ITEL ADISC Model
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Example: A teacher uses a classroom Website to
augment her STEM unit on Electric Cars. She also
has some students working on a Web-based drill and
practice program to help them build the math skills
they will need in that unit.
Technology that assists teachers in
adjusting, adapting or augmenting
teaching and learning to support
individual learners or groups of learners.
Technologies: Web-based resources or software
based learning systems such as PLATO or Study
Island that help students augment their learning.
Example: Students use a Web-based survey tool to
collect data on a local environmental problem and then
enter that information into a spread sheet program which
they use to conduct a systematic data analysis.
Technology that supports students and
teachers in dealing effectively with
data, including data management,
manipulation, and display
Technologies: On-line survey tools such as
Survey Monkey, spread sheet software programs,
data base software programs, chart and graph
making programs.
Example: Students complete a teacher-developed
WebQuest to develop baseline knowledge about
sensors and their many uses in today’s world. They
then use Internet research strategies to find answers
to new questions raised by their WebQuest learning
experience.
Technology that supports students and
teachers in conducting inquiry,
including the effective use of Internet
research methods
Technologies: Web-based research tools
such as WebQuests, Hot-lists, or Treasure Hunts.
Internet Search Engines, on-line libraries, on-line
encyclopedias, etc.
Example: In a science class students use simulation
software to build a virtual greenhouse and then
model the effects of various weather conditions on
plant growth. In a biology lab students use a Webbased tutorial to conduct a virtual frog dissection.
Technology that supports students and
teachers in simulating real world
phenomena including the modeling of
physical, social, economic, and
mathematical relationships
Technologies: Web-based or software based simulation
games. Web-based or software based modeling
programs. For example, Sim City or Net Frog.
Example: Students use teleconferencing, Skype, or
speaker phone technology to collaborate with
students from a different school district. Later, they
develop a slide show which they send to those
students as an e-mail attachment to communicate
the main findings from their engineering design
project.
Technology that supports students and
teachers in communicating and
collaborating including the effective use
of multimedia tools and online
collaboration
Technologies: Web boards, teleconferencing, speaker
phones, e-mail, Web meetings, presentation software
(ex. PowerPoint), word processing programs, desktop
publishing software, digital cameras, video editing
software, photo-editing software etc.
Credits
Dr. James Rowley
School of Education and Allied Professions
University of Dayton
Department of Teacher Education