Educational Technology Mr Galusha What is Educational Technology

Educational Technology Mr. Galusha

What is Educational Technology? Module 1 Agenda • Activator: “Churchill” • The world of the digital native and today’s educational ecosystem. Getting to know you Activity 1: Teaching in exponential ways • What is Ed Tech? • 21 st Century Skills? • Examples from the field • Activity 2: Starting your website • Syllabus overview – Essential Questions, objectives and course calendar • Activity 3: Resources • HW - Read and be ready to discuss: Century Skills, Education & Competitiveness. Partnership for 21 st Century Skills

We are living in exponential times

We are living in exponential times

Your students are digital natives; you are the last of the digital immigrants.

The Digital Native may never know about. • Finding out information from an encyclopedia. • Getting lost. With GPS coming to more and more phones, your location is only a click away. • Watching TV when the networks say you should. • Using a phone book or the yellow pages. From Nathan Barry’s 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About in the July 22, 2009 edition of Wired

The Digital Native may never know about. • Looking out the window during a long drive. • The number of TV channels being a single digit. • That there was a time before ‘reality TV. ’ • Newspapers and magazines made from dead trees. • Not knowing exactly what all of your friends are doing and thinking at every moment. • The fact that words generally don’t have num 8 er 5 in them. • When Spam was just a meat product.

We are living in exponential times

This is today’s educational ecosystem. .

Are we teaching in exponential ways?

Getting to know you.

- LOVE teaching!! - Photography - Film editing - Adjunct Professor of Ed Tech at ENC SS Dept Chair at WHS Teach AP Psychology and Modern World History Building Writers Design 21

Are we teaching in exponential ways?

Is an educational system with its roots in the 19 th century preparing our students for life in the 21 st century?

Classroom Teacher

21 st century skills? The skills students need to be able to find success in today’s world. - Strategic reading - Research skills - The ability to communicate in writing or through speaking - Creative problem solving

Classroom Teacher

Classroom Teacher

Classroom Teacher Student

What is educational technology? Tools to make you more efficient and your students more creative.

It is not about the technology!! om o r ss er a l C ch a e T t n e d u t S

Examples from the field • Kindergarten • Authentic Audience • Digital Show and Tell • Making words • Primary - E pals • Middle School – Problem Solving • High School – Leveraging social media

Activity 2 • www. weebly. com

If we live in exponential times, we should teach in exponential ways.

The Shrinking Digital Divide. . . in Schools • Nearly 100 percent of public schools in the United States had access to the Internet, compared with 35 percent in 1994 • No differences in school Internet access were observed by any school characteristics • 94 percent of public school instructional rooms had Internet access, compared with 3 percent in 1994 Data from the National Center for Education Statistics 1994 -2005 study

The Digital Divide. . . at home • 3 out of 4 American households have computers and 68 percent have broadband Internet connections, according to a 2011 report from the Department of Commerce’s Economics & Statistics Administration. • 48 percent of low-income families have a home computer compared with 91 percent of higher-income families, according to a recent report by Common Sense Media, an independent group that advocates for kids.

Principal’s Association 1817 • “Students today depend too much upon ink. They don’t know how to use a pen knife to sharpen a pencil. Pen and ink will never replace the pencil. ”

National Association of Teachers 1907 • “Students today depend upon store bought ink. They don’t know how to make their own. When they run out of ink they will be unable to write words or ciphers until their next trip to the settlement. This is a sad commentary on modern education.

Federal Council of Teachers 1950 • “You can’t use those calculators on the test. If I let you do that, you wouldn’t ever learn how to use the tables in the back of the book and use interpolation to figure out your trig ratios.

Middle School Math Teacher 1989 • “Why are you writing a grant for a classroom set of graphing calculators? We’ll never be allowed to use them and – even if we can – that’s only one class, and parents in other classes will never buy them for their students. ”

High School Teacher 1993 • “Why would you ever want the Internet for student use? It’s just the latest fad – have them use the library. ”

Syllabus Overview • Essential Questions • Objectives • Course Calendar • Policies

Essential Questions • • • Module 1: What is Educational Technology? Module 2: What do you teach? Module 3: How can technology help you plan and prepare? Module 4: How can technology help you create quality handouts? Module 5: How can you create engaging presentations? Module 6: How can you use Web 2. 0 in the classroom? Module 7: How can you use technology to help you better assess your students? Modules 8: How do you best design a classroom website? Module 9 How can you use social media? Module 10 How can you facilitate communication in your classroom?

Activity 3 • Add a resources page to your website. • Common Core • Helpful journals and blogs • Go here to start each assignment!

What is educational technology?