Module Objectives

In this module you will:

• Explore the components of instructional technology
• Evaluate when to add technology into learning opportunities with students
• Analyze types of technology

Activity #1: Integrating Technology

Listen to this podcast in which Katie Davis discusses her book Technology’s Child

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-such-thing-education-in-the-digital-age/id1279984850?i=1000604649458

Review: Integrating Technology in the Classroom https://inclusiveclassrooms.org/resources/teacher-inquiries/integrating-technology-in-the-classroom

Review: Teachers’ Essential Guide to Teaching with Technology: https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/teachers-essential-guide-to-teaching-with-technology

Review: Take learning offline with activities that engage children in a variety of ways https://www.commonsense.org/education/articles/offline-and-off-screen-activities-for-minds-on-learning

Review: How to integrate technology

https://www.edutopia.org/technology-integration-guide-implementation

Review: Integrating Technology in the Classroom https://inclusiveclassrooms.org/resources/teacher-inquiries/integrating-technology-in-the-classroom

Review: Effective Uses of Technology in Elementary School: https://www.edutopia.org/article/effective-uses-technology-elementary-school/

Review: How classroom technology is holding students back https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/12/19/131155/classroom-technology-holding-students-back-edtech-kids-education/

Read: Let’s use iPads in Learning Centers (Lu & Sherman, 2020)

https://edtechbooks.org/k12handbook/ipads?book_nav=true&opens=300,313,298,327,328,316,417,297&nav_pos=609

Read: Gamification in Your Classroom (Hill & Brunvand, 2020)

https://edtechbooks.org/k12handbook/gamification?book_nav=true&opens=300,313,298,327,328,316,417,297&nav_pos=561

Optional Readings:

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Activity #3: Pick 1 — Gamification or Virtual Field Trip

Gamification

Gamify a learning activity you would use with children. Use an game platform that you are not familiar with, such as:

Kahoot! https://kahoot.com

Quizzez https://quizizz.com/home-v1?lng=en

Gimkit https://www.gimkit.com

Digipuzzle https://www.digipuzzle.net

Prodigy https://www.prodigygame.com/main-en/

Share the link to your game on the Google Doc below so it can be played asynchronously.

Virtual Field Trip

Identify a virtual field trip that you could use with your students. On the Google Doc share:

1. the field trip
2. the learning experience that would be built around the field trip — activities, prompts, materials, etc.

CLICK HERE TO POST A LINK TO YOUR GAME OR FIELD TRIP

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FBthnPEzLQYDNaw8ugktxT2_LYbctfL8Yq3MMiEsYSw/edit?usp=sharing

If you created a virtual field trip, play the game your colleague created. Leave a comment about the game under the link.

If you created a game, take a virtual field trip a colleague identified. Leave a comment about the field trip under the link.

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