Using Technology to
Create LEARNING
Experiences
By Kathy O’Reilly
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Why Integrate?
• Create using digital tools
• Connect and meet our
students where they are
• Students can express their
learning
• Translate learning into their
own
• Students can reflect, connect,
collect, analyze and model
data
• Share work and communicate
with others
• Record their learning through
many sources
Creativity in Action . . .
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Building on Technology
• Learner-centered
environments support
independent work as well as
collaboration among learners.
• These classrooms provide
students the opportunities to
connect prior learning with
current experience.
• Computers can support the
variety of ways learners
construct their own
understanding.
• Computer software can mix
text, pictures, sound and
motion to provide a variety of
options for learners.
Using Standards
Note the
standard
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• Standards are an
important component
of planning your
technology units.
•This example shows
how the physical
education health
curriculum matches
standard 2.
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Integration Categories
• Collaboration and
Sharing Tools
• Creativity
• Curriculum Specific
• Educational Games
• Educational Videos
• Organization and
Productivity Tools
• Podcast and Audio Tools
• Presentation and
Photoshows
• Reference and Search
Tools
• Video and Image Tools
• Website and Blog Tools
Utilizing Computer Programs– Example
• Problem: What are the
dominant inheritance traits in
your students?
• Process: Research for
understanding, create
important probing questions
for survey, gather data, create
database reports using
important criteria, summarize.
• Programs Used:
 Google Search
 Using important search
words for understanding
 Google Forms (Survey)
Access Database (query
searching using criteria and
reports)
 Excel (gathering data)
 Word (word processing for
summarizing experience)
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Questions for Survey/Using
Web Tool/Google Forms
An Access Database Report
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Summarize: Present Your Findings
Connecting Your Classroom with Web Tools
Remembering
Understanding
Applying
Analyzin
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Evaluating
Creating
Other
Resources
Search
Engines
Advanced
Search
Presentation
software
Databases
Ex: Access
Blogger
You Tube
Kathy
Schrock
Drawing -Ex: Google
Drawing,
Google Plus
Google
Reader
Google
Groups
Prezi,
PowerPoint,
Glogster,
Discovery
Education’s
Board
Builder
Public Data
Explorer
Website
creation
sites: Ex:
Google
Sites, Webs
WeVideo
Khan
Academy
Wordle
Tumblr
Scribble
Maps,
imapBuilder
google maps
Spreadsheet
s Ex:
Google
Excel
Diigo for
ipad and
iphone
Math virtual
manipulatives,
Math Open
Reference:
great
interactive site
Flashcards
Mind
Mapping,
smart art,
bubblr
Yodio
My site
Resources
Animation
Creators
Animoto
Livescribe
Pen
Wikis
Podcasts
Cronozoom
Example: Build a Website:
Using: Teacher Web,
Google, Webs or have your
students build a site.
Updating Bloom’s Taxonomy 2.0
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
By Lorin Anderson
How Can High Schools Integrate Using Web 2.0 Tools?
Here are Some Suggestions:
• Online quizzes—Edmodo,
Socrative
• Online databases
• Microsoft Online classes – elearning
• Online primary sources and
online text—citation machine
• Wiki’s
• Google apps
• Mind mapping
• Nearpod – show presentations
to share in real time at
different locations.
• Student-centered portfolios
• Probeware – for Biology and
Chemistry to collect real world
data.
• Technology infused electives
• Blogging: Journaling online as
a powerful tool in current
events lessons in particular.
• By Laurie Jackson: Education
World
Subject Tools
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Math Machine
Math Lesson Plans
History Lesson Plans
English Lesson Plans
Language Arts
Science Lesson Plans
The Arts
Physical Education
Special Education
Web 2.0 Tutorials
• Photoshop Resources
• YouTube Videos
• Free Google Earth
Tutorials
• Lynda.com –
▫ free trial
Tagxedo Constitution Example:
www.newtoolsforteachingandlearning.com
• The link above will
get you to my
professional
development website
which contains many
resources.
• Feel free to browse
and try out some of
the web tools.
• Explore my “Links”
page. An easy one to
try is “Tagxedo.”
THANK YOU!
• I hope you have learned
from and enjoyed
my presentation.