Integrating Technology: Effective Tools for Collaboration

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Developing ways to fit technology into existing lessons can be a real challenge. This valuable resource uses planning forms and examples to help media specialists and teachers focus on ways to effectively and purposefully add technology. You will be able to deliver more effective lessons, build communication and collaboration opportunities and develop exciting technology-based projects for students. Each unit example begins with a completed planning form showing unit title and length, technology connections, suggested grade levels, activity focus, suggested collaborations between media specialist and teacher, basic resources ,and preparation tasks and lesson plans. The examples show key places within each unit where technology can be integrated easily. The collaborations connect with standards-based education in language arts, math, science and social studies. Ideas for whole-class projects are also included. Easy-to-follow unit outlines include evaluation rubrics for many subject areas, while user-friendly graphic organizers make integrating technology that much easier. Add exciting variety to the options K-8 students can use to demonstrate understanding and learning 22 sample collaborations show effective ways to incorporate technology in four core subjects All units meet the National Educational Standards for Students (ISTE 2000) and support the "Ten Learning and Teaching Principles of School Library Media Programs" outlined in Information Power

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Filled with lessons and activities that incorporate technology into classroom curricula, and in conjunction with the ISTE standards, this volume is a useful tool for library media specialists and classroom teachers alike. Each unit is organized by a grid of categories: Information Retrieval print and Internet sites for information gathering; Student Productivity- what students will be creating; Problem Solving and Decision-Making; Communication and Collaboration; Teacher Delivery of lessons; and Classroom management. Each unit is then broken down into Objectives. The unit is outlined with the intended audience and the length of the unit. Student and teacher activities are aligned with the ISTE standards. Going beyond the typical research assignments and written reports, the final products are creative and varied. For example, in one activity on the Presidents, students are asked to write letters as a former president to either their wife or predecessor with four points that they need to include. Lessons and units are well laid out and easy to understand and implement with web sites and resources provided. Examples of worksheets are given throughout the book in a reduced format. This volume showcases how teachers and media specialists can collaborate from beginning to end of a project, from developing handouts to grading, where the team approach is the focus. Recommended. * Library Media Connection *

Author Bio

Shan Glandon is the elementary curriculum coordinator at Jenks Public Schools in Tulsa, OK.