will find videos that demonstrate technology being used in math, science, social studies and ELA in various levels. Additional resources are also available including a digital tools index for each tool used.
Mark Ayton's curator insight,
June 25, 2013 5:39 AM
This is an amazing resource. It lays out a matrix of 5 tech use levels against 5 activity types and provides video case studies in each matrix block for Maths, Science, Social Studies and Lauguage Arts. That's 100 easily accessed short video case studies! Although aimed at American K12 teachers the examples cover an amazing array of tools and techniques that will readily transfer to UK FE and Skills. 
Nick Nebelsky's curator insight,
June 26, 2013 12:30 PM
Finally a structure to build a curriculum around.... 
Dana Lott's curator insight,
July 2, 2013 3:42 PM
I saw the author of this philosophy and rubric as ISTE in Denver a few years back. Really great thoughts! Thanks, Jenn!
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What are the stages of technology in learning, and how can these stages be used as a framework for improving learning?
Beth Dichter's insight:
This post is an infographic plus a description of four stages that one might use to view integration of technology in learning. After considering a variety of ways that technology might be used the 4 stages are introduced and described. The infographic provides additional information on the learning process as well as how digital media also plays a role.
Drora Arussy's comment,
April 24, 2013 7:06 AM
Emerging, Engaging, Extending and Empowering, that is wonderful! Technology can be used across the board, and definitely empowers/self-directs. You're right they do line up.
Bobbi Capwell's curator insight,
May 6, 2013 9:10 AM
Good explanation of how to bridge integration to learning 
Jody Beesley-Lazarski's curator insight,
October 13, 2014 11:31 AM
Digital Media, included music, video, game based learning and various digital platforms are discussed in this article about how to effectively integration these technologies into class curriculum.
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Edutopia has published a great guide on Technology Integration. It has six sections: * Introduction * Why Integrate Technology? * What is Tech Integration? * How to Integrate Technology * Workshop Activities * Resources for Tech Integration This guide includes an amazing number of resources (websites, books videos and more) and was designed to address the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS). Think about using with a group for professional development, or on your own!
Rebecca Wilkins's curator insight,
July 17, 2015 9:28 PM
This is the first guide I have seen to help define technology integration.
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A list of guiding questions we might want to be asking ourselves and other teachers including: * What can we do to increase the cognitive complexity of students' day-to-day work so they are more often doing deeper thinking and learning work? * What can we do to better incorporate digital technologies into students' deeper thinking and learning in ways that are authentic, relevant, meaningful, and powerful? Read on for an additional five questins and feel free to comment by adding new questions or suggesting changes to current questions.
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"Assessment should be a continuous feedback loop, one that is integrated into the learning process, and where the feedback improves the competency of the learner. Assessments should be used as opportunities to develop a sense of achievement and related competencies."
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These Fun, Free Web Applications Make it Quick and Easy to Create Cool Learning Content (Watch out Though, Other Teachers Will be Banging Down Your Door Looking
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Five resources are shared in this post, with explanations about how to use them in your classroom. All have free versions available. * LessonPaths (http://www.lessonpaths.com/) allows you to put together groups of web resources and other digital resources in one location. (This was called MentorMob.) * Blendspace (https://www.blendspace.com/schools) is similar to LessonPaths but with a different look to it. Check them both out to see which fits your needs. * Geddit (http://letsgeddit.com/) provides a space where you can ask questions and students can respond using most any digital device that can access the Internet. * TED-Ed (http://letsgeddit.com/) is a resource that provides lessons that include a video, questions, resources and a discussion forum and allow you to flip any lesson you find. Additional videos are added frequently. * Powtoon (http://www.powtoon.com) allows you to create videos using templates. It is a little more complex to learn and you will be limited to five minute videos unless you subscribe. There is an educational version available. Have fun exploring these tools and creating content to engage your students!
Lori Wilk's curator insight,
March 23, 2014 11:14 PM
This list of webistes offers suggestions for sites with tools to help teachers to create interactive learning environment from surveys, to lessons, to making short videos. Super helpful escpecially since there's both free and paid versions available. You can have teaching tools on a zero or low budget.#education#technology.
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As part of my job interview for the Middle School Academic Technology Coordinator position at the American School of São Paulo, Brazil, I was asked how I would re-design a class for 6th graders, en...
