Aligning+Tech+to+the+Standards

__** Aligning Technology to the Standards (New Jersey) ** __

This workshop is designed to show how technologies can be aligned to support standards and how we can move beyond them.

What are the standards today? Core curriculum standards

Technology Toolbox Wait, you want me to do WHAT??!!

It is NOT your job! What is?

Facilitating: Problem Solvers, creative thinkers, empathetic, self-directed learners. Technology can help you do that.

Problems with that: Status quo, doing what we know, sustainability

Get off the escalator one way or the other

media type="youtube" key="uVN-7h4YiAs?version=3" height="345" width="420"

It's OKAY to fail...let kids see. It's at the heart of building self-esteem.

What is the unit, lesson, skill you want to teach? Don't start with the tool, start with your curriculum!
 * Don't forget your goal! **

Remember Student Motivators and life skills:


 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Giving choice
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Having purpose
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 140%;">Remembering one's audience

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Keys: Student-centered, Facilitating not controlling, collaboration

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Do not lose site of the underlying skill set students need to foster, compete, and thrive in this society.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Take my Poll

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">General David Petraeus

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">So, how CAN we get to everything in our curriculum, meet the standards, AND install these life long lessons we know are so important?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">1. How could a poll such as this be helpful to building inquisitive learners in the classroom? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">2. Who is doing the work in YOUR classroom?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">**The Digital Farm**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Article
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Jennifer Beine's Wiki - Digital Farm

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">TOTAL SHIFT from what we know, parents, know, kids know:

media type="youtube" key="M3hge6Bx-4w?version=3" height="345" width="420"

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">So, let's go back to those standards!

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Informational Literacy <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">File Management <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Verbal expression <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Written expression <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Artistic expression <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Mathmatics and problem solving

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">[|NJ World Class Standards]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Jump to New Culture and Creation of Assignments