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• How many of us can meet this requirement?
• How many teachers in our buildings?
TEKS for Technology: Sample #2
“apply appropriate electronic search strategies in the
acquisition of information including keyword and
Boolean search strategies”
• from TEKS for grades 3-5
• What is a “Boolean search?”
• How can I find out how to “apply a Boolean
search?
Awareness is the first step
• Must first be aware and make staff aware of
Technology TEKS requirements
• Then:
• Ask
• Access
• Analyze
• Apply
• Assess
Understand THE PLATFORM is not the driver
• Platform = Macintosh / Dell / Compaq / IBM /
etc.
• TEKS are platform independent
• Key is imparting literacy skills
• Help make the teacher’s role easy
Understand THE PLATFORM is not the driver
• No one knows the platform of the future
• Microsoft?
• Sun’s “thin clients” and network applications?
• Something else?
• It will be faster and cheaper
Avoid “Wagging the Dog”
• Let instructional needs dictate purchases
• Avoid IT - Instructional disconnect
• Consider purchasing patterns of schools versus
businesses
• Must purchase for longer term use
• Consider teacher ease-of-use
Consider Apple/Macintosh computers
• This is an emotional issue
• Consider my perspective
• Classroom teacher
• Computer teacher / facilitator
• Windows lab administrator
• Manage Macs and Windows clients on our
Novell network
• Most “IT” people know very little about
Macintoshes
• Story: “Windows is better....?”
Consider Apple/Macintosh computers
• More intuitive file system (no C: or DOS)
• MUCH easier for teachers to troubleshoot &
support
• Results in more instructional use / time on task
• Cross-platform software makes file sharing
much easier
• Refer to article on Cody, WY schools
Develop a Vision for your Campus/District’s Future
• Networking infrastructure
• Regular computer hardware investments
• Staff Development course offerings
• Teacher competencies
Staff Development IS THE KEY!
Staff Development
• Carrot vs. Stick
• Boulder Valley ISD philosophy: “Pick your
wave”
• Classes must be offered consistently by
instructional leaders
Creating a Climate of Collaboration
Encourage teachers to reject the “dummies mentality”
• There are NOT any “dumb questions”
• Wanting and needing step by step instructions
≠ “being a dummy”
• Accept that you cannot know all the answers!
Creating a Climate of Collaboration
• Goal: to generate a ground swell of excitement
for technology use in the classroom
• Win teachers over by finding projects or
applications they already like, which
technology can enhance
Creating a Climate of Collaboration
• Buy a site license for gradebook software
• Jay Klein’s “Making the Grade” is excellent
• cross platform,
• generous license terms
• Enable teachers to set up free email accounts
(Yahoo mail, Hotmail)
• Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT)
research supports this!
Creating a Climate of Collaboration
• Avoid techno-lust
• Difficult for people not in the “Net
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Generation” to not be awed by our access to
information
• Don Tapscott’s book Growing Up Digital
( www.growingupdigital.com)explains
generational differences well
Creating a Climate of Collaboration
• Boom Generation: Jan 1946 - Dec 1964
• Bust Generation: Jan 1965 - Dec 1976
• Echo Generation: Jan 1977 - Dec 1997
Creating a Climate of Collaboration
• Remember the Luddites
• Be willing to question assumptions about
technology use
• Don’t judge teachers not using (or willing to
use) technology as necessarily poor teachers
Creating a Climate of Collaboration
• Encourage your campus to adopt a model of
technology integration support
• Most challenging: No facilitator
• Facilitator needs to be a certified teacher
• Can’t just be a “technical” person
• Best to have gardens of computers in
classrooms, AND a lab for class access
Creating a Climate of Collaboration
• Pull-Out Lab Model Works well
• Certified teacher serves as facilitator and helps
teachers design and carry out lessons in the
computer lab
• Cavazos JHS in Lubbock has been using this
model successfully for 2 years
• It is unreasonable to expect teachers to
integrate technology into lessons without help
Creating a Climate of Collaboration
• Half Pull-Out Lab is optimal for elementary
settings
• Students attend computer literacy classes with
a certified teacher (half the lab time)
• Rest of the time, teachers can reserve the lab
for whole-class lessons & projects
Creating a Climate of Collaboration
• Administrative support is the key
• Set up periodic meetings for sharing on your
campus and/or within your district
• Lubbock ISD has monthly “Dell Cavalry”
meetings
• Most of “the good stuff” comes from the grass
roots level (classroom teachers)
Integration
1. Buy and Use a Laptop (or desktop)
2. Get on the internet at home
3. Learn to use email and check it daily
4. Learn to use a computer as a productivity tool
(lesson plans, gradebook, word processing, etc.)
5. Become proficient at multitasking and copying /
pasting
6. Develop a personal professional development plan
(inservices, training)
7 - Join the Texas Computer Educators’ Association
(TCEA) and attend its conference yearly
www.tcea.org
8- Subscribe to an educational listserv
9- Help develop and write a campus technology plan
10- Learn to effectively search the web on teacher
sites
SHARE THE KNOWLEDGE!
“Teach for their future, not your past.”
comments:
(with provisions for utilizing TECHNOLOGY)
…through leadership and management of the organization, operations, and resources for a safe, efficient, and
effective learning environment.
A principal understands, values, and is able to:
•utilize technology to enhance school management.
…advocating, nurturing, and sustaining a campus culture and instructional program conducive to student learning
and staff professional growth.
A principal understands, values, and is able to:
•facilitate the use and integration of technology, telecommunications, and information systems to enhance learning.
…facilitating the design and implementation of curricula and strategic plans that enhance teaching and learning:
alignment of curriculum resources, and assessment; and the use of various forms of assessment to measure student
performance.
• facilitate the use and integration of technology, telecommunications, and information systems to enrich the campus
curriculum.
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