Elementary PC Refresh Development
The goal of the POD development is to provide teachers with resources and strategies that will facilitate a student-centered, technology-enhanced learning environment for all learners. This type of environment will ensure that students are engaged in 21st century learning activities that will prepare them to respond to the challenges of an ever changing world. By the end of the 2011-2012 school year, all elementary classrooms will have a 1.8 to 1 student to computer ratio.
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DOK and HOTS
Teachers explore how tech tools integrate with depth of knowledge to encourage higher order thinking for students. Teachers will have a better understanding of how to engage students in rigorous, student-centered, technology enhanced activities that promote higher-order thinking and lead to transfer.
Article: Thinking Is Literacy, Literacy Thinking
Changing Role of Learners
The role of learners is changing drastically.
A major educational tech thinker, Steve Hargadon, argued in his 2008 article “[Web 2.0’s] implications for education and learning are paradigm-shattering... [Students will move] … from consuming to producing, from passive to passionate learning..."
(Hargadon,"Web 2.0 is the future education" linked below)
(Web 2.0 is web-based tools like Glogster, blogs, and VoiceThread)
Education is starting to move away from the lecture circuit, towards regularly allowing new ways of student learning, through collaboration and creation of media forms including videos, and in providing students an active, dynamic role, rather than a passive one in the learning process.
These new tools and ways of interacting reinforce and strengthen what we have traditional done in educating children effectively.
They just expand the possibilities, learning spaces, and learning opportunities for students.
“Whether the domain is English language arts, mathematics, sciences, social studies, history, art, or music, 21st century competencies and expertise such as critical thinking, complex problem solving, collaboration, and multimedia communication should be woven into all content areas.” (Jenkins, 2009; Leu, Kinzer, Coiro, & Cammack, 2004). As quoted in the National Educational Technology Plan, 2010.
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http://www.stevehargadon.com/2008/03/web-20-is-future-of-education.html
