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Have you ever wished you had an instructional coach at your side to help align your curriculum with the tech-related indicators found in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)? You’re not alone. Nearly all U.S. states have adopted Common Core, and teachers across the country are redesigning their lessons to meet the standards, including the edtech component. In this book (the first in a four-book series), you’ll learn how to shift your instructional practice and integrate technology standards found within Common Core into elementary curriculum. This book: addresses issues that digital age students face and examines the importance of tailoring their learning experiences using technology; discusses technology needed to teach CCSS and shows how to address roadblocks to incorporating technology; explains how the CCSS are organized and offers a deep dive into the standards specific to grades K-2; includes classroom-tested lesson ideas mapped to tech-related CCSS and ISTE Standards; and shares resources (apps, software and websites) that can be used in meeting CCSS.
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Valerie Morrison has 14 years of experience as a technology director, integration specialist, and technology coach. A regular conference presenter, Morrison also teaches education courses at the college level.
Stephanie Novak, a 27-year educator turned instructional coach, helps teachers in grades K-5 understand how to blend the Common Core State Standards with rigorous curriculum.
Tim Vanderwerff is a 35-year veteran teacher who has worked with learners from kindergarten to adulthood. As an instructional coach, Vanderwerff uses his background in media, technology and English language arts to help elementary teachers implement the CCSS.
Stephanie Novak, a 27-year educator turned instructional coach, helps teachers in grades K-5 understand how to blend the Common Core State Standards with rigorous curriculum.
Tim Vanderwerff is a 35-year veteran teacher who has worked with learners from kindergarten to adulthood. As an instructional coach, Vanderwerff uses his background in media, technology and English language arts to help elementary teachers implement the CCSS.
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Chapter 7: Implementing Practical Ideas
Our world and education is changing rapidly. Without question, one size does not fit all in teaching. We know you work hard to personalize the learning in
your classroom to reflect the individual needs, capabilities, and learning styles of your students so they have opportunities to reach their maximum potential. With this in mind, why not create tech-savvy classrooms for today’s students?
In this chapter, we address practical ways to use new technology ideas within your classroom. Most of your students already come to school with a strong background in and understanding of technology. They are interested, motivated, and even driven by technology. Having a tech-savvy classroom for today’s students is the best way to create a digital-age learning environment.
How and Where Do I Begin?
Whether you are a new teacher, a teacher in the middle of a career, or a veteran teacher with just a few years before retirement, you will begin at the same place in respect to technology. To bring technology into your classrooms and your students into the digital age, you must give up your role at the front of class and let technology be a primary source of information. This journey calls for no longer teaching in the way you’ve been teaching and instead becoming a facilitator of your classroom and the information presented there. Embrace all of the devices you have ignored or struggled to keep out of your classroom. Introduce yourself to new concepts that may not have existed when you were in school.
First, sign up for as many technology teaching blogs and websites as you can find.
One website definitely worth a look is Power My Learning (powermylearning.org). There are many free activities for you to explore, and you can search for lessons by the CCSS. This website also allows you to build classes, assign and monitor student work, and customize playlists for your classroom.
Blogs are becoming an increasingly pervasive and persistent influence in people’s lives. They are a great way to allow individual participation in the marketplace of ideas around the world. Teachers have picked up on the creative use of this technology and put the blog to work in the classroom. The education blog can be a powerful and effective tool for students and teachers. Edutopia has a wonderful technology blog (http://tinyurl.com/p33sd7b). Scholastic also offers a blog for teachers PK–12, (http://tinyurl.com/oaaycar) and on a wide variety of educational topics.
Edmodo (edmodo.com) is a free and easy blog for students and teachers to communicate back and forth. We have given you links to all of these resources on our website (http://tinyurl.com/oexfhcv). Teachers can post assignments, and students can respond to the teacher, as well as to each other, either in the classroom or at home. Students also have the ability to post questions to the teacher or one another, if they need help.
What Strategies Can I Use?
Get a routine going. Centers, where students are engaged in independent and self-directed learning activities, are a great way to begin integrating technology in your classroom. All centers can be tied to your curriculum targets, and a couple of them can be technology based. There is a plethora of computer-based games that you can bring to a center rotation. ScootPad (scootpad.com) and DreamBox (dreambox.com) are two programs that support Common Core and can be used on computers or tablets.
