Monday, October 23, 2006
Tech & Soc St: Using Tech in Class
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Monday, October 2, 2006
Tech & SS: How I Used Technology in Class
Tech and Social Studies class assignment: BLOG - Write a paragraph, or so, in your blog about how you have used (or heard of someone using) technology to successfully support the learning and teaching of skills and/or content.
As a technology teacher with students in a room full of computers, it was difficult NOT to use technology in my classes. I often began class with a DONOW that called upon students to open an ongoing word document and complete the DONOW task. The purpose of the task was two-fold. First, it gave the students a bit more keyboarding experience, and second, it provided either a review of something previously covered, or a taste of the day's topic. Using an LCD projector, the DO NOW was displayed in the front of the classroom, and I also provided printouts of the material. A typical DO NOW required students to type a paragraph that summed up some previously learned information and there would be blanks that they would have to fill in, or sentences to complete for them to explain something we did in class. There was a limited amount of time provided for this assignment, and more text than most students could type in 5-10 minutes, but we would review the entire text at the end of the DO NOW period.
Monday, October 2, 2006
Tech & SS: How I Used Technology in Class
Tech and Social Studies class assignment: BLOG - Write a paragraph, or so, in your blog about how you have used (or heard of someone using) technology to successfully support the learning and teaching of skills and/or content.
As a technology teacher with students in a room full of computers, it was difficult NOT to use technology in my classes. I often began class with a DONOW that called upon students to open an ongoing word document and complete the DONOW task. The purpose of the task was two-fold. First, it gave the students a bit more keyboarding experience, and second, it provided either a review of something previously covered, or a taste of the day's topic. Using an LCD projector, the DO NOW was displayed in the front of the classroom, and I also provided printouts of the material. A typical DO NOW required students to type a paragraph that summed up some previously learned information and there would be blanks that they would have to fill in, or sentences to complete for them to explain something we did in class. There was a limited amount of time provided for this assignment, and more text than most students could type in 5-10 minutes, but we would review the entire text at the end of the DO NOW period.
