Technology Integration
Fall Update 2017
Erin Fisher
Strategic Plan - Goal #4
Technology:
To provide all learners engaging learning experiences utilizing technology, while providing educators the capacity to create those opportunities.
New This Year
Central School Technology
MASSCUE Fall Conference 2017
What are teachers saying about technology?
Although we all know in reality, we've taught without any technology at points and it still does the job, we all say "How did we ever teach before this??" We said it about Pinterest and TeachersPayTeachers, we said it about desktops and printers, we said it about SMARTboards, and now we're saying it about 1:1 Chromebooks. It is a game changer. It allows me to pair my students with meaningful, targeted, individualized instruction that there's no way I could do as one teacher. They still receive plenty of "typical" instruction but technology allows you to both remediate and enrich as needed at the same time!
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Technology allows me to engage every student in powerful collaborative writing assignments in my English class. Without technology, one student writes while the others discuss what to write, and this can work. With technology, however, every student has the document right in front of him or her on the Chromebook, and each student can edit, revise, and add to the document at the same exact time. The immediacy of this format makes every student a more active participant in his or her learning, and it's something that's very difficult to recreate without technology.
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Technology will never replace a teacher: it super-charges our education.
We've really shifted from being the holders of all the knowledge, to being the guides for how to access and interpret that knowledge, which are skills I think our students very much need as they move on to the next stage in their lives.
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Going Forward
My Goal:
Digital Portfolios