For Technology’s Sake!

When is technology in education beneficial?

•Cool factor

•Takes more time

•Technical problems

•Example

– Suitcase PPT

Wrap up – put it all together

• 1st lecture – What’s all the fuss about technology? What’s the big deal?

• 2nd lecture – How will you keep up and why should you bother?

• 3rd lecture – What can technology help you do in the classroom? When should you use it?

Why Technology

Remember the 3E’s

•Efficiency (Time)

•Effectiveness (Quality)

•Enhancement (Opportunity)

EFFICIENCY, EFFECTIVENESS & ENHANCEMENT

Identify the E

Pre-Lecture Question #1

• AS.3.30: Compare the impact of various organs and organ systems on an overall organism.

• AS.3.16: Identify the organs that make up the circulatory and respiratory systems.

• Tool: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/eheart/transplant.html

Pre-Lecture Question #2

Foreign/ESL

•Listen to the teacher speak

•Listen to pre-recorded tapes, CDs (Rosetta Stone)

•Podcasts

(Tool: http://www.openculture.com/freelanguagelessons)

Pre-Lecture Question #3

Using games to review

•Jeopardy

•Other games

– Who want to be a millionaire?

– Are you smarter than a 5th grader?

Link to PowerPoint games:

http://jc-schools.net/TUTORIALS/PPT-GAMES/

Pre-Lecture Question #4

• ES.1.23 Explain motions, transformation, and locations of materials in Earth's lithosphere and interior. For example, describe the movement of the plates that make up Earth's crust and the resulting formation of earthquakes, volcanoes, trenches, and mountains.

• Tool: Virtual Field Trip

http://www.field-trips.org/trips.htm