TECHNOLOGY FOR EDUCATORS

Scenario: You are a classroom teacher who is dedicated to and experienced with integrating various technology resources into your instructional practices. You have found that technology motivates your students and improves their achievement outcomes. Your colleagues are inexperienced with using technology resources as instructional tools and are not sure how to effectively integrate technology into their instructional practices. You have been asked to develop a PowerPoint that will provide information and ideas around the effective integration of technology into instructional practice. Your audience is composed of teachers and administrators.

Requirements:
A. Create an original PowerPoint that demonstrates the importance of educational technology for teaching and student learning, using a website authoring tool. Adhere to the following requirements for the pages within your PowerPoint:

1. Create a PowerPoint slide describing the purpose of the PowerPoint and your personal philosophy for using educational technology to facilitate student learning. Address each of the following:

• equitable use

• ethical use

• social responsibility

2. Create a PowerPoint slide about choosing educational technology that facilitates student learning by doing the following:

a. Describe three different resources and how they are used to research educational technology to facilitate student learning.

b. Describe two methods or strategies for integrating educational technology to facilitate student learning.

3. Create a PowerPoint slide with a sample learning activity demonstrating the integration of a technology resource or resources, including an explanation of how technology can be integrated into each of the following:

• curricular resources that guide instructional design (e.g., standards)

• formative assessment strategy

• summative assessment strategy

• how student data would be used through technology for student learning outcomes

4. Create a PowerPoint slide that describes how educational and assistive technology fosters self-directedness and independent learning by doing the following:

a. Create a section within your PowerPoint that provides two examples of educational technology tools an educator can use to foster or support goals of self-directedness and independent student learning. Explain how each of these tools supports these goals.

b. Create a section within your PowerPoint that provides two examples of assistive technology, different than those used in part A4a. Describe how the technology meets individual student needs and learning in an educational setting.
B. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
C. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.