Technology and K-12

Using Technology to Facilitate K-12 Instruction      

This paper explores the concept of technology and its use to facilitate instruction.  Thus, it is with this in mind decisions about the best use of technology to facilitate instruction should be made.

Blogs

When visiting Mr. Walker’s webpage, the Khan Academy website link is presented (Walker, 2012).  Khan Academy offers facilitation and support in learning through technology.  What is best about this site is that the tutorials are available to the end user for free.  Another valuable aspect of this technology is that they are able to learn at their own pace.  If they are viewing this at their own discretion at home, in a computer lab, or any personal computing device they are empowered to pause, replay, and/or watch at their leisure.  Khan Academy has resources to support subjects such as Math, Science, Social Studies and much more.  Another useful link provided on Mr. Walker’s blog page is Google Earth.  When utilizing Google Earth a Math, Science, and/or Social Studies lesson, can be given real world applications.  An outstanding tool is the ruler available in Google Earth to measure distances.  This can be brought to a very personal level gaining the student’s interest as it can involve their own schema.  As educators we are taught from the foundational levels in reading that bringing the “self” into the lesson is one of the best ways to interest a student and Google Earth does the job.  These are but a few of the many websites/links Mr. Walker’s Blog page references as regards facilitating K-12 instruction.

Khan Academy

This video gives insight into how Khan Academy can be a benefit to you or someone you know.

Book Review Jan Brett

This book review is on The Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett thus it is geared for 1st grade level as we use Scott Foresman in GISD thus the story about the Gingerbread Man is in our basal and thanks to Jan Brett there are several other Gingerbread stories we do all week, also eating gingerbread cookies, decorate them in class if possible... Lots of fun and quality learning here. Absolutely, a favorite of mine and of course the children love this! Enjoy! Becky Giles

Powerpoint Technology K-12

This powerpoint discusses the necessity of technology and the potential classroom structure, ecourses,etc... Teachers will be utilizing technology more and more, and facilitating technology usage as well.

Technology

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Thing 19 Web 2.0 Awards List

What is special about thing? Lulu is my thing of choice for top award winners re: Books it is 1st place under title "Books" in awards list. Thus, I chose it to explore and blog about. It's special because it is number 1! It can instantly publish books once they have gone thru the process vs. waiting for printing, distribution, etc... as the author can submit their books online.
What are its useful parts especially to school and the library? Year books can be done with this website for your school. This also will be handled online upload pics, select bindings, formats and more, then select your own pricing, then lulu will handle the bookorders and sent your school the proceeds. I don't know what all is involved but it appears you and your students can publish books on this site. Thus, become authors at school or for homework? I am not sure what would happen with royalties though... legally this might become an issue.

How use personally ? Shopping for books, book orders, blogs keeping up with the book publishing and distribution industry. I am hoping since they do things such as cookbooks, calendars, yearbooks, this would end up on our schools vendor list as they are able to keep costs downn and deliver and it appears expedite the process removing delays, et...

Hyperlink below to Khan Academy

Should you desire to visit Khan Academy website for yourself please do so I encourage you to explore it for yourself.

Podcast Using Technology to Facilitate K-12 Instruction

Thing 15 Web 2.0 Librarians

The author of this article is a "librarian blogger". Regarding school libraries this article serves as a reminder to us that the information in the library needs to be accessible to the students where ever they are, whenever they need access to it. We as the Web 2.0 librarians need to make certain that this is happening and that we are available to our users via Blogs, e-mail, whatever medium so that they are getting their needs met as regards information access and utilization. As professionals, We need to be communicating and interacting with web 2.0 technologies outside of our zone and in the worldwide zone.

Stephens, Michael (2006) Next Space, OCLC Newsletter. Issue No. 2,

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Thing 14

Thoughts regarding Technorati are hard to tailor down as there is so much to see and learn. I went thru delicious and ended up on Twitter, my did I spend time searching, looking and reading. Technorati is a rater of blogs from what I understand it lists the top most popular and ranks them in ascending order. When you you post your blog you want it to have a tag (name or description) that you think someone when using a search engine might type in for a search. Let's say your blog is on 1st grade reading then you would name it something you think someone searching the web for this type of blog would google. Thus your tag for it could be 1st grade, reading, 1st graders reading. Thus you run a higher chance when someone Googles this tag/name that your blog will get a hit if the key word/tag works and accurately describes something they are looking for.

Thing 13 Social Book Marking

I ended up creating a Twitter account and explored social bookmarks, took tutorials and/or watched, listened and read about them. It is quite a lot to take in. I have to think about things for a bit before I can make any leaps as far as use... Immediately though I see this as an outstanding organizational tool potentially allowing you to actually use all of the websites you have saved. I have tried many different methods but the urls get lost or misplaced as I never really organized them due to time and in a day you come across so many when you are really cranking out the work.

I see it as a win, win regarding organization of tools you use in lessons the examples of all of the Algebra tags, Science tags, etc... caught my interest.

Twitter I am not sold on yet as I already have so much to do this appears to be yet another thing... I have my cell phone, email, home telephone, work email, blogs, ....

I think as regards putting your thoughts down on paper for the younger crowd it is a winner.