Differentiated math instruction meets the needs of all learners. It consists of whole group, mini lessons, guided math groups, and independent learning stations with a wide variety of activities, and ongoing assessment. Independent learning stations are a great way to infuse technology into your centers. One station with computers and another with games make great rotation centers and are easy to plan for, as well
Implementing Practical Ideas
as a great way for students to practice math fluency and target-related games. For more information on how to set up a guided math classroom, check out the book Guided Math: A Framework for Mathematics Instruction (2009) by Laney Sammons or view her guided math slide presentation online (www.slideshare.net/ggierhart/ guided-math-powerpointbytheauthorofguidedmath).
Guided Reading is a key component of Balanced Literacy instruction. The teacher meets with a small group of students, reading and instructing them at their level. Other students are involved in small groups or independent practice that involves reading, writing, or vocabulary. Reading A-Z (readinga-z.com) offers many literacy-based books and games that can be used in reading centers. Students can use recording devices to record and listen to themselves reading. You can also listen to their recordings for quick assessment purposes. Reading A-Z also offers Vocabulary A-Z and Science A-Z. There are many games and activities for these content areas, and this offers you additional rotations for your literacy centers.
Programs and apps, such as Google Docs, Puppet Pals, and Comic Life, are just a few resources you can use to meet standards and bring writing into your literacy rotations. Your students are using technology to be creative.
Flipping the classroom is another great way to integrate technology into your classroom. This teaching model, which uses both online and face-to-face instruction, is transforming education. Flipping is an educational strategy that provides students with the chance to access information within a subject outside of the classroom. Instead of students listening in class to content and then practicing that concept outside of the school day, that traditional practice is flipped. Students work with information whenever it best fits their schedule, and as many times as necessary for learning to occur. Inside the flipped classroom, teachers and students engage in discussion, practice, or experiential learning. By creating online tutorials of your instruction, using some of the tools mentioned in this book, you can spend valuable class time assisting students with homework, conferencing about learning, or simply being available for student questions.
Pick an app or program you are interested in bringing into your classroom. Play and explore. See what the possibilities are for using this technology in your classroom. You and your students can be technology pioneers. Allow your students to problem solve and seek new knowledge on their own and then have them share with you. A great resource to use is iPad in Education (www.apple.com/education/ipad), where you can learn more about how to teach with and use iPads in your classroom. This site from Apple is a great resource—it gives you lots of information about what the iPad is capable of, gives examples of iPad lessons done by other teachers, and offers free apps!
How Do I Determine What Works Best?
Perhaps the next place to look is the ISTE Standards for Students (www.iste.org/ standards). These standards are a great framework to help you plan lessons and projects to support the Common Core technology standards in literacy, math, and critical thinking skills.
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills developed a Framework for 21st Century Learning. This framework identifies key skills known as the 4Cs: Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication, and Creativity. Table 7.1 takes those four skills and overlays them with digital resources that you can use in English language arts (ELA). For instance, if you are a second grade teacher and want to use Collaboration in your lesson, you might try any of the seven digital resources suggested to plan your lesson: Google Docs, Popplet, GarageBand, Wixie, Edmodo, wikis, and Google Sites. These are suggestions, but there are many more apps and sites that might also fit...
Our world and education is changing rapidly. Without question, one size does not fit all in teaching. We know you work hard to personalize the learning in
your classroom to reflect the individual needs, capabilities, and learning styles of your students so they have opportunities to reach their maximum potential. With this in mind, why not create tech-savvy classrooms for today’s students?
In this chapter, we address practical ways to use new technology ideas within your classroom. Most of your students already come to school with a strong background in and understanding of technology. They are interested, motivated, and even driven by technology. Having a tech-savvy classroom for today’s students is the best way to create a digital-age learning environment.
How and Where Do I Begin?
Whether you are a new teacher, a teacher in the middle of a career, or a veteran teacher with just a few years before retirement, you will begin at the same place in respect to technology. To bring technology into your classrooms and your students into the digital age, you must give up your role at the front of class and let technology be a primary source of information. This journey calls for no longer teaching in the way you’ve been teaching and instead becoming a facilitator of your classroom and the information presented there. Embrace all of the devices you have ignored or struggled to keep out of your classroom. Introduce yourself to new concepts that may not have existed when you were in school.
First, sign up for as many technology teaching blogs and websites as you can find.
One website definitely worth a look is Power My Learning (powermylearning.org). There are many free activities for you to explore, and you can search for lessons by the CCSS. This website also allows you to build classes, assign and monitor student work, and customize playlists for your classroom.
