I'd just like to welcome you all to the Winter 2013 Edition of ED 270: Incorporating Technology in Education.
Throughout the next ten weeks, you will use a variety of different programs and platforms to explore the various means by which computers and the web have become an integral part of an effective K-12 teacher's bag of tricks. Everything that you will explore and create is already in practice in classrooms across the country to meet state and federal teaching standards. Taking full advantage of internet and mobile platforms, creative and innovative educators are already proving that technology does not have to be a distraction or a gimmicky add-on to traditional teaching practices.
You'll examine your own content area standards and begin to reflect upon ways that technology can open new doors to them. You'll explore the collaborative possibilities of the read/write web. You'll discover ways to more effectively manage your classroom. You'll investigate the constructivist possibilities of images and multimedia construction. You'll look to the future and predict the classroom of the next decade. You'll create your own lessons incorporating what you've learned in here. You're going to be busy in here, and that's a good thing.
Along the way, you may occasionally run into what teachers like to call "technical difficulties." It is best if you select a happy place and always remember to go there in case of computer stress. Go to your happy place...no worries....go to your happy place... The intent of this class is to take the fear out of technology integration, as well as refine your reflective and problem-solving skills that inevitability accompany high-tech in the classroom.
No worries.
