Week 1: Introduction to Standards (Content and Technology)

TOPICS:

• Overview and Introduction
• Ice Breaker
• Information on Standards Based Instruction
• Information on Technology Standards
• Project Ideas

• CA Content Standards

http://www.cde.ca.gov/iasa/standards/

• CA Technology Standards for Certification

• IISTE Technology Standards

• CTAP Technology Profeciencies

http://www.fcoe.k12.ca.us/techprof/

http://ctap2.iassessment.org/

• ISTE National Education Technology Standards

1. Go to the Student Lounge. Click on the Dialogue Chamber. Then click on the Ice- Breaker Discussion. Introduce yourself.

• Name
• School/District
• Grade and Subject(s)
• How you have used technology in your classroom
• What you hope to learn in this class
• Respond to one other personís posting. Comment on how they have used technology and what they hope to learn.

1. Review the online standards sites

• Pick content areas ( Primary and secondary) for which you would like to do a project with your students
• Select the standards (both content and technology) you would like to meet with youíre the project you will plan in this course.
• Go to the Student Lounge. Click on the Dialogue Chamber. Click on the Standards Link. Post your project idea and the standards it will meet.
• Respond to one other personís posting. Offer suggestions and resources to help that person.

TOPICS:

• Taking a Look at What We Teach
• Taking a Look at How We Teach
• Changing Role of the Teacher
• Collaborating with other Teachers
• Integrating Technology into Your Classroom­Overview of the Tools

• ACOT Research
• http://www.apple.com/education/k12/leadership/acot/history.html
• http://www.apple.com/education/professionaldevelopment/tchrcenterstaff.html
• Challenge 2000 MMP Information
• http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/sri/SRIEvaluation.htm
• http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/projects/projects.htm
• http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/News/awards.htm
• http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/News/notices.html
• CTAP SCORE Site
• http://www.score.k12.ca.us
• Tapped In
• http://www.tappedin.org
• EDís Oasis
• http://www.classroom.com/edsoasis/
• Filamentality
• http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/filamentality/
• Kathy Schrockís Guide
• http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
• Software Information
• http://etc.sccoe.org/i2000/t2resources.html

1. Read Indicators of Engaged Learning http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/engaged.htm .

• Go to the Student Lounge. Click on the Dialogue Chamber. Click on the Engaged Learning Link. Post the answers to the following:

1. What surprised you the most about this article?
2. How do the indicators on engaged learning in this article compare to what you see in your clasroom?
3. What modifications do you think you might need to make in your teaching style to accommodate integrating a technology project into your curriculum?

1. Visit each of the following sites . Find a project that is similar to the one you think you might like to do with your students.
• Chalenge 2000 Multimedia Project
• http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/projects/projects.htm
• http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/News/awards.htm
• http://pblmm.k12.ca.us/News/notices.html
• CTAP SCORE Site
• http://www.score.k12.ca.us
• Tapped In
• http://www.tappedin.org
• EDís Oasis
• http://www.classroom.com/edsoasis/
• Filamentality
• http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/filamentality/
• Kathy Schrockís Guide
• http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

• Go to the Student Lounge. Click on the Dialogue Chamber. Click on the Sample Projects link and post the name and URL of the project that is similar to the project you have in mind. Answer the following questions about this project;

1. What would you have to do to adapt this project to your grade level standards and studentsí learning needs?
2. What technology standards does this project meet?
• http://etc.sccoe.org/l2t/Pages/CCTCStandards.html

• History of Project Based Learning
• Models of Project Based Learning (Seven elements of PBL)
• Integrating Technology Projects into Your Curriculum
• Multiple Intelligences
• Higher Order Thinking Skills

RESOURCES:

• Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project
• http://pblmm.k12.ca.us
• Internet Institute Materials Online
• http://etc.sccoe.org/i2000/00/00curr.html
• Multiple Intelligences
• http://hale.pepperdine.edu/~djpotter/howard_gardner__multiple_i.htm
• Bloomís Taxonomy
• http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learn/program/hndouts/bloom.html
• Bloomís Taxonomy Task Wheel
• http://www.stedwards.edu/cte/bwheel.htm
• SCANS information
• http://www.academicinnovations.com/report.html
• Constructivism (Choose one article to read)
• http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/k12/livetext/docs/construct.html
• http://www.inform.umd.edu/UMS+State/UMD-Projects/MCTP/Essays/Constructivism.txt
• http://www.inform.umd.edu/UMS+State/UMD-Projects/MCTP/Essays/Strategies.txt

1. Read the information on the SCANS Report, Constructivism, Multiple Intellegences, and Higher Order Thinking Skills. Go to the Student Lounge. Click on the Dialogue Chamber. Click on the Meeting Studentsí Learning Styles link. Answer the following questions:

• How will your project meet your studentsí learning styles and needs?
• How will your project address higher order thinking skills?
• How will your project address the skills business and industry tell us are important? (Collaboration, Decision Making Skills, Connecting to the Real World)

1. Read the information on Project Based Learning. . Go to the Student Lounge. Click on the Dialogue Chamber. Click on the Project Based Learning link. Post your answer to the following question:

• Which element of Project Based Learning do you think will be the hardest for your to implement. Explain why you think this will be difficult.

Week 4:Designing a Standards Based Technology Project for Your Students

TOPICS:

• Planning and Implementing a Standards Based technology related project

• Internet Institute Planning Guide

1. Using the information from the last three weekís assignments, plan a student centered, standards based, technology rich project that you will do with your students.

2. Post a summary of your project in the Dialog Chamber in the Student Lounge