Blogs are becoming an increasingly pervasive and persistent influence in people’s lives. They are a great way to allow individual participation in the marketplace of ideas around the world. Teachers have picked up on the creative use of this technology and put the blog to work in the classroom. The education blog can be a powerful and effective tool for students and teachers. Edutopia has a wonderful technology blog (http://tinyurl.com/p33sd7b). Scholastic also offers a blog for teachers PK–12, (http://tinyurl.com/oaaycar) and on a wide variety of educational topics.
Edmodo (edmodo.com) is a free and easy blog for students and teachers to communicate back and forth. We have given you links to all of these resources on our website (http://tinyurl.com/oexfhcv). Teachers can post assignments, and students can respond to the teacher, as well as to each other, either in the classroom or at home. Students also have the ability to post questions to the teacher or one another, if they need help.
What Strategies Can I Use?
Get a routine going. Centers, where students are engaged in independent and self-directed learning activities, are a great way to begin integrating technology in your classroom. All centers can be tied to your curriculum targets, and a couple of them can be technology based. There is a plethora of computer-based games that you can bring to a center rotation. ScootPad (scootpad.com) and DreamBox (dreambox.com) are two programs that support Common Core and can be used on computers or tablets.
Differentiated math instruction meets the needs of all learners. It consists of whole group, mini lessons, guided math groups, and independent learning stations with a wide variety of activities, and ongoing assessment. Independent learning stations are a great way to infuse technology into your centers. One station with computers and another with games make great rotation centers and are easy to plan for, as well
Implementing Practical Ideas
as a great way for students to practice math fluency and target-related games. For more information on how to set up a guided math classroom, check out the book Guided Math: A Framework for Mathematics Instruction (2009) by Laney Sammons or view her guided math slide presentation online (www.slideshare.net/ggierhart/ guided-math-powerpointbytheauthorofguidedmath).
Guided Reading is a key component of Balanced Literacy instruction. The teacher meets with a small group of students, reading and instructing them at their level. Other students are involved in small groups or independent practice that involves reading, writing, or vocabulary. Reading A-Z (readinga-z.com) offers many literacy-based books and games that can be used in reading centers. Students can use recording devices to record and listen to themselves reading. You can also listen to their recordings for quick assessment purposes. Reading A-Z also offers Vocabulary A-Z and Science A-Z. There are many games and activities for these content areas, and this offers you additional rotations for your literacy centers.
Programs and apps, such as Google Docs, Puppet Pals, and Comic Life, are just a few resources you can use to meet standards and bring writing into your literacy rotations. Your students are using technology to be creative.
Flipping the classroom is another great way to integrate technology into your classroom. This teaching model, which uses both online and face-to-face instruction, is transforming education. Flipping is an educational strategy that provides students with the chance to access information within a subject outside of the classroom. Instead of students listening in class to content and then practicing that concept outside of the school day, that traditional practice is flipped. Students work with information whenever it best fits their schedule, and as many times as necessary for learning to occur. Inside the flipped classroom, teachers and students engage in discussion, practice, or experiential learning. By creating online tutorials of your instruction, using some of the tools mentioned in this book, you can spend valuable class time assisting students with homework, conferencing about learning, or simply being available for student questions.
Pick an app or program you are interested in bringing into your classroom. Play and explore. See what the possibilities are for using this technology in your classroom. You and your students can be technology pioneers. Allow your students to problem solve and seek new knowledge on their own and then have them share with you. A great resource to use is iPad in Education (www.apple.com/education/ipad), where you can learn more about how to teach with and use iPads in your classroom. This site from Apple is a great resource—it gives you lots of information about what the iPad is capable of, gives examples of iPad lessons done by other teachers, and offers free apps!
How Do I Determine What Works Best?
Perhaps the next place to look is the ISTE Standards for Students (www.iste.org/ standards). These standards are a great framework to help you plan lessons and projects to support the Common Core technology standards in literacy, math, and critical thinking skills.
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills developed a Framework for 21st Century Learning. This framework identifies key skills known as the 4Cs: Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication, and Creativity. Table 7.1 takes those four skills and overlays them with digital resources that you can use in English language arts (ELA). For instance, if you are a second grade teacher and want to use Collaboration in your lesson, you might try any of the seven digital resources suggested to plan your lesson: Google Docs, Popplet, GarageBand, Wixie, Edmodo, wikis, and Google Sites. These are suggestions, but there are many more apps and sites that might also fit...
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