TECHNOLOGY IN CLASS ROOM

PRESENTED BY

DEBOSREE BHATTACHARYA (DAS)

DEPT. OF EDUCATION

SYSTEM :

INPUT

PROCESS

OUT PUT

FEED BACK

Integrating Technology May…

• Change the way you teach
• Change the way you interact with your students
• Change the expectations you have for your students
• Free you to really do what you do best: TEACH!

Issues of Computer Use

• Expectations : What do you hope to achieve?
• Room Arrangement
• Where do students use the computer?
• Management/Scheduling
• When do students use the computer?
• How do students use the computer?
• Integration
• Why do students use the computer?

Room Arrangement

• Easy access for students and for teacher
• Easily supervised
• Plenty of space
• Neatly organized

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Planning the When

• Be fair
• Be realistic
• Be consistent
• Have the computer in use all the time
• Consider using Friday as “catch-up” day

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• Use time or defined task to determine how long each child or group can be at the computer
• Use technology to track usage

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Planning the How

• Develop a system for using the computer
• Think small
• Assign learning groups
• Emphasize pre-planning

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• Limit data entry
• Create a homepage with agendas and links
• Use “class buddies” to update computers users who miss classwork

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Planning the How

• Enforce expectations
• Avoid floppy disks
• Use students as computer helpers
• Get help
• Steal!

• Use scaffolds
• Task cards
• Checklists
• Templates

Integration

• Examine current unit or activity for ways to add technology
• Rewrite the lesson unit to identify changes due to technology
• Prepare materials and create schedule

Ideas…

• Look up info related to current class discussion
• Daily info like sunrise/sunset, tides, temperature
• Class newspaper or journal
• Ongoing story
• Class web page

Ideas…

• Drill and practice
• Simulations
• Adding adjectives and adverbs
• Subject/verb agreement
• Identify poetic devices
• Brainstorming

Ideas…

• Have students create task cards for a particular activity or web site
• Draw story webs
• Illustrate vocabulary words
• Make lists, sort lists, organize lists
• Print out clip art or graphics to use in collages
• Add graphics and pictures to a class collection
• Mini-lessons

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Ideas…

• Use computer group work to teach cooperative learning skills
• Have ongoing “personal” projects that children can work on for short periods of time throughout the year(write in journal or add to a web page)
• Take or make a quiz
• Complete or make a puzzle

Ideas…

• Group or class e-mail letter
• Class database
• Enter group info into spreadsheet and graph
• Electronic worksheets
• Reading database
• Class calendar
• Add a label

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Ideas…

• Create a school directory
• Make an alphabet book
• Prepare for a field trip
• Report on a field trip
• Write a caption
• Add a sentence

Ideas…

• Quicktime movies
• Venn diagrams
• Color maps in Paint
• Create a timeline
• Diagram a sequence
• Put the pictures in order

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Ideas…

• Use commercial software
• Find time for exploration and creativity
• Chart information in a table
• Collaborate on a banner
• Model using the computer as a tool
• Use a picture to illlustrate a topic

THANK YOU