DETERMINING RELATIVE ADVANTAGE: APPLYING TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOMGV Tech Camp

Ross Hunter

August 11th, 2009

Marley & Me. Fox 2008

Marley & Me. Fox 2008

AGENDA

What is Technology Integration? How to measure it in the classroom.

Identify the Phases of Technology Integration Planning.

Review Phase One: Determining Relative Advantage

TECHNOLOGY INTE-A-WHAT?

Technology Integration: The use of technology by teachers and students as a tool to effectively and efficiently support curricular goals, enhance instruction, and ultimately to improve student learning. Integration implies that the technology is blended into and coordinated with both instruction and curriculum, but is not the focus of either.

WHERE ARE YOU? WHERE ARE YOU GOING?

Florida Center for Instructional Technology http://fcit.usf.edu/matrix/

PHASES OF TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION

Phase 1: Determine Relative Advantage

Phase 2: Decide on Objectives and Assessments.

Phase 3: Design Integration Strategies Phase 4: Prepare the Instructional

Environment. Phase 5: Evaluate and Revise

Roblyer. Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching. Pearson. 2006

PHASE 1: DETERMINE THE RELATIVE ADVANTAGE

“Why should I use a technology based method?”

GUIDING QUESTIONS:1. WHAT LEARNING PROBLEM AM I ADDRESSING?

MotivationApplication of skillsTime consuming activitiesDifferentiated assessment New complex or abstract conceptsLack of time to review basic principles

2. IT IS NOT ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY!

Do not focus on the technology.

3. LOOK FOR EVIDENCE

Low test scores Survey Observation Lack of student

engagement/motivation

3. DOES TECHNOLOGY BASED METHOD OFFER A SOLUTION WITH SUFFICIENT RELATIVE ADVANTAGE?

Estimate Impact vs. effort/expense

EXAMPLE Mr. Smith teaches 5th grade Social Studies. He just came back from a Social Studies conference where he attended a session on Google Earth and was very impressed.

Mr. Smith covers a unit on the US State Capitals. He usually conducts several activities over a week’s time. The activities, including a State Bee, that the students really enjoy. Come test time the students do very well on Mr. Smith’s test US State Capital Test.

This year he decides to have students create a Google Earth tour of the US State Capitals. Mr. Smith spends several extra days showing students how to use Google Earth and to present their tours. Overall students like the program but some find it frustrating.

When Mr. Smith gives the test he finds the results are below average and he is behind schedule.

EXAMPLE #2

Mr. Hall is teaching 10th Grade American Literature and is halfway through his first year as a teacher. He finds students fail to meet his expectations, are disruptive, unmotivated and he has trouble keeping their attention.

They are going start a unit on Tom Sawyer. To address this problem, he plans to have his students create movie trailers for the book, Tom Sawyer.

EXAMPLE #3

Ms. Carelock is a Middle School Earth Science Teacher who is currently teaching the Phases of the Moon.In previous years, she noticed students doing poorly on the determining the phases of the moon diagram and believes students are having a difficulty understanding the relationship between the moon, sun and earth. She normally conducts a hands on lab, and other activities. Tests show students do below average on the moon phase identification.

She locates several simulations and allows students to work on them in pairs, and assigns homework around these simulations.

SUMMARY

Goal of Technology Integration is to increase student learning.

Identify the learning problem, then seek out technology (solution).

Not about quantity, it is quality. Can you answer the question, “Why

am I using technology?”

TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION MADLIB

I am using (technology solution), to

address the issue of (learning

problem), because I have seen the

following (evidence).

DETERMINING THE ADVANTAGE GIVES YOU….