Technology In, Under and Around the Curriculum

Jeff Fahnoe, Amy Gordon, Pat Sine
Office of Educational Technology
University of Delaware


Bringing Technology into the Curriculum

1. What are your goals for your students for this unit?

2. How will you know if your students have reached the goals? What will their products look like?

3. Focus yourself and students on the curricular goals.

  • Generate rubric for printing by picking and choosing among their examples and criteria.
  • Allows editing of each item, addition of your own, but no reordering of criteria
  • Provides analysis tool for summarizing many students' work
 Rubric Builder from Landmark Project
  • Freeform Rubric generator to make printable or HTML rubrics
  • Includes scoring sheet to fill and print with totals for students.

TeAch-nology's Rubric Generators

  • Create printable rubric by choosing one of their models and adding your name and picking a graphic
  • With $30 annual membership, you can edit the rubric

4. How could technology enable students to reach the goals?
SCIENCE
SOCIAL STUDIES
Foss Science Site National Geographic Xpeditions
Franklin Institute: Kit and curricular companions National Geographic MapMachine
CIESE Online Classroom Project American Memory Project
Roller Coaster TerraServer
Virtual Aquarium WebQuest Site
Water Cycle CIA for Kids
Mixtures and Solutions Stowaway Project
Life Cycles The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
   
MATH
LANGUAGE ARTS

Geometric Solids
Pan Balance 2
 


5. What technical skills do students require to meet the goals? How will those who don't have the skills get them?


6. Plan instruction based on the standards and your goals.

Assorted Online Resources

Internet Content (examples)

Teacher Materials Teach-nology Graphic Organizer Generators
Online Presentations Virtual Field Trips
Learning Activities Illuminations-Geometry
Internet Excursions Iditarod
Internet Partnerships

E-pals

eIditarod

Places to Find Resources

Education Search Tools Marco Polo
Blue Web'n
Matrix of WebQuests
Search Engines  Google
Yahooligans

Searching the Web, Evaluating the Results, and Giving Credit

Resources

Cromey, Allison. (2000, November). Using Student Assessment Data: What Can We Learn From Schools?. Educational Policy Publications: Data-Driven Decision Making. Retrieved January 7, 2003, from http://www.ncrel.org/policy/pubs/html/pivol6/nov2000.htm

Garry, Adam, and Graham, Parry. (2002, December 1). Want to Use Technology Effectively? Try Starting With Assessments. techLEARNING.com-Teachnology & Learning-The Resource for Education Technology. Retrieved January 7, 2003, from http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/assessap.html


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