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Check out how one might design a technology course for 6th graders if your goal is to use "LEARNFLOW which supports the unconscious, smooth and effortless flow of learning." This post provides a visual of how a course designed with LEARNFLOW in mind might be organized. It is based on Alan November's work on tutorial creation which "empowers learners...to become creators and contributors." The image above may provide you with ideas on how you might work with students this school year with technology.
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"So much in learning is subjective, which makes sense because so much in life itself is also subjective, and we learn in order to live. So it’s natural. Grey areas abound–the usefulness and quality of the Common Core Standards. The importance of curiosity in learning. The evaluation of technology in learning. The utility of letter grades. (And alternatives to letter grades.)"
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What is the best way to use technology in your classroom? We know that students like to use technology but are they using it constructively? Are you using technology constructively? This post explores these issues, not ing that there are some right and wrong answers in how technology should be used? I believe that technology is a tool, a tool that can be used to reinforce, enhance and extend the curriculum; a tool that allows students to use critical thinking skills; to find answers to questions. Check out the graphic that accompanies the discussion of this topic and consider how you will be using technology in your class.
Diego Sánchez's curator insight,
July 10, 2013 8:15 AM
Technology is a tool, not a learning outcome...
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Check out this chart that looks at the progression of :"using technology" to "integrating technology" to "learning by design" (think Wiggins and McTighe). The chart looks at seven areas: Planning, Frequency of Use, Purpose, Content, Focus, Task, and Information-Knowledge-Understanding. Consider how you use technology in your practice and see where you fall on the chart. Are there areas that you would like to shift?
Dean Mantz's curator insight,
January 1, 2014 2:09 PM
This is a well developed table addressing the integration of technology into classroom instruction all while basing pedagogy via the Learning By Design framework.
Rebecca Wilkins's curator insight,
July 17, 2015 9:22 PM
This is a nice marriage of technology integration and UbD. 
Jennifer McGuff's curator insight,
August 1, 2015 5:56 PM
Really like this graphic of technology integration and learning by design.
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Originally published on educatorstechnology.com TeachThought took the 36 ideas and "added the twist of ranking them from least complex to most complex, so novices can start at the bottom, and you veterans out there can skip right to 36."
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Do you have teachers in your building at all levels of technology? This post may help you come up with some ideas for professional development. The first suggestions on the list of thirty-six is: * Select the right platform to communicate. Several others include: * Explain how and why to use technology to those who don’t use it. * Model digital citizenship. * Highlight the limits of technology. * Record, process, mash, publish, and distribute digital media. For many other suggetions (and additional resources) continue on to the post.
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Technology integration - what is the best way? This post explores this topic, by sharing reflections from teachers who identified issues when issues did not go as planned to helping identify solutions to how to make the most of your time.
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The National Center on UDL released a report , Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Initiatives on the Move this month (May 2012). This post provides a look at UDL and discusses how it might be incorporated into a flipped classroom. A link to the original report is provides as well as many other resources. If UDL is new to you this is a great overview. If you are interested in flipped classrooms and experiential learning this post looks at both while incorporating UDL.
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All of my classes, regardless of student age or demographics – elementary gifted students or graduate students, begin with ice-breakers and team-building activities. I recently developed a passion for using students’ mobile devices to do so as this devices have become natural and personalized extensions of students’ “selves."
Daniel Weber's curator insight,
October 18, 2015 8:06 PM
This source offers some interesting ways to incorporate technology in team building/ice breaker activities. I hope to give some of these a try sometime. |
Check out this 4-step guide to creating effective lessons that integrate technology.
Step 1 - What level of learning is being addressed? The infographic looks at Bloom's, but you could use other resources as you design your lesson plan.
Step 2 - What level of technology will be used? SAMR (as in Substitution, Augmentation, Modification and Redefinition) are shown in the infographic, but there are other ways to look at the level of technology.
Step 3 - How should your classroom look? Four choices are provided.
Step 4 - How will you evaluate your students? Ten ideas are listed. You may find additional ones that you prefer to use.
As an initial framework to consider working with this visual may be a great tool, especially for folks who are still at the beginning phase of integrating technology into lessons.