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 		 Infusing Technology into Curriculum
 
Infusing Technology into Curriculum is offered both as a 2 day, 12-hour face-to-face course, and/or as an 8-hour online, professional development course, designed to provide educators with the resources and practical tools to integrate education technology. For Elementary grades, this curriculum addresses both interdisciplinary and single subject learning activities.
 

For Middle and High School levels, four specific content areas are covered:

  • Language

  • Arts

  • Math

  • Science

  • Social Studies

Course Description:
This class enables educators to develop an effective process and strategy for education technology integration into a specific curriculum area and to make use of classroom methodology. Participants are exposed to a variety of exemplary technology-infused classroom projects that address national, state, and local content standards including the National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE), National Council for Teachers of Math (NCTM), National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) and performance indicators from the Technology Standards International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). Class members work collaboratively and independently to construct their own integrated projects for use in the classroom and share them with their peers. In addition, a education technology integration rubric is provided to assist in providing meaningful feedback on the projects. Participants leave the course with a set of adaptable lessons, a variety of evaluative tools to determine their effectiveness and student performance, a plan for creating original content and a wide range of resources and tutorials to use and share.

Course Objectives:

  • Select and use appropriate technology to gather and synthesize data and to create and communicate knowledge

  • Use content-specific tools, software and simulations to support and enhance the study, analysis and interpretation of data

  • Develop and enhance skills needed through the selection and use of appropriate tools and technology

  • Use technology tools to compile, synthesize, produce and disseminate information, to generate ideas and questions, and to identify problems and pose solutions

  • Design, develop, publish and present multimedia products that demonstrate and communicate an understanding of subject matter

  • Access local, state and national standards and correlate them to specific education technology integration lessons

  • Develop a process for technology lesson creation

  • Create technology-infused lessons and projects that will support their teaching

  • Correlate technology applications with course content material

Topics Covered:

Sample Projects

  • Personalizing the Course of Study

  • Technology Integration Classroom Projects

  • Project Analysis Form

The Internet

  • Standards and Performance Indicators

  • Web Addresses: Departments of Education

  • Lesson Plans on the Web

  • Education Technology Integration Activities on the Web

  • Professional Development Sites on the Web

Appendix

  • Overviews and Tutorials for Productivity Applications

  • Troubleshooting Guide


Participant Materials

  • 20 Subject-Specific Sample Projects

  • Examples and Process Guidelines

  • CD-ROM that Contains Adaptable Templates, Samples, Rubrics and Tutorials

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