Posted by ijduran in : ETIL Standards, Vision, Integration, Interactive White Boards ,
Aurora Public Schools has over 1400 classrooms and over half of them now have interactive white boards (IWB). Recent funding from the mill funds and stimulus dollars have catapulted the number of boards added to classrooms. It is more common to walk in a school and see interactive white boards used for a variety of purposes. On a recent visit to one school I saw a teacher using an IWB to demonstrate a writing example from CSAP prep material. I also saw another teacher set up a board for students to come up and demonstrate their knowledge with fractions and decimals using the graphing chart tools. The lesson ended with the teacher collecting informal data using the ActivExpressions (clickers) to determine which students needed more support. I also walked through the school and saw a number of classrooms not using the technology at that time.
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Posted by ijduran in : Monitoring Technology, ETIL Standards, Vision, Leadership, Integration ,
This month’s
Tech Bucks has focused on some ways you can monitor the use of technology in your schools. As we continue to acquire more technology it is essential that we have a clear purpose for how it will be used in classrooms and beyond. Administrators must be willing to have clear expectations and support for teachers and staff to learn how to utilize the tools available to them in the most effective manner.
In addition, we all must have a clear understanding of what we expect our students to be able to do as a 21st Century Learning. Understanding the
standards for our students in grades K-8th are essential to have a clearer picture on what one can expect to see in a learning environment. I have also been a large proponent that if we expect our students to meet a certain level of understanding at each grade level then it is critical our teachers can do that also as a minimum expecation.
After going through the
ISTE Online Class on NETS, please post your comments and thoughts below and feel free to comment on what other administrators or PT staff say. Thanks to Tonya Thompson from East MS for getting us started!