As we explore more in the topic of technology and it’s use in the schools, I have come to believe more and more in it’s potential. The topic for the week was engagement and relevancy. We were to review the WA Tech standard 1.1
EALR 1
— INTEGRATION
Students use technology within all content areas to collaborate, communicate, generate innovative ideas, investigate and solve problems.
Essentially the starting point for integrating technology in the classroom. There are quite a few simple tools available to start the integration process. http://www.bubbl.us/index is a free online brainstorming program. Google Docs:docs.google.com/ provides simple and free word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and forms that can be accessed from anywhere and anyone with the web address. It would be interesting, with more time, to see if I could implement some of theses simple tools into a class or unit. Perhaps next semester when I am bit less swamped by SPU work and more into the teaching side I will have time to try out a new tool.
Work cited:
Washington State Educational Technology Learning Standards K-12. (2008, December) retrieved October 26th 2009, from OSPI Washington website: http://www.k12.wa.us/edtech/pubdocs/K12EdTechStandards6-8_12-08.pdf
